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mrgoldenbrown
7mo ago
The selling wasn't the problem here. The problem was lying about what they were doing and violating the terms of the license.
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mrgoldenbrown
7mo ago
How is there no legal problem with violating the license terms, which explicitly require attribution?
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mrgoldenbrown
7mo ago
TFA goes into a lot of detail explaining why they "allegedly" aren't actually allowed to do so in the EU.
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mrgoldenbrown
7mo ago
Agency to do what? What are you suggesting they do to escape their captors and then survive in the foreign country they've been trafficked to? How will they protect their family back home from the revenge from the traffickers?
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mrgoldenbrown
7mo ago
The employee probably already knows fax is stupid, and was probably looking forward to the proposed new secured document portal, but the legislature voted down the funding again this year so they could claim to be fiscally responsible. (Do
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mrgoldenbrown
7mo ago
Needing a job to survive in our money based society is not the same as being happy about that job.
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mrgoldenbrown
7mo ago
Not for me. The font we are all seeing depends on our browser and whether we have the requested fonts. No bars on the sans serif my Firefox on Android is displaying.
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mrgoldenbrown
7mo ago
Does OnlyFans have an extensive anti-trafficking program to prevent one typical method of exploitation? If not, it's just proving a platform for the traffickers to make money from the comfort of a safe jurisdiction.
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mrgoldenbrown
7mo ago
So if I view source on their webpage I'm violating terms and conditions? Yikes.
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7mo ago
Hiding something like this in the TOC rather than explicitly asking users to opt in is a dark pattern. You can't gain the moral highground by cackling that someone should have read the fine print.
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7mo ago
https://blog.firestartoys.com/how-the-lego-company-almost-we... It happened in the early 2000's. They actually posted a loss one year.
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mrgoldenbrown
7mo ago
There's nothing stopping you from buying the basic sets and only the basic sets. They didn't stop making basic sets, unless you're objecting to the new colors that go beyond blue red yellow and black?
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mrgoldenbrown
8mo ago
did he claim that Claude wasn't trained on the original? Or just that he didn't personally provide Claude with a copy?
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8mo ago
Does he have access to Claude's training data? How can he claim Claude wasn't trained on the original code?
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mrgoldenbrown
8mo ago
It's still a "known issue" in 26.3 (Though I haven't upgraded to Tahoe at all yet so maybe the release notes are wrong? But everything I've read indicates apple said they fixed it then changed to say they didn'
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8mo ago
I'm assuming/hoping those original guidelines would have prevented the window resizing frustration we have now, along with the other usability downgrades in the support of eyecandy. https://noheger.at/blog/20
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mrgoldenbrown
8mo ago
No need to limit this to "liberal" conspiracy theories. Trump and his admin's statements on how tariffs and other taxes work and who pays them have been full of blatantly false claims.
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mrgoldenbrown
8mo ago
Do you consider dashcams to also be spyware? I feel like dashcams are just as hidden and nonconsensual but more or less accepted.
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mrgoldenbrown
8mo ago
Lego compatible bricks usually avoid saying "Lego", they say something generic like compatible with leading brands. I assume this is to avoid Lego's somewhat aggressive lawyers.
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8mo ago
“I just do not see how this scales, as your marginal labor costs have got to be a very high portion of your revenues.” If only we could have known how much of a race to the bottom the gig economy could be for workers. We were so naive.
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8mo ago
I think remote work peaked and is slowly declining now, for better or worse.
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mrgoldenbrown
8mo ago
The telepathy tapes don't have immense evidence in their favor, unless they've redone everything recently in a controlled way.
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mrgoldenbrown
8mo ago
In other words, if we believe what the CEOs of the AI companies claim, we are setting ourselves up for disappointment.
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8mo ago
It isn't just "companies" that want you to buy more, our entire economic system encourages it.
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mrgoldenbrown
9mo ago
Wow this brings back memories of frustration. We could never figure out what that game wanted us to do, and there was no Internet or even Nintendo Power to help.
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9mo ago
The main purpose of a handle is to open a door, not look polished. Looking polished is not helpful when you're dead because you couldn't get out of that car in an emergency . So IMHO it shouldn't be surprising that they
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9mo ago
Seems especially cruel to reuse "lynx" for a fancy graphics project given the real lynx is focused on text.
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9mo ago
They can try it on desktop and web for free if they are that skeptical.
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mrgoldenbrown
9mo ago
Aka "dusting"
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mrgoldenbrown
9mo ago
So much of the modern web is designed in service to ad revenue. If you optimize a website for usefulness you are losing ad revenue. Every time we force you to click to see another month/week/paragraph we make money.
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