charonn0

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by charonn0 17d ago
One of the problems with the original law is that it failed to distinguish between open source projects and closed source products. If anything this amendment should make the law less objectionable, not more.
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by charonn0 1mo ago
If the judge's order was AI slop then presumably it wouldn't withstand an appeal. So one is left wondering why they didn't appeal it in the first place. Why file a whole separate lawsuit? That's going to be even lengthie
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by charonn0 1mo ago
As far as I can tell, the use of AI is alleged but not proven, as the case is dismissed without deciding that point.
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by charonn0 1mo ago
I believe in that case it was smart vibrator that phoned home info like device temperature and vibration intensity. [0]: https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2017/03/14/520123490...
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by charonn0 2mo ago
I'm talking about bandwidth; connection speed . The streaming stick in the article turns off its proxying feature while the user is actually streaming because the proxying feature consumes enough bandwidth to degrade streaming quality
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by charonn0 2mo ago
>> rent the user’s Internet connection out to strangers. > Harm to the user: none^ Well, they are losing some of their bandwidth. They might not notice, but something which is rightfully theirs is being taken without consent.
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by charonn0 2mo ago
"Royal Executioner" is a job. "Bioweapon engineer" is a job. "Baby seal clubber" is a job. I could go on.
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by charonn0 2mo ago
No. "Intentionally", "willfully", or "knowingly" are prerequisite states of mind for crimes defined by the CFAA.
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by charonn0 2mo ago
How long before an agent steals their human tester's nude photos and extorts them for the answer key?
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by charonn0 2mo ago
It seems like bug hunting might be the one area where AI is actually making the world a better place.
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by charonn0 2mo ago
> Count Binface I did not expect this to be a real person. Is he with the Standing At The Back Dressed Stupidly And Looking Stupid party?
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by charonn0 4mo ago
The "More" button changes to a "Stop" button when clicked.
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by charonn0 4mo ago
And run the whole thing in DOSBox.
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by charonn0 4mo ago
Seems like a case for HTTP 451 (Unavailable for Legal Reasons) rather than 404.
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by charonn0 4mo ago
The company involved here is apparently based in Washington, DC, which has a "Ban the Box" ordinance that limits employment background checks for most kinds of jobs. And apparently DC's version of the law is particularly stri
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by charonn0 4mo ago
I would blame the email over Outlook.
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by charonn0 4mo ago
For some reason it fails to generate anything for me most of the time. https://halupedia.com/shortest-hose-in-the-world [fail] https://halupedia.com/new-england-rock-worm [fail] https://halupedia
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by charonn0 5mo ago
OTOH, a free trip to the depot and back is actually more than you'd get from a traditional taxi service under the same circumstances.
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by charonn0 5mo ago
I'm the opposite: I'll take a centralized, strongly-typed registry over 'stringly' typed dotfiles scattered across the entire filesystem.
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by charonn0 5mo ago
Rather, I suspect viral copyleft is why this lawyer is focusing on the the GPL. It's the only(?) FOSS license that can force a proprietary codebase into the open.
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by charonn0 5mo ago
> It is totally infeasible for me to check every single GPL project on every code hosting platform to see if the code Claude etc produced is too similar. I would say that choosing a tool that makes it infeasible doesn't actually exc
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by charonn0 5mo ago
Is "learning" the correct term? Or is it "plagiarism"?
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by charonn0 5mo ago
They probably focused on the GPL because of its viral copyleft features.
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by charonn0 5mo ago
Yeah, I thought the main character was a little too insistent about... repopulating. On the other hand, if we're feeling generous we might say the author was intentionally confronting the reader with what is only implied by the Biblica
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by charonn0 5mo ago
If you enjoy this story, you might enjoy the short unpublished novel, "The Metamorphosis of Prime Intellect"[1] by Roger Williams. A story where 1990's humans invent a 3-laws-compliant super AI that accidentally "ascen
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by charonn0 5mo ago
> they will be hearers of many things and will have learned nothing; they will appear to be omniscient and will generally know nothing; they will be tiresome company, having the show of wisdom without the reality. This could be describin
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by charonn0 5mo ago
I find that 99% of ads are blocked simply by disabling Javascript. Does that suggest that disabling Javascript is unethical? Or does it suggest that those blocked advertisements were over-stepping the bounds of the implicit contract?
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by charonn0 6mo ago
Hugged to death? https://web.archive.org/web/20260329052632/https://gladeart....
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by charonn0 7mo ago
That's a serious accusation. Can you elaborate? What is the name of the company? Why does the Wikimedia Foundation claim ownership? And if you're referring to the Wikimedia Foundation, then what do you mean by "shareholders&q
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by charonn0 7mo ago
I don't think regulations are the legal restrictions people are referring to, but rather private lawsuits.

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