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Jack Yan (甄爵恩) boosted

#Denmark:

As an #American I must educate you as to recent territorial claims

The last #Dane to rule #England was Harthacnut because Edward the Confessor stole the title from his successor Magnus

Thus all governments of #Britain since then are illegitimate and Denmark is still rightful ruler of the #BritishIsles

Secondly the #AmericanRevolution was an illegal war of independence. Thus the #USA is still a territory of the #UK

Ergo, the #US is in reality owned by Denmark

Glad to clear this up

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Jack Yan (甄爵恩) boosted

So I warned someone they might want to go in their Firefox settings and disable "Privacy Preserving Ad Measurement" and they were like thanks, but I already know about it and disabled it. And then a minute or so later they replied again to let me know they double checked and it had re-enabled itself

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Jack Yan (甄爵恩) boosted

As if scraping free content to train #AI models wasn’t enough (and #Meta already has plenty of free content created by billions of users on its platforms), as if refusing to pay a fair share to those content creators wasn’t enough, imagine working in a place where AI engineers send emails asking for clearance to use LibGen or BitTorrent in the office, in order to download GBs of pirated copyrighted work that can be fed to those models, and getting thumbs up from the CEO himself.

The next judge who harshly punishes a teenager for downloading his favorite movie or TV series (or worse the next judge who states that scraping is a crime) deserves to be hit with a rubber hose under his feet. No single user of pirated content ought to be punished until the tech giants that in the past couple of years have played all kinds of dirty games with user content in order to get the best AI model are punished.

https://www.theregister.com/2025/01/10/meta_libgen_allegation/