If you’re only shoplifting small amounts I wouldn’t worry about cops either, for small amounts they’ll just ban you from the store, at least where I live idk about everywhere.
Beware. A lot of stores, namely large chain stores, are tracking people who shoplift with cameras and won’t press charges until you’ve cumulatively stolen enough for it to qualify as a serious offence with jail time and permanent criminal record.
Oh the person who deliberately stored Facebook 1.0’s passwords in plaintext so he could use them to log into his users’ other accounts and stalk them now cares about privacy all of a sudden?
I’m fine, just needed to vent my deep down feelings. Thank you.
Hot take: Even if China did “steal” technology from the US, who cares? Why are we defending US corporations all of a sudden? You don’t think they haven’t done their fair share of stealing? In fact, I don’t care if US companies stole tech from China or any country stealing tech from any other country. All competition benefits us peasants in the end, and you, fellow nobody who’s probably not a Fortune 500 CEO, are not the one being stolen from. China making something with alleged US technology will not deprive US citizens of said technology. And get this, if China “steals” your tech to build something better than you have now, you can then “steal” their improvements right back, because “stealing” or more formally, copying of technology is an ancient phenomenon that only started being vilified with the copyright and patent era. People have openly copied each other’s innovations for the vast majority of human history, and the most important inventions of the human race have arisen from people copying other people’s ideas and building on them. Imagine how ridiculous it would be if China was able to patent their invention of paper, or the compass, or gunpowder, and prevented Europe from “stealing” those technologies. Imagine if Ancient Greece patented bronze and successfully prevented the technology from proliferating into a brand new era of humanity. The second person to figure out fire probably watched the first person behind their back.
You have the absolute right to skip his wedding, no one can stop you. But like others have mentioned, it would be effectively cutting ties with him permanently. Maybe that’s exactly what you want, maybe you’ll be better off without him, maybe this is the catalyst for you to cut your losses with him and move on, or maybe not. We don’t know the nuances of your relationship with him, so I don’t think anyone on this anonymous forum can make a good faith decision for you, you will have to make it for yourself.
Thank you for giving a shit about me. ❤️
I’m just waiting to die at this point. Fuck this life. Fuck this world. I’d kill myself if I wasn’t such a pussy. I keep living with the vague hope that things might get better, but deep down I already know it won’t.
Hard drives are the new tape drives it seems. Something most non-tech people thought was obsolete ages ago but are instead just going into a niche.
Printer ink costs more per milliliter than human blood.
“Unlike Communist China, the US believes in free market capitalism and that the market will regulate itself, the US would especially never threaten other governments to tow the party line unlike those communists.”
Try it with a Soylent Cola!
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One more thing: if you want to use public data, your AI needs to be open source (not just the software around it, the actual models that do the AI stuff needs to be available for anyone to run on their own system) and all the works generated with it public domain. The public owns your AI at that point. Personally, if you don’t want to pay me, then let me have a stake in the AI my data helped create.
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Peel back the veneer of AI and you find the foundation of stolen training data it’s built on. They are stealing from the very content creators they aim to replace.
Torrent a movie? You can potentially go to jail. Scrape the entire internet for content and sell it as a shitty LLM or art generator? That’s just an innovative AI startup which is doing soooooo much good for humanity.
There’s a chance their stars take so long because they might be using click farms to manually generate them which would be harder for spam detection to catch compared to generating stars with bots and hacked accounts, since technically there are actually x many people actually giving you stars, they’re just being paid to do so.
Federated repo hosting website when?
More and more I’m starting to see users of completely free and community-run open source projects expecting the same level of polish and customer service as proprietary commercial software, doing nothing to support or contribute to development while only complaining about how horrible they are when they are not able to do that. Then they switch to proprietary software, and when corporate enshitification happens to that software, they proceed to wonder why open source projects are all dying and corporate software vendors are getting more brazen in their shitty business practices due to not having serious open source competitors anymore. It’s whatever when individual people do it with software on their personal computers, but when the businesses that use it as core components of their stack basically have the same only take and never give attitude, is it any wonder that open source is struggling?
Hot take: when I first got into open source, I turned my nose up at the licenses that restrict large scale commercial use just like everyone else. Open Source Foundation sure hates them and refuses to even consider them open source. But as I understand the software industry better, I’m starting to come around to them. If you’re a company whose profits are over some threshold and you make that money through the use of open source software, why shouldn’t you have to give back to it? I think it’s not unreasonable that if you’re a billion dollar company running your entire computer infrastructure on open source projects, you should be required to contribute a small percentage of your profits to their continued development. Said software obviously brought you a ton of value so why shouldn’t you be expected to give back even a fraction of that value?
Why do that when you can just score a deal with the government to give them whatever information they want for sweet perks like foreign competitors getting banned?