Apple’s next iPhone SE might be announced “as early as next week” ahead of it being on sale later in February. The next iPhone SE is expected to look like an iPhone 14, meaning it will have a bigger screen, drop Touch ID in favor of Face ID, and come with an A18 chip, which will let it run the company’s Apple Intelligence features. It’s also set to get a USB-C port, which theoretically means Apple can sell an iPhone SE again in the EU.
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Unsealed court documents from February 5th, 2024, in Kadrey v. Meta show Meta (formerly Facebook) illegally torrented 81.7TB of data from "shadow libraries" such as Anna's Archive, Z-Library, and LibGen to train Meta artificial intelligence.
Highlights include:
- A senior AI research at Meta says, "I don't think we should use pirated material. I really need to draw a line there."
- Another AI researcher says, "using pirated material should be beyond our ethical threshold" ... "SciHub, ResearchGate, LibGen are basically like PirateBay or something like that, they are distributing content that is protectec by copyright and they're infringing it".
- In January 2023, Mark Zuckerberg attends a meeting which is heavily redacted in court documents. However, he says "we need to this move this stuff forward" and "we need to find a way to unblock all of this".
- Fast forward to April, 2023, Meta employees discuss using a VPN to conceal Meta IP address ranges when torrenting data. Meta employees also discuss the need to involve lawyers if something goes astray. The unredacted court records show a Meta employee saying, "torrenting from a corporate laptop doesn't feel right 😂".
Highlights include:
- A senior AI research at Meta says, "I don't think we should use pirated material. I really need to draw a line there."
- Another AI researcher says, "using pirated material should be beyond our ethical threshold" ... "SciHub, ResearchGate, LibGen are basically like PirateBay or something like that, they are distributing content that is protectec by copyright and they're infringing it".
- In January 2023, Mark Zuckerberg attends a meeting which is heavily redacted in court documents. However, he says "we need to this move this stuff forward" and "we need to find a way to unblock all of this".
- Fast forward to April, 2023, Meta employees discuss using a VPN to conceal Meta IP address ranges when torrenting data. Meta employees also discuss the need to involve lawyers if something goes astray. The unredacted court records show a Meta employee saying, "torrenting from a corporate laptop doesn't feel right 😂".
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Technically: For anyone who's writing research papers, they don't get much royalty out of it unless it's really that famous. Most of the payments are gobbled up by the publishers/distributors and the authors get almost nothing.
My Science teacher recently published a paper through Elsevier, but is yet to get any royalty whatsoever, even when the paper has gathered quite a lot of traction. He, and the group he worked with, along with a group of other researchers I know say that pirating papers isn't that much of a bad thing, because the authors don't get much overall. So I am fine with Meta using those.
Books, are a different story. Depends tho, quite a section of books are now copyright-free (i.e. World Classics like Dickens or Verne) and that's fine. Some books I'd like to legitimately die (Colleen Hoover, Ana Huang, etc., basically smut writers) and it seems morally fine to me to pirate them.
Pirating books IMO is "fine" if you are just testing out a book before buying (which is what I usually do, I read books and then buy them/buy the series) or if you are too poor to afford them (like, seriously Rowling ₹3k for the whole set?)
But for Meta, I think it's definitely not fine for them to pirate at ALL, because not only do they have the budget, they also have the moral need to do it. I wouldn't mind an individual pirating my books or papers but I would definitely mind a whole ass corporation pirating my stuff.
I mean seriously, you are one of the top-most for-profit organizations in the world. In India, we have a thing enforced by the government on companies called CSR Initiative i.e. Corporate Social Responsibility which states that these companies shall put at least 2% of their into initiatives directed to the common people for their betterment.
I think the US government should, themselves, fight back with Meta and sue them for damages. Although, nothing would really come out of this (and probably Meta would run out of money and call themselves bankrupt if they were charged to pay everyone), it would still be a reminder to many.
Meta could have partnered with orgs like JSTOR (Harvard's e-Library) to make it work too, would have been much more ethical and financially responsible.
Whatever, who am I to tell anything.
(Also I bought the Harry Potter series later in 2021)
My Science teacher recently published a paper through Elsevier, but is yet to get any royalty whatsoever, even when the paper has gathered quite a lot of traction. He, and the group he worked with, along with a group of other researchers I know say that pirating papers isn't that much of a bad thing, because the authors don't get much overall. So I am fine with Meta using those.
Books, are a different story. Depends tho, quite a section of books are now copyright-free (i.e. World Classics like Dickens or Verne) and that's fine. Some books I'd like to legitimately die (Colleen Hoover, Ana Huang, etc., basically smut writers) and it seems morally fine to me to pirate them.
Pirating books IMO is "fine" if you are just testing out a book before buying (which is what I usually do, I read books and then buy them/buy the series) or if you are too poor to afford them (like, seriously Rowling ₹3k for the whole set?)
But for Meta, I think it's definitely not fine for them to pirate at ALL, because not only do they have the budget, they also have the moral need to do it. I wouldn't mind an individual pirating my books or papers but I would definitely mind a whole ass corporation pirating my stuff.
I mean seriously, you are one of the top-most for-profit organizations in the world. In India, we have a thing enforced by the government on companies called CSR Initiative i.e. Corporate Social Responsibility which states that these companies shall put at least 2% of their into initiatives directed to the common people for their betterment.
I think the US government should, themselves, fight back with Meta and sue them for damages. Although, nothing would really come out of this (and probably Meta would run out of money and call themselves bankrupt if they were charged to pay everyone), it would still be a reminder to many.
Meta could have partnered with orgs like JSTOR (Harvard's e-Library) to make it work too, would have been much more ethical and financially responsible.
Whatever, who am I to tell anything.
(Also I bought the Harry Potter series later in 2021)
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Heyyo people!
Be ready for tomorrow, we'll be streaming the discussion here (or recording it).
We'll be featuring Ojas, the lead developer of Rectify11 tomorrow. After that, we have more big people planned depending on the reception.
See y'all tomorrow at 6PM ;D
Rectify 11 site link: https://rectify11.net/
Rectify 11 Discord Server: https://discord.gg/rectify11-community-1077324213142175744
Be ready for tomorrow, we'll be streaming the discussion here (or recording it).
We'll be featuring Ojas, the lead developer of Rectify11 tomorrow. After that, we have more big people planned depending on the reception.
See y'all tomorrow at 6PM ;D
Rectify 11 site link: https://rectify11.net/
Rectify 11 Discord Server: https://discord.gg/rectify11-community-1077324213142175744
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Heyyo people! Be ready for tomorrow, we'll be streaming the discussion here (or recording it). We'll be featuring Ojas, the lead developer of Rectify11 tomorrow. After that, we have more big people planned depending on the reception. See y'all tomorrow…
Hello again,
Just here to inform you that we'll be doing it at 7PM instead due to some irl problems, don't worry though, it'll happen today.
Thanks for understanding.
Just here to inform you that we'll be doing it at 7PM instead due to some irl problems, don't worry though, it'll happen today.
Thanks for understanding.
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ATT Talks 2: Rectify 11 (featuring Ojas)
Raw stream: https://www.youtube.com/live/Htw2n_4fbPk
Raw stream 2 (Thomas' side): https://t.me/agamtechtricks/9231
Clips: I will post them soon!
Check out Rectify 11 here: https://discord.gg/rectify11-community-1077324213142175744
Massive thank you to Ojas for making some time and joining us on the stream!
Raw stream: https://www.youtube.com/live/Htw2n_4fbPk
Raw stream 2 (Thomas' side): https://t.me/agamtechtricks/9231
Clips: I will post them soon!
Check out Rectify 11 here: https://discord.gg/rectify11-community-1077324213142175744
Massive thank you to Ojas for making some time and joining us on the stream!
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How Rectify 11 was made and how did that name come up (Microsoft screwed up Windows hah)
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Here is Thomas and Ojas discussing their previous experiences with older versions of Windows (and server editions)
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Here's how Rectify11 developed overtime with a version history of V1, 2 and 3 (with help from people like Misha and Rounak)
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Ojas is fine with Microsoft taking Rectify11's assets (But we already know they won't.)
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