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@ chicken @lemmy.dbzer0.com

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  • Naturally

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  • For me "naturally" would just mean "not determined/mediated by a company I hate"

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  • Silicone caulk, lithium batteries, sharkbite fittings, laminate flooring, etc. I remember watching my father struggling with diy house projects and a lot of that is clearly easier now because of various advances.

  • Why hard paywalls is not blocked on Lemmy?

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  • A better analogy would be a ban on posts that are just a link to a Steam page or a ticket sale page. In which case, yeah, makes sense, that's spam.

  • Why hard paywalls is not blocked on Lemmy?

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  • Even in a bookbclub, the library won’t have 15 copies of the same book, some people will have to buy it, unless your book club comprises 2 people.

    IME this is not so much a problem because people are using ebooks and you can digitally check out books from other libraries than the one closest to you. If there is a lack of copies, that could be grounds for going with a different book.

    So we shouldn’t have communities around videogames (or board games), professional sports, traveling, food, clothes, most hobbies, or anything else, because it costs money?

    This is not at all what I'm saying. Does wanting to ban paywall links equate to wanting journalism to die? No, but it makes sense to do, and if it making sense to do conflicts with the business model, that's not a moral problem because people aren't obligated to help companies make their (imo stupid and harmful in this case) decisions work out for them.

  • [Light Roast] It's not that exciting

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  • Yeah it was just like this and absolutely miserable

  • Why hard paywalls is not blocked on Lemmy?

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  • If my primary interest in something is talking to people about it, then gatekeeping destroys its value to me. If my interest in a game is its multiplayer, but nobody plays it anymore, then yeah not only would I not pay for it I also would not spend the harddrive space to install it even if it were free.

    Imagine you're organizing a book club. Wouldn't it make sense to require that prospective books to read are available through the library system? The nature of a book club is that you'll have to read things you might not be interested in on your own, but it's worth the effort because of the opportunity to share and gain perspectives of the other people there. Reading by itself is already an investment of time and effort, getting people to organize enough to have a discussion about something is already difficult, so the endeavor has a clear interest in avoiding the presence of an additional, financial, barrier to a successful discourse.

    "You get what you pay for" doesn't make sense here. The paywall makes it worthless for the given purpose whether or not you pay, which is why it would make sense for people administering link aggregator/discussion sites like this one to ban paywalled links.

  • Why hard paywalls is not blocked on Lemmy?

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  • One solution could be to use Kiwi Browser, can be installed from the Play Store and lets you use arbitrary Chrome extensions without hassle, I tested it and it can install BPC

  • Why hard paywalls is not blocked on Lemmy?

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  • certain stories are very expensive to research and cover

    Well a majority of the ones I see seem to rather be lazy garbage editorializing a single quote or study that would be more informative presented by itself.

    As many things in life, you get what you pay for.

    What I want is to talk about things with people who have also read the relevant context, news site paywall subscriptions prevent that even if you pay because everybody else will have only read the headline. Or they would, if they weren't so easy to pirate.

  • Why hard paywalls is not blocked on Lemmy?

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  • Why is that the problem of online discussion spaces? News sites can paywall their content, but that doesn't mean anyone else has to allow paywalled links.

  • What was your earliest experiences with the Internet like?

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  • Before I had the internet at home, I would use the school library to print out walkthroughs to videogames (at that time zelda.com was not about the nintendo game). I spent several weeks downloading a 100 megabyte demo of a star wars racing game, because at my download speeds it took 18 hours, but normally the connection would drop midway through and there was no way to resume the download without restarting it, so the only thing to do was keep trying and hope to get lucky.

  • Seagate's fraudulent hard drives scandal deepens as clues point at Chinese Chia mining farms

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  • I'm skeptical the market is ever going to have principles, for every person that has gotten burned and become personally aware of shady practices, there are many more that aren't aware and don't have the incentive or ability to do research to find out. Seems like the sort of thing where the system is rigged in favor of scammers if consumer choice is the only regulation.

  • Thomson Reuters wins AI copyright case, rejecting fair use

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  • The law is no longer a brooding omnipresence in the sky; it now dwells in legal- research platforms. Thomson Reuters owns one of the biggest of those platforms: Westlaw. D.I. 752-1 at 4. Users can pay to access its contents, including “case law, state and federal statutes, state and federal regulations, law journals, and treatises.” Id. “Westlaw also contains editorial content and annotations,” like the headnotes here.

    I really hate how the law is supposedly public but there's absurdly expensive proprietary info APIs that you can't actually be well informed about what's legal without them and is gatekept from everyone outside of the legal profession.

    Ross, a new competitor to Westlaw, made a legal-research search engine that uses artificial intelligence. Id. To train its AI search tool, Ross needed a database of legal questions and answers. Id. at 5. So Ross asked to license Westlaw’s content. Id. But because Ross was its competitor, Thomson Reuters refused.

    They have such a monopoly on the data that they can effectively prohibit research that isn't in their interests, that sucks.

  • The government doesn't use SQL

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  • (if your id is stolen and you arduously go about getting a new one)

    I thought I had lost mine once and got a new SSN card, they don't give you a new number, it's the same number

  • I am a meat popsicle

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  • So many possible gender permutations for this scenario

  • AI Company Asks Job Applicants Not to Use AI in Job Applications

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  • Wasn't there a study showing that people who use AI directly in their work are much better at spotting it? Probably not a great idea to begin with

  • Is there a mmo equivalent of the fediverse?

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  • One method could be to have a replay system, public state snapshots, and publicly logged inputs. Servers could randomly audit federated peers by replaying small segments of their logs, and defederate/broadcast that there is a problem if the end state doesn't match. This would require them to be running the same code and not use arbitrary mods, but different settings would still be possible.

  • Signal [Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal]

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  • My interpretation is, they sent the message to prevent the creation of anything that could plausibly be a threat to them and ensure the success of their invasion

  • Decentralized Social Media Is the Only Alternative to the Tech Oligarchy

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  • From talking to someone involved in local government software, it seemed to me like there is a push in the opposite direction from that; they want and are moving towards offloading as much as possible to third party software vendors.

  • Mark Zuckerberg says anyone who quits Meta is 'virtue signaling'

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  • It's clear we very much disagree whether morality is derived from or aligned with the judgment of the public. But surely you can understand that such disagreement exists, and that your perspective on this isn't held by everyone? If someone talks about virtue, you can't assume they are talking about the will of the majority, and you can't infer that a statement is contradictory based on the assumption that the 'virtue' refers to the will of the majority, because that's just your opinion and probably not what they mean. I bet your opinion on this isn't even shared by most people.