The crime of theft is depriving another person of a possession they have, the dynamics of piracy are completely different.

First - piracy is taking a copy of something that can be produced ad-infinitum. No actual thing is taken from anyone.

Second - the idea that it’s depriving someone of hypothetical income doesn’t hold because often times thing X being unavailable via piracy isnt going to mean the pirate is going to pay, they are just gonna pirate thing Y instead or even just get nothing at all.

Think about it - if dominos pizza was free, I’d eat it a lot more. I’d probably get fat, too, because it’s literally free so I’d eat more. But as it stands it isn’t, and I dont eat it. On the whole I probably eat less total than the amount I would eat if it were free.

The point is - the inherent abundance of digital goods is an inherent behaviour changer and introduces a completely different dynamic than what we’re used to IRL. The scarcity in the digital world is absurd and artificial and it’s stifling human potential to make the line go up.

And third, and this is adjacent - copyright is just absurd to me, it is deeply absurd to me that one could claim ownership over something immaterial as intellectual property in the first place, ideas are not things, they do not belong to anyone, it’s pure category error to suggest otherwise, imo. Not that obviously artists or scientists shouldn’t be credited for coming up with ideas or something but that’s a job for historians, not the police.

Intellectual property’s only benefit is that it really shines a light on how capitalism is not at all some inevitable product of human nature, but in fact requires heavy enforcement and ultimately a threat of violence (prisons) to protect the elite’s ownership of the means of production and the economy at large.

Syncretic collapse mongerer and socialist solarpunk AI utopian on the net 🌐

Democratic Socialist in bed 🛏️

I used to be something of an anarchist before the brainrot set in in my mid-20s.

Culturally I shill against luddism, degrowth, climate/animal/vegan/preservationist/NIMBYist shit.

I’m pro giant skyscrapers everywhere, mega buildings, mega cities, utilitarianism and brutalism in architecture, pro piracy, pro-gentrification, pro-alienating liminal spaces, pro-grid and anti-car city design, and pro AI democratising the artoid crafts to the masses.

In short: DLSS 5? Yes because it makes the games look objectively better in every way.

DLSS 1-4? No, because it adds smear and visual artifacting that brainwashed console children don’t see because they only watch slop shorts in 480p jpegs on they phone and have never played a real video game.

Hopefully we all transcend mortality soon, except the rich, who must be eaten.

I’m also for more vaping, more drugs (except weed and alcohol) and less slave morality amongst the proletariat.

They love their advertisements, that’s how they know how to vote for the worst thing possible and ensure the taxpaying peasant is crushed firmly between paying them rent and paying them tax to fund more P&O Cruises.

And when I need to get excited for the next product

I’m trans and bi lol, not straight.

I’ve never heard of monster high or any of this stuff OP talked about, I looked it up, seems to be about some sort of cartoon. What’s the association with gay people?

These are words, yes.

People are fucking weird. I have no idea also. I think it’d be cool if they tried to make a remake even if I personally don’t think it’d be any good and I don’t think I’d play it, same as the crash bandicoot one. I’d much rather they try and I’m sure some people will make it.

The vast majority of anything is not gonna appeal to me, be it games, movies, shows, whatever, but it’s those select few things that make it worthwhile.

Okay, I see the light. Thank you for explaining it to me!

Idk seeing the amount of intellectual dishonesty and lack of integrity people have nowadays I strongly doubt that former hypothesis, I feel like an idiot because I do things the hard way because I believe it to be beneficial for my personal growth while hordes of people claim to be geniuses with less than no information on a subject.

I think the latter is it.

Far be it from me to argue with Steinberg, fair enough. I must be wrong.

I guess I just don’t see how there was ever a barrier in the first place. The amount of juniors who couldn’t code their way out of fizzbuzz who think they are geniuses has exploded in recent years, I largely count myself amongst them too, with job interviews being as competitive as they are, and a big old green commit history being seen as a plus and people buying stars and such, I just don’t see how this was anything but an eventuality with or without AI, not unlike the endless barely valid CVE slop too.

For instance of the latter, if CISA(!) can issue federal government advisories for critical CVEs that don’t exist, based on unverified claims from one empty chinese GitHub, I find it odd to think AI would make the situation substantially worse.

Idk, but I don’t see why commits of shit code from AI are any different from commits to shit code from fleshbags.

Shit code is shit code.

If the maintainers of the project have their review game on point then shit code will not be in the repo, if they don’t, then AI or not, shit code will be in the repo.

So, I see no reason to panic and raise alarm about AI commits.

If anything hopefully some LLM assistance can take the weight off the absolute saints among us that are unpaid maintainers of crucial FOSS repos, like for instance with the whole XZ situation.

Vibecoding or outsourcing your brain to proprietary tech is a choice like how using an assembly line plant to stab yourself in the balls is a choice. You can choose to use tools in non-idiotic ways as well.

I’d be far more concerned over stuff like Immich getting bought out by a company with all sorts of links to the shadiest blokes going amongst the ultra-rich.

Edit:

Please also see the excellent rebuttal to my take below. I’ve changed my mind.

Voyager sounds pretty rough, try Jerboa instead, that’s the good one.

Huh? I watched it in the app (Jerboa) and it was no problem, I downloaded it too, and sync’d to my immich server, of course 🤓

Human moment

I can’t help you, it just sucks. You’re not the only one though, JADE is dreamt up by utterly deranged boomers who don’t have the brain cells to comprehend the obvious and self-evident difference between an explanation and an apology, they are wholly unhinged and often lack basic reading comprehension and literacy, it’s a shame there hasn’t been more wars and pandemics to thin out their ranks so we don’t have to deal with them.

Just use sponsorblock, uBlock, privacyBadger, Dearrow, consentomatic and that one that blocks the JS LAN scans (port authority?)

Playlist cover art added yet?

Eh idk I could do without the pictures. I like the text-only limitation.

Oh yeah, I agree. Though there are some exceptions of specialists who are also great storytellers too and can get you interested in anything, and then there are super generalists who get into rabbit holes and can connect niche concepts across multiple fields in unexpected and cool ways.

I did explore some stuff on the Gemini circumlunar ring but it was all just endless hyper-niche microblogs about tech, and not even fun home/side project stuff, but more like some kind of specially configured redis caching solution they implemented at work once, described like something you’d bring up in a job interview. I’m too normal to be any kind of specialist and unfortunately I find specialists to be the most boring people on Earth, they all give me the vibe of the onion anteater guy, so I couldn’t get into it.