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…on a more serious note. Can’t they simply that USA’s healthcare system is so fucked up that people are taking the matters into their own hands?

Your and @tal@lemmy.today’s experiences are basically the same as mine. Except with translation instead of programming.

Larson argued that low-quality reports should be treated as if they’re malicious.

It’s refreshing and uplifting to see this sort of sanity.

The problem is that defending against a copyright troll in the court is an expensive headache, and the copyright troll has a whole army of lawyers to prove for sure that the Moon is made of green cheese. As such, even if the target knows that it’s a bogus claim, they still comply with the troll to avoid the court.

Sending a takedown notice under DMCA that’s knowingly false is perjury, which would presumably come up at the court hearing.

In theory, yes. In practice, good luck proving that the copyright troll knew it and acted maliciously.

[Disclaimer: I am not a lawyer, nor from any country following Saxon tribal law like USA. Take what I say with a grain of salt.]

As far as I know, in theory the victim of the bogus DMCA could sue the copyright troll for damages, including attorney fees and all that stuff. In practice, it would be the same as nothing, megacorp who hired the copyright troll would make sure that the victim knows its place.

As of now the site is already back.

The core of the problem is that there’s absolutely nothing effectively preventing companies from abusing IP claims to harass whoever they want.

At least you’d expect claims to be automatically dropped when coming from an assumptive/disingenuous party. Something like “you issued 100 wrong claims so we won’t listen to your 101st one, sod off”. But nah.

As such, “your violating muh inrelactual properry, remove you’re conrent now!!!” has zero cost, and a thousand benefits. Of course they’d abuse it.

The role of AI in this situation is simply to provide those companies a tool to issue more and faster claims, at the expense of an already low accuracy.

back in 2006

My “two decades” guess wasn’t too far from that, then.

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I remember Session Restore from Firefox 2.0 times, I think. Back then people would crash the browser on purpose to have it remember the tabs.

So I guess this sort of feature is, like, ~two decades old or so.

It’s cool to watch Twitter dying. Specially as its death is so tied to how it works - once the key actors of a blogging platform leave, the others simply follow fashion.

Does anyone want some popcorn?

I’d be OK if they dismantled my body for parts but it’s kind of unlikely that they’ll find something usable. The rest is a big whatever - burn it, bury it, pet cemetery, I’m OK with it. As long as the body doesn’t leave my city.

In theory, yes. In practice, no.

The association between meaning and word is arbitrary, but socially dictated. You’d need to have other people accepting that that word conveys that meaning in at least some context.

Only if it’s lead acetate. You’d need vinegar or at least wine, not whisky.

Agreed - it’s more like diversification, or “not putting all egg-users in the same basket-platform”.

I am not sure, but I believe that this political abuse is further reinforced by something not mentioned in the text:

• Twitter is mostly short texts, lacking situational info, subtlety, signs of doubt, etc. Those require a lot of contextual info to accurately understand, but as a piece of content is retweeted most of that context is gone.
• plenty people are not honest; they’re assumptive as a brick. They make shit up = assume = bullshit as it goes, never acknowledging “hey, I don’t actually know this, it’s just a shower thought, it might be wrong”.
• people holding minority views are more often dogpiled, and by bigger dogpiles, than people holding majority views. Kind of like the Petrie Modifier, but with worldviews instead of sex.

If I’m right this is breeding grounds for witch hunting: people don’t get why someone said something, they’re dishonest so they assume why, they bring on the pitchforks because they found a witch. And that’s bound to affect anyone voicing anything slightly off the echo chamber.

And I think that this has been going on for years; cue to “the Twitter MC of the day”. It would predate Musk, but after Musk took over he actually encouraged the witch hunts for his own political goals.

At least for my ex-fiancée it was about the link between husband and wife, plus tradition. It was basically “I’m married, you see?”. Just like a ring.

(We talked a fair bit about this stuff, as back then I was planning to add my maternal surname to my legal name. She was OK taking either surname.)

By “textual info” I mean plain language, like we’re using now. It’s theoretically possible to encode it in khipu, not just for Quechua but for any other language; but doing it in a practical way is another can of worms.

Instead what I think that they used is what the video calls a “semasiographic system” - there are standardised codes for almost everything worth registering (from a bureaucratic PoV), and the officer/kamayuq is expected to be able to decode it.

For a silly example using English, it would be a lot like writing “Jn Smth in ptt 20 mze 35” and then reading it as “John Smith stored 20kg of potatoes and 35kg of maize here”.

Ah, the khipu. The way that it represents numeric info is somewhat well understood already:

• it’s all base 10, positional. The tens/hundreds/etc. of different strings in the same khipu are aligned.
• zero = no knot
• 1~9 in the tens, hundreds etc. are represented by 1~9 simple knots
• 1 in the units is represented by a figure 8 knot
• 2~9 in the units is represented by a long knot with 2~9 turns

This might sound complicated but it’s really elegant, and representing the units in a different way allow you to cram multiple numbers into the same string.

So for example. Let’s say that you want to record 234 and 506 into a string. You’d do the following:

• 2 simple knots
• 3 simple knots
• long knot with 4 turns
• 5 simple knots
• space
• long knot with 6 turns

In some cases there might be geographical info in the khipu too, with numbers representing localities. Kind of like postal codes. The material of the string and the colour likely encode some info too, but AFAIK nobody knows it any more.

I’m almost sure that it doesn’t contain any sort of textual info, though. Like, something you can read. Classical Quechua had at least 17 consonants, this would be impractical to represent through knots, specially as Quechua tends towards large words.

My bet on both “paired” khipukuna is that one encodes income, another outcome. Kind of like double bookkeeping but for material.

Brazil - https://www.naomeperturbe.com.br/

In my experience it works.