Venia Silente

A guillotine is also an option.

1. Sell iphone
2. Buy Android
3. Install Minetest / Luanti.

Net positive from every angle.

It’s not new, it’s not unique, it’s not legally enforceable.

I’m feeling patriotic enough to burn US flags and I’m not even from the US!

Has both a piracy and a privacy community, which is nice and probably leads to fun mishaps / mistypings. It’s pretty lean to federate to and fro as well, same with the UI.

Just about the only negative I can consider is their position pro AI, but I can live with that, the world is pretty close to the end anyway.

1. No. There is no particular reason why there needs to be one (say) twitter alternative. Heck, there is not even a reason why there should be a alternative. Fediverse is allowed to be their own things.
2. But each site already has their front page. See eg.: lemmy.dbzer0.com. Alternatively if you meant “each software”, that’s more-or-less what join-lemmy.org is doing.
3. No but yes.
4. I’m not sure that leads to where you think it leads to. That would require authenticating users financially, for one, else it becomes a dark pattern magnet for suckpuppeting.
5. Mostly absolutely yes. I think I’ve seen it discussed a few times under “fediverse identity” or something like that.

As a former lemmeezen, RIP, F, it was a good trip, quite decent service, but now it’s time to spread out.

db0 is being nice so far, and I even got an account on my country’s lemmy.

I’m a simple person, I see DokuWiki and I install it some plugins. Easy to self-host on a cheap VPS (no database required!) or on your own machine (if you have access to eg.:Docker). But that’s more for a general wiki kind of thing, useful but not specialized like having tools aimed for worldbuilding.

Haven’t checked any of the offerings here but I’m told by a couple fellows that they’ve had decent story with Hammer. Would probably start looking there.

The latter part makes sense to me tbh. Machines should not allowed to compete with humans (in creative endeavours) because it is an intrinsically unfair competition that further erodes the rights of those humans who are more vulnerable, in the circumstance that is opposite to the intent of having machines around in the first place. They are supposed to do our beast-of-burden work, not make it so that our only pending value to be extracted by capitalism is beast-of-burden work.

What I’m not sure I buy is the idea that the “countless works” generated by AI actually compete with the original, in particular if they are non-infringing. Let’s say I take the work of an author to train an AI on their style. The author writes exclusively noir; I instruct the AI to generate college drama in the same style. Are the new works competing? The author won’t offer me a college drama in the first place.

Ahem.

• Photo / audio / video evidence.
• Eyewitness testimony

That the eyewitness was also recording does nothing to change veracity, those are still photo / audio / video and can thus be faked.

Could have been quite cool advertising. “FOSS helps solve murders; Microsoft / Google / Facebook helps commit them.”

Huh. The things I miss out of these days!

I’m quite lost (disinterested) on MCU stuff as of late, what’s going on about Thor? Is there a game?

That’s a nice sentiment but no, it won’t work. If your family member rattles conspiranoia to your face, it means they already don’t care about you to enough a point to not only openly do that, but also they are probably unvaxxed and likely unmasked at the moment. Or every single time.

At that point, they don’t care for you. Period.

Wait, it works for you, too?

Capitalism shows that it does indeed work! Just not for the average us.

So yeah, a metaphor for capitalism.

Hmmm, I’m trying to like it but apparently there’s something wrong going on with their delivery pipeline.

The last release is dated 2025-05-01. By that time there were already issues with subtitles and currently in that release version no subtitles load at all. The tracker to that issue is this one which marks as “solved” yet that certainly is not the case. At the very bottom they say you have to go to “nightly” - that is go to Github actions and select one among those labelled “build” and download the desired artifact. Meaning, a fix has not actually been released.

However I’ve visited six different runs of nightlies under “Build” and they do show the artifacts, but they are just a table of text, with no links or uploads. So,

1.- How is one able to download such artifacts? 2.- Why is the issue marked as “solved”?

Just because a law exists, doesn’t make it good. Even getting good laws made these days in the first place often requires lobbying, under-the-table deals and such.

Or just look at ICE. Tell me exactly how are they not corrupt.

What’s corrupt about slavishly enforcing IP law for RIAA

You really typed that without even an ounce of self-awareness?