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nixCraft 🐧Newly unsealed emails allegedly provide the "most damning evidence" yet against Meta in a copyright case raised by book authors alleging that Meta illegally trained its AI models on pirated books. Mark is truly doing everything to avoid paying authors, remove fact-checkers, and lie. Imagine having billions in personal assets and running trillion-dollar corporations yet stealing books from poor writers/authors struggling to make ends meet. https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2025/02/meta-torrented-over-81-7tb-of-pirated-books-to-train-ai-authors-say/
cirdan12
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Ok, went to the first beekeeping group meeting.
Wow they have their stuff down.
The 8 week course (class is once a week for like 2 hours) is DENSE!!! It's packed heavy with info.
I've got lots of material to study.
Also! They set you up with group mentors.
I'm going to be raising bees!!!! And getting honey!!!!
Problem is... I don't have a yard.... so I need to find a place to build my apiary(ies).
Two options:
1) Sometimes local farmers want bees on their property to help with polination... but they dont want to keep them themselves... so they see if any local beekeepers want to build and maintain an apiary on their land.
2) Community apiaries near community gardens. I need to email some of the coordinators for the local community gardens and see what we can do.
Food production, yo!
fG!Boom... Fuck the cloud, you idiots :P
"U.K. orders Apple to let it spy on users’ encrypted accounts
Secret order requires blanket access to protected cloud backups around the world, which if implemented would undermine Apple’s privacy pledge to its users."
HalvarFlakeFor Xennials like me that witnessed the boundless optimism of the 1990's, and watched the disaster of the Chicago Boys "helping Russia reform", this is excellent reading:
The Long Telegram of the 1990s: “Whose Russia Is It Anyway? Toward a Policy of Benign Respect” | National Security Archive
Washington, D.C., December 18, 2024 – A now-legendary but long-secret 70-paragraph telegram written by the top political analyst at the U.S. Embassy in Moscow in March 1994, E. Wayne Merry, criticizing the American policy focus on radical economic reform in Russia, was published in full today for the first time by the National Security Archive.
Ged MaheuxReally, to hell with fireworks. 🐉
Firefox and Mozilla ignoring the core audience's desire to keep the browser free from LLM is not good news. Ignoring your biggest fans always ends up costing you. I'm just saying. On a related note, someone with engineering and money resources can build LLM-free dumb products, like home appliances, electric cars, etc., and easily make good financial fortunes. People are sick of this LLM and privacy issues. Please stop adding this nonsense to everything
they/them might be giants ☭Fascists online love to be like, “Uh oh, looks like I TRIGGERED the little BABY who had to BLOCK ME!”
Shutting the screen door to keep the bugs out does not mean I care what the bugs think of me. There’s a reason you’re in my replies and not the other way around and we both know what it is.
@boboTjones still do roller derby? :-)
boboTjonesBehold the development environment:
- Made from found parts
- Slow and cumbersome
- Creaks and wheezes
- Crazy demons inside
- Held together with magic
- Only one wizard knows the magic
- Wizard is very, very, very hard to find
Ernie SmithI have waited three months to share this with y’all.
In the fall of 2022, literally thousands of computers flooded eBay, with a brand name few knew, at a rock-bottom price of $59.99 plus shipping. A YouTuber did a video about them and the machines—2,200 in all—went viral.
Where did they come from? Why were there so many? I spent the last few months determining this answer. And well, it’s a story.
For @Motherboard, the story of the NABU Network: https://www.vice.com/en/article/ak3k34/2200-forgotten-vintage-computers-are-being-liberated-from-a-barn-in-massachusetts
