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Tony Bark

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Arf! I'm Tony Bark. Artist by day, programmer by night. Gamer all the way.

Foxtrot Delta TACO.

  • Famous AI "Artist" Says He's Losing Millions of Dollars From People Stealing His Work

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  • Apparently, the competition was a year before that ruling.

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    Famous AI "Artist" Says He's Losing Millions of Dollars From People Stealing His Work

    gizmodo.com /famous-ai-artist-says-hes-losing-millions-of-dollars-from-people-stealing-his-work-2000505822

  • Why does nobody maintain PPAs anymore?

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  • While they aren't perfect, it's certainly better than waiting on the distro or dealing with potential package conflicts that PPAs also had a habit of causing.

  • Why does nobody maintain PPAs anymore?

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  • They were a bandaid solution to a problem that Flatpaks and Snap fixed.

  • is a hot dog a sandwich

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  • If a hot dog wore pants...

  • [VERGE] Microsoft now thirstily injects a poll when you download Google Chrome

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  • This makes IE look tame.

  • [HN] Butt Plug Will Allow Toyota to Build 900-Mile EVs

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  • Turns out the missing link was butt plugs.

  • Unity tutorial creator Brackeys highlights systemic issues with public company, promotes Godot (FOSS)

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  • Completely missed the point I was making, but okay. Thanks.

  • Unity tutorial creator Brackeys highlights systemic issues with public company, promotes Godot (FOSS)

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  • These companies are anything but "public". Just because they go on the stock market, doesn't change their primary interests: money.

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  • Don't put words in my mouth, and drop it already. This argument has gone on long enough. It is inconsequential and pointless. No one is settling or agreeing to fucking anything.

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  • removed's whole marketing campaign is literally about privacy.

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  • I've given up trying to discuss this topic that's already been downvoted to oblivion, anyway. But, if you're curious, I was trying to get the point that Android is pretty useless without the whole Infrastructure Google built, but they kept making it about ASOP. As if the average Joe even knows what that is.

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  • If we judge Android on its own, yes, it can be incredibly safe and secure for its open source abilities. But that conventionally ignores everything else. Google pushes Android forward, Google creates the SDKs, Google creates the IDEs, Google creates all the non-phone variants of the OS. Android isn't on GitHub, it's on Google's servers. "Biggest contributor" is an understatement.

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  • Fine. But you can't obviously say Android is somehow better at privacy when its biggest contributor to the code and ecosystem is a fucking indecisive ad company.

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  • Who contributes the most to Android and push forward new releases?

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  • It is on the subject of privacy. Chrome and Android are owned by the same company.

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  • Did you not see what Google is shoving into Chrome?

  • [VERGE] Another group of writers is suing OpenAI over copyright claims

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  • The lawsuit is seeking class-action status and calls out ChatGPT’s ability to summarize and analyze the content written by the authors, stating this “is only possible” if OpenAI trained its GPT large language model on their works.

    Uhh... I'm confused. While I get their data mining concerns, I'm not sure basing it on its abilities to summarize and analyze trained data to be a good argument. Unless you want to outlaw people reviewing something.

  • The four stages of fediverse-services - at which stage is Lemmy now?

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  • None. The Fediverse is powered by a simple protocol that functions much like Email. It can scale indefinitely, unlike the "town hall" strategy, and is already being adopted in unconventional ways, like software Forges. It isn't going anywhere.

  • Google has a VPN service now

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  • And it'll be gone in two years.

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    New Study Reveals the Power of Railroads to Buffer Coal Plants from a Carbon Emissions Tax

    agnr.umd.edu /news/new-study-reveals-power-railroads-buffer-coal-plants-carbon-emissions-tax
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    Hemp helps to heal

    www.uni-jena.de /en/all-news/hemp-helps-to-heal
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    Discoveries on Memory Mechanisms Could Unlock New Therapies for Alzheimer’s and other Brain Diseases

    news.cuanschutz.edu /news-stories/discoveries-on-memory-mechanisms-could-unlock-new-therapies-for-alzheimers-and-other-brain-diseases