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Congrats to them. Sad though that they had to go as low as selling their users out to AI training for that. And context sensitive advertisements in social media are also more a drag to society. But hey, they did it.

Maybe now they can shift to more ethical business models?


Well, you can stop wearing those weird clothes for once. Nowadays we pirate from home. No sailor suit required anymore. I recommend you start by buying a laptop. But those are quite hard to use if you have skipped a century or two. Can you even read? Do you speak modern English?

Anyways, maybe go to some adult education center first and learn how to read and write. Yes you got that right. Piracy requires education nowadays. Who would have thought?


Sounds depressing. But hey, maybe it’ll help someone.


I would propose creating a distributed hash table for this. But I would never host someone else’s data like this, because I’m too afraid they will give me encrypted illegal content and then some obscure law will give me the fault for it. This is just me though.


Sounds a lot like they tried to make a “game like dead space”. But then by trying to imitate that, they necessarily and almost predictably fell short behind the original.


Is Callisto Protocol a hidden Dead Space remake?
Right now, Callisto Protocol is available for free on the epic games store. Looking at their marketing, it reminds me a lot of Dead Space. Starting from the immersive UI with the health bar on the players suit, to that sign in the trailer that tells me to shoot the limbs of the enemies. And I mean, the enemies don't look that different, basically some kind of aggressive infected zombie thingies. And then, the whole setting seems so similar: a space outpost being overrun by some kind of zombie virus. Did anyone here play both Dead Space and Callisto Protocol? Did you find them very similar?
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In Java you get a bunch of unexpected NullPointerExceptions instead…


They certainly do like to use the word “in” a lot.




[Source](https://x.com/summer__heidi/status/1817854974623396142)
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You mean poker without real money? Because there are a lot of gambling sites, I would believe that some of them also offer poker. But please, there are better things to do with your money. You could donate it for example.



Good self-hosted groceries app?
Should be easy to use, remember what I bought before and propose things that are probably running out (based on my personal buying frequency), and allow sharing the list between multiple people. Ideally also allow adding recipes for meals that I cook often.
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Trump is too unironically placed next to two important persons from US history here. Ethically questionable.


Linux kernel guilty as well. It reports memory in “kb”, but digging through documentation, you will at some point see that they actually mean KiB. The “kb” would be 1000 bits.



Oh nice! Does this exist for EU as well?


It is enough if his name appears just once. Modern language models take more than just the last few characters as context.



Copilot is just an LLM trained on all GitHub code. Hence it gives you random stuff from some open source code bases.



Reminds me a bit of dead space.



If you want fast file sync between computers, use syncthing


I didn’t read more than the abstract. It sounds like they are arguing that hallucinations are inevitable because the LLM cannot know everything. But wouldn’t it be enough for the LLM to know what it knows, and therefore know what it does not know?


Yep. Semver is so much more useful than the marketing versioning which many projects do.


The optimal phone is both corded and wireless: it has a receiver corded to a base piece with a traditional dial, but the base piece is wireless.


I would think that subscribing to a community could be coupled to a license. Servers do not randomly send data, they only send it to other servers that are subscribed. And a server could technically decline a subscription.

But anyways, by default, copyright is with the creator. No idea what that looks like in legislations around the world, but if I remember correctly, in EU, just because you give a copy of a e.g. song you wrote to someone, does not actually mean they can do with it what they want. By default, you have all the rights, and the someone else needs to grant them to you. So if you give that someone also a contract where it states that he can play it in front of an audience, then they can, otherwise they cannot.

However, I am not sure how much implied consent can play a role here. By posting something on a fediverse instance, since the purpose of the fediverse is to share these posts with other servers, then by posting you may implicitly agree to this data being shared, and the next server can share it with another server again, and so on. This is the basic “boost” functionality of mastodon.

I believe though that because the purpose of the fediverse is not explicitly to train AI models or to sell the posts to someone else, it may be illegal to scrape all posts off to feed e.g. an AI model. But may also not be. We will never know until someone starts doing it and someone else sues them.


Bittorrent client with builtin tor-like anonymity. It also allows to search its hidden network, so you can find all kinds of stuff. Not that I would use it for piracy though, but it is pretty good for downloading open source software.



Legally, in EU, you probably cannot scrape an instance of someone else because of the database copyright law. But I have no idea if that applies to being part of the network. Since the other instances send you their content willingly.

Maybe someone should make a license extension to ActivityPub, where instances can communicate what can and what can’t be done with the information they publish. Then at least there would be legal clarity. If it can be enforced is another question.


How much is a wind-proof windshield? And do they also offer air-proof tires?


Oppenheimer even had 80 gigs, if I am not mistaken.


I honestly think the price is very reasonable, given the amount of playtime you can easily sink into this game. And compared to other train simulators, where each new track and each new locomotive costs another 10€, this is incredibly cheap.


Come Join the Derail Valley Community!
Any [Derail Valley](http://www.derailvalley.com/) players here? I made a community for us, come and join! [!derailvalley@sopuli.xyz](/c/derailvalley@sopuli.xyz)
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This is often done by people while the project is unstable. No need to write documentation that gets outdated every few weeks, when you can help people live in discord.


I don’t see anything that would need to be moderated here? Or is it just about these comments that are unrelated to the post?


Anyone has a working nixos config for immich? I don’t get the containers to communicate with the host database.


Sabotage is a fun idea! Would also be cool as an option in multiplayer, where you can break down other people’s power plants this way. And maybe even blow up their nuclear plants?


Thanks, that looks cool! It’s a nice idea to include the environmental aspect, and also make it multiplayer.


Would you be interested in a game about energy generation and distribution?
I recently got interested in the physics behind power plants, and the electrical network as well as heat networks. There are games about parts of these, like for example nuclear power plants. They simulate them reasonably accurately, and build a game around them. In Nucleares (on steam) for example, the player has to learn how to balance the various components, to produce as much power as possible without blowing up the reactor. Then they have to replace parts before they accumulate too much wear and break. And finally, the player has to react to various events, such as regulatory restrictions. I feel like there is a lot of potential in this. Nucleares is a lot of fun, even though its simulation is not super detailed yet, and it is a bit hard to access for a beginner. Would you be interested in a game that lets you design, build and run your own power plants and power distribution networks? The game would be a bit educational, because it uses and explains real-world concepts. However, ideally it would be accessible for anyone who did some physics classes in high school. Would you play this kind of a game?
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2 years for 220k damage? Isn’t that basically what he earns in two years, so he could pay it back in five?







Thanks for the warning. From all the comments in this post, I think audiobookshelf is certainly a great option!


Searching for a self-hostable podcast manager
Are there any good server-based podcast managers out there? I am particularly interested in these features: * Follow podcast feeds * Stream podcasts in the browser * Remember where I paused across devices * Also works on mobile via web or app
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I was happily using this for a year or so now. Feels fairer than using an ad blocker. But now they apparently want more money out of people. Feels like some sort of internet video apocalypse is happening, where the services become extremely fragmented and expensive, like YouTube, netflix, hbo, Hulu, Disney+ and whatnot. Each wants some 10-20€ out of your pocket. I guess that means back to ad blockers and piracy...
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Revolutionary indie train sim “Derail Valley” rated “overwhelmingly positive” after huge update
If you are into train games and have not heard of [Derail Valley](https://www.derailvalley.com), give it a try! It is an incredibly realistic simulation of cargo train driving, either between stations or as a shunter within a single station. It can be from really relaxing, when picking a task that is well within the specifications of the locomotive, to very challenging when driving the locomotive at its limits. They currently have six different locomotives that have vastly different characteristics, including various diesel and steam engines. I have played some 15 hours so far and am really loving it.
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Yearly reminder that github still does not have an IPv6 address (2023)
Try the following: ``` $ nslookup github.com [...] Non-authoritative answer: Name: github.com Address: 140.82.121.3 ``` See also the [completely ignored post in their forums](https://github.com/orgs/community/discussions/10539).
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