FoxQuirk 🦊 @quirk@computerfairi.es

"Establishing that AI training requires a copyright license will not stop AI from being used to erode the wages and working conditions of creative workers. ... Our path to better working conditions lies through organizing and striking, not through helping our bosses sue other giant multinational corporations for the right to bleed us out." –
@pluralistic

https://pluralistic.net/2024/06/21/off-the-menu/

#Copyright #AI #ArtificialIntelligence

The EU enacted a new law a while ago that all bottle caps should remain attached to the bottle, to combat plastic trash.

All the bottle and packaging makers, from massive multinationals like Coca Cola and fucking Nestlé to small local producers invested in the development of new caps, changing their production lines, and shipping the new caps. Today, a month before the law goes into effect, it's basically impossible to find a bottle without an attached cap.

I don't know, I thought this story was weirdly relevant right now with Apple being a whiny bitch. Imagine being worse than Coca Cola and motherfucking Nestlé.

This is way too satisfying.
(Mac Portable ejecting floppy in space)

here's some more music i made https://soundcloud.com/hikari_no_yume/listless-daydream

Deep dive in the change in technology between Inside Out and Inside Out 2: https://www.fxguide.com/fxfeatured/inside-out-2-redefining-the-magic-with-new-technology/?fbclid=IwZXh0bgNhZW0CMTEAAR206lnZWCwWVDM0KLKc0rUdzksfYLajTU8NSbehrJHzcq5pPmb96dSsWKs_aem_Zejkt1s69lTKETmDRoCp9A It's hard to grok that only nine years separate the two movies.

sometimes this is how work in #infosec feels

they don't tell you this, but in big cities, sometimes the moody walk through the sunset in the uncaring city has diegetic background music

I think I remember Dolly Parton talking about why she kept all her publishing rights and saying something like ...
I was in my 20s and I didn't know much at all about the music business but by then I had learned a thing or two about men and I realized I needed to be in charge of anything a certain kind of man told me "don't worry your pretty little head about that" and that has served me well over the years

oh, to be made of an abstract elastic material that can stretch, bend, and pass through itself, but which cannot be ripped or punctured without destroying me, and which cannot be creased, or bent sharply

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wO61D9x6lNYk&t=29s

ah, a NUC desktop

(NeXT Unit of Computing)

Economist suggests storing grain to prepare for next global emergency | Agriculture | The Guardian

https://www.theguardian.com/science/article/2024/jun/20/global-emergency-preparation-food-storage-grain

a few months ago Rory Milne interviewed me about touchHLE for Retro Gamer magazine, and he was kind enough to send me a copy! it brings great joy to see this in print.

if these snippets pique your interest, please consider buying the issue! i'm just one of a few who were interviewed

I do not identify as nonbinary. That's just what I am.

I identify as an unstoppable force.

How many professional programmers are working on pointless and/or actively harmful products?

Give me your best guess.

(If you vote, please boost to diversify the results. It’s polite.)