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  • Meta claims torrenting pirated books isn’t illegal without proof of seeding

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  • This is honestly a win-win. Either the courts recognize that the LLM uses stolen copyrighted content, or they recognize that torrenting is legal by default.

    Though with the way courts have been bending case law into knots recently, I wouldn’t be surprised if they somehow word the ruling in a way that favors Meta and makes torrenting outright illegal.

  • Luigi Mangione illegally searched during arrest in health insurance CEO killing, lawyer says

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  • The US has a legal concept called fruit of the poisoned tree. Basically, if evidence was obtained by cops illegally, it can’t be used against a defendant. Essentially, the prosecution can’t use fruit that they found from a poisoned tree, because the fruit is considered tainted. For instance, let’s say cops illegally search you, and find weed. If your defense lawyer can prove that the search was illegal, the evidence (your weed) gets excluded from the trial.

    There are a few exceptions, like cops being able to use evidence from someone who stole it. For instance, if someone steals a laptop and then finds CSAM on it, the laptop can still be used against the person it was stolen from. Because the initial theft was illegal, but the cops weren’t the ones who stole it; They legally obtained it from the thief who reported the CSAM and turned the laptop over. But as a general rule, if cops break the law to get evidence, the evidence is thrown out.

    So if they prove that Luigi was illegally searched, it potentially excludes all of the evidence they found on him, like his written manifesto and the ghost gun in his backpack.

    But this trial is already a fucking sham, so I have no doubt that the courts will turn case law on its head to rule the search was legal, even if it was blatantly illegal. Cops have a lot of leeway in how they can justify a search, so the detectives can likely just say “we thought we smelled weed, so we initiated a search” to get the search ruled as legal.

  • Luigi Mangione illegally searched during arrest in health insurance CEO killing, lawyer says

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  • I mean, plenty of people were saying that right when he was first arrested. The dude was able to evade capture for an entire week while the entire country was on the lookout for him… He even had time to leave memeable fake breadcrumbs, like his backpack full of Monopoly money… And yet he never thought to break apart the ghost gun he used, and dispose of it in random trash cans so they’d be virtually impossible to trace back to him? He had a goddamned manifesto on him, like it was a signed confession?

    Yeah, no. His arrest smells like “accidentally” disabled body cams and planted evidence.

  • Luigi Mangione illegally searched during arrest in health insurance CEO killing, lawyer says

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  • When anger and disgust combine, you get contempt. And while the word doesn’t sound super impactful, contempt is one of the strongest emotions, and one that is often deeply rooted in your sense of identity. Because if you hold genuine contempt for something, it’s usually because it flies in the face of your core personal values. It’s an emotion that makes it difficult to even function properly when you’re near the target of your contempt; It’s the kind of emotion that drives people to violence.

  • Luigi Mangione illegally searched during arrest in health insurance CEO killing, lawyer says

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  • Also, courts have repeatedly ruled that a punishment has to be both cruel and unusual to be unconstitutional. Which means that if the government just treats everyone like trash, it’s cruel but not unusual. Because the government is what decides what is unusual simply by adjusting how often it is used. If something is unusual and they want to change that, they just do it more so it’s considered usual.

  • Trump administration fires top US general and Navy chief in unprecedented purge of military leadership

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  • It’s the same strategy used by Hitler and the nazis to seize control of Germany. They initially only got control of some of the smaller, “less important” government departments. And then they just started drastically expanding the reach of existing departments, declaring themselves to be in charge of other departments, consolidating loyalists, etc…

    The idea is that by the time opponents have time to push back, you have already seized control and are already ousting them. Court battles take months or years, but the takeover was done in a few days.

  • Obsidian is now free for work - Obsidian

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  • It’s a directory. When you create a new note, it creates a new file inside of that directory. My point was simply that you can always just browse the directory and read the plaintext file for whichever note you want. Obsidian simply adds things like text formatting and automatic links to other notes.

  • So why the hate for the archive our own?

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  • My only guess is that they’re one of the “AO3 is for pedos” people. There is a vocal group that takes issue with AO3’s lack of content-based moderation. AO3’s stance has basically been that they’ll only censor things that are directly harmful to people. And by extension, they maintain that imagined content cannot be harmful to real people, so it shouldn’t be censored. Basically, following that line of reasoning, images of CSAM would be prohibited (not just because it is illegal, but also because a real person was harmed to create it) but a post describing imagined CSAM would be allowed. And this is what lots of people take issue with.

    Basically, AO3 takes a “the audience is a genius” stance to things, where the audience is what decides what is and is not too far. The term was initially coined to describe comedy, where the audience is the ultimate judge of whether a comedian’s joke is “too far”. Even if the comedian doesn’t believe it was too far, the audience has the final say because they’re the ones who decide whether or not it’s acceptable to laugh. If a comedian tells a dirty joke and nobody laughs, the comedian instantly knows that it was too dirty and they need to dial it back.

    The stance can be applied to other topics as well though. In AO3’s case, it essentially means that individual moderators shouldn’t have the authority to block content they find offensive, because what may be offensive to a mod may not be offensive to the audience it was directed at. The concept of a genius audience is that the audience is always the final arbiter of what is and is not acceptable. That the boundary of acceptableness is a push and pull game between the content creator and the audience, with the content creator essentially toeing the line and seeing how the audience reacts. If they react positively, the creator knows it’s not too far. If they react negatively, the writer knows they crossed a boundary.

    To bring it back to the original topic, some people have a big issue with the fact that AO3 uses the genius audience stance for moderation, because they maintain that it enables pedophiles. Basically, that the stance is fundamentally flawed because there will always be another pedo who reacts positively to the content, but that doesn’t mean the content is acceptable. In practice, a lot of the times it is applied to ships that involve canonically underage characters. Maybe a series gets popular, but all of the characters are only 14 or 15 years old. That won’t stop ships from popping up, but it will trigger accusations of pedophilia when people post stories with those ships.

    To use an older example, lots of people had issues with any ships involving Avatar: The Last Airbender. All of the main characters were like 12 or 13 when the series started, and had only aged (at most) a single year by the time the series ended. It also had an absolutely rabid fan base. So ships about the characters inevitably had at least a few “eww these characters are literal kids, you shouldn’t be shipping them” critics. But AO3 refused to police the ships (or any stories involving them) because it’s fictional content.

  • Elon Musk and Wikipedia are feuding

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  • Yeah, as long as you exclude media like images, the entirety of Wikipedia can be compressed into hilariously small sizes. The “only current revisions and no talk” version is only 86GB uncompressed, and compresses down to 19GB.

    There are even specialized readers that can read the compressed data on a page-by-page basis so you don’t need to decompress the entire thing to browse it.

    https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Database_download

  • Elon Musk and Wikipedia are feuding

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  • Yeah, because having a Mexican cartel assassinate the president of the United States’ family members would definitely help to quiet the xenophobic “sending their rapists and murderers” claims /s

  • Amazon is changing what is written in books

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  • Yeah, I tired Audiobookshelf and gave up after fighting with it for a day or two. It refused to read or write any data on my NAS, so it couldn’t actually save/load any audiobook files.

  • Obsidian is now free for work - Obsidian

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  • It stores your data in plaintext, and simply uses the program to parse special formatting characters. There are no attempts at obfuscation or encryption, and it doesn’t lock you into a walled garden that refuses to play nice with other programs. The program itself is closed-source, but anyone could write an open source version to parse the same info… There just hasn’t been a good reason to do so. Even if Obsidian as a company and program ceases to exist overnight, your data is still safe on your machine and can be read by anyone who cares enough to dig into the file. Hell, you can even open it as the plaintext file and dig through it manually.

  • Valve's monthly survey reveals that almost 45% of Steam users on PC are still using Windows 10 even with the sword of Damocles hanging over them

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  • This is the third time today that I have seen a reference to the sword of Damocles. Almost as if the entire fucking world feels like it’s only a thread away from destruction…

  • Grand jury recommends Alabama police department be 'immediately abolished'

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  • Honestly, my initial guess was that the department used a fake name to refer to the officer. Because it’s giving big “the hardest part of making a new character is thinking of a name” vibes.

  • Grand jury recommends Alabama police department be 'immediately abolished'

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  • I had an idea for a community along the lines of /LeastSupremeWhites which was the same basic premise. Based on an old comment I saw a while ago, which was along the lines of “why are white supremacists always the least supreme whites?”

  • Elon Musk Is Faking DOGE Results to Hide His Incompetence

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  • They also fired the workers who handled most FOIA requests, so there is nobody to fulfill them anyways.

  • Amazon is changing what is written in books

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  • And here’s a reminder that if you run a Plex server, there’s an app called Prologue which turns it into a fully fledged audiobook server.

    Plex doesn’t natively support things like audiobook bookmarks in m4b files, and tries to just play them straight through like a gigantic 4 hour long music track. But Prologue does support bookmark data. Prologue simply uses Plex’s service to access the files, (because admittedly, Plex is good for letting newbies remotely access their content) and then it ignores Plex’s built-in “lol just play it like music” instructions, and actually parses the files for bookmark data.

    As someone who couldn’t get Audiobookshelf to work properly, (something about not being able to access network drives via Docker), Prologue has saved my audiobook library by allowing me to just host it via Plex instead.

  • Discord requiring you to add a phone number after the creation of your account

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  • The server owners can’t see your phone number. Discord allows you to set a minimum verification level for users in your server. The lowest is simply having a verified email on their account. The highest is a verified email, a few minutes old (so no brand new accounts), been in the server for a few minutes, and a verified phone number. It’s just a bot prevention thing, because spammers/scammers are a big issue on large Discord servers. Especially early in Discord’s history, it was a big issue where bots would raid a server and just totally shut it down with spam links. So Discord started allowing server owners to set minimum verification levels before users could interact and send messages.

  • Two more staffers quit John Fetterman's office as the senator carves his own lane with Trump

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  • I’ll admit that Douglas Adams hit the nail on the head in regards to AI. In the Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy, AI exists but everyone hates dealing with it because it’s so damned annoying. They avoid it whenever possible, and only interact when forced to do so via things like smart devices that use AI for basic tasks.

    For instance, doors are programmed with AI and emphatically love opening and closing for people. In fact, they love their job as a door so much that they have a tendency to loudly and repeatedly thank people for using them, to the point of annoyance.