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by devsda 7mo ago
I know it is probably not the American way but the only way to address this problem is to make laws that prevent a duopoly, penalize anti-competitive behavior and push open-source standards for software/hardware. Unfortunately, the st
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by devsda 7mo ago
Is there a common guide that all scammers follow ? Many people also claim this is the real reason behind grammatical errors in nigerian prince email scams.
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by devsda 7mo ago
collecting from multiple sources to find and scrub out the differences may make fingerprinting somewhat ineffective ?
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by devsda 7mo ago
> That's an odd take... open source is a software licensing model, not a business model. Yes, open-source is a software license model, not a business model. It is also not a software support model. This change is them essentially d
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by devsda 7mo ago
> say you'll do something for free I think this is where the problem/misunderstanding is. There's no "I will do/release" in OSS unless promised explicitly. Every single release/version is "I releas
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by devsda 7mo ago
Everyone is quick to assert rights granted by the license terms and fast to say the authors should have chosen a better license from the start in case the license doesnt fit the current situation. License terms don't end there. There i
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by devsda 7mo ago
For whatever reason, legislation is lax right now if you claim the purpose of scraping is for AI training even for copyrighted material. May be everyone is trying to take advantage of the situation before law eventually catches up.
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by devsda 7mo ago
At this point, I think we should look at implementing filters that send different response when AI bots are detected or when the clients are abusive. Not just simple response code but one that poisons their training data. Preferably text
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by devsda 7mo ago
It also means we don't have to deal with the maintenance of vibecoded production software from 2020s!
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by devsda 7mo ago
Was thinking what if we had 42/43 days a month. Will the singularity date end-up on 42nd of a month but sadly it doesn't. However, it does fall on a 42nd day if we have 45/46 days per month!
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by devsda 7mo ago
It is the same as what everyone did after the reddit fiasco i.e. protest, boycott, grudgingly use it while complaining and then finally accept the change. May be this discord episode will have better outcome for the masses.
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by devsda 7mo ago
> New models come out constantly and over time companies will phase out older ones. These newer models will be better, sure, but their outputs will be different. IIUC, same model with same seed and other parameters is not guaranteed to p
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by devsda 7mo ago
This is how you get managers saying "we have taken latest AI subscription. We expect you to be able to increase productivity and complete 5/10/100 stories per sprint from now on instead of one per sprint that we planned previ
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by devsda 8mo ago
I mainly use it as an ssh client and run network tools like ping etc. It is on the list of must haves I install on a new device. I just hope against hope that Google doesn't limit its functionality further and point us towards the new
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by devsda 8mo ago
Is there a use case for AI that open models can't solve ? Are there really any customers who are demanding AI and threatening to leave if those AI features are missing in every tech adjacent product ? I think the make or break situatio
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by devsda 8mo ago
May be but corporate greed for data surveillance occasionally surpasses the needs of state actors so much that they'll voluntarily invent features on the same level. Google/Apple can in the future announce a "safety" fea
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by devsda 8mo ago
I think they sort of failed upwards in chat space with their RCS push.
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by devsda 8mo ago
Converse is also possible ? Even with all the best practices, patterns and reviews in place software products often turns out to be held up by hacks and patches. Add AI and inexperienced developers into the mix, the risk of fragile software
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by devsda 8mo ago
Thanks Daan for your contributions to systemd. If you were not a systemd maintainer and have started this project/company independently targeting systemd, you would have to go through the same process as everyone and I would have expec
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by devsda 8mo ago
Road to hell is paved with good intentions. Somebody will use it and eventually force it if it exists and I don't think gaming especially those requiring anti-cheat is worth that risk. If that means linux will not be able to overtake w
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by devsda 8mo ago
The immediate concern seeing this is will the maintainer of systemd use their position to push this on everyone through it like every other extended feature of systemd? Whatever it is, I hope it doesn't go the usual path of a minimal s
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by devsda 8mo ago
> with modern technology, and a ruthless enough autocracy, there is possibly no way out from under it. Technological progress only makes this problem worse. US may not have autocrats, but it does have ruthless enforcers of "law and
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by devsda 8mo ago
It may have not changed over ten years but its enforcement I believe has been lacking over the past 1-2 years.
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by devsda 8mo ago
Good. now that it is done, can EU and the rest of the world push for regional ownership of Instagram, WhatsApp and Youtube without the US complaining unfair practices. Chinese ownership as a security threat is currently in between reality
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by devsda 8mo ago
Unless its the first time they are hearing about it, when a customer asks about a feature, sales should've done their homework and checked with the team doing the work to get a rough estimate instead of pulling a number out of their be
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by devsda 8mo ago
Its UPI. Google Pay is just one provider among many including Amazon. You don't even need a middleman. Your regular bank app also directly supports UPI payments.
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by devsda 8mo ago
Won't it also be an issue for products that have a best/use before date ? A batch from one seller may have earlier date than from another seller.
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by devsda 8mo ago
The most critical and impactful modern day tech is smartphone and that is US tech. As long as mobile os and adjacent services like the store etc are controlled there is no true path to digital independence especially in a highly digitalize
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by devsda 8mo ago
When my country and China had border clashes, there was a nation-wide grassroot level movement to boycott Chinese goods and services where possible. It worked to an extent but it fizzled out in few weeks/months. Some of the reasons wer
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by devsda 8mo ago
Haha. I can totally see a future where business hire outside consultants to fix in-house AI developed code and to train developers on AI pitfalls. May be the design will be outsourced to consultancies and then implementation using AI is lef

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