To eat the pieces, free those souls from a game of torture (by appearance).

You don’t have to leave if you can remodel. Best wishes on your journey to improve.

Because while cool it is quite likely it didn’t seem that the sales were good enough to bother translating and patenting. Tbh American/European culture is very different so they probably didn’t think it would succeed when it wasn’t very successful at home.

Eventually we’ll make agi instead of this llm bullshit. Assuming we don’t destroy ourselves first.

You and I know thats true and piracy in some cases is shown to increase sales because people decide its worth money and/or talk about it more. Heck some people pirate things they already own just because they’re too lazy to find the copy they own.

Their (incorrect) logic is that if you were pirating you weren’t purchasing their content anyway.

“Begging the question” is a logical fallacy wherein “the speaker assumes some premise that has not been demonstrated to be true.”. However, “begs the question” is used more as where something creates a question.

So by the original “because the earth is flat the planet is not rotating.” You assume the earth is flat to justify your point of no rotation. Whereas the common usage “the flat earth theory and other science conspiracies beg the question of why people don’t drop dead by forgetting to breathe.” Flat earth theory created questions about human intelligence.

Scihub if its before the last few years. Otherwise email authors and/or post a link on a science forum asking if anyone has a pdf to share.

Lemm.ee shutdown there are communities of same name on .world, .ml and vlemmy.net

Mbfc is ok but is itself biased towards Western and Pro-Israel content.

Then the AI companies that have openly used pirated stuff could also get disconnected lol. Of course business will be fine and individuals will get shafted who expects anything different nowadays.

The issue is potential copyright, the right to be “forgotten”, and of course illegal porn (csam, “revenge”, etc).

Isn’t not doing that part of the draw of foss? That sort of UI/“engagement” is necessary for monetization but is not for foss.

A product getting “sold” is in direct contradiction to it being foss. That’s the viewpoint of money and enshittifiers.

Most people here are specifically avoiding those companies in part because of their “engagement” algorithms.

Not the rich ones. See Trump and all his cronies.

They have previously been hacked.

I know a first cousin of mine did. :( Over 15million people used it.

The only silver lining is that they’ve been bought by a research company instead of an insurance company. I don’t know if theres a legal leg to stand on per the data. They almost 100% agreed to give up ownership to the company, that’s the only way it could do any of the genetic relationship analysis that it did.

Ivermectin (anti-parasitic) aka horse dewormer.

Isn’t Pinterest just Instagram for food and knickknacks? I never used either…

They were more subtle about it but they’ve been there from the start. Now they’re just more vocal.

Isn’t that pixelfed?