Librarianon

Librarianon

@Librarianon

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Writer, TF Finatic, Recohoster, and Game dev. Wasnt able to post here as much as I liked, but I'll miss it and all of yall. Till we meet again, friends!

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mrhands
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plumpan
@plumpan
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lexyeevee
@lexyeevee

"The candy bowl on the receptionist's desk is free, so there's no reason I shouldn't take all of it, wait for them to refill it, and then take it all a second time while maintaining unwavering eye contact with them," Microsoft's CEO of Parasitism said Thursday

mrhands
@mrhands

This is exactly why the Metaverse, except for VRChat, was such a huge flop. Corps like Facebook and Microsoft want to enclose the Commons (for profit), but none of them want to build a Commons. They forget that the reason the Internet exists at all is because a successful version of it was built on an open protocol called HTTP and HTML that anyone could implement and eventually extend. The free and open Internet is just "free wood" to these corporate ghouls, and they think we're all stupid for not chopping it down.

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rachelmae
@rachelmae

imagining a future where the public-facing internet is a giant facade, full of meaningless garbage specifically designed for LLMs to slurp up in the hopes that it will irreparably corrupt their datasets, while the real stuff meant for real human eyes is locked away behind the aforementioned elaborate verification systems that LLMs have no hope to ever crack

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Codarobo
@Codarobo

This…. Is not what “freeware” has ever meant, come on man

Like I’m extremely pro fair use and all that but this is like.. someone intentionally interpreting it in the most cynical possible way

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Screemonster
@Screemonster

That last part, "if you don't put up a sign explicitly saying no then that's consent for me to do whatever I want"

once again microsoft not beating the "has about the same understanding of consent as a sex pest" allegations

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plumpan
@plumpan

To be fair I think this is a mentality shared by most of the tech industry (and probably other lucrative sectors too), not just microsoft.

Microsoft is just the worst at hiding it, as they're usually the worst at everything.

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pervocracy
@pervocracy

so if a book is free to read at the library, and they'll even let me take it home, this must mean that I am also allowed to make copies and replace the author's name with my own and sell it?

because you are granted the right to look at a thing does not mean that it belongs to you now, this is logic that most household pets can understand

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