You’re right that we have precise ways to say this, but people like seeing bigger numbers rather than smaller ones, and most people aren’t “precise” about anything.

Consider something that weighs half as much. It’s 50% lighter … 0.5 times lighter.

It’s a relative metric, not an absolute one. And since they’re using the word “lighter” (i.e. less massive) it means that they’re talking about the reciprocal of mass.

I.e. 1/5 the mass = 5 times “lighter”

If something is 50% the mass of something else, you could say the the heavier one is twice as heavy as the light one. Which means that the light one is two times “lighter” than the heavy one.

But I agree with your sentiment, relative comparisons of reciprocals is confusing at the best of times.

Keep in mind that you cannot copyright ideas. You copyright the specific implementation of those ideas. So simply mentioning Zaphod Beeblebrox doesn’t trigger anything to do with copyright, but if you had a word for word introduction of Zaphod Beeblebrox copied straight from Hitchhiker’s Guide that would be a problem.

Then after that you can normally have “de minimus” use, where you can use a small portion (think quotes, short phrases etc). As long as your work can’t be used as a replacement for the original then you are normally in the clear (legally speaking, as far as copyright goes).

But none of this goes into trademark law, but that’s a whole other thing and are generally easier to avoid too (e.g. don’t use the word “coke” to sell your drink).

TL;DR: As long as the AI doesnt spit out a verbatim copy of the original, and then if you copied it verbatim from the AI, then you’d be in trouble.

I am not a lawyer, just a dude interested in copyright law.

This is the second time I’ve seen Kagi referenced with their summariser. It looks super useful, and the fact their summary references their points is just spectacular.

My only concern is around running out of searches with their basic plan.

The ground noise is expected to be around 60 dB(A), about 1/1000 as loud as current supersonic aircraft. This is achieved by using a long, narrow airframe and canards to keep the shock waves from coalescing.[4] It should create a 75 Perceived Level decibel (PLdB) thump on ground, as loud as closing a car door, compared with 105-110 PLdB for the Concorde.[5] Wikipedia

Cool. A car door closing is far more acceptable than thinking you’re being bombed. But yeah, the nose on it is really long. Considering that this experimental craft can only carry a pilot, any kind of passenger craft using the same technique would have to be absolutely enormous.

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Sorry I missed the part about you not wanting to self-host, the suggestions below are probably not helpful then.

I don’t know anything that comes free but is also not self-hosted. :(

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I was using librephotos for a while and I thought that was compatible with S3, but according to their photo app comparison guide it’s “unknown”. That comparison is a good guide to get ideas about other apps to check out though.

Another one I was using was the nextcloud addon Memories which just uses any storage you have in Nextcloud, which I think can use S3, but as I haven’t used it myself I’m not really sure.

Yeah, I laughed at that part. The bot does what it interprets from the training data. Her entire schtick is leaning into sexual overtones to keep the guys subscribed. The fact that the bot started replicating that is entirely expected.

The trick there is that there is a fine line she walks between keeping it overt enough to keep the guys interested, but not so forward as to cross the terms of service boundaries on Twitch/YouTube. I think the problem is really that the bot isn’t adhering to the “tone it down so we don’t get banned from the service” unwritten rule. I’m not sure if I’d call that “rogue” though.

But, this is a great use case for a LLM, and if she can capitalise on it then good on her.

Apple products are great if you’re already in the ecosystem. As someone who’s only Apple product was an iPod nano, I never understood the hype. Yes, they make nice looking devices, but Apple products are all so… Locked. If you want to run Adobe Premier on your new M1 MacBook, great, it does it amazingly well. If you want to run a half dozen virtual machines on the same M1 (which has more than enough power to do it), then you’re totally out of luck.

It’s the “walled garden” approach that I don’t like. Computers, and by extension, smartphones and smart watches, are capable of so much more than what we ask of them, but if we’re not allowed to even try then why would I dig myself further into an ecosystem that says “here’s what you’re allowed to do” rather than “here’s what you can do”.

Apple has it’s place; if you like it, great, but it’s not for me.

Reporting back after losing… Oh god, it’s been two weeks… I’m not even sure I like this game!

Yeah, it’s super sad actually. My favourite Reddit client was/is RedReader, an open source client, which was/is just awesome.

Of course, being open source means that there is no way to have a subscription at all without making every user have their own API keys into Reddit.

Well, there goes the next week’s worth of productivity.

Interesting. Thanks for the explanation.

Thanks for the rapid approval! I was expecting to have to wait a few hours at least, but I think the wait was less than a minute!

I’ve been on mastodon for a while, and heard about Lemmy but never really looked into it before now. I know all the fediverse can interact somehow, but I don’t know the details. Can mastodon accounts see Lemmy posts (or vice versa)?