It is in my corner of the world! A local restaurant put in two tables, just as a temporary attraction. That was about five years ago now, and they're still there, occasionally swapped out for other tables, as they found that they started making more and more money. Since then, I've discovered three more local places who have set up tables.

Stern is still making some pretty nice new ones. Jaws is my favourite.

I wouldn't say they're stupid. I'd say indignant, rebellious, and not giving a fuck. It was always said that someone should start pushing against the grotesquely unbalanced copyright laws by just breaking stuff and challenging the norms. I'm very glad that with the IA, we finally have someone who does. I'm very unhappy about the fact that it's the same entity that is running the Wayback Machine, therefore risking that mission by pursuing the moral mission of trying to force copyright reform by crowbar. If this stuff ends up dragging the Wayback Machine down with it (to be fair, it could happen for many other reasons, too) humanity ends up instantly losing most of its history of the past 30 years.

Correction: without the publishers' permission. Plenty of authors are on the IA's side in these disputes.

At least my Lego rocket didn't self-detonate on launch -.o.-

You're misunderstanding the "cookie law", which was the goal of the malicious compliance by ad networks (who are why we have annoying cookie banners -- not the law).

Unless you use your cookie to profile users and pass the data on to third parties, you're perfectly compliant with EU law without ever having to ask visitor consent.

There is no cookie banner law. The only ones who are required to place one are those with underhanded business practices.

Not disagreeing with the entirety of the second paragraph, but I'd say "learning to AI" is the polar opposite of learning to code.

In programming, you learn to analyse problems, design solutions, and build them. "Prompt engineering", which I assume is what "learning to AI" boils down to, is about how to avoid doing all of that, and by extension also to avoid any learning. Building software is about leveraging a (relatively) new technology to empower yourself and come up with cool and useful stuff. Using LLMs is about subservience, about developing a complete dependence on some big conglomerate's services. You learn nothing and you create nothing, you're just asking corporate overlords for permission to pay them for getting you out of having to think or work.

Already today I notice some people at my company become utterly helpless and useless if ChatGPT goes down for an hour. Learning to AI is the extreme opposite of an education.

There's no such thing as an AI worker, the term itself is pretty much a contradiction.

Both have their place.

I listen to an insane amount of new music, trying to discover new things and stay on top of new releases by artists or labels I already like. I'm easily listening to 10 new albums a week, and maybe 100 singles. Having most of this available on one platform (Qobuz for me) for a monthly fee is a great deal. It basically replaced freeform radio, podcasts and piracy for me as a way to discover and find out what I like.

What I really like, I still buy. What I really, really like, I buy at my local record shop. But finding out what I want to buy, and listening on the go, has become so much simpler since streaming services, they're more than worth the price for me.

He's still Executive Chairman, I don't think it changes much. He even says himself that it's mostly a title change to reflect what he already was.

I don't know YouTube's terms by heart, but I'd guess by uploading your videos, you gave them something like a "perpetual non-exclusive license" to distribute your work commercially (ads, etc.). In that case, OpenAI would only have to negotiate with YouTube -- you already agreed to whatever YouTube decides to do with your uploads.

Where did you hear that? There were and are some limited experiments, and I believe some possibilities for the disabled and those living abroad. But by and large, voting here is mail-in or in-person.

I'm very sad to say that this resonates with me deeply. Thank you for putting the feeling into words.

ROFL, Accenture. The best bet you have to get a poor, unfit solution at 10 times the price.

Retrain employees for the Age of AI, what does that even mean? Using AI doesn't take any skill, that's kind of the *whole point*.

I can only confidently speak for Switzerland, but you definitely don't need government approval to show imported films here. I'd assume the same is true for most liberal democracies.

Depending on where and how you want to show it, you may have to get it age-rated, but even that is basically industry self-control and will not lead to a movie being banned of having to be edited -- worst case it gets an 18+ rating and the reduced audience that comes with.

It's because they're assumed to have a somewhat more progressive- and liberal-leaning member base. You'll notice that the CEOs of X, Meta, or TikTok haven't been called.

He wasn't even painting Kirk in a bad light. The people he criticised were those who impiously try to gain political capital out of a young man's death. He barely touched on the political aspect of it, just the hypocrisy and lack of morals.