Do you want kids watching it too? How about Bluey throwing Nazi salutes or Paw Patrol using racial slurs? Even worse if you were looking to buy a legitimate cartoon for your kid, there would be nothing to tell you which you were buying. Anyone could claim full ownership of these characters and sell them doing horrible stuff and nothing you do as a parent could protect your kids unless you first bought each, then watched it yourself, before your kid watched it.
The entire notion of ‘Intellectual Property’ is a cancer on society.
Intellectual property is a term that wraps a whole bunch of things (copyright, trademarks, patents). Are you fully aware of the impact how abolishing all IP would negative affect society?
Copyright prevents the KKK from producing and selling Pokemon cartoons with Pikachu supporting stupid shit like white supremecy propaganda. Are you sure you want that protection gone?
Information and ideas intrinsically accrue value the more they’re known and used, and the incentives provided around their collation and attribution should embody that, not punish them with imaginary locks that provide ownership.
Lets just take the patents portion of IP for a moment. The first part of what you’re asking for here is exactly what patents do. To have something patented, the patent holder has to fully document the machine/process/method to create the patented item. This is that mechnism that enables the “more known and used”. Society gains this knowledge because the owner fully shares it. A design patent can last for only 14 or 15 years (depending on filing date). The longest type of patent (Utility) lasts only 20 years. After as few as 14 years everyone can use this knowledge without any fees/restrictions/payments.
This is a be-careful-what-you-wish for situation with what you’re asking for here. There are companies choosing NOT to file patents anymore and simply keep their methods secret. Since they methods aren’t patented they are under no obligation to ever share them publicly. There is a very real chance that many of these technologies/methods may be unknown to society at large for long after the term of normal patent protection would have expired and society would have been able to use the knowledge.
EDIT: I was trying to think of a good example of a company that agrees with your stance about not patenting and I remembered one. Elon Musk is choosing not to patent SpaceX rocket engines because it would force him to document how they work. Instead they are just keeping the designs secret. So your desire to not have patents used are advocating for what Elon Musk does.
This is “open” source and it was the main reason it got forked (lots of proprietary bits included as binary, impossible to send a PR, obfuscated code)
Wasn’t this methodology the whole reason GPL 2 evolved to GPL 3 because Tivo was doing this exact thing? They used the underlying open source free work of others, but then wrap their own contributions in priopriatry binaries not distributed with source code. This method wasn’t in violation of the letter of GPL rules even though it was clearly a violation of the spirit of the GPL rules.
How are they able to skirt the GPL 3 rules this time?
I certainly understand why folks don’t what that in their backyard. However, that sounds like a really great source of free heat to tap for commercial scale greenhouses in the winter time. I see theres a small deployment of this in Paris.
That just isn’t true.
If you want a well researched and referenced argument. Here is a good one.
It takes far more people to build, maintain, and service airplanes and the infrastructure to support them than to do the same for trains, and even when traveling a train requires fewer personnel per passenger-kilometer.
If you’re moving the goalposts to include all the infrastructure of air travel, then you must also include the infrastructure costs of long haul rail travel. Building out new rail travel for hundreds of miles of long haul service (which is what I think OP is looking at, and what I specifically replied to) is monstrously expensive.
Airplanes and cars are massively subsidized
Can you point me at examples unsubsidized financially self sustaining (profitable) long haul rail anywhere in the world?
and their uncovered externalities are much more costly to society too.
We’ve to enough moving parts in this conversation. Lets table this one to include actual costs paid and ticket prices please.
Even the hassle of flying is worth the time and money saved.
You’ve touched on the answer here. The answer is duration of travel. The same labor that is required to move one trainload of passengers on a long haul route can move many many times that number of passengers on an aircraft simply because the aircraft spends less time traveling. So the cost of the tickets must rise to cover the costs and eek out some profit.
“23 and Me” takes on a whole new meaning.
Surely there has to be some way of mitigating the ecological damage.
Absolutely there is for most rare Earths or critical minerals!
Although I’m sure it’s “too expensive”.
Yep. Or rather, it is far cheaper to accomplish if you don’t give a shit about the environment.
First, I think we both don’t like the Pi5. So we are in agreement on that. If you want we can stop right there on the same page.
I’m not sure why you’re referring to the Pi4
My first post in this thread was talking about Pi low power and small physical size. I was talking about all Raspberry Pis in general. I never put forth the Pi5. You did when you raised the 5V5A requirement. That exists only on the Pi5. You’ll also see in that first post of mine is where I disavowed any recommendation of Pi5.
You then went on in your next post about Raspberry Pis needing active cooling and heat sinks. Again, that is only the Pi5, which again, I said I don’t support.
So if you’re wondering why I keep talking about Pi4 and below is because those are the ones I like. In this thread you keep posting facts about Pi5 (without pointing out that those only apply to Pi5), and so that’s why I keep referring to Pi4 (and below).
You say you don’t use or recommend the Pi5 and yet you’re seemingly arguing that its power supply requirements aren’t a big deal and that improvements should absolutely not be made to it.
I’m arguing power supply requirements shouldn’t be made to Pi4 (or below). I don’t use Pi5.
As far as heat goes, these devices already need heatsinks and case fans, so the difference seems negligible.
Pi 4 and below don’t require active cooling. I want to keep it that way.
Also, good luck using a Pi5
Again, I offer no defense of Pi5. I don’t use it and don’t recommend it.
China is the only real supplier of Gallium
Like many other critical materials and rare Earth’s (of which Gallium isn’t one), the USA has sizable deposits of the materials. What we lack is the ability to refine it usually because the process to do so is so ecologically toxic.
Low power draw but ridiculous power supply requirements of 5V5A (depending on the model) with a USB-C connector which isnt a thing outside of this specific application meaning they’re going to be expensive and hard to source.
That’s only for the Pi 5 (the highest end unit), and I’ll agree that at that level its hard to justify a Pi over a larger computer. Even for the Pi 5 its not that hard to find those Power Supplies. Most laptops today use power supplies that meet or exceed those specs. You’re right that those are more expensive than Pi 4 and below Power Supplies.
They should have just done a barrel plug or put an effing voltage regulator on board like Arduinos.
Again, no defense of Pi 5 from me. However, for everything below Pi 5, HARD PASS on a voltage regulator. I don’t want that heat in the tiny Pi case. At the lower power requirements of Pi4 and below USB power is fine.
I mean, that wasn’t the first rename for silly reasons. There is a long tradition of this for Oracle DB naming. That “c” in 23c meant “cloud”. Nothing about the DB 23c required it to installed or run in the cloud. That was in 2012 with DB 12c. Before that in 2003 it was “g” in DB 10g for “grid” (remember the grid computing hype?). Before that in 1998 it was “i” in DB 8i for “internet”.
Pi is also a fraction of the power consumption (meaning also heat dissipation requirements) and physical size.
5KB of RAM
TIL! I’ve been living a lie for decades thinking the 20 in VIC-20 was the amount of RAM like the 64 in C64 meant the amount of RAM. I only owned the C64, never a VIC-20.
Commodore VIC-20 came out in 1980 with 20KB as well.
I like the perspective and detail of this article. I’m surprised to not see any mention of the current primary reason that plastic recycling is not only not taking off but continuing to decline.
The primary ingredient in many plastics (ethylene) is a waste product from methane (natural gas) extraction. So much is collected during methane extraction that if they have too much ethylene, they must stop extracting methane. There is also a legal limit how much ethylene the extraction company can simply burn. So they sell ethylene for a fractions of a penny per gallon to anyone that will buy it so that methane extraction can continue. This means virgin feedstock for plastic will always be cheaper than recycled until methane extraction becomes unneeded/unviable.
Wether AI already contains hidden ads or not, it will be here before we can blink an eye.
Its not hidden ads. Its likely lazy operating using the public internet for its training data scooping up ads already published elsewhere on the internet. I seriously doubt Facebook, Google, etc got paid to mention those unlicensed casinos after they were specifically prompted to return answers for unlicensed casinos by the article’s authors.
Your rant has nothing to do with the article. Did you see “AI” and then just copy/paste a premade AI rant you had on hand? You’re stomping pretty hard on Rule #6 of this lemmy community.
¿Por qué no los dos?
Can you talk about what are those effective alternatives that have been suppressed you are referring to as a replacement for the current IP scheme?