An just 30-something Software Dev that enjoys gaming, woodworking, electronics and plenty of other hobbies. Too many hobbies.

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  • Sadly I think it’s more that there isn’t really a standard way to buy books and other media in bulk at the scale of which AI training usually requires. So the companies realise they can save both time and money in just pirating after calculating the fine risk. Its just a bonus that they usually get away with it and that the fines would likely be cheaper than a legit transaction. But i do think it’s the bulk data packaging that makes piracy look more attractive to them at the get-go.

    Heck, even video game publishers often source their roms for their official re-releases from pirated copies because pirates are better at preserving data and keeping it in a nice friendly format. Easier to search for it on the web and download it then it is too goo into their own archives and rip it themselves, if they even still have original copies, cause they sure as hell didn’t keep their source code.


  • MrScottyTay@sh.itjust.workstoComic Strips@lemmy.worldJesus H. Christ
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    12 days ago

    Its not formally correct, but it’s understandable through other possessive rules. Like “MrscottyTay’s” or “HugeNerd’s”

    The English language is more complex than just what the posh prescribed formal rules indicate. They’re guidelines rather than doctrines to live by. Even though this isn’t quite a great example of it but our language becomes a lot more playful and colourful through the breaking of such rules.










  • I didn’t mean to make it come across as creative writing was the only way to get better at writing as a whole. Was more trying to say that exercising the creative side would make you better at that side in particular because you said you found yourself not good at creative writing. I was trying to encourage you into expand your hobby of writing into creative writing as well, if you felt like you were being held back on trying it more because of that.


  • Just write whatever, doesn’t ever have to be a complete story, can just be snippets or ideas. Just little bits here and there to exercise that part of your brain. And who knows maybe eventually you’ll start coming up with ideas you think are cooler.

    I always suggest creative hobbies that build up a skill more so than just active ones because active ones (unless there’s problem solving involved like bouldering for example), it gets to a point where you just doing repetitions of the act. If there’s a creative aspect to it you can always build upon it on it in new and interesting ways as you become more proficient.