I see a lot of people responding to the LLMs-and-copyright situation with calls for stricter enforcement of copyright, and honestly I think that's a terrible take.
Not because these LLM companies shouldn't see consequences (they should!), but because there's a much more important observation to make: this situation demonstrates how the whole "copyright protects artists" has always been a myth.
If copyright truly protected artists, there would have been swift enforcement against these LLM companies, in the same way that there's swift enforcement when you start a piracy website in eg. the US. But there wasn't.
And that shows what copyright *really* is; a tool of power for those with a lot of money to spend on legal warfare. It's always been like that; granting power to those who already have lots of it, and taking it away from those who have very little of it.
That's why these LLM companies seem immune to copyright law - they have money, and you as the artist do not.
Copyright is a fundamentally bad solution to protecting artists, it's designed to benefit the rich and powerful. You don't solve that by doing more of it! What we *should* be talking about is better solutions that *do* actually work.
@schratze Philosophical texts have titles like research papers. Maybe we need philosophy journalists covering new releases and blogging about them like with every room temperature super conductor that peeks its head out a lab somewhere
One thing to understand about coffee as a hobby is that specialty coffee is not as expensive as it may initially seem, especially if getting coffee at a cafe is part of your daily routine.
Like sure, it seems extremely extravagant to get a small bag of beans for 70pln (€16.5, which is on the high end of what I'd normally buy) but even then you're only paying something like €1 per doubleshot espresso and adding milk increases the price only marginally. An espresso at Starbucks is 3 times as expensive and 10 times worse (I don't know who actually drinks espresso at Starbucks, the beans they use are low key charcoal) and any basic milk drink is gonna cost you almost 5 times more. Even at the most generic cafes you're going to pay a lot more per cup than if you make the coffee yourself even when using beans from some of the fanciest roasters.
What I'm saying is, if you get your daily fix of caffeine at cafes, switching to specialty coffee at home is actually gonna be cheaper and tastier.
Wij kunnen max 3 kwartier bezoek hebben (hier gaan we regelmatig overheen maar dan is het wel betalen de dagen erna) wat voor mijn schoonouders vanuit Friesland natuurlijk ondoenlijk is. Dus die zitten nu een week in een huisje in de buurt en komen elke dag vertellen waar ze hebben gewandeld en welk museum ze hebben gezien 🥰🥰🥰
Australia: Best of luck! 😆
Welk huishoudelijk klusje vinden jullie gewoon ronduit leuk?
Ik kan erg genieten van een pan schrobben met staalwol. Zou soms bijna iets ervoor aan laten branden.
Tumblr reminded me of how totally bullshit it is that the aspd criteria is almost entirely based on surveying prison populations. Like, zero acknowledgement that uhhhh maybe it’s a problem that we seemingly have a large amount of disabled people being imprisoned? because of their disabilities? no? nothing?
Saneism, personality disorders, bitching about how ridiculous the stigma against them is
Every time I talk abt this, I have to hold back so much from giving surface level critiques of it. & by that I mean saying “you’re just jealous I’m better at degration than you are.” It does nothing at all to say that, but god do I want to
Saneism, personality disorders, bitching about how ridiculous the stigma against them is
It’s so fucking apparent to me that that’s what it is, cuz I know from personal experience that it is. I had adults straight up argue that my abuse was justified because I was “difficult” & “talked back.” Am I supposed to just sit there & not ask questions? You can’t expect to raise “good people” then get pissed off when they stand up for what’s right. You don’t actually want the world to be better atp, you just want to virtue signal that you’re a “good person” by pretending to raise your kids with morals. All the while, following white supremacist nonsense, & other oppression systems below it.
I genuinely cannot understand how people who can’t assimilate themselves into an unjust society are the “bad guys.” Or why so many people on the left will actively continue that narrative while also espousing that you can’t work within the systems that be. Like. You’re so close to getting it buddy. Maybe stop calling sociopaths “monsters” for 5 seconds & you’ll realize the type of person you’re talking about is the type of person you’re aspiring to be, but can’t be, bc you haven’t yet unlearned the false moral playbook you were given.
Saneism of the personality disorder variety
It’s like the least “has criteria at all” disorder in the dsm. I swear to god it only exists as an excuse to jail people society doesn’t like very much. There’s a reason oppositional defiance disorder & conduct disorder are diagnosed a lottttt more in populations of color than in white communities. Maybe if we didn’t have a major social stigma against people who are just existing & wouldn’t be harmful if we weren’t ableist dicks to them, then they wouldn’t be harmful & need so much help. Just a hunch. I’m this way because people were dicks to me early enough in my life that it permanently fucked with my brain structure. & the overlap between aspd & developmental disabilities only makes that worse, cuz like. We know exactly why people act like that. It’s the disabilities you’re born with, then once you develop new ones because you’re being abused, it’s those that are targeted most. It’s like you can’t win. Ok cool, I wasn’t capable of surviving without maladaption the fucking olympic sport, & that makes me even more worthless somehow? Oh & also excuses all of the abuse I faced?
Like just SAY you want a valid reason to mistreat disabled people & be done with it. That’s all it is. It’s people who were never taught to be understanding, meeting people who throw red flags up in their brains, & instead of getting to know why it is that this type of person unsettles you so much, you abuse them & claim it’s self defense because you’re just soooo dangerous & scary & they were only protecting themself against you because you’re a ticking timebomb & they noticed that & they’re such a victim. Give me a break. Even other disabled people often have awful opinions on apathetic people who can’t, or don’t want to, integrate into society. Like as if being disabled means we must be nice pushovers to “make up for it.” There’s nothing to make up for, I’m just existing & if that’s a problem, that’s more telling of your worldview than mine.
I swear to god it is ENTIRELY because I saw nothing wrong with being disabled as a little kid, & others didn’t like that I didn’t hate myself for it, so they had to give me a reason to hate myself.
Armoede bestrijden is goedkoop! Het is niet alleen moreel het juiste om te doen, het scheelt zoveel geld!
Elke politicus die weigert voor de armen op te komen *is bereid om flink te betalen alleen maar om kwetsbare mensen te kunnen straffen voor hun kwetsbaar zijn*. https://social.overheid.nl/@rivm/114505926119461124
Why does this work matter on converting to an asynchronous runtime?
One big goal of the Lix project is to bring forth a uniform and standard inter-process communication protocol for talking to Lix and performing operations.
Similar to what you can see in the Snix (snix.dev) project, evaluation, store and build operations are split in a neat way and gRPC ties them together.
In Lix, we pursue a similar goal where we fission the client and the daemon into smaller pieces glued via the IPC!
2/2
Thanks to the awesome @leftpaddotpy and 9999years (I don't have their fedi?!), we now have #Lix 2.93.0: https://lix.systems/blog/2025-05-06-lix-2.93-release/.
The release notes contain a lot of goodies, nevertheless, another cool thing about it is that it contains a tremendous effort from eldritch horrors to rewrite the I/O and threading model to KJ: the Cap'n'Proto asynchronous runtime.
This unveiled a massive amount of hidden ordering constraints in the codebase, very hard to debug.
1/2 #NixOS
This brought to you by my ongoing frustration at people using their personal situation or yes, sometimes even marginalized status, as an excuse to be uncaring and negligent towards others.
My bluntly honest view on "building a better world together", as it relates to what individual people contribute:
I don't want to hear about all of the ways in which you can't contribute because of your circumstances. Everybody has circumstances. I want to hear about the margins you've worked to find in your life where you *can* make a difference, even if a small one.
If there are no such margins and you claim that there's no way you can do *anything at all*, then I simply will not believe that you've even tried.
I don't expect you to change the world on your own, or to contribute in any one specific way. I *do* expect you to try your best and introspect on your role in society, as I expect from everyone else, myself included.
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