Wander

joined 1 year ago
[–] Wander@kbin.social 18 points 11 months ago (4 children)

Are you saying the writers of these programs have read all these books, and were inspired by them so much they wrote millions of books? And all this software is doing is outputting the result of someone being inspired by other books?

[–] Wander@kbin.social 8 points 11 months ago

Unless you think theres no difference between killing a person and closing a program, I think we can agree they should be treated differently in the eyes of the law.

And so theres a difference between a person reading a book and being inspired by it, and someone writing a program that automatically transforms the book in data that can create new books.

[–] Wander@kbin.social 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)
  1. Hover effects, you often want to respond to the user hoving their mouse somewhere, for instance showing a tooltip.
  2. Battery/network saving, a site can pause animations or reduce update requests when the window is inactive.
  3. I cant really think of a good use for this one these days, it was something browsers had in the 90s (not just readonly, websites could move your browser window where they wanted for a while). Maybe its kept for backwards compatibility.
[–] Wander@kbin.social 15 points 1 year ago

Wanting to knock those bikes down doesn't mean someone hates bikes. I strongly dislike cars, and have driven bikes my entire life (cause, netherlands), and if I walked past these bikes I'd also feel a slight temptation to kick them down (no, I wouldn't actually do it).

You claim it's a small problem, but would you feel that way if a car parked half way on the sidewalk? It's not a small problem for someone in a wheelchair. They already face enough obstacles, and people who do this aren't helping.

Bikes being great and cars being horrible doesn't change that someone here was being inconsiderate with their bike.

[–] Wander@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Where are all of these competitions or lotteries where you can win bread

[–] Wander@kbin.social 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The biggest contributor is the massive amounts of land being used for producing meat, which is then exported to other countries

[–] Wander@kbin.social 8 points 1 year ago

map of land usage in the netherlands

See those red dots? Thats where people live. See the vast vast light green background? Thats agrictulture.

[–] Wander@kbin.social 6 points 1 year ago

It's generally not the creator who gets the money.

[–] Wander@kbin.social 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Say I see a book that sells well. It's in a language I don't understand, but I use a thesaurus to replace lots of words with synonyms. I switch some sentences around, and maybe even mix pages from similar books into it. I then go and sell this book (still not knowing what the book actually says).

I would call that copyright infringement. The original book didn't inspire me, it didn't teach me anything, and I didn't add any of my own knowledge into it. It didn't produce any original work, I simply mixed a bunch of things I don't understand.

That's what these language models do.

[–] Wander@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

To me fediverse just means different communties being able to talk to each other.

It seems like a lot of people use fediverse as a generic term for any decentralized system.

[–] Wander@kbin.social 3 points 1 year ago

Nothing is decided yet, according to their website:

The Eurosystem is experimenting with different approaches and technologies to making a digital euro available. This includes both centralised and decentralised solutions such as DLT. No decision has been taken yet, however.

They just have announced their plans, but its still many years away

[–] Wander@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago

I'm not sure. And I'm not sure there's legal precedant for that either.
That's why I dont have a problem with any of these lawsuits, it gives us clarity on the legal aspects, whichever way it goes.

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