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mrmaplebar

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  • U.S. Supreme Court declines to hear dispute over copyrights for AI-generated material

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  • Why would anyone think that they could copyright something that they didn't make?

    Maybe you can trademark the prompt or whatever, but in the end of the day, you didn't make shit, so why would you own the copyright?

    In the immortal words of everyone ever, pick up a fucking pencil.

  • Steam hardware survey for February 2026. What happened? Why did it lose such a big percentage?

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  • Who's nagging? I promise you nobody gives a fuck what OS you use on your computer.

  • Steam hardware survey for February 2026. What happened? Why did it lose such a big percentage?

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  • Steam Decks are now sold out, so Linux has probably slowed down a lot. I doubt it represents a decrease in users so much as a decrease in growth of users.

  • 3 US troops killed in Iran attack

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  • I'm in Portland, Oregon on the West Coast and we have people protesting every day here. I wouldn't be surprised if it's the same in most big cities. I even see protests in suburbs and smaller towns. There was a massive turnout for the "no kings" protest back in October, and there's another one coming up in March. People are protesting.

    Our current national government isn't very receptive to protests because they are essentially authoritarian and don't have any shame or respect for the people. They're still worth doing to sure our anger and resistance to the current government, but I don't expect them to bring about real change.

    We need Democrats to win a damn election, preferably those with a spine who understand that incremental change isn't good enough. It wasn't enough before, and especially isn't now that Trump and the Republicans have effectively destroyed and dismantled our institutions.

    The only thing that will change the current situation is democracy or revolution.

  • 'End of MAGA': Trump's attack on Iran sets off revolt among angry supporters

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  • I'll believe it when I see it

  • Burger King will use AI to check if employees say ‘please’ and ‘thank you’

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  • Just like basically all of this AI shit... Who is this for?

    They should be focused on making their food better and cheaper, not making their employees miserable.

    I'll get my burger at whatever restaurant treats its workers and customers like human beings.

  • His name was Kevin

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  • Beautiful. I'm very sorry for your loss. I know he loved you as much as you loved him.❤️

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  • Never used it. Don't see any reason to. I just type stuff in my IDE. Works like a charm.

    Most of the time I'm not writing large volumes or boilerplate code or anything, I'm making precise changes to solve specific problems. I doubt there's any LLM that can do that more effectively than a programmer with real knowledge of the code base and application domain.

    I also work on open source software and we haven't seen a meaningful uptick in good contributions due to AI over the last few years. So if there's some mythical productivity increase happening, I'm just not seeing it.

  • Bcachefs creator claims his custom LLM is 'fully conscious'

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  • Yeah... I've always heard a lot of big talk from him about bcachefs that didn't seem to be very easy to verify with any concrete data or benchmarks, but now I'm starting to maybe see why.

    Delusional thinking and LLMs are a bad combo.

  • Bcachefs creator claims his custom LLM is 'fully conscious'

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  • I'm not qualified to diagnose mental illnesses but ...

  • Bcachefs creator claims his custom LLM is 'fully conscious'

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  • They hate pronouns until they want to fuck their GPU.

  • Bcachefs creator claims his custom LLM is 'fully conscious'

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  • I guess his "AGI" can make him a kernel. Or maybe he doesn't need a kennel at all now.

  • Discord cuts ties with Peter Thiel-backed verification software after its code was found tied to US surveillance efforts

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  • Matrix might be worth a try too. It's kind of like a modernized IRC with limited discord-like functionality.

    Stoat also seems pretty good, though it's more centralized than I'd like.

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  • In my experience with kink communities, shame can really do a number on people's psychology. It feels like there are always two camps of people: the ones who simply learn to say "fuck it" and embrace their weird side, and those who really become very depressed and self-isolating because they're made to feel like an aberration. That level of internal conflict, where you spend your entire life fighting against your own (otherwise legally and ethically non-problematic) desires due to internalized shame is a dark and dangerous path.

    And like... I get it. To an outsider, any kink that you don't have can definitely seem weird, gross, undesirable, etc. But then again, even vanilla sex acts can seem gross when you imagine other people doing them. Still, I think a lot of people in the kink space end up struggling with negative feelings about themselves.

    Plus, there are a certain group of very puritanical and judgemental people who desperately want to describe (without any psychiatric qualifications) any behavior they don't understand as being "mental illness", but ironically, I think the most mentally healthy thing any kinky person can do is simply to accept and embrace their kink.

    My message to any kinky people out there is to do whatever you can to accept yourself. Unless your kink involves something that is seriously dangerous to yourself and others, or otherwise legally or ethically dubious, then odds are that the best thing that you can do is just come to terms with being, as Rick James said, a "superfreak".

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  • I suppose that's possible, but I feel like I've talked to a lot of people in the kink space who developed their particular interests from a young pre-pubescent age, before they were even really sexually aware. A shocking number of kinksters will tell you that they feel that their fascination came "preinstalled". 😅

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  • I'd go one further and say kink itself!

    Sure it's not for everyone... But people act like it's some crazy abomination, when most of the time it's just some variation of sex + roleplay.

  • What do you think is a realistic peaceful solution to the China-Taiwan issue?

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  • While I don't claim to be an expert on the subject, the only peaceful outcome I can see is actually just a continuation of the status quo, where mainland China uses "reunification" messaging as little more than a show of strength and patriotic political rhetoric, and where the Western world continues to treat Taiwan's independence with "strategic ambiguity" while hinting to China that any attempt to take Taiwan will be met with a large scale Western response from the US and allies.

    I do think that the West wants Russia's attempted invasion of Ukraine to be a sign of what China should expect if they were to attempt to annex Taiwan. It won't be easy, it'll throw trade and supply chains into absolute chaos, and it'll be met with harsh economic sanctions and large weapons deals at the very least. The West wants China to feel that there is very little upside to attacking Taiwan, and that it's much more reasonable to maintain the status quo (though arguably, tariffs and trade wars needlessly remove some of the US's economic leverage over China).

    Rhetoric aside, how much chaos and bloodshed is China really willing to tolerate just for the pyrric victory of finishing what Mao started almost a century ago?

    I think the main hope for peace is that Xi and the ruling members of the CCP feel that it's in their personal best interest to talk a big game while doing the bare minimum to disrupt the systems that they currently benefit from.

  • Must know/use sites for newcomers to the fediverse?

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  • Alright, I've changed my description to "peer-to-peer".

  • Must know/use sites for newcomers to the fediverse?

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  • So far, I've tried and enjoyed:

    • Mastodon, a twitter-like microblogging platform
    • Peertube, a peer-to-peer youtube-like video posting and streaming platform
    • Pixelfed, an instagram-like image sharing platform
    • Matrix, a federated IRC-style chatroom protocol (not really fediverse/activitypub, but still interesting)
    • Wafrn, a tumblr-like with support for Bluesky's AT protocol too!
    • Misskey, a unqiue social platform with lots of features, very popular with the Japanese art crowd
    • Mbin, another reddit-like with lots of interesting features and a nice interface.

    And there are still plenty more that I haven't really tried yet! The fediverse is pretty huge!

    As for recommending specific sites, that's a bit harder since it's healthy that not everybody is on the same server. So I would just recommend picking a reasonably popular server with open registration.