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The Internet Archive is currently fighting in the courts to maintain free digital library access to over 500,000 books they own from their own collection, yet Meta uses a pirated dataset of nearly 200,000 books to train their proprietary AI and is just allowed to get away with that??

Publishers will go after a charity making fair use of their content, but not the corporation outright stealing from them. What utter bollocks.

Pretty sure later updates for Windows 10 started doing this too, or at least it did on my PC.

Had to completely uninstall OneDrive to get it to stop - which Microsoft sure do make quite difficult to do.

I’d agree if it weren’t for the fact that my Dad is the one that would wake up and change the channel, then fall back to sleep

If you have access to the BIOS, you could always just underclock and undervolt the system to give more power efficiency.

Though a small server with a retroconsole attached is also not a bad idea for the excess juice.

True, but if you’re already replacing the mobo (say for an upgrade, which Framework laptops are designed to let you do), then you can use your old one for this rather than having to buy a Pi clone or some such

From my experience, the occasional nick is just a part of the process unfortunately.

I find that, similar to shaving one’s beard hairs, holding the skin taught tends to help. Also, just take your time - trying to be hasty guarantees you getting nicked.

That’s why I specified the community, as in the more tech savy folks that would care about this, because I know that the wider public is surprisingly tech illiterate

I’ll be curious to see where this ends up going, as I doubt the community will take this lying down.

The few times I’ve had to go without an Ad blocker, I’ve seen just how bad the Ads have gotten - they’re almost the same as regular TV Ad breaks now! … And then YouTube Premium is just not a good deal in my eyes, £12.99 a month is an awful lot to pay just to not see Ads.

Breaking News: Pathological Liar Lies Again!

He’ll say literally anything to make himself look better, and his base will east it up because it makes them feel good. There’s almost no point in pointing this out because the people who need to hear it most will utterly ignore it, which is a damn shame.

“Schools just stopped buying books from us because they didn’t want to have the appearance of supporting controversial literature”

It’s upsetting to see these words uttered in relation to a bookstore just trying to help LGBT+ access literature that better includes and represents them.

“If only the pesky government would stop intervening in the free market, we mega-corps would’ve all signed up years ago to voluntarily fix the pollution problems we’ve spent decades covering up… But because you’re telling us to, we don’t want to.” /s

Paraphrasing of course, but this is basically their defence - which is just a tad bit shoddy if you ask me. If they didn’t need this law to get their act together, then why is this law having to be made because they didn’t get their act together?

Hamas trying to lead peace talks while Israel shuts them out is nothing new.

Israel almost certainly won’t accept any peace talks, because they don’t want to coexist with Palestine - the whole “war” always was and continues to be a farcical cover for a genocide.