A federal judge has ruled against the Internet Archive in a lawsuit brought against it by four book publishers, deciding that the website does not have the right to scan books and lend them out like a library.
Today’s lower court decision in Hachette v. Internet Archive is a blow to all libraries and the communities we serve. This decision impacts libraries across the US who rely on controlled digital lending to connect their patrons with books online.
Reading about #ChatGPT plug-ins and wondering why this is framed as plug-ins for #ChatGPT (giving it "capabilities") rather than #ChatGPT as a plug-in to provide a conversational front-end to other services.
Nevermind, I know why: This is #OpenAI yet again trying to sell their text synthesis machine as "an AI".
Very interesting framing. The 'plugins' are not the 'eyes and ears' of the language model but actually the mind!
The Expedia plugin for example uses a scheduling algorithm + a database of flight information to find the right flight for the user. This plugin is what is doing the actual 'reasoning'...
my interpretation of the word “plug-in“ in association with ChatGPT or any LLM is we, the human, public, free, non-AI Labour provides “a piece of software that enhances the functionality of Chat-GPT” that they make money by: 1. giving them a cut of what your plug-in(s) may make and 2. the further, extended utility of their exclusive platform.
Assembly 3 by realthunder is the most feature-packed assembly WB for @FreeCAD. Lots of constraint options, dynamic solver, parts can be referenced, sub-assemblies can be freezed etc. No wonder it's so popular. But there are caveats too. So let's go over its pros and cons in this next installment of the Assembly Workbenches series
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Do you want peace of mind that your device hasn’t been tampered with in-shipping so you can start with a clean, secure computer? If yes, Anti-Interdiction is for you. Read on this post by @kyle writes about the Anti-Interdiction measures to bootstrap trust.
Purism makes premium phones, laptops, mini PCs and servers running free software on PureOS. Purism products respect people's privacy and freedom while protecting their security.
This photo is an #amazing historical piece of importance that should be venerated & appreciated daily.
Debbie Harry (#Blondie), Viv Albertine (The Slits), #Siouxsie Sioux (Siouxsie & the Banshees), Chrissie Hynde (The Pretenders), Poly Styrene (X-Ray Spex), & Pauline Black (The Selecter)
This week we released GNOME 44 “Kuala Lumpur”! 🥳 To find out more, and to see what else happened this week, you should check out the latest issue of #ThisWeekInGNOME!
stormdragon2976 pushed changes to the master branch of the I38 project Fixed a bug where i3’s mod key was being automatically set to super if a ratpoison mode key was not selected.
"How do you bootstrap trust when you have to order a trusted computer from an untrusted one? One way is with our anti-interdiction services and in this article I will talk through how that works."
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I hated writing in high school. It wasn’t objective like my favorite subjects, math and science. It also didn’t help that we had to write about old, hard-to-understand literature like Shakespeare.
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i think it would be better if the whole thing would work correctly, especially rss-bot and github-bot, before luring more users to their doom. i've been trying to integrate the rss-bot for two days and it still doesn't work 😠
* SD Maid SE: the successor of SD Maid – a trusty maid for your Android, to keep it clean & tidy * ListenBrainz: keeps track of the music you listen to and provides you with insights into your listening habits
This is a repository of apps to be used with F-Droid. Applications in this repository are official binaries built by the original application developers, taken from their resp. repositories (mostly Github).
@kranzkrone Take care for the anti-features on ListenBrainz. I've asked them if their tracker (Sentry IIRC) is configured opt-in, but got no reply yet. If you test the app and find out, feedback would be appreciated so maybe I can drop the Tracking AF.
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Whether it's corporations or governments, there's just too much digital spying going on today. Tox is an easy to use application that connects you with friends and family without anyone else listening in.
@pvagner @filip2cz Jo Na Jami jsem už dříve koukal. Vypadá taky hodně dobře. Možná si něco nechám jako alternativu, ale taky mám nejraději XMPP a Matrix
@michal jeste tam kupodivu chybi Anonymous messenger.. pouziva protokol signalu a komunikuje pres tor.. bohuzel dlouho uz nebyl update.. chat funguje vyborne, hovory napul a je to porad one-man show..
Briar je predevsim o textu a maximalni bezpecnosti.. obrazky zatim posle jen komprimovane (v roadmap to neni priorita, jejich cilem je spis bezpecna komunikace nez nahradit whatsapp)..
Nicmene briar funguje spolehlive a ma i decentralizovany group chat.
@michal @archos@mastod, takze zvazuju, ze postupne s vic lidma on.arch-linux.cz jo a simplex chat funguje spolehlive, umi i hovory (taktez pres tor) a je docela user-friendly.. postupne odchazim z whatsappu, zatim teda pres delta chat (protoze email maji vsichni), jenze ten z principu neumi video/audio hovory.. simplex.chat/
SimpleX Chat - a private and encrypted messenger without any user IDs (not even random ones)! Make a private connection via link / QR code to send messages and make calls.
@mig Ten Simplex vypadá taky dobře 👍 Já už zůstanu u Matrixu. Jsem rád, že jsem tam aspoň rodinu dostal. V práci musím bohužel používat WhatsApp, tak pro mě výhoda Matrixu, že lze přidat mosty. Mně osobně by stačil jen XMPP server @michal
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PSA: It's this time of the year again when you wake up on Sunday morning and notice that all clocks on kitchen appliances are one hour off. Before adjusting them, do something for your electrical safety and test your RCDs/FIs/GFCIs. ⚡
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Oops! 😅 Github accidentally committed their on SSH private key to a public github repo. They rightly have changed the keys, so you'll get bit scary “WARNING: REMOTE HOST IDENTIFICATION HAS CHANGED!” messages.
Security is the major reason why software updates are important. The LastPass breach demonstrates this dramatically.
If you search the web for why software updates are important, you will get loads of results that say there are "3 or 5 reasons why software updates are important". While this may be correct, there is only one major reason why you must keep your software up to date: Security.
The game files are all the usual versions, as far as I know. (I'll check in detail, but they should match the contents of archive.org/details/InfocomCla… .)
The nice part here is the game feelies, maps, and hint files. These are *also* derived from the 1996 CD but may have been updated or reformatted.
This is tangential, but what disappointed me about the Lost Treasures of Infocom when I got it from the App Store several years ago was that it was inaccessible with VoiceOver, or at least had an inaccessible intro screen. I wonder if the Infocom classics are currently being sold in an accessible package for any platform.
I think the only legit sale points now are GOG and Steam. Both have the 1989 "Zork Anthology" package, Windows only. I assume there's a bunch of DOS emulation going on, and I don't know how Windows screen readers work with that.
@matt Is anyone actually still marketing the Infocom games? I figured any such market might dry up once the ZIL sources were released, seeing as how we *do* have a working reimplementation of a ZIL compiler.
@jaybird110127 Activision has the "Zork Anthology" up on GOG and Steam. That's been true for quite a while now.
The existence of the ZIL sources is really not going to affect that at all. It's easy to *download* the Infocom game files. That was true long before the ZIL sources came out. Anybody who wants to play the games for free can do that.
@jaybird110127 Is the Zork Anthology as limited as the description on GOG suggests? That is, is it limited to just the Zork series and Planetfall? IMO that subset doesn't include most of the more interesting Infocom titles.
In case it's not clear, you can download the app store package (.ipa) and rename it to "app.zip" to unpack. Or view here: ia601609.us.archive.org/view_a…
IFDB is a game catalog and recommendation engine for Interactive Fiction, also known as Text Adventures. IFDB is a collaborative, wiki-style community project. Members can contribute game listings, reviews, recommendations, and more.
Finally, I have a page eblong.com/infocom/ which links to every known version of these game files. Not just the ones that appeared in the "final" Activision compendiums!
Also the source code directories (which have been available on github since 2019).
This page includes plenty of in-development and beta versions, so watch out for bugs.
Finally finally: I know Activision's possible acquisition is back in the news.
Hey, if you're a Microsoft IP lawyer and you're about to acquire a big pile of Infocom rights that are doing nothing but selling a few copies a month on Steam/GOG...
Wouldn't it be a great gesture to transfer those rights to a legit non-profit which is devoted to preserving IF history? Then we could stop waffling about who's allowed to do what.
I merely mention the idea. :phone-gesture: Call me, pal.
I'd even be happy with selling the whole catalog on GOG. Hell, sell each story as a separate title and pay the original imps some kind of royalty. Then again, did the imps get royalties even in the 80s?
@matt They did not. (This comes out in the Get Lamp documentary, I forgot who says it.) They were all on salary. The games were company property from the start.
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