I’m sorry, I started joking because you weren’t being serious either.

Wait, you were being serious?

Well I’ve got a solution for you!

Just insert this adapter into the 3.5mm jack and it will be blocked for you. It’ll no longer be wasted space because this adapter is a useful place to store several grains of rice for a snack.

Unfortunately you do lose a feature as a result of using this adapter, it will stop one of the speakers from working and degrade your audio quality.

But you shouldn’t complain about anything removing a feature, or degrading your audio quality. You’ve got a new feature of being able to store rice!

You can even buy special fairphone sustainable rice from us. With only a small 300% mark up but an incredible 80% of the sustainability of already available rice. It comes in green!

The “demographic” of human being who doesn’t want to wreck the planet if Fairphone’s target.

If Fairphone is not trying to be universal anymore you should see that as a problem. So should every fairphone customer.

I’ll buy a more sustainable phone than the fairphone when my phone loses support in 2027. I’ll encourage everyone to buy a more sustainable product today.

I’d much prefer a 3.5mm jack

They really don’t care. It can take a lot of time to put a solid case together and you’re better off having a solid case than a quick trial.

The statute of limitations is much longer than a year. It’s usually around 5.

They can wait, see who’s made the money, then target them for a payout.

The rights holder first considers the size of the payout vs. the cost of legal fees.

Just because they haven’t been sued directly for this doesn’t make it infringement.

It’s clear from the output that it breaks copyright.

We don’t have to look inside the black box to demand to see the input which caused that output.

To be clear a machine is not responsible for itself. This machine was trained to break copyright.

If every time what already exists gets used there’s a risk of a massive fine or court case they’ll throw it away.

The game now is to delay the legal process long enough until they’ve built the replacement.

Then they can afford to throw the, essentially faulty, model away.

My point is that corporations often see a fine as a cost of business because the fines are issued by a regulatory system that has no teeth.

If you’re in a lawsuit against another corporation they are going after damages in civil court and it’s likely to be a high enough fine to stop the behaviour.

Typically they aren’t fighting other corporations.

Except AI models may end up having to start again with licences or public domain data.

They are currently breaking the law and delaying legal action as long as possible in the hopes they can repeat the trick with a new data set.

Monetisation?

Licensing the site to AI when there’s finally a ruling they can’t just scrape the internet for training data while ignoring copyright.

https://youtu.be/DdpGIOv33L4?si=JtN2I3VH4BhgSIyf

Boot = Bootstrap

If you’ve loaded up a virtual CPU first that’s not a boot of mainline Linux on the CPU.

Exactly.

People were simultaneously told different things by different people on what would happen of the country voted leave. A lot of it obviously false even at the time.

People might have known what they were voting for. But what they were voting for had no basis on what the government would actually do.

Then we had the prime minister who held the referendum resign.

A new prime minister is chosen in a private election amongst members of the conservative party (about 100,000 votes will do it normally but no one actually runs against them). This becomes a theme.

There is legislation passed which essentially puts a clock on the process. If nothing passes we’d just revoke laws and break treaties.

This was meant to scare the EU into giving us what we wanted. The EU was not overly concerned.

The government put some very shoddy legislation together. We got a pretty poor deal from the EU, well we were pretty desperate.

The government couldn’t pass that legislation

We had an election for a new government

The government lost seats and lost their majority

The government then joined with a religious extremist party in Northern Ireland to give them a majority.

The shoddy legislation becomes not only shoddy but also more extreme, It still can’t pass.

The prime minister is ousted by their own party.

We get a new prime minister.

They still haven’t decided on the legislation but they tell everyone what they want to hear.

We have an election

The government gets a big working majority

The shoddy extreme legislation, which we now know from first hand accounts the prime minister didn’t understand, still can’t pass.

The government literally breaks the law and closes parliament illegally to try and run the clock closer to the point where we take a bonfire to massive ammous of legislation.

The government are then forced back into the house by the courts

Eventually at the last moment a deal is passed. It’s really bad for the UK economy, and the UK in general.

The UK leaves the EU. Northern Ireland doesn’t. Well it sort of does.

COVID and Another 2 prime ministers later and Brexit deals are still being negotiated.

Essentially he EU has everything it needs. It’s protected the interests of bordering nations like the Republic of Ireland and France. The UK has increased friction on trade, labour issues.

The current big issue is that France no longer helps us stop people crossing the channel. That was an EU agreement. So our government, now spends it’s time and energy trying to deport people to Rwanda, breaking the entirely separate European Convention on Human Rights Churchill’s government basically wrote and passed after the second world war.

It’s worth noting that this government has had a vote share of 36.1% pre referendum in 2015 36.9% post referendum in 2017 42.4% post deadlock in 2019 (with the opposition getting 40%)

The conservative party got that lock in 2019 on 55% of the seats with 42.4% of the vote

Since then they’ve rotated people in and out of government to essentially do the bidding of the one who pays the most into their individual campaign funds against each other.

The government refuse to allow an election even while they’re essentially changing constantly.

We haven’t really got democracy in this country. We disenfranchise a lot of people through our electoral system by design. We concentrate power to a minority.

It’s a mess.

It wasn’t direct democracy though.

No member of the public ever voted on the legislation.

If the legislation has been put to the public and the referendum bound it to law I think it would have gone differently.

The vote relied people voting for their own version of Brexit vs. the status quo.

I’m not a fan of direct democracy by any means but Brexit isn’t an example of it.

Time to start the rejoin in only another 10 years or so I think. We’ll be voting on single market membership again before the decade is out I think.

All it is is whether a compound word is common enough.

It starts in speech when the words are repeated next to each other often enough they start being thought of as one word. But can’t be shortened.

If, in context, every time we said farmer we ended up saying dirt farmer. It would become compound. But in reality we’d just end up saying “farmer” when the context makes it clear. You’ll see this in writing about farming all the time, initially stating the type of farmer then just saying farmer.

Flag pole started out separately, but in some conversations it would become one object. Every time we talked about the flag pole it would be one word, flagpole. But saying just “pole” would be ambiguous. There are other poles around.

It trends towards shortness, if context allows us to drop a word altogether we will, if it doesn’t it gets compounded abbreviated.

No formal rule for this at all, but that’s the way it happens. People try to say things more efficiently without confusing meaning.