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  • I was active on there for a few years.

    The mods are uber-censorious, in short. There were also a few power users who liked to brigade anything they disagree with.

    Lemmy isn’t infallible or immune to such behavior by any means — but the public modlog, option to instance hop, and federated-community nature make it feel far more open and transparent. Tildes is much more of a walled garden, for better or (IMO) worse.


  • The court filing is linked in the first paragraph and worth a read. The article is a bit vague because the claims in the filing are pretty sweeping, but to list some highlights:

    • Brave started selling copyrighted scraped articles in bulk from their search index to AI companies
    • Brave built explicit and targeted functionality into their browser to circumvent newspaper paywalls
    • Brave repeats long, verbatim sections of NYT & other papers’ material on request through their AI web search feature

    I’m neither an attorney nor a huge fan of IP rights writ large, but in my reading, the newspapers are making a pretty strong case that Brave is consciously stealing and reselling copyrighted material in unaltered form for monetary gain.







  • Good job putting this together! Lots of useful info in your post.

    My eye is locking onto this bit in the logs: vkCreateDevice failed (VkResult: -7). Vulkan is failing to initialize, seemingly because of some missing extension.

    Try these for us and share your output, if you’d be so kind. Feel free to scrub any parts you don’t wanna share with a [REDACTED]. I’m mostly going off memory so some of them may fail and that’s okay:

    sudo dmesg | grep -i err | tail -10
    nvidia-smi
    inxi -Gxx
    which vulkaninfo
    which amdvlk
    which vulkan-intel
    vulkaninfo --summary
    gamescope -- vkcube
    vkcube
    cat /sys/module/nvidia_drm/parameters/modeset