I backed the Kickstarter, and oh wow did I get my money's worth! I genuinely wasn't expecting them to finish, and that's fine - I was there for the support and the ride, however it turned out.

It's been so long since I originally backed the project that I'm not really that interested in playing it any more, but I'm happy for them that they got it over the line... well, most of it.

Like many Kickstarters they promised a lot without realising just how difficult or expensive it would be. There's still a lot of deliverables ahead for them, but they've been pretty open about running out of money and operating on pure good will at this point, and I can't say I blame them with over a decade of their lives poured into it.

I hope it does well for them!

How has he not been booted as CEO yet? If I was a shareholder I'd be pissed.

This doesn’t mean that Meta denies using shadow libraries, its argument is that using such data to train its LLM models constitutes fair use under U.S. copyright law.

Oh wow, I'm very much looking forward to this argument... "We believe pirating the copyrighted commercial works of others en masse to develop our own commercial product constitutes fair use... China bad!"

Regardless of what you think of him or his actions, it's pretty horrible that Hollywood can induce so much prolonged stress on the accused before charges are even faced in court that it results in this.

This reminds me of the time the Zoom CEO announced he wanted employees back in the office because remote work wasn't as effective. It's easy to assume the people running these companies are competent...

robots.txt is the perfect summary of the web era. A plain text file that politely asked web crawlers not to do certain things. Such an innocent time.

Wow, it's pretty wild they didn't even attempt to encrypt or protect this data, even if it is local to your machine. What a treasure trove for malware to sift through.

A new deal is being forged with 4chan instead.

The author had so many things to highlight that they didn't even mention "as of August 2024" being in the future, haha.

What a trainwreck. The fact it's giving anonymous Reddit comments and The Onion articles equal consideration with other sites is hilarious. If they're going to keep this, they need it to cite its sources at a bare minimum. Can't wait for this AI investor hype to die down.

I don't know about you, but if I must leak my private data like a sieve to use the internet, I'd much rather that data go to a government that isn't governing me!

Would love to see the same tests with an adblocker installed.

That's an antitrust case if ever I saw one.