brainw0rms [they/them]

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Cake day: August 31st, 2023
  • brainw0rms [they/them]@hexbear.nettoBooks@lemmy.ml•Internet Archive Loses Court Appeal in Fight Over Online Lending LibraryEnglish
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    12 days ago

    clearly, freedom and easy access to information has nothing to do with the issue at hand, which is enforcement of copyright law.

    so long as they don’t plan on violating russian or chinese (or whatever country’s) copyrights (and other applicable laws), why should those countries care at all? archive.org is hosting material copyrighted in a country where said copyright can be enforced (the US). it’s really that simple. while china or russia may not be the most suitable option (I imagine they also host plenty of content that those countries would find to be inflammatory or illegal but not for copyright reasons), they’d be an improvement overall.

  • brainw0rms [they/them]@hexbear.nettoPrivacy@lemmy.ml•Need Help Bypassing Firewall Restrictions at My SchoolEnglish
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    23 days ago

    At the risk of sounding contrarian/lame, you should probably not be doing any of this especially if you don’t own the hardware you’re using (as mentioned by another commenter).

    You don’t specify if this is university or middle/high school, but either way you are not entitled to and should not expect any privacy on a network you don’t control. Even if you are able to set up a VPN to mask your internet activity, your school’s network administrators almost certainly can tell that you are using a VPN, which itself sounds like it would be a violation of your school’s network policy and will most likely land you in trouble. Indeed, your repeated attempts to access blocked sites have likely already raised some flags.

    Even the workarounds that others here have mentioned (like routing VPN traffic over port 443) are inadequate for a network that is being actively monitored. Believe me, it is very easy to tell when someone is connecting to a VPN this way.

    I would quit while you’re ahead until you can afford your own hardware/internet connection, and then maybe worry about any notion of privacy. Use your school’s internet for what it was intended.

  • brainw0rms [they/them]@hexbear.nettoMemes@lemmy.ml•The Future of AIEnglish
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    6 months ago

    I paint digitally and with acrylic and oil, which isn’t that different from the methods Da Vinci would have utilized. If you wanted to paint the Mona Lisa in photoshop the expertise required is the same minus only color mixing and physical preparation and finishing.

    So, you’re really saying the expertise required is not the same, then?

    Regardless of method, saying “paint this picture for me” isn’t making art. The claim is on its face absurd.

    Who is claiming that? Not me. Anyone who has used a generative AI tool for more than 10 seconds knows this isn’t true.

    If I go to the hospital and say “heal this person” am I now a doctor?

    This is a bad analogy. If in some far off future we had some magical “auto-doc” device that could heal injuries, etc., but still required someone with sufficient knowledge to operate the device, I would call them a doctor, or perhaps a medical engineer. Yes.

    Weird how all it takes to turn an ostensible leftist into a sneering lib condescending to an entire classification of worker is to insult their little toy.

    What did you mean by this? The only one sneering and condescending here is you lol.