Probably because they’re shifting development work to something else. Doing it this way and making it run offline frees up developers.

On Android:

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.nintendo.zasa

The famous Cheshire Cat

You need to set up a publicly accessible device (in this case the VPS) as your IPv6 gateway

So you set up your VPN connecting your network to the VPS (should probably be set up from the router) and set your router to advertise an IP adress for the VPS which is routable from your local network as the gateway address (and should probably also run DHCPv6 for your network)

(note, I have not set up this stuff myself so I can’t help with implementation details)

Because certainly they don’t think brigades harm communities if they won’t trust mods to set subreddits as private

“we won’t let moderators harm their communities by not letting them eg. protect their communities from brigades and similar harassment”

Sure you thought that through, reddit admins?

Microsoft had a dual screen foldable like that, then stopped supporting it

Human involvement isn’t the rule though. Again, that which ends up in fixed form has to carry expression by a human. Otherwise everything from dirt stains to footprints you accidentally create would be under copyright.

The prompts aren’t generally considered enough because there’s too little control over the final expression, the same prompt can create wildly different outputs.

The rule is already human expression in fixed form, of creative height. So you have to demonstrate that you the human made notable contributions to the final output.

Using stuff like controlnet to manually influence how images are shaped by the ML engine might count, there’s some great examples here (involving custom Qr codes)

https://medium.com/@ssmaameri/ai-generated-qr-codes-with-controlnet-huggingface-and-google-colab-a99ffeee2210

It’s human expression that is protected by copyright. Creative height is the bar.

If you’ve done nothing but press a button there’s often no copyright. Photography involves things like selection of motive, framing, etc. If you just photograph a motive which itself doesn’t have copyright, then what you added through your choices is what you may have copyright of. Using another’s scan of a public domain book might be considered fair use, for example (not much extra expression added by just scanning)

Independent creation is indeed a thing in copyright law. Multiple people photographing the same sunset won’t infringe each other’s copyright, at least not if you don’t intentionally try to copy another’s expression, like actively replicating their framing and edits and more.

Obsession with control, including control over future generations

Casually getting yourself permabanned

No, this will only lead people without access to Google Play to be forced to get it from somebody who has modified the app to fake the check.

Bluesky does have federation, it’s just limited for now. You can host your own accounts on your own hardware.

It pretends to be privacy focused, but because everything but 1-to-1 secret chats (where you have compared session identifiers) are accessible to the company and they keep logs of all group chats which they can access (even if they claim they can’t, that’s bullshit)

It depends on the type of location, small remote locations might not even get their own local network

They’re not for long term storage, they’re for transient storage like photography, in particular stuff like surveillance cameras

Clustering algorithms plus a focus on keeping your attention (watch time), not on quality

The topic and creator based clustering of multiple interests will pollute that anyway, because they don’t care about precision and just care about keeping your attention