and it seems to be not true at all that “California just killed” anything, so far the bill has only been introduced, not passed as the title implies

ah, I guess my non-natively English-speaking brain didn’t catch that

That may be counterproductive, see: https://www.commondreams.org/views/2016/12/14/president-reject-dont-say-his-name and https://stallman.org/glossary.html (under “the troll”)

imnectarines???

current GPL licenses doesn’t protect them from A.I. scrapping their work

The legal status of AI scraping is not dependent on a specific license.

It’s dependent on whether copyright law requires permission from a copyright holder to train AI on their work. This is, as far as I know, not (mostly) a legally settled question yet.

All a license can do is permit things that would otherwise not be permitted. If copyright law doesn’t require that kind of permission, then it doesn’t matter what the author wrote in the license, they won’t be able to successfully sue for copyright infringement.

Meanwhile, if copyright law does require permission from copyright holders for training AI on their works, then the GPL already does what you want to achieve, because then anything generated from such an AI is already a derivative work.

A piece of paper is white at first. After you’ve drawn colors on it, you’ve made it closer to black. If you draw in many different colors, it will eventually be black.

A screen is black (emits no light) at first. After you’ve made it emit light, you’ve made it closer to white. If you make it emit all colors at the same time, it is white.

They can’t. Judicial appointments are for life. Laws require another majority in Congress to repeal again.

The place they’d have the most power over is the executive branch. They could rescind executive orders, replace staff, etc.; but “all of Trump’s bullshit” isn’t possible, never has been for any previous president.

I’ve seen it. :D

Hi, I am from an instance no one ever seems to talk about and when reading these kinds of threads I am glad I made that choice. 😁

Everyone on today’s internet is directly exposed to regulations like GDPR, the Digital Services Act (DSA), the Digital Markets Act (DMA), and lately numerous age verification (or assurance) laws and related social media bans for minors.

How, how, how did we manage to stray this far from John Perry Barlow’s dreams? Is there any good left in the world? ;_;

phpBB-like bulletin boards (first one I became active on was based on something called UBB which I’ve never seen elsewhere) -> wikis -> IRC -> instant messengers (although I’d sporadically used those before IRC already technically) -> reddit -> lemmy

Thread about that here: https://discuss.tchncs.de/post/54901501

What? That really doesn’t make much sense, the admin has direct access to the server and reset the password of any account, including their own admin account and any alternate account they use.

sad John Perry Barlow noises

https://www.eff.org/cyberspace-independence

On YOUR server you can do whatever you want. You are the admin, so it’s logical that you can perform any action whatsoever on your local copy of everything that has been copied there. (If you couldn’t through the UI, you certainly could through manual changes in the DB.)

Nothing you do because of this will be successfully federated to anywhere other than your server. That would be a major security issue, after all anyone could maliciously set up a server and make random changes affecting everyone.

No one should.

Think about how much you’ve paid in taxes in your life. What could possibly be wrong with trying to get some of that money back?

It always looks funny tho. :D

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mastodon_(social_network)

Similar thoughts here: https://slatestarcodex.com/2019/10/30/new-atheism-the-godlessness-that-failed/

Particularly interesting is this comment:

One really interesting addition to me is that the early internet was a very, VERY free speech place. It loved Gish Gallops of enormous numbers of arguments from all sides and the idea that you would tell anyone, even the most foolish, that they should be banned was verboten.

In fact, early atheists loved creationists posting! It gave them content because these people were so obviously wrong. And creationists the same, because it allowed them to fight back too.

The modern deplatforming support on both sides is another sign that that era is gone.