Note that what the EU is requesting is for OpenAI to disclose information, nobody says (yet?) that they can't use copyrighted material, what they are asking is for OpenAI to be transparent with sharing the training method, and what material is being used.

The problem seems to be that OpenAI doesn't want to be "Open" anymore.

In March, Open AI co-founder Ilya Sutskever told The Verge that the company had been wrong to disclose so much in the past, and that keeping information like training methods and data sources secret was necessary to stop its work being copied by rivals.

Of couse, disclosing openly what materials are being used for training might leave them open for lawsuits, but whether or not it's legal to use copyrighted material for training is something that is still in the air, so it's a risk either way, whether they disclose it or not.

If your grocery store "willfully acquired or maintained monopoly power by engaging in anticompetitive conduct".. then you'd be actively and purposefully affecting the ability for anyone to "try to build an alternative to compete with [it]".

They aren't asking Google to use a specific price, what they are asking is for them to stop offering special custom-made deals under the table for some of the partners with the intent of preventing competition. Nobody is stopping Google from offering the same fees to everyone indiscriminately... the issue is when they pick and choose with the purpose of minimizing/discouraging competition. Particularly when they are already the biggest one in their market by a wide margin, so they have a higher power/responsibility than a Mom'n'Pop store.

I always felt the fediverse is designed in a very awkward way... the way all the content needs to be mirrored, not only does it make it hard to update / modify / delete content, but also it makes it so other instances have to host content from all the other instances they want their users to access...

Not only is that redundant and requiring a lot more resources from the instances, but it also means that if an instance you federate with is hosting content you don't want (let's say... ch*ld pr0n) then your instance might end up HOSTING (ie.activelly propagating) that content... if I hosted my own instance I wouldn't want to federate at all out of fear of legal implications and I'd be constantly paranoid about possibly facilitating illegal stuff like that without even noticing...

Imho, a decentralized system in which content providers are separate from the user account providers would make more sense in my mind. Then the content providers can have full control over what they are hosting and also control over what user accounts (or whole account providers) are banned from posting / allowed to post. And it still gives users the freedom to navigate across different content providers seamlessly with the same account and interact with multiple content providers, sort of like with the fediverse, without having to login to each content provider.

The nice thing about Nix/Guix is that each version of a library only needs to be installed once and it wont really be "bundled" with the app itself. So it would be a lot easier to hunt down the packages that are depending on a bad library.

They will stick to their already existing proprietary feedback channels.
And I doubt the subreddit will disappear, it's just that it will no longer be "official". I don't see them stating anywhere that they will set it to private or something... and even if they did, the reddit admins can simply mark the channel as abandoned and allow for new mods to take it over.

To be honest, I feel this is simply the most convenient strategic move for Mojang. As a company I would have done the same, they no longer have to bring employees to support a third party platform and at the same time they get to promote their own. And instead of getting backlash, they'll look like the good guys for doing so.

coders revealed to 404 Media that "some of Kirsina’s Instagram posts are word-for-word copies of Sizovs’ LinkedIn posts, sometimes published more than a year later." In addition, "some of the images [Kirsina] posted on Instagram show computer monitors with code that show her logged in under Sizovs’ name." But perhaps most striking is the fact that an administrator told 404 Media that both Sizovs’ and Kirsina’s accounts were banned "multiple times" by the Lobste.rs coding forum for "sockpuppeting"—using a false identity to deceive others—in 2019 and 2020.

Lol..... for reference, this is the twitter account: https://nitter.net/UnicornCoding

It's full of advertisements about the DevTernity conference... as does the instagram, which has so many professional-looking photos that feel like she was an actual model, always with different backgrounds. Is the laptop wirelessly streaming to the ultrawide screen in her Twitter profile picture? because I see no cables, she's not even connected to a charger, how long of a coding session can you have like that?

Yep, this is akin to: "Depressed? Just say no." "Depressive thoughts cannot legally enter your mind if you don't have them."

People don't realize that overfeeding is not the real cause of the problem, but rather a consequence.

I think people are just getting excited.

I don't think it's an issue as long as people don't start demanding things as if the software were trash just because is missing this or that. If something being missing affects you so personally that much.. then spend the work yourself to implement it or pay some devs to do it for you. It's free and open source software after all, anyone can make their own fork.

There's also c) have people start using tags like #technology more frequently in their technology related posts, and implement support for subscribing to a tag (that's something Mastodon already has, so it should be possible).

Tag thread feeds (like https://kbin.social/tag/technology/threads ) show content cross-instance and cross-magazine, and they also have the advantage that you can add multiple tags to the same post, no need to repeat the post to have it appear in multiple tag feeds.

only now? to me most social media platforms were shitty to begin with, or had become shitty long before.

I feel this is a matter of perspective. The average Joe whose concept of "social media" is Facebook probably has never noticed anything getting any worse. The mainstream users who just want to see funny pics and couldn't care less about 3rd party clients might actually be quicker to side with Reddit than with the protesters.

Twitter has never been attractive to me. Even back when its API was public (ancient history). Not only is their feed noisy and of poor quality, constantly swayed by "trending" stuff I don't care about, it also has always had you depend on a privative and closed source walled guarden. Things were much more open before twitter, when people used blogs to post their stuff instead.

Reddit might have been a bit more open once.. but it stopped being so long ago, this is not a change in behavior. Maybe this is an unpopular thing to say, but I'm actually glad this is happening. I think the API fiasco might be an overall good thing if it helps people get away from Reddit, and if so I hope Reddit does not backtrack.

Yes... how is "reducing exclamation marks" a good thing when you do it by adding a ' (not to be confused with , ´,‘or’` ..which are all different characters).

Does this rely on the assumption that everyone uses a US QWERTY keyboard where ! happens to be slightly more inconvenient than typing '?

Another reason to use Godot.

Yes, the way his hand is positioned, it would not have worked if they had wanted to make it hold the wooden stick. They'd have needed to edit the hand too much and it would have likely been noticeable / even weirder.

Probably they decided: f*ck it, let them grab it however they want. Maybe it'll even become a thing.

And it looks like it worked, since we are talking about it and spreading the ad. Smart advertising, imho.

I mean... does Youtube have any obligation to host any content?
I believe it's pretty clear that they can (and they do) take down any videos they don't wanna host, regardless of the reason.

Now we need a Windows handheld mode for these Steam Deck competitors

No, what we need is for game companies to stop using DRM that blocks Linux.

In fact, it actively encourages people to "hack" it just so they can make a version with the annoyances removed.

And please, get all countries to actually start properly accepting ISO 8601 format for dates as a mandatory universal standard...

Obligatory reference: https://xkcd.com/1179/

for younger adults (aged <60 years) at approximately 8000–10 000 steps per day

So... it is 10 000.

Why so defensive?
I love my deck, I got one of the early 512 GB units, but even in the article you linked they are saying that "It is clear Steam Deck remains a niche portion of the PC gaming landscape". Did you read it?

Sadly, 3 million is nothing next to the over 129 million from the Switch, for example. Regardless of how superior it is to the Switch in several aspects.

I do have hopes for the numbers to improve, but I wouldn't say it has reached the levels of mainstream devices just yet.

You mean saying "no" to depressive thoughts?
I feel that if you can combat depression that way, then you are not really having clinical depression.

It's like asking a type 2 diabetic to stop being so resistant to insuline. If your body can stop resisting insuline, then it's not diabetic.