It gets tricky, because the character itself might be public domain, but the specific representation of the character may not be.
There’s also the issue of the fact that you may be right, but still not be able to afford to prove it.
A lawyer would obviously be able to provide more details if they knew the specifics, but it really depends on the context and what exactly is being replicated.
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025/03/i-threw-away-audibles-app-and-now-i-self-host-my-audiobooks/
Check out this arstechnica article on AudioBookshelf. Should cover most of what you need to get started.
https://dnr.wisconsin.gov/topic/parks/richardbong
Wisconsin has them beat. There’s a “Bong Recreation Area” in the South East part of the state.
Wow wow waka wow wow…
Is anyone actively trying to stop me from leaving? Is there any punishment for doing so?
Is the “dangerous” outside because of something invisible, like a plague? Or is the “dangerous” a nebulous claim of “nobody goes out there”
I think plenty of people would try it just to say they did, just like the real world.
Wind turbines as well.
Unless you count the humidity in the air.
Except Signal should not have that data. They claim they do not log that information, so it should be impossible for them to do that.
Unless signal is lying, that’s not something they can do.
5g can cover a lot of rural areas, it’s not universal, but it’s a lot more available than fiber or cable.
There are certainly a lot of holes in the coverage, but a lot of people I know who live in pretty rural farm areas went from pretty unreliable microwave internet, to extremely reliable 5g internet a couple years ago.
That’s not going to be the solution for everyone, but it does work to (relatively) quickly get internet to a pretty big area.
It’s actually not, because the exit condition is “when you get the joke”
This is 100% a painter who’s worked with this person/company before. In the contract I’m betting it says “before we paint, remove all utilities and covers from the wall, anything left will be painted”
The first six times they did the work, stuff was left up, and they spent an hour removing everything before they started. This time, they said fuck it. We told you to take it down, this is what you’re getting now.
Customer service reps have almost the same information that a customer would have. The only difference is they have a few more tools available to them.
Asking policy questions or anything at this level would likely get no useful info.
Gemini is wrong quite often. You shouldn’t rely on it to tell you facts.
If I need to double check it, then it’s worthless to me.
It’s also underselling what they are providing.
You get to skip all the AI garbage, all the sponsored links, and the “what other people are asking” sections and just go straight to the search results.
Privacy is the primary selling point, but the clean “old school” google interface is what I’m really excited about. I’ve set my default search in the browser to Leta for now.
Short stack is 3, full stack is 6.
Anything less and it’s not worth opening the barrel of maple sirup, or carve into the butter cow.
He’s talking about how Jeff said he needs a dishwasher because hand washing dishes takes 1.5 hours a day otherwise (and is a waste of water and energy)