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Sad day when supporting Russia with regards to freedom looks like the ‘good guy’ position.

That doesn’t matter, legally. They are hosting that data, they are the server it’s being served from, so they are legally responsible for that material. Being federated does not protect you from legal responsibility for things that your server serves up. Just because Lemmy can’t obey the law doesn’t mean it doesn’t have to (or result in potentially severe punishments). And it very much can. It can defederate from that instance.

Why do think google search has to respect takedown notices? They aren’t hosting it, but because their server returns it in search results, it’s liable.

Edit: they almost certainly ALSO sent one to lea.pet. We want to believe lawyers are greedy and evil and stupid. They are only two of those things.

I like to think that genuine connection and collaborations aren’t… resources. I’m not some chit to be moved from one column to the next. The stuff you are talking about is part of being a human being. Could I maybe technically crap out 10% more lines of code if I’m a hermit working in a dank closet in my tiny apartment? Maybe. Is the newbie next time who doesn’t know what to do going to have any chance to grow and learn just from being part of things that happen organically? No.

I 100% agree with you (even though it will get the both of us downvoted into oblivion). The important part is that it only works if everyone is in the office at basically the same time.otherwise you’re just the lone guy sitting in there for no benefit.

I will 100% choose a company or team that is in the office over one that isn’t. Half remote is THE WORST. Trying to have an in person meeting, and then the remote people whining they aren’t included in decisions, or they don’t know the details. Every meeting is a half robotic nightmare as everyone in the room fumes that you have to spend 20 minutes getting all the remote people on the screen and dealing with mic issues when this could have be a 5 minute hallway chat.

Just silently grumping about it isn’t backlash. Backlash is a whole team just walking off, or a picket line around campus. Backlash is their precious stock price tanking because the whole on-call team called their bluff and the service is offline. They know no one will do that in this fascist hellscape of an economy, so they don’t care.

Though I’m not sure it’s ’everyone’. I personally, vastly prefer in person work to remote, but I understand my views aren’t universal, or even common.

That’s definitely a good idea. I wonder where there is left to host servers that aren’t controlled technofacists. The world is rapidly, and sadly, running out. I feel like a count y could make a killing just by being a country of “we don’t care what the hell you host”

I hate AI and Microsoft as much as the next guy, but to me, this looks like a grey area. The name and logo (all most people will see of this account) aren’t really clearly parody… there is a faint smile in one of the squares, but at 16 pixels tall, you’d never see it.

“It came from somewhere else so I don’t have to respect a takedown notice” is not a valid defense.

This is certainly an interesting hill for the fediverse to choose to die on.

This could be an intentional first attack by big tech to get a knife into the fediverse. Showing a judge blantant disregard for takedowns isn’t a great look, and they have a LOT of lawyers.

I sounds more like it makes electricity out of fresh water, destroying it in the process (turning it into saltwater through osmosis/dilution). Sure… if there is some crazy salty water you have, and want to turn it into “still salty, but maybe less so”, you can indeed gather a tiny little fraction of the power.

But given that fresh water is also a precious resource in many places, this seems relatively niche.

Yeah, this seems like a sure fire way to get GPL completely invalidated in the US. The court system is reaaaaly friendly to corpo interests right now.

Saying it uses less power that a toaster is not much. Yes, it uses less power than a thing that literally turns electricity into pure heat… but that’s sort of a requirement for toast. That’s still a LOT of electricity. And it’s not required. People don’t need to burn down a rainforest to summarize a meeting. Just use your earballs.

At this point anyone selling a company to a bigger studio is just either ignorant or greedy. It’s almost a given that they’ll just crash it into the grounds. Acquisitions and mergers might be like the eighth deadly sin. Everyone loses.

Yeah, I just graced with a glorious 0-day work week. There is no chance ANY of this “productivity” will get anywhere near workers. It’s just a new, exciting way to centralize wealth and power. And if the models get as “intelligent” as the claim they will in 5 years, then with a helping of slavery to boot, ones they are “as smart or smarter” than humans, just without pesky things like rights…