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[–] danielquinn@lemmy.ca 39 points 10 months ago (2 children)
[–] pruneaue@infosec.pub 8 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Why are catboys/girls and furries always the best at explaining stuff succinctly?? Lmao

[–] frezik@midwest.social 4 points 10 months ago

Maybe that skill is how they end up with suspiciously high amounts of money.

[–] funkajunk@lemm.ee 3 points 10 months ago (1 children)

At first I thought this was a joke, but it's actually informative 🤔

[–] danielquinn@lemmy.ca 1 points 10 months ago

Right? This was so educational!

[–] onlinepersona@programming.dev 22 points 10 months ago (2 children)

I use pigeons and let the wind tell me where to send them.

CC BY-NC-SA 4.0

[–] callyral@pawb.social 32 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (2 children)

CC BY-NC-SA 4.0

Are you trying to... copyright your comment? IPoAC existed prior to your comment.

[–] jw13 5 points 10 months ago (1 children)

It’s not even a license, just an abbreviation that people may, or may not, be familiar with.

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[–] onlinepersona@programming.dev 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I really need a link to a blurb about the CC thing, but not today. Basically think AI.

CC BY-NC-SA 4.0

[–] callyral@pawb.social 2 points 10 months ago

Fair enough

[–] SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone 32 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (2 children)

CC BY-NC-SA 4.0

This might be funnier than all those Facebook accounts with warnings about "I do not authorize anyone to use my photos!"

Because they're trying to copyright an internet comment that they posted on a service hosted by someone else, with a creative commons license attached. It's like a step up in knowing how shit works, but still not knowing enough.

If you really want ownership over what you say.... don't post it on the fucking internet.

[–] leopold@lemmy.kde.social 19 points 10 months ago (3 children)

I mean, not really. You own the stuff you create regardless of who's hosting it. Microsoft doesn't own the copyright for the millions of projects hosted on GitHub either.

[–] SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone 8 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I use pigeons and let the wind tell me where to send them.

So is other guy gonna sue me now and win because I just copy and pasted what they said? This is a joke.

[–] leopold@lemmy.kde.social 13 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I mean, probably not. That's such a short post, chances are courts wouldn't find it copyrightable. And obviously attaching a license at the end of your comments is useless in practice, because no one on the internet actually properly engages with copyright law. Plus suing over copy-pasting someone's social media post is dumb as hell and no one does that, tho I do think you could technically do it and win, because current copyright laws make zero sense if you actually stop and think about it for any amount of time.

[–] SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone 8 points 10 months ago (1 children)

current copyright laws make zero sense if you actually stop and think about it for any amount of time.

So true.

[–] kbal@fedia.io 10 points 10 months ago

My lawyers will argue that this willful infringement of my rights as the orignal author of the famous 1997 Internet comment "So true" means that you now owe me $4000000 in damages, but I'll settle for one bitcoin.

[–] lemmyvore@feddit.nl 6 points 10 months ago (1 children)

You own the original, which you've written on your pc or phone. But the one that ends up on the website is a copy, on which you've granted the website owner a non-revokable license to do with as they please ie. a copy-right.

[–] leopold@lemmy.kde.social 4 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Not really. You've granted the owner some rights, such as the right to host your content and present it to any user on the platform, but they don't own it. Twitter can't start using any art hosted on their platform for their branding, because it's no theirs.

[–] lemmyvore@feddit.nl 3 points 10 months ago

They can if the license you granted them says they can. Read it. These platforms usually make you grant then extensive rights. Yes they don't own the content but given such broad permissions it makes very little practical difference.

[–] lemmyvore@feddit.nl 5 points 10 months ago (1 children)

And yet Microsoft made Copilot, and there are currently lots of clueless programmers out there using it to inject code with god knows what licenses into their company's software.

[–] leopold@lemmy.kde.social 3 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Which hasn't been free of legal challenges. Current copyright law doesn't account for machine learning, which is what allows them to do this. This could soon change.

[–] lemmyvore@feddit.nl 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

They're not going to be absolved of copying code verbatim without following its license.

[–] WarmApplePieShrek@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 10 months ago

they'll be absolved because they're a corporation

[–] averyminya 12 points 10 months ago

Wait lol are people posting that to their comments to use it as claimed ownership? I did not realize that was the intent there

[–] smileyhead@discuss.tchncs.de 18 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Okey, I don't get it. What's wrong with DNS?

[–] scroll_responsibly@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 10 months ago (3 children)
[–] FrederikNJS@lemm.ee 4 points 10 months ago

Uh... Please enlighten me on what DBUS has to do with DNS...

[–] livethetruth@lemmy.today 2 points 10 months ago

Is the fact that that link couldn't resolve your answer to that question haha?

[–] moon@lemmy.cafe 1 points 10 months ago

It's d-bussin yoo

[–] jbk@discuss.tchncs.de 17 points 10 months ago (2 children)

My prediction is that we'll go DNSSEC globally when IPv6 gets mainstream adoption. It sucks how many just don't care enough.

[–] domi@lemmy.secnd.me 19 points 10 months ago (1 children)

when IPv6 gets mainstream adoption

At the current speed that would approximately be in 2087.

[–] lolcatnip@reddthat.com 16 points 10 months ago

Whoa there, let's not get ahead of ourselves.

[–] risencode@lemmy.ml 12 points 10 months ago

when IPv6 gets mainstream adoption.

After my death then. Alright, carry on.

[–] mactan@lemmy.ml 16 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I have no doubt in my mind that there's some subset of the suckless crowd that thinks dns is bloat

[–] Honytawk@lemmy.zip 6 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

We should remove all those useless microservices! /s

[–] famfo@social.dn42.us 15 points 10 months ago

As we all know, it's always DNS.

[–] madargon@is-a.cat 10 points 10 months ago

@scroll_responsibly Laughing in my self-hosted services, on my VPS which use only IP address :blobcatjoy:​

*Currently every service is also available via IPv6 :3