Band-aid over an intolerable abuse.

No computer needs personally identifying information just to boot. You are an object, do as you’re told. There is no legitimate government interest that justifies this demand.

Relevant XKCD.

Not with the conviction that I would have done any differently.

This isn’t exactly a defense contractor asking about tracking targets under three feet tall. It’s a video card monopolist looking to buy your website which hosts a couple thousand public files for free. The only solvent company in this obvious bubble is going to pay someone for a copy of your server infrastructure… which again, is freely available. The worst-case scenario for users is scattering and scrambling to re-upload all the content they’ve already mirrored.

A lot of people who’d rail against accepting a check with three commas would be morally offended by hosting this particular site to begin with.

Nothing good is allowed to happen ever again.

I can’t exactly fault any rando for accepting a dump truck full of money… but god dammit, Clem.

You better believe it.

Well aside from how EA and the Saudis suck for distinct reasons - that blatant crime has to end.

‘We bought your company and it owes us the price we paid for you!’ Nope. Fraud. Jail.

They’ve tentatively scheduled a 2029 release for their final game before being bought out and shut down.

You can see the colors, right? It’s swapping Greek roots for Latin roots… and vice versa.

This kind of guy is why cops have to read you Miranda rights.

Also this headline is fucking terrible. I reflexively downvoted it, because it reads like ‘do you still beat your wife.’ Studio denies these claims we’re repeating! CEO generically “”“responds.”“” But no, the CEO didn’t fucking deny it, he basically confirmed it in the smarmiest way possible. How did you bungle this both ways?

Samus is the John Wick of the Nintendo universe.

Commercial parody is commonplace fair use. If it surpasses the original… oh well.

The amount being used becomes negligible as the corpus grows. Filtering a billion webpages into one gigabyte means their average contribution is one byte. Play with the numbers all you like, it’s gonna come out to less than a paragraph.

If we went full copyright maximalist, and criminally banned using anything but public-domain / BSD / CC0 works, the commercial impact would not be much different. The technology itself shifts the economics of text, images, video, and code.

Quoting one sentence from a book is fair use even if you shoplifted that book.

Genuinely surprised it’s even opt-out.

These companies train on Disney DVDs. Permission is not a factor. Training is transformative use, as much for counting letter frequency as for building a chatbot that can sort of code.

You’ll take my code and have a nice life or so help me!

They were sadly on-point with ‘Biden promises peaceful transfer of power to guy he called a Nazi.’ They were just stupid about which part of that was a problem.

Obligatory copypasta:

So someone in a group asked me to tell them why I hate the ocean sunfish so much, and apparently it was ~too mean~ and was deleted. To perpetuate the truth and stand up for ethical journalism, I’m posting it here. [Rated NC-17 for language.] Disclaimer, I care about marine life more than I care about anything else, for real. Except this big dumb idiot. And it’s not like an ~ironic- thing, I mean it IS hilarious to me and they ARE THE BIGGEST JOKE PLAYED ON EARTH but I seriously fucking hate them.

THE MOLA MOLA FISH (OR OCEAN SUNFISH) They are the world’s largest boney fish, weighing up to 5,000 pounds. And since they have very little girth, that just makes them these absolutely giant fucking dinner plates that God must have accidentally dropped while washing dishes one day and shrugged his shoulders at because no one could have imagined this would happen. AND WITH NO PURPOSE. EVERY POUND OF THAT IS A WASTED POUND AND EVERY FOOT OF IT (10 FT BY 14 FT) IS WASTED SPACE.

They are so completely useless that scientists even debate about how they move. They have little control other than some minor wiggling. Some say they must just push water out of their mouths for direction (???). They COULD use their back fin EXCEPT GUESS WHAT IT DOESNT FUCKING GROW. It just continually folds in on itself, so the freaking cells are being made, this piece of floating garbage just doesn’t put them where they need to fucking go. So they don’t have swim bladders. You know, the one thing that every fish has to make sure it doesn’t just sink to the bottom of the ocean when they stop moving and can stay the right side up.

This creature. That can barely move to begin with. Can never stop its continuous tour of idiocy across the ocean or it’ll fucking sink. EXCEPT. EXCEPT. When they get stuck on top of the water! Which happens frequently! Because without the whole swim bladder thing, if the ocean pushes over THE THINNEST BUT LARGEST MOST TOPPLE-ABLE FISH ON THE PLANET, shit outta luck! There is no creature on this earth that needs a swim bladder more than this spit in the face of nature, AND YET. Some scientists have speculated that when they do that, they are absorbing energy from the sun because no one fucking knows how they manage to get any real energy to begin with. So they need the sun I guess. But good news, when they end up stuck like that, it gives birds a chance to land on their goddamn island of a body and eat the bugs and parasites out of its skin because it’s basically a slowly migrating cesspool. Pros and cons.

“If they are so huge, they must at least be decent predators.” No. No. The most dangerous thing about them is, as you may have guessed, their stupidity. They have caused the death of one person before. Because it jumped onto a boat. on a human. And in 2005 it decided to relive its mighty glory days and do it again, this time landing on a four-year-old boy. Luckily Byron sustained no injuries. Way to go, fish. Great job. They mostly only eat jellyfish because of course they do, they could only eat something that has no brain and a possibility of drifting into their mouths I guess. Everything they do eat has almost zero nutritional value and because it’s so stupidly fucking big, it has to eat a ton of the almost no nutritional value stuff to stay alive. Dumb.

See that ridiculous open mouth? (This is actually why this is my favorite picture of one, and I have had it saved to my phone for three years) “Oh no! What could have happened! How could this be!” Do not let that expression fool you, they just don’t have the goddamn ability to close their mouths because their teeth are fused together, and ya know what, it is good it floats around with such a clueless expression on its face, because it is in fact clueless as all fuck.

They do SOMETIMES get eaten though. BUT HARDLY. No animal truly uses them as a food source, but instead (which has lead us to said photo) will usually just maim the fuck out of them for kicks. Seals have been seen playing with their fins like frisbees. Probably the most useful thing to ever come from them.

“Wow, you raise some good points here, this fish truly is proof that God has abandoned us.” Yes, thank you. “But if they’re so bad at literally everything, why haven’t they gone extinct.” Great question. BECAUSE THIS THING IS SO WORTHLESS IT DOESNT REALIZE IT SHOULD NOT EXIST. IT IS SO UNAWARE OF LITERALLY FUCKING EVERYTHING THAT IT DOESNT REALIZE THAT IT’S DOING MAYBE THE WORST FUCKING JOB OF BEING A FISH, OR DEBATABLY THE WORST JOB OF BEING A CLUSTER OF CELLS THAN ANY OTHER CLUSTER OF CELLS. SO WHAT DOES IT DO? IT LAYS THE MOST EGGS OUT OF EVERYTHING. Besides some bugs, there are some ants and stuff that’ll lay more. IT WILL LAY 300 MILLION EGGS AT ONE TIME. 300,000,000. IT SURVIVES BECAUSE IT WOULD BE STATISTICALLY IMPROBABLE, DARE I SAY IMPOSSIBLE, THAT THERE WOULDNT BE AT LEAST ONE OF THOSE 300,000,000 (that is EACH time they lay eggs) LEFT SURVIVING AT THE END OF THE DAY.

And this concludes why I hate the fuck out of this complete failure of evolution, the Ocean Sunfish. If I ever see one, I will throw rocks at it.

Right - you can’t sell something to a million people and still own it completely.

Mario game forcibly moved to cutting-edge software standards in open defiance of copyright law

Lemmy: “Oh, neat.”

using AI

Lemmy: “That’s theft!”

Cutting-edge JS is for boring stuff anyway. We’ve gone from formalizing the best bits of jQuery to ‘click thing to make box appear.’ So you’re only avoiding tutorial-ass boilerplate, and quite frankly, boo hoo.

Meanwhile CSS is still in the “Jesus Christ why wasn’t it like this to begin with” phase of feature adoption.

“Okay, that was always an option.”