Valve’s cost of hosting is pennies.
Surely you can’t mean this literally. They host downloads of hundreds of GB that get served to tens of millions of users. The bandwidth costs alone are going to be insanely high, putting aside the storage costs as well.
But anyway, I’d love to see them lower it to 5%. I think if they can afford to do that, they should take the lead.
I see this point come up all the time when it comes to Steam, but I have yet to see anyone really propose an alternative. How much should it cost to host your game on Steam? It obviously can’t be free because of hosting costs, and you’re also paying for marketing and discoverability, so what’s a good price for it?
Until recently, 30% was the industry standard for large software stores. Google is apparently lowering its cut after losing their recent battle with Epic, so it’s possible that the industry standard changes. I’d hope that Valve adjusts with it.
My phone’s keyboard lets me compose multiple dashes into an emdash. I believe I can also bind a compose key on my desktop, though I haven’t needed it there yet.
This wouldn’t be “illigal”, but if that’s the case Annas Archive should be “fine”… (I know that they are distributing, and this is the fight)
I don’t know much about European law, but redistribution changes things a lot here in the US. At least here, it then gets into copyright law, and you’d be reproducing copyrighted works without authorization (the Internet Archive attempted to get around this with books by getting legitimate copies of the books, digitizing them, then “lending” the digital copies of those books).
So if I prefer to download the Anna’s dataset instead of scrape myself, would this be illigal?
No idea in Europe. In the US, it might be, depending on what the contents of the work are. I believe Anna’s Archive would count as piracy in this case, though scraping directly from Spotify might not be because they are redistributing the music with authorization from the copyright holder. It gets pretty confusing, honestly.
Regardless, if you aren’t doing things at large scale, even if you are breaking a law by downloading pirated content, it’s unlikely anyone will care. People usually only really start caring if you start redistributing stuff, so as long as you aren’t hosting what you’re scraping, you’re unlikely to run into any trouble.
There’s no obvious answer to your question without more information (for example, where are you?) but I’m not aware of scraping being illegal anywhere, with some exceptions. For example, in the US (where I am), as long as you’re not doing “illegal hacking” to scrape your data, you’re probably fine.
There are TOSs that websites like to impose as well. If you have to agree to one to access any data, you should follow it. Breaking the TOS isn’t really “illegal” in a criminal sense (in the US), but you may expose yourself to anything from being blocked from the site to a lawsuit. Bypassing blocks might also be illegal, though you’d have to speak to a lawyer to know more about that.
It’s illegal
Sauce? Also, where?
They’re able to hit the ground running.
Could also buy a device and not connected it to a cellular network. I have old phones that would fill this role perfectly, actually.
Seems like that might just be curl. I’d guess it’s because they ended the bug bounty program for curl.
It’s good to see that the reports they get now are high quality bug reports now!
It’s not FOSS, but the only thing that stands out to me as non-FOSS is that it can’t be repackaged into a product or service that charges money for use. As a standalone tool, people appear to be free to use it and modify it all they want (subject to the share-alike restrictions), even if they use the output of the tool for commercial purposes.
Skills Are the New CLI
4th paragraph:
Skills don’t replace CLIs.
Great start.
Anyway, skills are basically an alternative to tools. I believe Anthropic made a big deal about them. They come with all the same downsides using an LLM at all comes with, which means they’re fallible, nondeterministic, and possibly even an attack vector. But hey, it saves you remembering a few flags for git so whatever I guess.
You see, the problem is they used Outlook (New) and Outlook (For Work & School) rather than Outlook (Space). If they just used the web version, it would have been fine too, as long as they used Edge (Space) anyway.
The output of a model isn’t speech protected by the 1st amendment, so this lawsuit is dumb. It’ll of course waste time and money though.
Wtf?
(Clojure is (parentheses (diluted with (Java))).)
While I can’t speak to the amount itself (somehow the industry as a whole settled on 30%), I do think it’s fair to say that Steam, the App Store, and the Play Store aren’t just payment processors. They also are platforms for users to discover new software/games, and they do a lot of advertising for developers. I can agree with the fee being too high, but I don’t think it’s fair to compare it with PayPal, which only processes the payments.
She’s literally just doing her own version of the MrBeast face. It’s not even that unique. Half the people I watch on YouTube slap their face in their thumbnail, and I don’t watch clickbaity slop.
Just install DeArrow, enable thumbnails through it if needed, and move on.
For roughly the price of a single 9800x3d*, you can buy a complete laptop with a long lasting battery and decent enough specs for web browsing, video playback, and basic office work. It’s unfortunately one of the better devices on the market at that price, especially accounting for the battery life.
*Edit: okay the processors came down in price. Fine, the cost of a kit of decent DDR5 memory, then.
Apple selling a ‘repairable’ and low-end device just looks like a recession indicator to me.
One of the few, I take it?
The lawsuit says Apple did more than just link to content. It claims Apple got around YouTube’s protections to download and use videos directly. The creators argue this breaks the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, which bans getting past systems meant to protect copyrighted material.
Nah they can lose that lawsuit fuck that. Not about to see DMCA section 1201 used to block everyone from using a YouTube video ever in any other content.
Here’s hoping John Apple does what it takes to make me actually consider an Apple device! Like, I don’t know, making user-friendly decisions without the EU getting on their ass about it first.