Portugal. They’ve essentially been doing this for years.

Drugs are decriminalised and in themselves legal.

It’s still technically a crime to use them but generally you are treated as a patient with addiction. Not a criminal.

There’s still a massive body of criminal law around supplying, and producing them.

So they are not dismantling controls on drugs but targeting the issues drugs cause instead of criminalising users needlessly.

Not perfect there but certainly lessons to be learnt.

Framework 13 has a fingerprint reader in the power button.

Yes, but magnetic flux causes radio waves and there isn’t a guarantee these will turn into heat in the space you are heating.

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.

Definitely a hoarder too, but too much is on for them to not be using any of it.

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.

A lot of radio equipment.

BBC News on the monitor.

Maps of Iran on the wall.

I’d bet on amateur/independent journalist picking up as much radio traffic as possible.

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.

If society collapsed, resources required to survive have primary value. Food, water, clothes.

But the idea of money will still exist. Precious and rare metals will be worth something in a barter economy.

If you think it would be difficult to defend, you know it would still have value.

The easiest way to defend it is to keep it secret.

This is the way the world worked for a long time. That’s why the idea of a treasure map exists.

They absolutely do exist. I’d just have to install them.

Almost…

Closest I can find is an Amazonian rubber shoe from the late 19th century here:

http://www.wildrubber.com/wild-things/mackintosh-rubber-shoe

The darker Amazon shoe is further down. The more ornate one is Macintosh’s.

All at Kew gardens in London.

Don’t overestimate the cost

https://www.screwfix.com/p/lap-13a-2-gang-dp-switched-plug-socket-white-5-pack/49620

That’s the retail price for 5, including tax.

Trade will be 20% cheaper if not more for buying in bulk.

If I moved to the states, my home would get switches on outlets.

https://www.screwfix.com/p/lap-13a-2-gang-dp-switched-plug-socket-white-5-pack/49620

These things last decades. Even the cheapest ones.

A switch should never reduce efficiency any more than the distance in extra wire (a couple of centimetres at most).

If it does I don’t know how you’ve found one cheaper than an already incredibly cheap product.