I live in an apartment building on the ground floor, I always tape a sign to my decorated window to inform people where to ring for trick or treating. It works quite well for me, and groups know immediately who is willing to give out candy

You literally put the money + a piece of paper with your account number into an envelope and mail it to them

Those who continue to do business with them will be punished

Most AI models used Books3 as part of their dataset which is a collection of pirated books. Here are a few articles talking about it:

https://www.theverge.com/2024/8/20/24224450/anthropic-copyright-lawsuit-pirated-books-ai

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-09-29/australian-authors-copyright-books3-generative-i-chatgpt/102914538

https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2023/08/books3-ai-meta-llama-pirated-books/675063/

Fellow Zer here, my elective IT class had grading done depending on how well you could use the computer:

‘A’ if you could do everything perfectly well, ‘B’ if you needed some help from the instructor, ‘C’ if you needed a lot of help, ‘D’ if you couldn’t even get past the login screen on the windows machine.

We had a lot of people who got a pity ‘C-’