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QuadratureSurfer , to fediverse in Maven Imported 1.12 Million Fediverse Posts
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What @delirious_owl seemed to be implying is that direct messages on Mastodon should be considered “public” rather than “private”.

I’m assuming that’s along the same lines of how Lemmy users generally think that their upvotes/downvotes are private when in reality, if you know how to look for them, you can see them.

QuadratureSurfer , to fediverse in Maven Imported 1.12 Million Fediverse Posts
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Ah, I see. So it’s the same mistake that Lemmy users make when thinking that Upvotes/Downvotes aren’t public.

It sounds like DMs on Mastodon are public, but are commonly mistaken to be private then?

QuadratureSurfer , to fediverse in Maven Imported 1.12 Million Fediverse Posts
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They’re called DMs not PMs

? Did you mean that the other way around? And if you did… forgive me, I don’t really use Mastodon. I was never much of a twitter fan. I don’t really like how all of my likes are public (although I guess I have had to get used to that with Lemmy).

QuadratureSurfer , (edited ) to fediverse in Maven Imported 1.12 Million Fediverse Posts
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Hmmm it was even able to pull in private DMs.

Maybe private DMs on Mastadon aren’t as private as everyone thinks… that, or the open nature of Activity Pub is leaking them somehow?

Edit - From the article:

Even more shocking is the revelation that somehow, even private DMs from Mastodon were mirrored on their public site and searchable. How this is even possible is beyond me, as DM’s are ostensibly only between two parties, and the message itself was sent from two hackers.town users.

From what @delirious_owl mentioned below, it sounds like this shouldn’t be very shocking at all.

QuadratureSurfer , to news in Chemical Makers Sue Over Rule to Rid Water of ‘Forever Chemicals’
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It’s not just tap water, it’s also the non-stick coating on a large number of pans (including Hex Clad which is one of the more expensive sets).

en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polytetrafluoroethylene

QuadratureSurfer , to pcgaming in Palworld | Sakurajima Update Trailer | Palnews | Pocketpair | Summer Game Fest 2024
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New island, new pals, new subspecies, new buildings & level cap, new raid, an oil rig stronghold, an arena, and a new faction & boss.

This looks like an awesome feature packed update… I’ll have to hop back in soon.

QuadratureSurfer , to pcgaming in High on Life, Atari 50 Anniversary Celebration, MechWarrior 5 and more in this bundle [referal links in article]
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$25 for this Humble Bundle:

  • High on Life
  • Atari 50: The Anniversary Celebration:
    100 games over different platforms spanning the 70s to 2000s as well as 6 new reimagined games.
  • Revival: Recolonization
  • Mechwarrior 5: Mercenaries
  • Soulslinger: Envoy of Death
  • Bread & Fred
  • Grindstone

The article lists out the Steam Deck rating as well as the ProtonDB rating (if any). Direct link to humble bundle (referral link from article is still there): www.humblebundle.com/games/ign-live-at-home?partn…

QuadratureSurfer , to technology in Microsoft to test “new features and more” for aging, stubbornly popular Windows 10
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I think when you say “Hates AI” you mean “Hates ChatGPT”

“AI” itself has a lot of awesome uses, ML models with DLSS, robots that can maneuver over different terrain, image generation, audio transcription, etc.

Even with LLMs, I’m fine with them as long as I was the one that was able to pick and choose the model as well as the software to use to run it.

QuadratureSurfer , to technology in A social app for creatives, Cara grew from 40k to 650k users in a week because artists are fed up with Meta’s AI policies | TechCrunch
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Well, now’s a great time to let them know about Pixelfed, although explosive growth like this will be a strain on any website.

QuadratureSurfer , to technology in A social app for creatives, Cara grew from 40k to 650k users in a week because artists are fed up with Meta’s AI policies | TechCrunch
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You realize that copyright law still applies… whether you add some additional license to your software or not… right?

QuadratureSurfer , to technology in A social app for creatives, Cara grew from 40k to 650k users in a week because artists are fed up with Meta’s AI policies | TechCrunch
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What does copyright law have to do with a ban on removing malicious code?

QuadratureSurfer , to technology in A social app for creatives, Cara grew from 40k to 650k users in a week because artists are fed up with Meta’s AI policies | TechCrunch
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What ban?

QuadratureSurfer , to technology in A social app for creatives, Cara grew from 40k to 650k users in a week because artists are fed up with Meta’s AI policies | TechCrunch
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What do you mean by this?:

Cara, bans us from removing malicious source code

Is there obviously malicious source code? Is there a policy that specifically says we can’t remove any source code? Is this even open source?

QuadratureSurfer , (edited ) to pcgaming in Dark and Darker: Now free to play.
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Thanks! It helps to have a lot more background and i haven’t looked too deeply into this.

I was trying to keep my reply simple and directly to the point that they didn’t create their own launcher just because they wanted to.

I didn’t know the first point, now I’m wondering if both sides wanted it dismissed in the U.S. at least. From the article I read it sounded like this was being pushed from Ironmace’s side.

I had mentioned the founder’s involvement before, but only in a different reply on this same post.

On the second point, at least as far as U.S. law is concerned, I’m not so sure that this is such a straightforward case. We’ve already seen in previous cases with video games that it’s okay for games to have the same game rules, mechanics, ideas, and principles. That’s why anyone can create a game like Tetris, Monopoly, or Pokemon (such as Palworld). As long as they don’t copy over assets directly, (sprites/models/verbatim text for the game rules, etc.) it’s ok to create a very similar game or even to be inspired by other games. Mostly this is what I understood after listening to some YouTube attorneys that were discussing this matter for Palworld (Hoeg Law and Attorney Tom).

The difference here is that one of the founders did work for Nexon so it seems that a lot of the work was likely plagiarized (which is not illegal in the U.S. but it is unethical). It would have been interesting to see how this would play out in U.S. courts.

Do you have any idea how the courts in South Korea view cases like this?

On the third point, I had heard how they had recruited other employees, but I hadn’t heard about the founder agreeing to destroy the company info and failing to do so. Do you have a link/source for that?

Thanks for the reply!

Edit: asking for source, not because I’m doubting you, I just want to read up more on it.

QuadratureSurfer , to pcgaming in Dark and Darker: Now free to play.
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Joke’s on us for trusting them to do what?

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