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[–] [email protected] 2 points 12 hours ago

Molly White also wrote about this in the context of open access on the web and people being concerned about how their works are being used.

“Wait, not like that”: Free and open access in the age of generative AI

The same thing happened again with the explosion of generative AI companies training models on CC-licensed works, and some were disappointed to see the group take the stance that, not only do CC licenses not prohibit AI training wholesale, AI training should be considered non-infringing by default from a copyright perspective.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago

Well keep your ears peeled and let the rest of us know. I'm so curious what's shooting around in the confederate-canadian facebook

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago

| Hackland said in his sentencing decision that King had accepted "minimal responsibility" but offered a "sincere apology" for his actions.

lol

 

American here. I had a passing thought while reading tariff war news and wanted to inquire. I seem to remember some stories about how there's some percentage of Canadians that are as crazy pilled as our MAGAs, flying confederate flags and such, and I was wondering, what are they up to these days? How are they taking things post Trump election and present tariff fighting? Are they also booing the american anthem at hockey games? Or are they buying Kentucky whiskey in solidarity? I find the idea of those guys so fascinating, but I have so little news sources for them. Anyone have any insight into what the chatter is like in those communities lately?

 

I recently set up a probe on a box in my home lab for Open Observatory of Network Interference (OONI) that does distributed monitoring of access to various Internet services to monitor censorship. It got me thinking there must be other distributed/collaborative things I could contribute to. I know of some others like:

  • BOINC is a grid computing academic research thing where you run a client and donate CPU to crunch academic research data
  • NYC Mesh you can volunteer to run a node for their community wireless mesh network

What are some other do-gooder things you can self host on your home network?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 week ago

Don't let the door hit you on the way out. Or do.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 week ago

Sorry, but this is such a cop out.

There's nothing else she can do, the democrats cannot force any legislative action here and it’s not like Trump is asking for confesses permission so there is nothing to filterbuster.

Wrong. They could do things like

  • Obsruct every bit of business the Republicans bring in both houses
  • Vote NO on every appointment
  • Go nuclear on any Dems that vote YES, publicly call for primaries against any Democrat not holding the line, and support primary challengers
  • Go on every media outlet talking about how Trump has no right to usurp the Congressional power of the purse and no right to touch funding of programs passed through Congress
  • Hold town halls both in their own districts and Republican districts
  • Refuse to authorize or re-authorize the AUMF
  • Issue Subpoenas for Musk and every member of DOGE, grill the fuck out of them, and hold them in Contempt of Congress if they hear any bullshit from them
  • Organize rallies and marches
  • Issue public statements that Americans, and people globally, should stop buying Teslas
  • Work with Canadian and Mexican counterparts on strategies to torch Musk businesses
  • File any and all relevant lawsuits against Trump and DOGE members, and follow through
  • Use whatever Congressional powers exist to subpoena/FOIA and publish any data about DOGE/Musk/etc they can get their hands on

That would be a start. You know, generally DO something and not be the rich, complacent servants of Wall Street they are. Or they could, hold a stupid signs during the SotU, send breathless donation solicitation emails, tell us they can't do anything because of the parlimentarian or whatever, and cross our fingers and wait for 2028.

Patty Murray sucks.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

If you don't want to host your own data, take a look at TarSnap

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 week ago (1 children)

One thing I've been doing is doing random online classes instead of doom scrolling. There's a ton of free ones that you can do at your own pace and spend an hour or two each day learning new stuff. Just generally being more mindful and curating my media inputs and replacing algorithmic rage inducement with better stuff. Here's a few examples, but there's tons all over the web:

Basic web dev @ theodinproject

Blender 2.8 Fundamentals

Your First 2D Game

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

I'm having the same problem. There are bugs about it open with the developers, so presumably it'll be fixed at some point.

Search Icons are missing again #2227

Icons are missing from custom search engines added from settings #2261

In the meantime, I was able to make my search bar presentable by installing the "Search Engines Helper" plugin and manually adding the search engines that are having favicon problems, then going into the search engine settings and removing the checkmarks for the broken ones.