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I hope the person who parked their car right in front of bicycle rack (completely blocking it) steps on a lego tonight
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Max "Buzzworthy" Eddy
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I read dozens of pages of AI company documentation so you don't have to.
https://www.nytimes.com/wirecutter/advice/ai-chat-privacy/
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For rushed Halloween decorations I have a parking space outside for witches to park their brooms and one space is reserved for electric only.
Someone has parked a vacuum cleaner in it.
Alex is Canadian now
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Despite his choice of costume Ince would like you to know he is a Very Good Boy. As long as you're not a pumpkin. @thegiddystitcher
Cory Doctorow
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In this special Halloween edition of our weekly newsletter, Michael answers the question of what attracted him to drawing dark art. Plus two new horror paintings available now in our shop!
https://theartofmichaelwhelan.substack.com/p/the-lure-of-darkness
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Basically, we're about to recreate formalities, but managed by the private sector. To the extent that companies use AI in their work, they are going to have to track every pixel and every word and every note that is output by an AI system, and which parts were added or edited by humans after creation.
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That means that companies that want to protect their commercial interests aren't just going to get more protection based on how much work they get humans to do; they're also going to have to treat copyright's government-enforceable monopoly over expressive speech with the gravitas it deserves: not something you get automatically, but something you have to do real administrative work for.
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Alex is Canadian now
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31st of Owltober!
Horst the Eagle-Owl was found soaked in oil and flightless. After weeks of many grumpy baths from Heike Kneseback, he was once more fit for the wild. Want to donate to Hilfe für Lüneburger Wildtiere https://paypal.com/paypalme/hilfefuerLGwildtiere Source: https://www.tiktok.com/@flottelotte2020 #owlsintowels 💛🦉
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Which brings me back to the question of AI and copyright. If a firm uses *some* AI in its work, it's going to need to document that *very* carefully. Firms that don't keep very close track of the elements of their products that come from AI will have a far harder time defending their commercial interests.
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Basically, we're about to recreate formalities, but managed by the private sector. To the extent that companies use AI in their work, they are going to have to track every pixel and every word and every note that is output by an AI system, and which parts were added or edited by humans after creation.
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What formality abolition accomplished was the destruction of the regular system of record-keeping: rather than having a standard, universally agreed-upon way to determine the status and resolve disputes about a copyrighted work, now we have the scattershot, incoherent system that makes copyright disputes *far* more likely (because no one knows who to approach for copyright licenses) *and* far more difficult to resolve (because there's no registry of copyrighted works).
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Which brings me back to the question of AI and copyright. If a firm uses *some* AI in its work, it's going to need to document that *very* carefully. Firms that don't keep very close track of the elements of their products that come from AI will have a far harder time defending their commercial interests.
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At my 9-year-old daughter's party at the swimming pool, the kids saw some poo floating in the pool. I only informed the staff when it was time for us to leave, because I knew they were required to evacuate the pool, and so they did.
Max "Buzzworthy" Eddy
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If anybody reads this OpenAI post and thinks AI found a zero day - no. This one was patched months ago, not found by OpenAI, and reported by an old-school fuzzer.
This system doesn't do away with the need to keep careful records: like I said, copyright disputes usually require the close examination of documentary evidence.
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What formality abolition accomplished was the destruction of the regular system of record-keeping: rather than having a standard, universally agreed-upon way to determine the status and resolve disputes about a copyrighted work, now we have the scattershot, incoherent system that makes copyright disputes *far* more likely (because no one knows who to approach for copyright licenses) *and* far more difficult to resolve (because there's no registry of copyrighted works).
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I have a squirrel in my garden who is so used to me now he sits and waits for me to throw monkey nuts to him and comes right up to me. He's not eating out my had yet but pretty close. The fess? I'm now including monkey nuts for a squirrel in my weekly budget.
I happily dropped Proton for @mailbox_org@social.mailbox.org and you should too
https://brokenco.de/2026/10/30/dropping-proton-for-mailboxorg.html
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Why decentralization doesn't work for forums
I think federation and decentralization work well for email and text-messaging platforms like XMPP and Matrix because those platforms inherently benefit from being decentralized. They work almost seamlessly with federation.
Forums, on the other hand, don’t really need a federated system. Just look at Lemmy and how many communities defederate from one another because of ideological disagreements. When there’s that much defederation, the entire concept starts to feel pointless. Suddenly, you can’t use your account across “Lemmy” because several instances have decided they don’t like each other anymore.
If this much fragmentation is going to happen naturally, how is federation supposed to be the sustainable future of forums?
I think this is a fair criticism of federated forums. You don’t see this same level of fragmentation with email or text messaging.
Centralized but well-moderated forums are what really matter. Federation doesn’t protect good or useful speech, quality moderation does. And by its nature, Lemmy lacks that.
You realize Reddit bans people too, right? The only difference between Reddit banning people and Lemmy.world banning people, is that Lemmy is transparent about it and gives you choices about it. On Reddit when someone gets banned they’re gone, there is no more so-called “completeness”, it’s just an illusion. But Lemmy has no such issue because you can choose who your admins are, you can join an instance that didn’t ban them.
Imagine if Reddit bans your friend, not as easy to ignore as Reddit banning a stranger, they’re gone and you have to leave Reddit entirely. On Lemmy if lemmy.world bans your friend, you can both just change which Lemmy instance you use to something more agreeable like lemmy.zip
But I realize you’re probably only here to advertise your own forum.
Abolishing formalities has created a universe of orphan works: everything from napkin doodles to kindergartners' finger paintings to message board posts. Within that universe is a kind of gaseous cloud that, if condensed, would come out to an infinitesimal planetoid, representing the entirety of commercial works whose authors give a damn about their copyright status. It's a bad, bad system.
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This system doesn't do away with the need to keep careful records: like I said, copyright disputes usually require the close examination of documentary evidence.
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Writing an email to a protective new client, autocorrect changed the name to Dear Mr Strumpet. Could have corrected it myself but in these days of "AI escaped and did crimes" excuses I stopped giving a shit.
It must be nice having hobbies and be able to enjoy festivities.
I'll wait for a next life.
