Last summer, Meta scored a key victory in this case, as the court concluded that using pirated books to train its Llama LLM qualified as fair use, based on the arguments presented in this case.

This is so fucked. It’s literally legal for an AI to read pirated books to learn, but humans are not allowed to do this. AIs have more rights than we do already.

I see a dog with really long ears.

Is this some american thing? I’ve never heard of anyone having a different name for a language class, that just seems odd to me. Your name is your name, doesn’t matter what language you’re speaking.

It’s based on lemmy-ui which is AGPL-licensed, so I’d think it would have to be released somewhere?

Law itself

purely legal conformation standpoint

It’s still stupid even if it’s required by law.

“Abuse” was maybe the wrong word, but my point is just that maybe liking and disliking shouldn’t be the same as voting up and down.

There are some platforms that offer emoji reactions. That at least gives a bit more nuanced of a reaction than just “up” or “down” - but it is not clear how you would use emoji reactions to sort posts. The good thing about upvotes and downvotes is that it’s a very easy signal for which posts should be at the top, and which should be sorted below.

That’s fine but does that action always correspond to wanting to upvote or downvote the post? I guess maybe? Lemmy at least assumes so.

When are you meant to use them then?

Boost (if its the same as on Mastodon) is indeed entirely different. It’s an “Announce” activity, which is akin to sharing or “reblogging” the post. This is not treated as an upvote in lemmy as far as I know.

Admin of Feddit.dk. We try not to use non-EU suppliers and I don’t like the idea of depending so fully on something like Cloudflare. I could see us using an EU equivalent but don’t really see the need right now.

What is a KVM? I’m not familiar with the term. I just meant that you aren’t able to SSH into the machine or something? But I guess if it’s turned off and physically unavailable, that’s hard.

Do you not have a way of remotely bringing the server back up?

but it can lead to absurdly high version numbers

I have a really hard time seeing this as a problem. Why is 125 an “absurd” version number? You’ve presumably done 125 patch versions since the last minor version, so doesn’t it just make sense?

It’s just a number, it doesn’t matter if it’s “high”.

Linux doesn’t use semantic versioning, right? So this is just an arbitrary number?

Is there an issue about this in the GitHub tracker? It could be an unintentional consequence.

Lemmy, which is pretty known for its opinionated devs

The opinions of the devs have so far (at least as far as I know) not spread into the actual code though.

I feel like you’re moving from moderation to sort of oppressive or authoritarian territory once you’re literally building a social credit system into your software. If you want that, sure use PieFed. I don’t want that, so I won’t.

No just the whole thing. It seems sort of extreme to do all this stuff in the code. This is not something the software should have inbuilt if you ask me.