The defendant’s full post read: “Go on Rotherham. Burn any hotels with them scruffy bastards in it.”

This decision reinforces the idea that copying for non-commercial, transformative purposes—like making a book searchable, training an AI, or preserving web pages—can be lawful under fair use. That legal protection is essential to modern librarianship.

I’m happy that this works out in libraries’ favor, but I can’t see how Anthropic managed to slip through “copying for non-commercial, transformative purposes”. Are they a non-profit and I just didn’t know?

In two years, only these two guys thought of buying more shampoo.

Archive link: archive.ph/wUAQn

Your Honor, I rest this guy’s case.

I think it’s less the interaction with currently established economies and more that it would never pass without lobbyists Congressmen sabotaging the law to make it fail and then using that to say, “See!? UBI doesn’t work (when you set it up to fail)!”

I think it’s normal to not be into stuff.

Hating stuff that you have the option to not interact with seems like extra work.

Israel never withdrew from the ICC…

…because they never actually joined.

To join as a member state, you have to ratify the Rome Statute. They signed, but never ratified or acceded.

How’s mbin doing, lately? I switched (back) to Lemmy when kbin shuttered and haven’t kept up with it.

I’m not making it past day 1.

I just don’t know, man.

I think their songs would make for interesting comics, though!

Except you can’t escape alphanumeric characters, so this implies people should do unnecessary extra work (to find the \ key).

If you want people to use tone indicators, Keep It Stupid Simple.

Weird headline. Is it the city making this recommendation, or the…

Despite universal opposition by the dozens of residents present at the meeting, commissioners voted to recommend changes to the city’s zoning laws to allow data centers in areas zoned for light industrial use and to rezone a 700-acre property from agricultural to light industrial to accommodate the construction of a hyperscale data center.

This has to be a shitpost.

Transportation of paper-stored data

You can take the sheets with you, send them by post, or even attach them to homing pigeons

LocalSend is open-source and great for file transfer (or even just sending text) between my devices.

Flashbang warning for anyone following that link.

I plan to release my software publicly in the coming weeks. You can subscribe to my newsletter to get notified when it’s available.

Yup.

I don’t usually hear this opinion.

Most of the time, it’s about how XMPP has everything you need without the boat of a Matrix server.

“Balefire? You stopped balefire? Nothing should be able to do that.”

“It’s just a weave,” Perrin said.