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Re:Why Clip Art Was Everywhere Until It Wasn't [video] on Wednesday November 04, 2026 @01:38AM (#50362151)
The Office suite during that era was very legit.
That's kind of rich.

I thought they basically build their business on breaking those kinds of rules, with the justification that anyone can simply sue them for what they think they're owed.

Isn't there always some kind of weasel word scenario that would let them train regardless? (Or else, it could happen on accident, then it's too late?)

You're not paranoid enough. If that kind of thing matters, racks of Mac Studios might do, maybe.

Re:The Tragedy of Losing Your Wikipedia Page on Thursday October 29, 2026 @10:58PM (#50299378)
> ...Wikipedia is an encyclopedia, not a reference for all knowledge.

Correct. In contrast stands the Internet Archive, whose mission has been described as "universal access to all human knowledge" [0].

[0] https://blog.archive.org/2016/02/24/fair-use-access-to-all-h...

Re:Is this the new cyber normal? on Saturday October 24, 2026 @02:07AM (#50218710)
The observed shift was noted by Ed Felton in 2008 at Princeton [0]:

> Over time, “cybersecurity” somehow became “cyber security” and then just “cyber”.

[0] https://blog.citp.princeton.edu/2008/07/24/whats-cyber-cyber...