Sandbar_Trekker

It’s worth pointing out that, unfortunately, it looks like using LLMs for SEO is the best option that websites have today and is likely here to stay.

Louis Rossman - I’m #1 on google thanks to AI BULL💩 - the modern internet is a joke.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6uKZ84zwJI0

Granular privacy controls for profile sharing

That said, there is one noticeable new feature for users: easier profile sharing. This feature allows users to share their name and image from existing profiles such as their Google, Apple or operator accounts in a conversation, ensuring that parties in a conversation become easier to identify, particularly in group settings. In keeping with RCS’s focus on ensuring their privacy, users will be able to control who can receive that information.

Looks like iOS devices just recently started supporting E2EE between android and iOS (as long as iOS users have updated to iOS 26.5 and android users are on the latest version of Google Messages).

I’m hoping this means that we’ll start to see other messaging clients supporting RCS besides Google Messages.

Certainly looks interesting, but I have to mention that I’m not a fan of the Discord Rich Presence feature. The directory access that this typically requires immediately bumps up any flatpak to a medium risk category.

Granted I’m definitely one of those users that does not care to share my current status to all other users as to what I’m watching/listening to at every moment.

That article completely practically skips over the section in the report that says that copyright can be applied by compilation to an overall work. See section II - F: “Modifying or Arranging AI-Generated Content”

Or you can also just skip to the conclusion of the actual report itself:

As described above, in many circumstances these outputs will be copyrightable in whole or in part—where AI is used as a tool, and where a human has been able to determine the expressive elements they contain. Prompts alone, however, at this stage are unlikely to satisfy those requirements.
https://www.copyright.gov/ai/Copyright-and-Artificial-Intelligence-Part-2-Copyrightability-Report.pdf

Edit: The article you linked does mention that the works can be copyrighted as a whole, but it does not mention this in the conclusion.

According to the U.S. Copyright Office, it absolutely can, but it depends on how much control the user exerts on the final product.

If a single prompt was used and they copy pasted the entire thing, then yes, as you have said, it is not copyrightable.

However, if multiple prompts were used and the end result is compiled/arranged with enough direction by the end user, then it can be copyrighted by compilation.

Generating content with AI is often an initial or intermediate step, and human authorship may be added in the final product. As explained in the AI Registration Guidance, “a human may select or arrange AI-generated material in a sufficiently creative way that ‘the resulting work as a whole constitutes an original work of authorship.’”¹²⁶ A human may also “modify material originally generated by AI technology to such a degree that the modifications meet the standard for copyright protection.”¹²⁷

As several commenters noted, human authors should be able to claim copyright if they select, coordinate, and arrange AI-generated material in a creative way.¹²⁸ This would provide protection for the output as a whole (although not the AI-generated material alone).¹²⁹ A relatively common scenario in registration applications is the combination of human-authored text with AI-generated images. In one early case, for instance, the Office found that the selection and arrangement of AI-generated images with human-authored text in a comic book were protectable as a compilation.

https://www.copyright.gov/ai/Copyright-and-Artificial-Intelligence-Part-2-Copyrightability-Report.pdf

Edit: I was thinking of the default defederation list

As far as I understand it, it’s not “hardcoded” in the sense that all piefed instances have it (otherwise I wouldn’t be able to respond to you).

From what I understand, there is a default list, but this can be edited by any instance admins.

Yeah, it happens. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

I probably could have been more helpful by listing out some specific features, so I went back and edited them in.

It’s similar to Lemmy, but with more features and has better integration with Mastodon.

- Edit -
Some specific features that PieFed has:

• Support for Posts with Polls
• Ability to follow users (including Mastodon users that aren’t specifically tagging a community in the threadiverse)
• Feeds (combine multiple communities into a “feed” )
• If a post has been cross-posted, comments from every community are shown/organized below the post.
• Post/user flairs

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poe's_law