Ithral

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The Commission is trying to allay these fears. Freely available open-source software generally does not fall under the CRA as long as it is not brought to market as part of a commercial activity. It now explains when such an activity exists. Anyone who sells open-source software, offers paid enterprise versions, or monetizes other services through a program is considered a manufacturer in the sense of the CRA.

Nice, seems like this will end up being hugely beneficial

Model weights is what they are called. They didnt access them exactly, if the allegations are true, what hapoened was during training those images were downloaded and used to train the image generation weights. So the problem here is the training data was not carefully sanitized and was just randomly downloaded from everywhere resulting in illegal content slipping in.

The benefit is when you have a huge number of servers arround the world you can manage them from a few locations without having to have someone go physically touch them. Bonus points they often allow for remote wiping and provisioning, it makes it possible for a few peoole to manage the entier life of a server without ever touching it. This is a lot cheaper than flying people out to each site whenever something goes wrong.

The most common "loophole" is direct transfers between immediate family members, aka someone can give their spouse/child/parent a gun without a check. But let's be real if you live with someone they already have some level of access to any guns in the home.

The often cited "gun show loophole" is just a misnomer and is talking about private sales which still require a background check in several states. Even when it's not required many will opt for it since knowingly selling a gun to someone who is not allowed to posses it is a felony.

In the US a city is a government of a municipality. Every city has a governing body that levies taxes, plans infrastructure, pays emergency services, handles code requirements and enforcement, and can pass laws. For example, many cities have a ban in place on burning trash. That ban is enforced by the city law enforcement and applies within city limits. Another example is in Colorado when weed was leagalized by the state several cities made it illegal to open a recreational dispensery in city limits, so anyone wanting to tap into that customer base had to set up their opperation in the surrounding county (county is usually a large square of land that includes cities under it and has less regulation than the city, so burning trash is legal in most counties and anyone living outside the city, but in the county may do so) counties have Sheriffs who enforce the law and can have various non-city entities that do things like run a fire department.

Its all kinda complicated but baisically you have the following governments in the United States: Federal Government (laws for the whole country) -> State Government (laws for the state, baisically a small country, they do actually have their own militaries tax collectors etc...) -> County Government (a large portion of each state that often includes several cities handles mostly crime that happens outside cities, infrastructure, and fire regulations but can do more depending on the state. I think a few states have Bouroughs or some other name for these entities, but same idea) -> City Governments (laws for the city, zoning, sales tax in the city [on top of the state sales tax] law enforcement in city limits, and a bunch of other stuff)

There are exceptions and edge cases like municipal governments that aren't cities exactly and other odds and ends. Which makes law in the US complicated, for example you could get in trouble for having a knife that's legal one town over, but you visited a friend in a city where it's illegal. Lots of other odds and ends, like reporting purchases made out of state so you can pay your states sales tax on that etc...