I’m trying, but it’s hard to stay motivated when the information on a lot of local areas I visit are so damn old.

There are entire areas where it looks like it acquired the data 5-10 years ago from some other mapping software (Google, Bing, something else), and hasn’t updated since. It didn’t have all of my street information for my neighborhood area, so I started there first. I didn’t really mind it too much, because, hey, Google didn’t have it filled in several years ago, either. I started using Vespucci and drew out some of the houses and streets.

But, as soon as I expand out, there are strip malls with really outdated information. StreetComplete tries to ask me questions about these places that were replaced long ago, and it doesn’t have the tools to allow me to carve out sections of the strip mall, since it only thinks there are two shops, but there’s now 8-10 shops. So, I go back to Vespucci and try to fill it out, but I only have so much time before I’m going to some other location, and I don’t really have the time to draw out even the map details in the place where I’m parked. I feel like I’m the only one that bothers and the entire city is out-of-date. It’s overwhelming.

If bots somehow got this information back then, then why can’t it pull this data now? Certain sections and entire cities desperately need a refresh.

Konami is no longer a video games company any more. They lost that title when they kicked Kojima out and decided to fully embrace pachinko games.

Reality? I mean, I assume you live in the Aussie Zone, right? How often does that county ban things in the name of “protecting the children”?

Parliament over the Australian

ban it for children

Banning shit from children in the biggest Nanny State the world has ever known? Really?!?!

It was probably the KYS initials.

Old, but still relevant:

there was a gap in US music IP law for like 40 years for anything from before the system was nationalized in the 70’s

The system is still shit, especially for music.

The poor already don’t have copyright laws, and the rich continue to have their safeguards. This is already how it is.

What? You think those laws on the books are for you? No. Only the rich get to enforce those copyright laws.

It’s even worse than saying there’s no copyright laws, because the poor think they have them.

Why think hard when you can have somebody think for you?

“Every facet, every department of your mind, is to be programmed by you. And unless you assume your rightful responsibility, and begin to program your own mind, the world will program it for you.” — Jack Kornfield

Who runs the verification service? How is that paid for? How do you know the verification service is trustworthy? What happens if they have a blue checkmark and it turns out it’s not accurate?

First rule of the Internet

Narrator: They could.

That’s exactly my point. Reddit is still shit, and you can’t exactly fork the data, because they’ve locked down the API.

Bluesky could do the exact same thing.

Bluesky is centralized but it seems like its design is committed enough to open technology that it would take them a long time to walk it back

Let’s not forget that Reddit’s code is open source. Just because their technology is open doesn’t mean that the data, usage, and network are protected.

WTF, Germany?

This is a big part of why fair use is in such a bad state right now: no predictability in how courts will rule on it as a defense, plus no way to keep you out of courts in the first place.

That’s not completely true. Fair Use has four declarations that you must pass, so there’s at least some definition to how it would play out in the courts. But, it’s not a definitive rule of law, so yeah it’s not going to keep you out of the courts.

that is technically transformative, but most likely not enough to justify fair use.

Right, but it’s pretty obvious that the transformation for AI is very transformative, and it’s lossy at that. After the training, you can’t just duplicate the image it was trained from, even if it was asked a thousand times.

You use hyphens because they look cool.

I use em dashes because Oxford Standard Style Guide for English dictates how it should be used.

We are not the same.

You can be anything. Any company. Any person. Any organization. On any platform. Anything.

It’s federated in name only.

I blame ActivityPub. W3C didn’t get their shit together when they invented the standard and now we are paying the price.

Also, Bluesky doesn’t use the ActivityPub standard, so it sounds like bullshit.