@lain this cries out for a Gilligan's Island theme song parody
Notices by Matthew Skala (mattskala@mstdn.io)
-
Embed this notice
Matthew Skala (mattskala@mstdn.io)'s status on Saturday, 27-Jul-2024 06:36:43 JST Matthew Skala
-
Embed this notice
Matthew Skala (mattskala@mstdn.io)'s status on Friday, 26-Jul-2024 02:32:00 JST Matthew Skala
@Suiseiseki For instance, getting all of OpenAI's source code benefits me very little if I don't also get the weights of the models they use. And trying to claim that a license can force them to give me the weights too A. is probably just not true under the law as it stands today, and B. if it were true, would have other serious consequences regarding the power of copyright holders, that might not be good for the world - so the law should probably not be changed to make that possible.
-
Embed this notice
Matthew Skala (mattskala@mstdn.io)'s status on Friday, 26-Jul-2024 02:30:41 JST Matthew Skala
@Suiseiseki Software as a service is one important hole in the "license as sole mechanism for freedom" approach. It's not clear that a license does or *should* have the power to bind persons who only use the program without receiving or distributing it; it's not clear that a license does or should have the power to force giving copies to users who use a Web service; and even if they get copies, dependencies (such as on Google hardware) and the code/data boundary reduce usefulness of the code.
-
Embed this notice
Matthew Skala (mattskala@mstdn.io)'s status on Thursday, 25-Jul-2024 23:15:37 JST Matthew Skala
@Suiseiseki @alex @dushman @mauve @Hyolobrika I think one important thing to think about here is that software freedom doesn't begin and end with copyright licenses. Far too often when I talk to people about this stuff, every single point I try to make is answered by either "we'll add such and such term to the copyright license" - but it's not something a license can actually do - or "this is already covered by such and term of the license" - when that is visibly not working in practice.
-
Embed this notice
Matthew Skala (mattskala@mstdn.io)'s status on Thursday, 25-Jul-2024 01:54:55 JST Matthew Skala
@lain Well, what else can they do at this point?
-
Embed this notice
Matthew Skala (mattskala@mstdn.io)'s status on Friday, 19-Jul-2024 23:00:22 JST Matthew Skala
Y'all racing to post the XKCD "unpaid random person in Nebraska" comic please be reminded that Microsoft is pretty much diametrically the opposite of that.
-
Embed this notice
Matthew Skala (mattskala@mstdn.io)'s status on Thursday, 18-Jul-2024 22:28:20 JST Matthew Skala
Turns out it just means impersonating recently-dead people, but I did have hope for a moment.
-
Embed this notice
Matthew Skala (mattskala@mstdn.io)'s status on Friday, 12-Jul-2024 08:34:47 JST Matthew Skala
yeah some days it do be like this
-
Embed this notice
Matthew Skala (mattskala@mstdn.io)'s status on Friday, 12-Jul-2024 06:23:12 JST Matthew Skala
@lain I identify with Magi because brain in a jar.
-
Embed this notice
Matthew Skala (mattskala@mstdn.io)'s status on Thursday, 11-Jul-2024 22:00:14 JST Matthew Skala
@silverwizard I sell products ready-assembled, and do-it-yourself kits for building the same products. Some of my customers buy the kits because they really like building kits, and that's great.
But others buy the kits because they think they're entitled to the finished product at a lower price, and they begrudge every second of effort they must put into building the kit. Those people really exist and they are the market for tools that purport to save "the value of your time."
-
Embed this notice
Matthew Skala (mattskala@mstdn.io)'s status on Sunday, 07-Jul-2024 00:20:06 JST Matthew Skala
@lain Although I guess a few thousand glow sticks would help, too.
-
Embed this notice
Matthew Skala (mattskala@mstdn.io)'s status on Sunday, 07-Jul-2024 00:19:22 JST Matthew Skala
@lain If she were singing it in Japanese, this video wouldn't seem wrong at all.
-
Embed this notice
Matthew Skala (mattskala@mstdn.io)'s status on Thursday, 04-Jul-2024 10:22:31 JST Matthew Skala
Important message from the Ministry of Finance of Saskatchewan letting me know that they have upgraded their system for sending me important messages. The new system has no user-visible difference from the old one, and no action from me is required.
-
Embed this notice
Matthew Skala (mattskala@mstdn.io)'s status on Saturday, 22-Jun-2024 06:14:43 JST Matthew Skala
@lain But which one pretends to shit in the woods?
-
Embed this notice
Matthew Skala (mattskala@mstdn.io)'s status on Saturday, 15-Jun-2024 00:37:59 JST Matthew Skala
@lain That's probably an expanded translation with a lot of [square brackets] from an original term in Classical Chinese that was like three characters long.
-
Embed this notice
Matthew Skala (mattskala@mstdn.io)'s status on Thursday, 13-Jun-2024 20:56:51 JST Matthew Skala
@lain They were that impressed with the iPhone ban?
-
Embed this notice
Matthew Skala (mattskala@mstdn.io)'s status on Tuesday, 11-Jun-2024 08:49:24 JST Matthew Skala
@lain I don't know what kind of beer you're drinking but if it's Budweiser then it's the beans-rice complete protein synergy.
-
Embed this notice
Matthew Skala (mattskala@mstdn.io)'s status on Wednesday, 05-Jun-2024 00:21:19 JST Matthew Skala
@lain Captain, it's Tuesday.
-
Embed this notice
Matthew Skala (mattskala@mstdn.io)'s status on Sunday, 02-Jun-2024 07:53:45 JST Matthew Skala
@lain I'm just waiting for gluttony month.
-
Embed this notice
Matthew Skala (mattskala@mstdn.io)'s status on Saturday, 01-Jun-2024 04:44:46 JST Matthew Skala
@lain Don't tell me you've never wondered which House Jesus would be sorted into.