You might enjoy reading The Egg by Andy Weir, if you haven’t already

My understanding is that it’s still (technically) correct. If you generate an image and then edit it yourself, only your edits will have copyright. Basically, you can have a copyright on the diff, but not the original

I view it as generally a good thing. I see copyright as an unnatural restriction on our rights. An explosion of AI art that can’t be copyrighted means the default assumption will be that all art you see is libre. Approximately nobody will care about copyright in a few decades at most, and it will be de facto dead.

(Edited to move this to be a comment for easier discussion)

This is generally the sort of question that’s more appropriate for !politicaldiscussion@lemmy.world or other communities. It’s more a question about the nitty gritty of politics, as opposed to a more specific question (Are you worried about what MAGA will do if …?) or a more general ask (How does the history of fascism in the US apply to today?).

It’s the fantasy version of the Billion laughs attack

Matrix dev’s response:

sigh. If you want to play project pedigree games; Matrix was actually the result of two existing teams - one in the UK and one in France, which happened to get acquired by Amdocs and then subsequently spun out once we’d created Matrix.

That page in particular is a pile of FUD; it keeps banging on about “impressive collection of private data being sent to Matrix central servers, even when you use your own instance” which is simply categorically untrue; it looks like they misread the privacy policy of the Matrix.org server at https://github.com/element-hq/policies/blob/master/docs/matrix-org/privacy_notice.md and somehow assumed it applied to everyone’s server instances. It doesn’t, any more than https://www.w3.org/policies/privacy applies to a given random webserver on the internet :|

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40562084

Some more history here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I've_Been_Working_on_the_Railroad

The “Someone’s in the Kitchen with Dinah” section, with its noticeably different melody, is actually an older song that has been absorbed by “I’ve Been Working on the Railroad”. It was published as “Old Joe, or Somebody in the House with Dinah” in London in the 1830s or '40s, with music credited to J.H. Cave. “Dinah” was a generic name for a slave woman and, by extension, any woman of African-American descent.

This extra verse confirms what I figured the lyrics were about:

Someone’s makin’ love to Dinah

Someone’s making love I know.

Someone’s making love to Dinah

'Cause I can’t hear the old banjo!

I should try talking to plants more often, just in case one of them happens to be Avery. Wouldn’t want to be rude.

This project is currently in pre-alpha planning. The ORCID bridge is not yet available publicly and this website is purely informational for now. If you have feedback to share on academic communication via decentralized social media, on the merits and dangers of ActivityPub bridges, or on handling bibliographic profiles, now is a good time to help shape the direction of Encyclia.

Kind of interesting that they’re approaching it slowly like that. Most other projects just kind of yolo it

They’re working for me now. Are they still broken for you?

Love that song! 🤘

Awesome, thanks!

Blazing Saddles. It killed the western genre for a long time because of how well it parodied them

Beauty is in the eye of the knife-holder

Me either. Wiktionary actually has it with the opposite meaning of how I’m parsing this comic:

(intransitive, idiomatic) To date, to be in a romantic relationship.

They’ve been stepping out since he told her he was interested in a family.

The comic seems to be using it in the sense of “abandoning the relationship”. UD has it with that meaning from 2007, so it’s not just something Jim Davis made up

BTW, you might want to include these links in your post:

Smart link: !metaldetecting@lemmy.world

URL link: Metal Detecting

Avery is clearly in the pocket of Big Donut and spreading their propaganda

Not OP sorry, just posted it here because I thought it was cool. I don’t see any other account named @Ramzie on the fediverse, so not sure how to ping OP either.

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The next version of Lemmy is going to forcibly enable English by default for everyone, including existing accounts:

https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/pull/5489