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They seem to have so much bubble money at the moment that the cost of scraping is probably a rounding error in their pocket change.

So the cost of caching should be a rounding error as well. If The Internet Archive can afford to cache vast swathes of the web, then surely the big AI companies can do so.

Exactly.

It was published in 1925 and expired in 2021.

The US only switched to the life + 70 system in recent decades, and it doesn't retroactively apply.

I think if you add a child as a coauthor, the copyright will last longer. Nobody seems to do that, probably because it now lasts long enough for just about anybody.


Perhaps George R. R. Martin will finish the books some day, and we'll find out how he thinks it should end.

I’m starting to think he was honest that this was his intended ending, and he’s given up as a result.

I don't doubt that the show ending mirrors the book's intended ending, however a huge part of it is how you get to that ending, which they rushed and fumbled horribly in the show. Like Bran becoming King could work, but not when he basically shows up out of nowhere and nobody knows anything that happened to him or what he is capable of, he basically disappeared for years and when he came back he said a few nonsense things but wasn't involved in much of the politicing that could make him a viable candidate for King. Or Dany going full Mad King, after they spend seasons showing her trying to not be a crazy ruler but then suddenly snapping, instead of going through a series of harder and harder choices that turn out worse each time and drive her to more relatable desperation and violence.

At minimum they needed a full extra season and a full final season, if not more. But without GRRM handholding them throughout the entire plot they completely lost the path.



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How many "great products and services" even need a lot of RAM, assuming that we can live without graphics-intensive games?


Some open source projects use Slack to communicate, which is a real ram hog. Github, especially for viewing large PR discussions, takes a huge amount of memory.

If someone with a low-memory laptop wants to get into coding, modern software-development-related services are incredible memory hogs.


IRC is far superior than Slack when it comes to RAM usage. Projects should just switch to that.


Or even Jabber/XMPP, which has video call and inline images support and it would run on machines a magnitude slower.


Image, video, and music editing. Developing, running, and debugging large applications.


The last three sounds to me like self-inflicted issues. If applications weren't so large, wouldn't less resources be needed?


You'd have to have a lot of trust that the one instance wouldn't get enshittified and end up as another X / Truth Social / BlueSky.

Different instances can also have different rules, different moderation and different federation.

Edit: and exist in different legal jurisdictions, and also be harder to ban or regulate.


Having many instances is not the same as federation.


Isn't one a subset of the other? A system with federation must have multiple instances, but a system with multiple instances doesn't need to federate (in the sense of information passing between independently managed instances.)


Yes. My original question was whether federation is necessary for the kind of communities Mastodon serves, not whether the web must have multiple websites.


Staying on X is just bad, regardless of what else you do.


Because access to the internet is inequitably distributed throughout society, it is inherently problematic for any privileged class members (e.g. men, white people) to stay on the internet at all.


Fear of AI scrape? I'm just amused at the idea of my words ending up manipulating chatbots to rewrite stuff that I've written, force-feeding it in some distorted form to people silly enough to listen.


Isn't getting wages in a wealthy country so that you can afford a multiple of work hours from poorly-paid people elsewhere inherently living off other people?


If one makes more as a software developer than a bus driver, it doesn't seem like location was the factor

Isn't the logical extension that everyone lives off other people?

This was basically the point of "you didn't build that" (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/You_didn%27t_build_that)


you want to live off another people to some degree. single farmer can feed hundreds - there is no need for everyone to do everything. which of course raises societal fairness and trust issues


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