Training is analogous to learning. We all learn from others. This is legal.
Training involves making thousands (millions?) of unauthorized copies and then using those copies to create a derivative work for commercial gain. That is criminal copyright violation when you or I do it, but if you've got a few billion in VC funding then I guess it's fine.
Web forums, Usenet, and blogs, personal pages, web rings. You know, back when people went to more than 3 websites.
It's not a check performed by the steam client. As a developer, you upload your final
I suspect it just wraps your code in a watchdog that makes a few steam API calls to check for a valid license before transferring control to your original game code. Valve explicitly states that it is only trying to prevent casual copying and not a determined attacker. But just copying the game folder to a new computer and trying to run it via wine not logged into steam will fail without jumping through some hoops to strip the wrapper.
You own the physical media as a matter of first sale, but the bits on the disc are inert. In order to get the software to run, it must be copied into ram or onto the hard drive. At that point you are in a copyright regime, not a first sale regime. Hence the need for a license to run the software from the copyright holder to actually use the software.
Steam packaged games have DRM. It has to phone home periodically and verify the license on the game or it will stop working. Some devs opt out of the built in DRM, but not all do. It might be steam DRM is fairly weak and can be cracked, but just backing up your local steam library is not enough to ensure a game will work offline indefinitely. The steam library will look for a signed, timestamped license attestation from valve, and if it is too old or absent, the staem wrapper wont allow the game to run.
The second hand physical market is also holding prices down. A new game at $70 is competing against an entire library of used games permanently on sale at $20-$40. Also the need to clear physical inventory means that new game will go on sale eventually at retail even if the digital price is still $70. So the new game is also competing against its future discounted or secondhand price if the consumer feels like waiting.
Also, certain brands, like Nintendo and Square, are famous for almost never putting their back catalog on sale, so the only way to get a discount is through the secondary market. Sure in the long term physical media becomes rare and pricey, but in the medium term, while the game is still contemporary, physical is usually the cheapest option for mass market titles. For indie games, you can usually just wait for a steam sale or humble bundle.
The answer is to build own filters, based on authors, keywords, or today possibly even LLM. Let the unfiltered stream hit your own filters and you decide what you want to see and what you discard. If your cat image detector detects a dog, do not look at the image.
Viewer-only personal filters won't help if the people being filtered out are busy organizing a social movement to oppress or exterminate the class of people you belong to. White nationalism used to consist of a bunch of fragmented fringe groups organized by zine or the occasional bookstore. Now they organize via X, recruit through Youtube, and control the federal government.
Tuning out the Hutu radio stations would not have saved the Tutsis in Rwanda, but shutting down RTLM might have, or at least limited the scope and speed with which it spread.
Who and what are we to believe here? LAPD audit says the 2-month error rate was 32.3%, yet Flock CEO says misreads are less than 1 in a million.
How does the CEO know the error rate? I highly doubt anyone is hand verifying all the millions of captures. He is either extrapolating from a cherry picked subset, or quoting a failure rate of the camera to capture a plate, correct or not. E.g. how often does the camera detect a car but fail to capture a license plate.
I've heard the RAM used in AI rack servers is packaged in a format that isn't useful for generalist PC use. I don't know if that means standard chips surface mounted onto the main board that could be reflowed onto a standard DIMM or if the pin-out of the package is totally incompatible. I hope you are right, but I don't know if it will be the windfall for enthusiast PC builders we're hoping for.
I wouldn't mind having a whole ass compute unit or two to run my own local open weight model though if they ever go on fire sale.
Non compliance with a police officer is not a capitol crime. Every cop who shoots an unarmed suspect should be fired at least and put on trial for murder.
You are thinking of trademark, which is protect-it-or-lose-it. You can be as capricious about enforcing copyright as you want. In this case both the copyright of the individual images is being violated as well as the trademark on the characters/ franchise.
I went into an AT&T store a few weeks ago to make some changes to my kids' phone service since I wanted to do something that the self-service account web app didn't support. The agent in the store said he did not have any permissions to make changes to my account. He said I should just use the chat agent on the website or call. He showed me the app he had on his iPad when bringing up my account and it was basically just a read-only view of the website.
Every employer I've had in my 30yr professional career did not care if its programmers came into the office. This included fortune 500 multinationals, mid size regional companies, and small LLCs. WFH has only become an issue since it became a political rallying cry in the culture war.
Supporting genocide and racism towards immigrants are both treasured neoliberal values. A label that applies to both mainstream Rs and Ds. The only difference is one side makes the cruelty and xenophobia a talking point and the other side tut-tuts about it and hides it behind bureaucracy. This isn't a "both sides the same" argument, just a "both sides less different than they admit in public" observation.
France is currently considering a law that would presume ALL police killings are legitimate until proven otherwise. Basically a license to kill for the police as long as there are no witnesses
6 Curses = 1 Hexahex
