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You never ever have to have the ianal disclaimer on the internet
by asteroidp 5y ago
You never ever have to have the ianal disclaimer on the internet
- vasco 5y agoIt's 2022 and people still don't know that on the internet nobody knows you're a dog. These disclaimers always make me chuckle. I bet the amount of people successfully sued for giving advice on the internet is zero.
- mcronce 5y agoHell, I bet the number of people who have even had a lawsuit successfully filed for advice on the Internet is very very small. A potential plaintiff would need contact info, for starters...
- giantg2 5y agoPossibly. It's pretty ridiculous what some courts/prosecutors consider "practicing law without a license". For example, I was told by a judge that just if I help my wife fill out an appeal form, or if a real estate agent explains about a sale contract, that could be considered practicing law without a license. Frankly, that judge seemed like he was either an idiot or corrupt/biased based on some other stuff he did too.
- ameminator 5y agoYou'd be surprised to know that I may or may not be the world's first intelligent toaster.
- mbot5324 5y ago> world's first intelligent toaster At long last! I've been waiting for your emergence!
- ameminator 5y agoIt's because I'm the hottest thing around! (Except for the oven, the microwave, the air fryer ...)
- ben_w 5y agoEh, not so much. If Foone can run Doom on a pregnancy test, I’m sure someone can run GPT-3 on a toaster.
- gerdesj 5y agoHe replaced a few components such as the CPU but we have seen Linux booted on a hard disc. Not from a hard disc but on the controller itself on the hard disc. ESP8266 and ESP32 and the like are pretty tiny and have wifi and BT and a shedload of GPIOs and whatnot available. At £2 or less retail a pop! A "monster" system involving a Pi Zero costs about £5 retail. My toaster is clockwork based or me and a long fork and a open hearth. My fridge/freezer on the other hand has a wifi link. It is on the SEWER VLAN which is for those devices that scare me somewhat and has a rather limited view of the world.
- cryptonector 5y agoWhatever, but I don't want crumpets.
- jeramey 5y agoHello, fellow Dwarfer!
- sandworm101 5y agoYou're not. If anyone is first it is me. I made some toast first thing this morning.
- sva_ 5y agoI think "I am not your lawyer" was more a flex of credentials, to give their argument more weight.
- sandworm101 5y agoWell, one would be true and the other false. As a general rule lawyers get in more trouble for the latter.
- lupire 5y agowhich is funny because its explicit meaning is to remove weight from the argument, by telling the reader not to trust it.
- sandworm101 5y agoSued? Few. But people/jerks who disagree with what you say sometimes send complaints to bar associations.
- hashimotonomora 5y agoIt’s a healthy reflex from real life that spills over here.
- Godel_unicode 5y agoThat person's disclaimer is not ianal, it's ianyl. Big difference.
- danuker 5y agoNot anal, that's for sure :D
- robertlagrant 5y agoI am not a superintelligent shade of the colour blue.
- zauguin 5y agoI'm so relieved. Given that I'm a superintelligent shade of yellow you would have been my mortal enemy otherwise.
- robertlagrant 5y agoWe can cyan a peace treaty.
- lkbm 5y agoIf you are a lawyer, you need to say "this is not legal advice". IIRC, in the US, if you're a lawyer and someone "reasonably" believes you're giving them actual legal council, regardless of your intent, I'm pretty sure you're culpable (for lack of a better word).
- ufmace 5y agoFar as I can tell, it's not so much that you're actually culpable. But someone can sue you for it, and it won't be immediately thrown out, which means you may need an expensive and time-consuming defense. You'd probably win in the end, but what a pain in the ass.