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@VeroniqueB99@mastodon.social yeah, regarding the update... The New Mexico Case only fined Meta $25b of a possible $291B. And of course, they are appealing. (That 291b might be subject to dyslexia, but the point stands).

Huang like a ram

@joe@f.duriansoftware.com WWWozD? I haven’t asked him, but does any of this sound like the kind if hacking Woz would do? Like the kinds of tools he would have made when he co-founded Apple? All tools are political, and these are the tools of corporate fascism. They spy on you and tell you to stay in your lane whether you write code or words. Amazed they don’t have the stones to brand them as Swibbles.

@kbsez@mstdn.social 💯

This is how I learn that one of my favorite programs that I use all the time, YT-DLP, is “UNLICENSED” and deliberately in the public domain. That’s fucking rad.

They would just fork it at that version. Licenses aren’t retroactive.

How is a picture of Winnie the Pooh hypocricy? Why would posting a picture of Winnie the Pooh get someone beheaded in China? At this point it just appears to be naked racism on your part, assuming MLs hate Winnie the Pooh itself and not the racist caticaturizing of Xi Jinping as a yellow bear, combined with the fact that China censors racist caricatures of Xi Jinping while selling tons of Winnie the Pooh merch, and then exaggerating to the point that this censorship results in arrests and even beheading. Cut the bullshit, please. Do you really think Winnie the Pooh is banned in China? Do you really think the punishment for posting censorable content (which this is not as it isn’t a racist caricature of Xi Jinping but a comic featuring Winnie the Pooh himself) is arresting them, or even execution?

It’s possible. “GPLv2+” code picked up the new terms when GPLv3 was released, and if GPLv4 is ever released, the v4 terms will also apply. This is why the Linux kernel specifies GPLv2. Not v2+, only v2.

What she should do is turn herself over to HAMAS or some sort of palestinians peoples’ court. If we’re talking getting elected then I dont know. Its not like any of that shit matters as long as you have the machine behind you. The media was calling Biden the most progressive president since JFK and making Harris out to be some feminist POC activist. Hillary became the “most qualified candidate ever” on the back of a short career as a senator and a term as foreign secretary where she created open-air slave markets and laid the ground work for all the bullshit that’s making eggs so expensive now. Material reality does not matter when you have cultural hegemony.

You can relicense code. Though that doesn’t mean that you can take anything away. You just open another avenue for people to use what you wrote and developed, and any old license still exists and retains validity; the way you can curtail rights is by not granting liberal terms on newly created code. This is how macOS switched to zsh, and left all GNU code in it to rot.

if any shithead is putting AI assisted, it’s probably over 90% slop.

Agreed. I’d be happy to vote for her as president. I just think shes still young and can do alot more good work in congress before being president and essentially retired after.

fascist doing funny dance is not chaotic good.

Yeah really, who cares if the kids liked it

This meme is coming on 30 years old in terms of content.

“Politics” refers to the processes and activities that groups of people use to make shared decisions about the distribution of power and resources. When a company prioritizes a specific political party, that’s politics. When a company chooses to harm or to protect a specific subgroup of society, that’s politics. When a company decides to fund or eschew a specific technology, that’s politics. And when an multibillion dollar AI vendor decides to give their technology free reign to plagiarize people’s work en masse and scramble entire job markets, but then decides to crack down on that technology when it infringes on •company’s• work and scrambles •product• markets…that too is politics. 2/

@hermannus@stegodon.nl @VeroniqueB99@mastodon.social Vee curates a great collection with our time to read. Vee, thanks for your service.

@VeroniqueB99@mastodon.social I thnk the sad part is that this likely isn't about child safety. It's about curbing power that threatens other power. I was told about 6 years ago that they would go after the tech bros. It's started it seems. What I suspect is happening is that Facebook is no longer needed for mass survailance. So, they're burning him.