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A place can have a barren atmosphere and aesthtic while also having content to find, even if that content is more sparse or minimal, suited to that lonely environment

That’s exactly what they’ve done.

A “barren” planet still has stuff. In the 5 minutes or so that I did random exploration I found a colonist hut that was razed by pirates with a hidden chest with like 3k credits, and a random vendor who was going a little nuts for being alone so long. Nothing incredible, but enough to make the place not feel dead on a random frozen moon.

Copyright is not ownership. You can own something, but not hold the copyright to it.

Personality rights are also not copyright and as the ruling was not about personality rights, it did not affect these rights (where they exist in the US). Disregarding both AI and the recent ruling, if someone takes a photograph of you, you do not hold the copyright to it, the photographer does. If the photographer then does something with that image that harms your reputation you may be able to sue.

And no, it is unlikely that there is a distinction between one’s likeness and “AI generated likeness,” it usually doesn’t matter if you use a photograph or a drawing of an individual, it is the identity that is protected regardless of what tool was used.

Musk replied to one user questioning Lucre’s suspension with an answer to why the platform took action. According to Musk, Lucre was suspended for “posting child exploitation pictures associated with the criminal conviction of an Australian man in the Philippines.” Musk followed up by saying that they’d remove the post but would reinstate Lucre’s account. Lucre was back on Twitter the very same day.

So. . . Probably who you’d expect.

Quantum computers don’t break encryption by guessing passwords, it breaks encryption by being able to quickly factor extremely large numbers. What password is used doesn’t matter, it’s a more direct attack on the algorithm itself.

That’s like $700 per violation. Easily worth it if it means filling the position a week earlier than following the law.

It’s so strange that you get a bulk discount on criming.

They’re not magical in-world, just like how Jedi aren’t actually wizards, but Force users. But they are just as magical as the Force is with respect to the real world.

From a (US) financial perspective, a phone charger takes about 5 watts of electricity. At $0.010/kWh that’s $0.0005/hr (or ¢0.05/hr) of charging. This is utterly negligible.

For reference, a worker at the federal minimum wage of $7.25/hr would be paid that much after 0.25 seconds of working. It’s not even worth paying an employee to tell you to not plug in, which would probably take at least 15 seconds.

Naturally, some businesses may want to discourage people from loitering, but more often than not, they probably want your business (library, grocery store, coffee shop &c) or understand that reality happens.

Repulsorlifts are magical. They levitate ships with no external outputs. They’re also perfectly well suited to explain how a fragment of a ship can crash from a high altitude without being destroyed. As an anti-gravity device, repulsorlifts can greatly reduce or eliminate the need for any orbital velocity, making re-entry much more viable. And in the same vein, they can reduce a ship’s effective gravitational mass enough that its terminal velocity is survivable.

If it were a single EU Jedi master, the ship wouldn’t have crashed at all.

I would love to see a high production value movie with the full power of the Jedi/Sith, complete with them ripping star destroyers out of the sky, guiding their ships through hyperspace with the Force alone and closing black holes.

Repulsorlifts are the technology that enables ships to hover and fly the way they do. There are typically many across a ship’s structure for redundancy and handling reasons.

Not to mention that there were two Jedi on board, both of whom would probably be using the Force to pull the ship into a safer crash. We’ve seen Jedi use force powers strong enough to manipulate ships before, so this is not out of the question.

Remember, Creative Commons licenses often require attribution if you use the work in a derivative product, and sometimes require ShareAlike. Without these things, there would be basically no protection from a large firm copying a work and calling it their own.

Rolling pack copyright protection in these areas will enable large companies with traditional copyright systems to wholesale take over open source projects, to the detriment of everyone. Closed source software isn’t going to be available to AI scrapers, so this only really affects open source projects and open data, exactly the sort of people who should have more protection.

Researchers pay for publication, and then the publisher doesn’t pay for peer review, then charges the reader to read research that they basically just slapped on a website.

It’s the publisher middlemen that need to be ousted from academia, the researchers don’t get a dime.

Solaar seems to work fine. Honestly Linux’s third party software often supports hardware better than the Windows first party software.

In an email to friends, I could see these coming off as rude. But at least in my region, they come off as professional and concise.

You posted the exact same image here. You should probably read the sidebar, especially rule 3: “No Spam.”

If major companies want to be on the fediverse, they’re welcome to make their own kbin/lemmy/mastodon accounts.

Yes, absolutely. People will frequently use either term interchangeably when talking about electricity. It’s less likely in a scientific or engineering context of course, but it occasionally does happen.

This kind of ruling would make sense for a $20 bicycle, but I’d expect the bar for mutual agreement to be higher for a shipment of $60,000 worth of flax.

For the most part, you can browse different instances from any of them. You can make accounts on others if you particularly like the community or interface, but you don’t get much of an advantage.

And that’s exactly what’s supposed to happen. Instance wars and eventual defederation and fragmentation are important moderation tools, and will progress the culture and feel of instances and regions of the Fediverse. Many instances will form federated cliques that are highly connected and have similar vibes and cultures, and some will be federated with multiple cliques, showing users a variety of cultures and situations.

If the Fediverse reaches a large enough number of people, it can support multiple independant cliques, and enable users see entire mini-universes with different communities and vibes.