It’s actually both; they are using the data for ML: Captcha if you can: how you’ve been training AI for years without realising it

Plus, one could start for free; it doesn’t need to be yourusername [dot] com!

Hmm, now that makes me wonder if there’s such a thing as a FOSS web host—as open as one could be, anyway…

I didn’t know you could choose where to reincarnate.

I still contend that you’re misusing the phrase “cause and effect” and that it’s not “broken,” because there is a clear cause: greed. Selfishness causes people to try to take ownership of goods or services to which they didn’t contribute—and the effect is compensation not reaching its correct owners.

That cause-&-effect is very consistent to me. Nothing’s broken there. The concept itself is fine; the problem is the abusers and manipulators using it in a negative way. So your real enemy is greed and intellectual theft.

I demand greater rigor from the latter because it is the system by which we run our society etc.

Sure, but you can’t really enforce that demand since you’re not a king of the land or something. You’d need to get into politics and stop lobbyists or something.

What is the proper approach to winning a broken game?

Counterpoint: why do you need to “win?” Why not fight with fairness, and do what you can to ensure that the producers around you receive what they’re due, even if you may end up receiving less as a result?

You already explained it here so it’s fine. With that said, though, I would say in general that giving examples (the more, the better) is equivalent to defending, as any relatable example gives any given claim more merit.

Okay, finally, this makes more sense; I think you mislabeled the post as “cause and effect” when you’re really talking about ownership of property. Now this we could talk about endlessly, since it’s been such a hot topic with AI’s copyright-dodging.

A good ethical example I think of is Adobe InDesign (if I recall correctly), which only trains its “AI” models on content that is specifically AI-crawl-approved. I personally think the only other ethical approach to “AI” is open-source models like Meta’s Llama. All others are thievery.

Another example of endless debate is publishing houses or boards of companies, particularly of AAA games, as in how much money middle and upper management and the C-Suite should get for the hard work done by the developers. It’s been tearing apart the video game industry over the years on an exponential basis.

Generally speaking, though, for physical media like the artwork you describe, the workers get their dues, though probably disproportionately (especially when it comes to apparel made overseas, phones…). This stuff is very relevant in today’s politics with the tariffs going on; while they’re unpopular and could certainly be executed in better, alternative ways (like providing subsidies to make things at home instead), overseas workers in China, India, etc. are tremendously, objectively overdue on their wages.

given the option to claim ownership, to assert that narrative where I profit, even though that narrative isn’t really relatively strong, I will.

So you don’t care to help fight this mindset and right wrongs?

But you’re the one positing a claim! The one making a claim is obliged to back it up, not the readers…

Um, if you punch me, I’m gonna be in pain. That’s a directly caused effect, so how is that “specious?”

But you seem to be talking about something money-related, so an example of what you mean would be very helpful.

But you’re not even willing to provide an example of what you mean…

How so?

Interesting, didn’t know that. Ironically, I’ve unintentionally followed this definition anyway because I think open-source is so incredible that I always describe FOSS as specifically FOSS, not “just” freeware.

In fact, I’ve pivoted so strongly to FOSS as of late that I haven’t even said the word “freeware” in… years… dang…

Or they’re just not picky, ha.

It rarely ever does anything in my experience.

Anyway, I built a URL-cleaning script in AutoHotkey, but that’s Windows-only; I, too, am on the hunt for a Linux equivalent. Maybe this could be done in SikuliX or Espanso, via a Python script, but I suck at Python so far.

Ha, you wouldn’t want that attempt; with my programming skills, I’d only mess up the game!

Interesting. I wish Hangman would tell you what your missed word at the end was, though.

Does it sound like “boo-eek, boo-eek, boo-eek?”

Did you put in a request for this? And sure, I’m always interested in seeing how others use it—especially to complex levels.

Whoa, yeah, F-Droid is perhaps the biggest FOSS Android app market, an alternative to the Play Store. I suggest navigating through it using Droid-ify. Enable visibility of all repositories in the top-right corner to be able to see more apps. Even Bitwarden has an official presence in F-Droid to accommodate Play Store avoiders, etc.

Oh. In that case, I just use Syncthing for now, since I only have 3-4 devices.

Its .YML formatting is really clunky. It feels like it takes up twice as much line space as .AHK (for example), which can do a lot of this kind of stuff in a single line. But I wanna go cross-platform and this is all I can find…