Flying Squid

Mathematicians are weird enough that at least one of them has done calculations in base-pi.

Maybe it knows something about pi we don’t.

It’s infinite yet ends in a 9. It’s a great mystery.

I have absolutely no idea.

There you go. Piracy helps. I’m sure game companies and TV producers and so on feel the same way quite often. People who pirate are free marketing for them because they’ll tell other people about the product.

The ebook price is the real crime.

My friend posted this on social media. This is an eBook textbook for one of his graduate school classes.

In case you can’t read that clearly, the eBook version is $87.95. The paperback (not even hardcover textbook) version is $120.95.

Fucking insane.

I wonder if piracy could even benefit these corporations in the long term? Do people who pirate games and movies in their teens and twenties frequently go on to purchase such things when they’re older? I honestly don’t know, but I would love to see a study. I certainly have seen people make that claim.

“To the extent a response is deemed required, Meta denies that its use of copyrighted works to train Llama required consent, credit, or compensation,” Meta writes.

Cool, so I can train my AI on Facebook and Instagram posts and you’re fine if I don’t consent, credit or compensate you either, right Meta? It’s not even copyrighted in the first place, so you shouldn’t have a single complaint.

What? I didn’t suggest any such thing. What a bizarre lie.

Don’t act like you’re some dominant figure here, it’s very toxic.

What are you even talking about now? I didn’t even bother reading the rest because that’s such a bizarre thing to say that I couldn’t keep going. What long-lost blocked-up crevice did you pull that out of?

You still don’t get it. You clearly don’t want to. But your ego-stroking has been noted.

You really don’t get this and I’m not going to spend any more time holding your hand through it.

No, that is not the implied point. This is specifically about announcing blocking communities and instances. No one expects lemmy.world to announce it’s down on itself.

Okay, but that’s not what this is about.

It wasn’t about an outage.

That’s sort of the point.

OP claims the opposite.

For me, it’s not that the community was blocked. That is the prerogative of lemmy.world admins. My problem is it wasn’t announced here, it was only announced on Discord. That feels like they don’t respect us as users of their community unless we’re that deeply invested.

I agree 100%. If they are going to make an announcement about lemmy.world, they need to do it on lemmy.world. We’re not all on the Discord. I, for one, don’t want to be.