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Cake day: June 13th, 2023

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  • Ah, fuck, is that what the case is about? That sucks; that’s the kind of case where they both need to lose:

    • The law shouldn’t be copyrightable
    • AI companies shouldn’t be allowed to ‘launder’ copyright (and more to the point, copyleft) by reproducing chunks of copyrighted works divorced from their license

    If I were more conspiracy-minded, I would almost think that somebody intentionally decided to resolve this case first in order to guarantee that they set a disastrous precedent.



  • I’ve had a hard time finding quality games in there. Outside of Shattered Pixel Dungeon they are few and far between.

    You’re not wrong. F-Droid would benefit greatly from having some sort of curated “best of” list, especially for games.

    That said, here are some I think are reasonably quality:

    • Mindustry
    • Frozen Bubble
    • Burger Party
    • Endless Sky
    • Vector Pinball
    • Surge Engine
    • SuperTuxKart
    • Xeonjia Ice Adventure

    tried to just get the hill climb racing game or a similar one.

    F-Droid has Lato, which seems to be in the same genre. It’s pretty polished in terms of having a nice graphical style and music, but IMO doesn’t quite make the list above because the gameplay seems a little simplistic compared to e.g. Hill Climb Racing. Still, worth a shot if you’re looking for that sort of game.












  • The project creator doesn’t mince words:

    wordfreq was built by collecting a whole lot of text in a lot of languages. That used to be a pretty reasonable thing to do, and not the kind of thing someone would be likely to object to. Now, the text-slurping tools are mostly used for training generative AI, and people are quite rightly on the defensive. If someone is collecting all the text from your books, articles, Web site, or public posts, it’s very likely because they are creating a plagiarism machine that will claim your words as its own.

    So I don’t want to work on anything that could be confused with generative AI, or that could benefit generative AI.

    OpenAI and Google can collect their own damn data. I hope they have to pay a very high price for it, and I hope they’re constantly cursing the mess that they made themselves.