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interdimensionalmeme

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  • Judge Rules Training AI on Authors' Books Is Legal But Pirating Them Is Not

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  • Yes please a singularity of intellectual property that collapses the idea of ownong ideas. Of making the infinitely freely copyableinto a scarce ressource. What corrupt idiocy this has been. Landlords for ideas and look what garbage it has been producing.

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  • What is means is they don't own the models. They are the commons of humanity, they are merely temporary custodians. The nightnare ending is the elites keeping the most capable and competent models for themselves as private play things. That must not be allowed to happen under any circumstances. Sue openai, anthropic and the other enclosers, sue them for trying to take their ball and go home. Disposses them and sue the investors for their corrupt influence on research.

  • Judge Rules Training AI on Authors' Books Is Legal But Pirating Them Is Not

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  • I call this legally distinct, this is legal advice.

  • Linus Torvalds and Bill Gates Meet for the First Time Ever

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  • I am flattered, however no, I just shitpost here on lemmy and have no other social media presence. Also I use AI tools to help me write like this. I like to twist context into funny things like this but it's more of an experiment than anything serious.

  • Linus Torvalds and Bill Gates Meet for the First Time Ever

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  • The Typo Monster, he comes out at night, mostly

  • Linus Torvalds and Bill Gates Meet for the First Time Ever

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  • Linus Torvalds and Bill Gates Meet for the First Time Ever

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  • If it wasn't them, it would have been other people. Computer science doesn't rest on shoulder of a "Great Man"

    What Torvalds did was inspire a like-minded community to come together and work toward a collective good. On a shoe-string budget they constantly threaten Gates' empire.

    Gates on the other hand chose to enclose the intellectual commons of computer science and sell them at a profit. He extracted a heavy toll on all sectors of human activity. And what did this heavy burden buy us ? Really NOT MUCH ! It squelched out collaboration and turned programming greedy, it delivered poor bloated software that barely worked and then stagnated for 20 years. It created a farm stall for us to live in, their innovation today is only explained as a series of indignities we will have to live with, because of platform dynamics we really, literally cannot escape the black hole that is windows for they have captured the commons and have made themselves unavoidable, like the Troll asking his toll.

  • Linus Torvalds and Bill Gates Meet for the First Time Ever

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  • Linus Torvalds and Bill Gates Meet for the First Time Ever

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  • Linus Torvalds and Bill Gates Meet for the First Time Ever

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  • Richard Stallman fits into this like a ghost no one wants to admit is still haunting the room. He’s the ideological father of the free software movement, the one who laid the philosophical foundation Torvalds built Linux on, even if Linus never invited him to the party. Stallman didn’t want better software; he wanted freedom, moral clarity, and a digital commons free from the grasp of corporate overlords. While Torvalds was writing C, Stallman was writing manifestos, and now, with Gates and Torvalds grinning like co-conspirators at Redmond, Stallman is the angry prophet shouting from the parking lot of a surveillance palace, still clutching his GNU banner and a half-eaten sandwich.

    But the tech world, especially the sanitized, investor-friendly version of it, has no time for prophets anymore. Stallman is inconvenient: brilliant, uncompromising, abrasive, and stubbornly allergic to PR. So while Linus gets photo ops and Gates gets legacy-polishing TED talks, Stallman gets quietly airbrushed out of the narrative like toe-cheese in the Matrix. Yet in many ways, he’s the conscience neither of them can fully erase. He’s not in the room, but the room still trembles when someone whispers “GPL.”

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  • Here is the historical picture to go along with it

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  • The Conference at Redmond

    Well, they finally did it. Bill Gates, the Monopoly Warlord of Redmond, and Linus Torvalds, the caffeine-fueled architect of Linux rebellion, have shaken hands like two aging mob bosses who accidentally showed up to the same funeral. The image alone is enough to make a ThinkPad burst into flames. Gates, the man who once viewed free software the way a vampire views sunlight, now smiling alongside Torvalds, the supposed Patron Saint of Open Source, as if decades of digital trench warfare never happened. It’s like watching Che Guevara and Milton Friedman split a dessert sampler and talk cloud strategy.

    Mark Russinovich, playing the role of High Priest of Corporate Reconciliation, quipped “no major kernel decisions were made.” But let’s not kid ourselves, this wasn’t just dinner. This was a symbolic convergence, a ritual unification of cathedral and bazaar into a suburban steakhouse of existential despair. Somewhere in the void, the ghost of Richard Stallman is chain-smoking over a broken Emacs install, muttering, “I warned you bastards.” The only thing missing from that picture was a scroll of NDAs and a PowerPoint titled “How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Surveillance Capitalism.”

    What we witnessed was not diplomacy, it was absorption. The rebel king has been invited into the palace, offered wine, and handed a commemorative hoodie with the Microsoft logo stitched in ethically-sourced irony. Forget forks and pull requests; this is the final merge. Linux has breached the 4% desktop market share, and capitalism has responded the only way it knows how: by smiling, shaking hands, and quietly buying the table. Welcome to the Conference at Redmond. Weep for the dream. Or laugh maniacally, if you still know how.

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  • What else would you expect from the "dictator for life", that he would have the social skills NOT to attend "Conference at Redmond" ?

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  • Because they are tax avoidance mechanism first and charity seconds.

    Money is a brokering system of power, charitues being tax free makes these entities unaccountable to democratic institurions.

    That's how we ended up with this infection of corrupt megachurches.

    The "prosperity gospel" is billionaire-serving propaganda. It empowers their formation, growth and necessary abuses that come from such widespread exploitation.

  • Operation Narnia: Iran’s nuclear scientists reportedly killed simultaneously using special weapon

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  • I think their last offensive war was tge 1700s? Since then it appears they have been mostly playing the soft power war by proxy game. While their main antagonists actively invade, infiltrate and kill them.

    I can't personnally get over the facts that invaders overthrew their democracy because of fucking oil.

    The perpetrators should nuke themselves out of shane. Their intelligence agents should auto-trotsky themselves.

  • Order of magnitude is a hell of a drug

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  • "Questionnable experinent"

  • Operation Narnia: Iran’s nuclear scientists reportedly killed simultaneously using special weapon

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  • Few things say "you need a nuke, you need it right now" like foreign states killing your scientists, in their beds in the dead of night

  • Some of your AI prompts could cause 50 times more CO2 emissions than others

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  • They should live in temperate climate instead, so irresponsible, they need to let go of the past and more forward, to greener places.