P03 Locke

Which is worse: Bixby or Gemini?

Yeah, he claims to understand 4Chan culture, but then post such a clickbait article that focuses 4Chan as the “violent, seething underbelly of the internet”. Oooo… spooky!

It’s a pretty high gamble here, one that risk-adverse corpos normally don’t take. I don’t understand why they are going along with it.

It’s a common problem. People writing bot scrapers for public data, which costs a lot of bandwidth for the public resource, when they could have easily just downloaded the entire dataset from a dedicated link. Finding better ways to tell them “Hey, morons, go download the goddamn ZIP file with all of the data!” saves on that bandwidth and web server CPU.

Company I worked for resorted to just detecting and blocking all bots, which sometimes translated into some funny support calls. “Why can’t I just break your TOS and have bots run wild against your data?!”

I think you forget just how much money was dumped into Quibi.

This will keep getting shorter until it turns into a calculus problem.

You won’t even get a certificate, just a token from some SSL token warehouse. Why should I trust it? Because some random company says so!

This is just wrong. If you write a book, you own that book. Many people sell art.

If you want to publish a book, you have to contact a publisher, and they will acquire the rights to publish your book. If you want to publish an album, you have to give up your rights to the music publisher. You don’t really “own” your media at that point.

Also, compared to the number of artists out there, many people don’t sell art. A select few sell art, and the rest are broke.

Copyrights aren’t for you, or for that artist that writes a song, or paints a picture. They exists to maintain profits of large corporations. Copyright, patents, and intellectual rights were created under the false pretense that it “protects the little person”, but these are lies told by the rich and powerful to keep themselves rich and powerful. Time and time again, we have seen how broken the patent system is, how it is impossible to not step on musical copyright, how Disney has extended copyrights to forever, and how the megacorporations have way more money than everybody else to defend those copyrights and patents. These people are not your friend, and their legal protections are not for you.

As such, I would like to extend this to ‘delete all copyright law’.

I’m sure he dangled it, and then handed it over, like the traitor he is.

That’s a shit take. You can be against pedophiles, but also against violent vigilantism.

I swear everybody here is fucking black and white, with no room for nuance. This is how cults and echo chambers get started.