[-] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

I would have sworn that autosave was enabled by default in absolutely every software that has anything to save since like the 2000s

Possible that we're thinking about different features? Like for Microsoft Word, if I save a file to disk, make an edit, then exit out without saving (hitting "cancel" when it asks if I want to save) the disk copy is left untouched. That's how the most tools work as far as I'm aware. It does have crash recovery (which may or may not work better than LibreOffice's crash recovery, no idea).

[-] [email protected] 4 points 7 months ago

You’re weird. Autosave is the norm in 2024

I do support challenging the software design before blaming the user, but I feel like I'm being thrown through a bit of a loop here. Autosave, while not unusual, is still the minority behaviour - surely?

I'm checking through tools I have installed and can't find much that autosaves - even Word (tested editing a local file) doesn't seem to autosave as far as I can tell. And, to be fair to the software, I often don't want to overwrite the disk copy automatically (though there are some "best of both worlds" approaches, like with VSCode).

[-] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Do you honestly think that context will matter legally, whether the dead “person” is talking/singing about love or their own death?

Yes, there is legal relevance to whether a reasonable person would interpret the remarks as really being from George Carlin, thus painting him in a false light, and the whole concept of George Carlin riffing on events occurring after his death (plus the disclaimer preceding the video and in the description) is relevant to determining that.

When I say copyright, I mean in a general sence. Infringement of IP might be a better suited phrase, but I assumed the synonymity was implied.

I don't see how this tracks. Consider your following comment:

You’re either too dumb or stubborn to even google what “transformative work” is. Typical “AI” techbro."

Surely that's a reference to the character factor of fair use, a defense specifically against copyright infringement? It's not a term used in trademark law as far as I'm aware for example (and "George Carlin" is not a registered trademark anyway).

Were you just referring to, and telling them to google, the broad layperson definition of "transformative"? In which case I think you've misunderstood their comment, because I'm pretty sure at the very least they were referring to the fair use factor.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago

The Beatles have just officially released a song with their dead singer’s voice.

Lennon's vocals were recorded before his death, and thus aren't about his own death and events occurring after it.

No?

To quote the US Copyright office:

Words and short phrases, such as names, titles, and slogans, are uncopyrightable because they contain
an insufficient amount of authorship. The Office will not register individual words or brief combina-
tions of words, even if the word or short phrase is novel, distinctive, or lends itself to a play on words.
Examples of names, titles, or short phrases that do not contain a sufficient amount of creativity
to support a claim in copyright include
The name of an individual (including pseudonyms, pen names, or stage names)
[...]

Go to Spotify and try uploading a track as Michael Jackson, see if copyright “doesn’t protect names or titles.”

I don't think Spotify allows individuals, as opposed to music distributors, to upload tracks at all - but more importantly their policies on impersonation are not what defines copyright.

[-] [email protected] 7 points 7 months ago

Whether it's presented as real seems a reasonable line to me.

Fox News could not use it to mislead people into thinking Biden said something that he did not, but parody like "Sassy Justice" from the South Park creators (using a Trump deepfake) would still be fine.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago

It's possible to get away with quite a lot under transformative use even when it's commercial, consider Cariou v. Prince for example: https://www.artnews.com/art-in-america/features/landmark-copyright-lawsuit-cariou-v-prince-is-settled-59702/

[-] [email protected] 7 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

In Fallout with scrapping sure, but TES? There are a ton of items, like all the kitchenware, that are just for decoration and served no greater purpose.

[-] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago

Not sure if it's intentional but I've noticed there are some ways to anger the security "faction" without getting a bounty - I think it's when you do something directly to a guard (like intimidation ability) but are sneaking so don't actually get caught doing it.

Exiting the area and sleeping for 48 UT hours should hopefully make them forget about you.

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  1. Hold RMB to focus the cutter's laser, mining ~6X faster
  2. Bind Alt as a secondary jump key to boost forward
  3. Companions only need one ammo to use a weapon indefinitely, including grenades
  4. In the lodge, the safe in your room and some of the containers in the basement have infinite storage. Some containers in procedurally generated structures do too - but none as convenient as the lodge
  5. Cancel your ship boost (with S) to evade missiles without fully using up your boost, or spam boost-cancel in combat for the engine systems perk challenge
  6. With a precise click, you can land between multiple biomes and build an outpost with resources from all. I've got a triple, and suspect a quadruple is possible
  7. Setting up an outpost with some extractors and a large amount of storage, then spam-crafting items 99 at a time, is super-fast XP
  8. Cargo links work in real-time (every 3 minutes) rather than game time. For the trick above, you'll need to produce all ingredients in one outpost (e.g: Archimedes III for drill rigs, which are a rare component so give more XP than just adaptive frames/etc.) if you want to make full use of sleeping
  9. Venus, Charybdis IV, and Katydid III all have 1:100 ratios for sleeping (1 hour slept = 100 UT hours)
  10. Being over-encumbered still allows you to sprint (but not fast travel)
  11. Health drain from moving with full CO2 won't fully kill you
  12. The more over-encumbered you are, the faster O2 drains. Being very over-encumbered can even overcome personal atmosphere's O2 regen, allowing you to rapidly drain (by stepping forward) then regen (by briefly standing still) your O2 for the fitness challenge perk
  13. The fitness perk challenge actually requires filling CO2, not just draining O2, and the "Life Begets Life" achievement only counts flora, not organic materials from fauna
  14. The ship landing animation only plays if you're sitting in your cockpit
  15. The perk you get from a non-recipe magazine is determined by how many of that series you already found, not the magazine number
  16. Magazine perks persist through NG+, and magazines respawn
  17. You get all resources back when destructing outpost modules, or the entire outpost at once
  18. You can steal starborn ships if you get there before the starborn exit, or have that bug where enemy ships are empty
  19. You can instantly fully-scan gas/ice giants from space to get survey data (and Vlad buys survey data for the most money)
  20. Killing fauna and collecting minerals/flora counts as scanning
  21. For minerals you can scan the ground areas (where you can place extractors) and dropped item versions (even if taken from elsewhere), not just the mineable rock deposits
  22. After unlocking ship thrusters, use them by holding space and a direction
  23. Novablast disruptor and magsniper can be charged by holding left click
  24. You can access ship's cargo from the menu if within 250m
  25. You can place storage adjacent on all directions, like this: https://i.imgur.com/eqfiXvD.png
  26. Hold E to pick up a physics prop, then hold and release R to throw it - the longer you hold R, the further you throw
  27. Laser weapons can be used through windows/glass
[-] [email protected] 5 points 11 months ago

Going by the story DLCs for Fallout 4 and Skyrim, I'd expect it to be mostly orthogonal to the main quest so that players can experience it regardless of how far along they are.

The DLC could require getting to some point in the "first act" (e.g: meeting constellation, or finding the first temple), but it seems very unlikely that it'll require us to even know about the unity.

My guess is that one of the DLCs will be about House Va'ruun and take us to Va'ruun'kai.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

I've been feeling the same. There's a whole system with cargo links, fabricators, power generation, and tiers of extractors, but then nothing you can set up production for seems to have any purpose to mass-produce except setting up even more production.

There is one exception: manually mass-crafting components (on PC you can do 99 in one click) is a good way to farm XP and is a big resource sink. I've currently got an aluminum + iron setup to let me craft hundreds of thousands of adaptive frames, but I think the optimal setup, for most XP per click, would have cargo links shipping all the prerequisite components for an exotic component to one base (probably on Venus, for fastest time skipping [edit: cargo links work on playtime rather than UT time, unfortunately, so sleeping doesn't work]).

In terms of more intentional mechanics, something like being able to manufacture ammo (even if it took a lot of resources) would give it a purpose within the context of the rest of the game.

[-] [email protected] 21 points 1 year ago

It doesn't have "memory" of what it has generated previously, other than the current conversation. The answer you get from it won't be much better than random guessing.

[-] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

To file an infringement suit they'd need to have paid registration for each work which, even for the exorbitantly rich, wouldn't be remotely feasible for all logical arrangements of words/images. There's probably not even enough space in the Universe or time until its heat death to generate and store all such images.

Even if they did, copyright doesn't protect against against independently created works that happen to be similar or even identical - so they wouldn't be exhausting some limited set of possible works by doing so.

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