Programmer and sysadmin (DevOps?), wannabe polymath in tech, science and the mind. Neurodivergent, disabled, burned out, and close to throwing in the towel, but still liking ponies 🦄 and sometimes willing to discuss stuff.
How people got sold recycling works:
♻️. It all goes in a cycle. Circular Economy. Green = natural = good. No waste. Yay!
How corporations actually define “recycling”:
https://www.sika.com/en/knowledge-hub/can-concrete-be-recycled.html
Last time SWIM used a patcher, it came with a malware dropper. Is that still how this “free” works?
Did you read what you just wrote? If they don’t recycle the labels, then… yeah, that’s not recycling.
Cherry-picking which part gets recycled and which not, then calling it all “recycling”, is where the brainwashing comes into play.
You may notice that in action on the web I linked, where they call “Recycling” whatever they want, but come up with a different name of “Circular economy” for… let’s see, “re-cycling”… where does that word come from, again?
With concrete it’s even more egregious.
Both:
dialog_error = Dialog_plain.create_modal(error_text)
Variable and class names go from more general to more particular, functions begin with a verb.
Global functions are either “main”, or start with one of “debug”, “todo”, or “shit”.
If you think “recycling” a thing means throwing part of it away, then adding some fundamental non-renewable component in order to make the same thing again, or that “recycling” is not the same as “circular production”… maybe you’ve not only been lied to, but also brainwashed?
Depends on your definition of “recycled” (spoiler: you’ve been lied to).
Concrete = cement + sand + aggregate (rubble) + water
“Recycling” concrete, is done by crushing it and using as either road filler, or aggregate for new concrete with worse properties than the original. It doesn’t turn concrete back into “cement + sand + aggregate”.
For an example, check this funny definition of “recycling” (*with just some waste) from Sika:
https://www.sika.com/en/knowledge-hub/can-concrete-be-recycled.html
I’ve had to deal with this on the data collection end, and it’s a PITA to build in the mechanisms to fully follow the law. If you’re an EU resident, and especially if the server is in the EU or has to follow EU agreements, then they’d risk some quite high penalties if they didn’t follow it.
Ownership comes with both rights and responsibilities.
Platforms want as many of the rights as possible, without the responsibilities… which is why they have a contract (TOS) where they explicitly renounce to ownership, leaving it for the user, and only license the rights.
If platforms took full ownership, like in a “work for hire” agreement, they would be responsible for any illegal content a user could upload, since it wouldn’t be the user’s content anymore. Obviously they don’t want that.
A side effect of wanting as much content as possible without owning it, is that… well, they don’t own it. 😎
Fediverse where there’s no owner/seller/buyer of your data or anything else you contributed.
Incorrect. You get ownership of anything that’s yours, then upload stuff under whatever TOS your instance has… what’s that? it has no TOS? Then they’re in for a rough awakening some day. 🤷
Whether there are sellers/buyers… is something we’ll learn in time. For now, user generated content on the Fediverse gets shared with little regard or protection of anyone’s rights, so anyone can make a compilation, bundle it up, slap a price tag on it, and try to sell it.
places an undue burden onto the user to determine and explain why data might be personal
The other way around: all data originating from a person, is by default “personal data”, and the burden of explaining which one is not, lies with whoever is keeping it.
you can’t look at any messages in any rooms you’ve been kicked out of
If they’re keeping them, then you can request a GDPR export of ALL your data. Doesn’t matter whether some interface or application allows you access to the data or not, or even if you’ve been banned from the whole platform; as long as they keep the data, they have an obligation to honor your rights of:
Even during obligatory data retention periods, when they can’t remove the data and only make it inaccessible, you still have the right to get a copy of your own personal data.
IIRC, one of the LLMs (was it OpenAI?) that crawled Reddit, had to manually remove subs like r/counting because they were messing with the training.
As long as the link between data and user is severed, they are compliant with GDPR. […] As long as it’s not personally identifiable, it’s OK.
Wrong.
In the US, data protection refers to “personally identifiable” data, so severing the link is enough. Under the GDPR, all “personal” data is protected, doesn’t matter if it has a link or not to identify the person.
The test under the GDPR, will be whether a comment has any personal data in it. If it’s a generic “LMAO”, then leaving it anonymous might be enough; if it is a “look at me [photo attached]” or an “AITA [personal story]”, then the person can ask for it to be removed, not just anonymized.
The difference is: Reddit doesn’t own the content, they can’t stop anyone else from selling it, or giving it for free; only the users could (the actual owners).
There are Reddit content dumps out there, which Reddit can’t stop anyone from using… so not sure what they are selling, but if it’s just that, then they’re scamming people.
From the TOS/EULA, the content belongs to each user, they just license it to Reddit to use as it pleases.
The kernel is fine, it’s been in the hands of pretty cool people since at least NT. As for the stuff running on it, well… 😗🎶
Git is easy: the key part is picking a GUI you feel comfortable with.
X/X11 is a client-server protocol from the age of 10Mbps networks, intended for a bunch of “dumb terminals” connected to a mainframe that runs the apps, with several “optimizations” that over time have become useless cruft.
Wayland is a local machine display system, intended for computers capable of running apps on the same machine as the display (aka: about everything for the past 30 years).
Nowadays, it makes more sense to have a Wayland system (with some RDP app if needed), than an X11 system with a bunch of hacks and cruft that only makes everything slower and harder to maintain. An X11 server app acting as a “dumb terminal”, can still be run on a Wayland system to display X11 client apps if needed.
That license would require the AI model to only output content under the same license. Not sure if you realize, but commercial use is part of the OpenSource definition:
Your content would just get filtered out from any training dataset.
As for going against commercial companies… maybe you are a lawyer, otherwise good luck paying the fees.
ChatGPT:
Hello! How can I assist you today?
Some things they did get right…
“China-backed” is a bit of an overstatement… and understatement at the same time.
China is giving the loan to reap some interests… but it wouldn’t be the first time when they give out a loan, the local company is unable to complete a project staying inside the budget, then China refuses to increase the loan, but still requires repayment of the initial one, with interests, while the locals suffer from both a half-done project, and having to pay interests through taxes when the local company goes under… while it gets bought for pennies by the Chinese company.