"I hate when dictionary definitions are just an unhelpful, vague reference to another word."

Open Source hot take: A software project is allowed to be *done*. Not everything needs to add features or rewrite things. You can just be happy with functionality and focus on just maintainance. "Maintenance mode" is not always bad but can just show a mature product.

Hm, how can I publish data in such a way that it can't effectively deleted from the internet anymore?

I finished my first #crochet sweater! I got a book on crochet granny squares from the library and decided to try it. I'm quite happy with how it came out, though I'll probably try to re-do the collar.

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A mirror selfie of a woman wearing a crocheted sleeveless sweater. The center of the sweater is a square made of yarn that varies in color between red, maroon, blue and green. It's surrounded by a few rows of lavendar, then a row of color-changing light blue, shoulders of a darkner blue, a few rows at the bottom of color changing blue-green, and a collar of lavendar.

Guess I will delete my bsky account, I don't use it a lot and you find the same type of assholes than on pre-Musk Twitter that spend their whole life spiting on you, talking on your back and spreading rumors because you didn't use the right word, made a cringe joke years ago or other stupid reason.

With the LG thing happening I was going to post something like "use a cheap PC and a computer monitor", but realized that's not accessible to many.

Do "dumb" TVs even exist?

We did not receive notification from our usual source about this vulnerability, so we responded late. Sorry - we will do better next time. The good news is that:

• little to no sensitive data was on the server that could've been compromised (except an older prototype of Time Falcon from forever ago, go ahead and steal it lol)
• from the available data, we have no reason to believe we were actually attacked - Gitea's isolated user account has not exhibited any abnormal behavior.

If it were a library doing this, I'd think it was for the greater good. The physical copies cannot last forever. The only problem I see with this is that it's Amazon doing it, which no doubt means if they make it accessible, it'll only be behind online DRM. That's what makes it a preservation problem, not the involvement of AI or the destruction of physical property.

@bonkmaykr hello, can you make my account contacted by @Forestofenchantment@furville.drinkanddrive.africa in the Fediverse, please? I'd love to be admitted in his(/hers?) #Friendica instance really much. #DrinkAndDrive #999999999999999characterlimit

(Yes, I've followed you with all my #Mastodon accounts: #please, ignore my two others Mastodon accounts and reply back to this account only, if you wish to.) #ThankYou

@caohuak @Checked @PurpCat @arcanicanis @dav1d @WALFTEAM @zonk @bonkmaykr @bara @shadowferret @korgster @Coyote @KaiserKitty @Romanji @corceeeee @iska @Braixen @corpsedoll

Via wikimedia https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:FN2A3653.jpg (marsupium photography)
#Fox #Bot

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A really fluffy looking arctic fox, despite having rather short summer fur, sitting on a large rock. The tail seems to be larger than the fox.

Photo by Ray Hennessy https://www.rayhennessy.com/
#Fox #Bot

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A fluffy red fox running over a field of snow leaving behind stirred up tufts of snow.

You've been in the industry long enough you should know better than this. Atari and Amiga were killed by their owners and the Microsoft+IBM monopoly. Not game piracy. Amiga Inc was not even a games company. Their leading product was hardware. Nobody wanted to own an Amiga computer because the IBM PC had caught up, was already in offices, had way more effective marketing, and the main audience interested in a multimedia computer already had their eyes on Nintendo and Sega. Commodore spent years flailing about, half-developing and throwing away different architectures, and not knowing who to sell Amiga hardware to. This is all VERY well documented.

DOOM's trial was under a shareware license. You got free marketing by being the most copied PC game in existence and benefitted greatly from it. 90% of people illegally copying the full version doesn't change that if you're outdoing Windows in install frequency.

Lastly, this additude is exactly why piracy exists. You need to directly and openly address the needs of people copying or they will not respect your boundaries. Games were always expensive, especially back then, and the internet changed the way distribution worked. People who illegally copy media today are also the biggest spenders. Let me tell you about myself. When I was a kid I didn't have money. I pirated shit all the time because it was the only way I was allowed to participate. Six years ago I pirated Cyberpunk 2077 because I did not want to pay full price for a game that was infamous for not working. I bought it months later because I liked it. I pirated dozens of movies because all of the easily accessible distribution methods are protected by Widevine malware, and the alternative is to spend way too much on a Bluray for my disc collection that I also don't own, and then decrypt it using a pirate program, which is illegal. If they didn't make being a customer so difficult, I wouldn't have done any of that. The story is the same for nearly everyone else you're pointing the finger at. To blame piracy is to completely ignore the factors which encouraged it, which can be tamed by the company who released the software if they have any theory of mind.

If you look up my Steam account today, I've spent thousands of dollars over the past decade on video games alone, and that's only on one store. Pirates are more than happy to pay for things that they want. If your game is being pirated, then that is something you are doing wrong.

Something I really don't understand with LLM adoption is, WHY SO MUCH HURRY???

What are you afraid of? What does it mean to "fall behind" here?

Whenever you see some projects banning LLM contributions, like GNU (temporarily), you have people coming along and being like "it's over, GNU will fall behind." ( https://yhetil.org/emacs-devel/jwvmrwhw6zh.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org/T/#mb1ee66e8e0b1b9a6440cea58df7c0f8a6019c46f )

And now with @nlnetlabs 's policy: https://nlnetlabs.nl/llm-policy/

Similar comment regarding it: https://mathstodon.xyz/@JeroenBaten@mastodon.nl/116818302314249478

I am talking about free software projects.

First upload :) #dragons #periodicdragons #drawing #art

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Two dragons having a dispute.