DeepSeaTortoise

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by DeepSeaTortoise 8d ago
If it were not for copyright and copyleft software licenses there would be no open source software of any significance. All these projects only took off because people were forced to contribute back. Want an example? Look at the state of op
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by DeepSeaTortoise 8d ago
Sure, but I highly doubt that there would be many people involved. And those who are, are probably quite interested in keeping it that way and not at all in becoming whistleblowers themselves. You wouldn't want to decide what's wo
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by DeepSeaTortoise 8d ago
I love how almost everyone in here seems to confuse the DMCA with copyright itself and that there seems to be such a wide spread opinion that copyright does more harm than good. As if an online community of mostly software developers had ne
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by DeepSeaTortoise 8d ago
> If OpenAI is indeed using customer data to train their models to win a $1m prize Is that even a question? Of course everything not kept on premise at gunpoint is going to be trained on. The chances of getting caught are 0 and the conse
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by DeepSeaTortoise 10d ago
IMO it's a very questionable solution anyway. Either you have to constantly replenish this dust, causing huge economic costs, or you have to engineer it in a way that keeps the dust airborne for long times, likely causing all kinds of
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by DeepSeaTortoise 16d ago
IMO tracking is just way too useful. You know when things are about to arrive (so you dont miss a parcel because you went to the toilet or you can even intercept your driver once he's in the area, removing most of the last-mile problem
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by DeepSeaTortoise 25d ago
There are two entirely different issues: 1. Is the law aligned with moral and ethical expectations? Probably not. 2. Is the process reliable? At least since the Derek Chauvin trials, I'm having doubts, but it doesn't seem it had f
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by DeepSeaTortoise 26d ago
Oh god, don't give them ideas. All ML is in-cloud AI now. I dread the day everything around my mouse movements needs to get tokenized and vibed into the ClosedAI cloud before my buttons start working again.
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by DeepSeaTortoise 28d ago
I still wonder why every open-source visual programming language is either a toy for teaching or straight up awful, often not implementing but even loops, when LabVIEW has been doing it right for decades. Despite its huge size and it instal
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by DeepSeaTortoise 2mo ago
You're assuming the telecom operator of the SIM farm doesn't know his customers. That'll change very quickly after the first few have to cover the fines themselves. After that that scam would result in the scammer paying the
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by DeepSeaTortoise 2mo ago
The solution is accessible law, not better anti-fraud tooling. Introduce a spam / fraud button, using it requires your pin and costs $10, but obliges your telecom provider to record the call (preferably including a few minutes before y
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by DeepSeaTortoise 2mo ago
IMO you highly underestimate the amount of processing and storage video surveillance requires. There is just no good way to determine if you took that pen or made the newly illegal handgesture towards the wrong person 12 years ago unless yo
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by DeepSeaTortoise 2mo ago
To me the major distinctions are near full functionality even if I'm offline and the app hasn't been used in a long time and offline-first design with all major assets being available for download ahead of time and/or transfe
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by DeepSeaTortoise 3mo ago
Right, of course it's those who had the most time to accumulate wealth in the wealthier nations and professions who are most opposed to one of the most expensive subscriptions in history taking over more and more professions.
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by DeepSeaTortoise 6mo ago
> Doing it on demand still utilizes their cached version, so it saves a trip to the origin, but doesn’t require doubling the cache size. They can still cache the results if the same site is scraped multiple times, but this saves having t
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by DeepSeaTortoise 6mo ago
You can never just use existing resources as long as those end up in places they're no longer accessible to the market anymore. Cash just about never sits just around as long as whoever holds onto it has no current need for extremely l
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by DeepSeaTortoise 6mo ago
Interesting, never heard anyone calling some place a Tier 1.5 city. Is this a recent development as "almost official" as the Tiers itself, something obvious I just never picked up on or people taking pride in their Tier 2s doing r
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by DeepSeaTortoise 6mo ago
$5 is probably too much, tho. I'd be looking more at the $.2 to $1 range. Maybe a 3 to 4 tier inbox. Known and trusted user being able to contact you without paying, a high value inbox for the $1+ range, a low value inbox for the $.2 r
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by DeepSeaTortoise 6mo ago
Isn't Shanghai a Tier 1 city? IMO it's not very representative of the whole country. It's also not like China is an overachieving outlier, but western nations actively having been sabotaged by its leadership at least since 19
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by DeepSeaTortoise 6mo ago
Exactly, this was the whole point of Trump calling climate change a hoax to benefit China, but somehow this got twisted by the media into not denying climate change being an anti-Trump position. The base then started demanding this from the
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by DeepSeaTortoise 7mo ago
> it only applies if it is intended to and corruptly accepted as an influence on official decision-making. The majority opinion argues that this is one of the primary differences between a bribe and a gift of gratitude. > A gift as a
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by DeepSeaTortoise 7mo ago
> They literally weakened the legislation. IMO that's not the case, because if a legislation looses its intended focus, it gains a lot of arbitrariness in return. The more interpretations you consider valid, the more options you can
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by DeepSeaTortoise 7mo ago
Not really, because that's the core issue had hand, but I might not have made my intention with the argument sufficiently clear. The question the court looked at: Did Congress intend "receiving gifts as a bribe" and "rec
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by DeepSeaTortoise 7mo ago
I never was contacted during the trial and only read about it almost 2 years later in the news. Also, he's a man of strong faith, not that he knows he'll win in the end, but more like that it just doesn't have the same import
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by DeepSeaTortoise 7mo ago
> Except for the victims of sexual abuse perpetrated by their clergy. I honestly wonder how much of this is made up. Given the size of whole organization and it holding onto its weird priciples regarding the personal relationships of its
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by DeepSeaTortoise 7mo ago
Guess what, he wasn't South African or in the Oval Office, either.
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by DeepSeaTortoise 7mo ago
The Catholic Church was funding a lot of research for a long time. E.g the Elon Musk of his time, Galileo, was famously sponsored by it and when asked to contrast his theories against the established view, sperged out so hard against the pe
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by DeepSeaTortoise 7mo ago
Or at least never been on the receiving end of an oppressive regieme. Look at e.g. Germany. Plenty of ex-SED members are happy the relive the past.
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by DeepSeaTortoise 7mo ago
Dont mistake malice for incompetence. Friendly reminder he EXPLICITLY ran on protecting debt-limits in the German constitution, got elected on those promises and then changed course literally on day 1 after being elected.
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by DeepSeaTortoise 8mo ago
I'm honestly surprised this issue in general didn't cause nearly every company to immediately ban all AI. Why do these companies put so much effort into fighting right to repair to avoid IP leaks any halfway serious company could

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