> FWIW it’s basically impossible to strip DRM from Amazon files published after January 1.

Best time to stop buying books from Amazon was the day they started selling them. Second best time is right now. Amazon is a cancer.

It’s just a matter of time.

I hope so as that would be the rational position to take. However copyright law is often anything but rational from what I have been able to see, so it wouldn't surprise me if they just rule the entire thing is in violation of copyright.

Where did you post these "relevant article parts"? I only see a title that leaves the door wide open for misinterpretation.

Exactly. Always more to the story than the headline. A couple of years ago they were around 900k employees and are now around 1.6MILLION employees. Yes with this additional 9,000 they are around 35,000 layoffs…. That’s not a lot.

If any other company was like, “hey everyone over the past 2-3 years we doubled our staff and over-hired a bit… and are correcting this year. Unfortunately we are going to lay off 2% of the staff (again we doubled our staff and have to reduce by 2% now).” it likely wouldn’t make headlines.

Bingo - Hiring through the pandemic was seen as a sign of brand health and confidence by investors, as soon as it "ended" they immediately went "wait, our earnings per share went down, What!?!?!?" and thus mass layoffs

Jump around all you want, but new devs are the first to get cut when layoffs happen

FWIW it’s basically impossible to strip DRM from Amazon files published after January 1.

It’s been a major issue in the ereader community

[removed]

this shit is highly controversional, i understand both sides, of course personally leaning to archive side

That would be evil. It takes the shortcuts, and sacrifices people when they're no longer useful, or become a liability. So, lots of short term gains, coupled with limited losses.

> A 2014 ruling found that fair use covered a massive digital preservation project by Google Books and HathiTrust, which scanned a vast number of books to create a database with full searchable text.

Google started this almost as soon as they showed up. One has to hope it's survives.

[removed]

No. Replaced with companies that actually innovate. Two of the FAANGs exist solely to push ads.

I think the court is probably going to split the baby, rule that unlimited lending was a violation but one-to-one digital lending is fair use.

The end it is near

And if it doesn’t deploy: space junk

Sounds easier to just download a book from Z-library

The cube is a proof of concept, we now know that a drag sail is highly effective as well as light and cheap, reducing junks life 6 fold and that’s huge.

I hope it survives the many lawsuits that will be aimed at it due to copyright issues.

The thing is whether it was a good idea motivated by altruism or not is really irrelevant as to whether it's legal or not. There's a reason why entities that did similar things were historically very careful to keep things on a 1:1 ratio with a physical copy.

r/technology is really more for people who dislike or distrust or don’t understand technology. It never ceases to amaze me how many people who don’t work in Tech hang out here and insist things which are quite plainly wrong.

GPT is a novelty for me, just like copilot. I throughly believe that the people professing it’s usefulness in the workplace—including but not limited to dev work—are generally lower level. Chat GPT went down today and a ton of people remarked how they can’t do their jobs now. It’s right up there with the meme about the same every time StackOverflow goes down.

That’s one big thing I professionally fear from AI models or whatever we are going to call them. The cutting of corners including in code literacy. It’s my old man yells at cloud moment. People dabbling in coding and development when they are more like analysts than anything else (no shade to analysts, but it is an entirely different skillset and focus).

The people who rely and extensively use things like GPT and copilot will be the first made redundant when good old Sam Altman realizes his stated dream of having AI “employees” out compete and replace hourly or salaried humans.

I truly fear that a good chunk of people are fucking themselves right now. Especially junior level people. This is the time they should be learning and instead they turn to spyware which has an end goal, per Sam himself in an interview, to replace them.

They're testing the tech to reduce space junk, if it works cube says (generally considered disposable) won't spend 30 years in orbit. Yes it will be space junk, but it is a test that will mitigate space junk in the future.

Ex. Sat A has a life expectancy of three years, it will be in orbit for 25-30 years. Sat B also has a life expectancy of three years but will only be in orbit for 5 years.

If these satellites are replaced on schedule, there will be 10 Model A in orbit with one functioning verse 2 (maybe 3) model B in orbit at any given point over the same time frame

True! But for about 50% of the people at Amazon, their tenure is less than one year - that is not an exaggeration. Their recent hiring spree was profound.

They’ll unfreeze eventually