The tech and entertainment industries have slowly eroded any and all moral arguments against piracy.

Streaming and digital distribution have led to situations where we no longer own the media we buy. We could buy a licence to access an app, song, show or movie and then have our access revoked at any time for any reason, and maybe we’ll get a refund if we’re lucky…

Landmining terms of service with clauses banning class action lawsuits and imposing forced arbitration have become increasingly common and is further eroding our consumer rights so if a company does fuck us financially, we’re SOL.

Then we have companies like Nintendo that have litigated hard against emulators, ROM sites and third-party flash carts which have given access to old games that Nintendo otherwise have little interest in making available on modern hardware - in some cases bankrupting people like Gary Bowser for life with seven-figure judgements in the process.

We now have a substantial risk of more shows, games, songs, movies and other forms of media becoming lost because of this.

But the biggest kick in the teeth has come from the AI industry.

Hosting pirated streams of PPV events or sports matches locked behind expensive cable channels, or even selling modded Fire Sticks that enable piracy can earn you significant prison time and a massive fine. Yet training LLMs on copyrighted works without the rightsholders’ knowledge, consent or compensation is apparently perfectly fine and not landing people like Sam Altman and Mark Zuckerberg behind bars?

Down in the workshop all the elves were making toys

For the good Gentile girls and the good Gentile boys

Middle out!

Nah, I can relate.

Worst experience I had was with a property management firm who made me go through three stages of interviews, kept me waiting for weeks for responses about next steps, sent me a bogus offer acceptance letter, then tried to lowball me by insisting the role I applied for was £5k lower than advertised.

And apparently this is a major property management firm that has BlackRock as one of their big clients.

Job market is shit right now for accountants.

It kinda came out of left field and pissed off all the people that actually liked the sitcom that CAD was becoming.

Also, Tim Buckley’s news post commenting on the comic made him sound like an asshole. Cyanide & Happiness actually spoofed the Loss comic but with the guy delivering a snippet of Buckley’s post

I think he only used C to build the installer. The rest was coded in x86 assembly.

Building anything in x86 assembly is a gargantuan effort, but then Chris Sawyer built a game on the same level of scale as RollerCoaster Tycoon…

Not good. Made redundant a few weeks ago, it feels like recruitment agencies are wasting my time.

but are there any things literally only males like?

Andrew Tate

A US senator has introduced a bill trying to criminalize it with a 20 year prison sentence.

Also, the US and El Salvador are doing a prisoner deportation deal.

I’m not making this up.

If you think that’s bad, look at the LinuxSucks community and how bad they’re being ratio’d.

Blow is short for blowjob.

So rather than blow the house down, the wolf instead goes to town on the chimney.

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Only drunk people apparently like to do karaoke

It’s not bad by any means. Some of the best exploration and puzzle solving in the series but damn the combat sucks.

His dad is King Cold.

Cooler is his brother, also probably not canon because he’s only ever appeared in two movies which aren’t considered part of the main continuity.

That’s Freeza’s mom.

Honda 100%. Even if Elon Musk wasn’t a colossal douche, I wouldn’t want to drive a truck that looks like it was ripped verbatim from a SNES game.

On the plus side, the sheer power consumption of using an LLM to dish out targeted advertisements will be prohibitively expensive. Any agency stupid enough to do this with current technology is gonna go bust.

As for hosting the LLM locally on the viewer’s machine… Remember the furore of shady companies burying crypto miners into their software? This is going to be even more wasteful of system resources and is going to result in such a sluggish user experience that the industry will go bankrupt.

That’s the only silver lining I can think of with Ron DeSantis and the fight Disney chose to pick with him. Imagine pissing off the Republicans to the point where they do positive copyright reforms.