Personally (city dweller) a car is a time machine. I can get where I need to go mostly on a bike or my feet, but if I’m pressed for time - and that happens plenty - a car can get me there faster.

If your city were designed properly, that wouldn’t be true. Not that it was the most scientific thing in the world, but Top Gear famously demonstrated biking being faster than driving across London, for example.

WTF? According to the project page on github, at least some of it is AGPL. It can’t have restrictive “terms of service” on top of that!

Even as “draft, deliberative documents” it’s a fucking outrage that even a single person in the department is even considering it. Heads need to roll for this shit.

AFAIK that whole instance is nothing but Reddit repost communities and ought to just be defederated.

ITT: people misunderstanding the issue being ruled on (or rather, not being ruled on by letting the lower court decision stand).

If he had applied for copyright over the image generated using “AI” as a tool, it (edit: probably²) would have been granted, with him listed as the human author. But that’s not what he wanted. He’s apparently Hell-bent on trying to get the work registered in the name of the “AI” system itself as the author, to so that he can claim that the government recognized the “AI” as a sentient being that can own property hold a copyright¹ on its own behalf.

This is not the broad ruling against AI slop copyrightability that people think it is. It’s a ruling against “AI” personhood.

(¹ Copyright isn’t a property right, BTW)

(² He explicitly claimed he gave no creative contribution and that the work was created completely autonomously, and the court’s ruling included excluding that from being copyrightable. It is if he hadn’t done that – if he had claimed he had directed it via prompts or whatever – that I think they would have granted the copyright to him as the human author. It turns out that he changed his mind and did make that argument on appeal, but the court explicitly ignored and did not rule on it because it wasn’t raised in his initial complaint.)

In other words, it’s not that he as the human operating the “AI” is trying to claim copyright in his own name, it’s that he’s trying to set a precedent where the “AI” can hold copyright in its own name.

He’s trying to pretend that his glorified pile of statistics is sentient, and get it legally recognized as such. 🤡

I, for one, thought they were supposed to have been replaced in the US by the F-22 and/or F-35 and therefore assumed they were only still being used by other countries.

LOL at the F-35 erasure.

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A win-win proposition! (For everyone but the people whose lives are being ruined…

And people who care about the rule of law, and the American public at large since it’s actually immigrants that made America great, contrary to the dipshits’ delusion.)

'Cause it’s got layers!

There’s at least four different reasons this nonsense wouldn’t affect me, LOL. (I don’t use Facebook, don’t want Windows 11, don’t see ads because they’re blocked, and can’t run Windows malware because Linux.)

Then they can enjoy unemployment. Fuck 'em.

I’m sad that the relevant xkcd is kinda obsolete now (because it’s been long enough for that research team to finish doing its thing).

Then it’ll be easy to tell which cops need to be immediately fired for cause. If trump can purge the military, mayors can purge the police.

A Mercury Grand Marquis, I think.

What’s more interesting was how I learned to drive stick, which was buying a brand new Hyundai Accent with almost zero prior practice (basically just test-driving it and a couple of other cars I’d considered), then driving it home in stop-and-go rush hour traffic. I barely stalled it at all, LOL.

(I didn’t have anybody to instruct me, either: my mom never learned to drive stick and my dad hadn’t done so in decades. I was just really motivated because it was more fun, so I did a bunch of reading beforehand and taught myself.)

Or better yet, heavy rail (i.e. a proper subway, not just a streetcar).

4chan has been at the center of this shit all along.

I’ve heard it claimed that motherboards are much more likely to go bad than other components, so there’s a legitimate market for new motherboards on obsolete platforms, to be used with secondhand CPUs (and presumably, secondhand RAM). I think that sort of thing is especially popular in developing countries that have less access to top-of-the-line stuff and/or where it costs a much higher percentage of the average income.

For example, looking at Aliexpress, I’m seeing brand-new motherboards like this for about $40 and this for about $30 designed to be used with old Xeons that you can also get from the same site for like $10 or less. (The second board is a better example than the first, because it’s DDR3 whereas the first is DDR4.)

I just bought 16Gb of DDR3L laptop memory for a low-power NAS I’m building, and even that cost almost 40 bucks.