eschaton

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by eschaton 12d ago
Anyone who sells such an exploit should go to prison.
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by eschaton 19d ago
The NetBSD developers keep a great CHANGES document up to date with what’s new overall, and even categorize it by architecture and machine when appropriate. Want to know what changed between 10.1 and 11? Or 10.0 and 10.1? It’s all right the
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by eschaton 21d ago
“Xenon” is a pre-existing word. Intel’s not going to lose protection on “Xeon” for IBM using “Xenon” as an internal codename for their own CPU.
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by eschaton 21d ago
Because simple similarity doesn’t usually result in a lawsuit? Especially if one of the words isn’t a public product name and also happens to be an existing word with no existing specific use in the industry.
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by eschaton 24d ago
I didn’t see anything in there instructing the LLM not to generate text about goblins.
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by eschaton 27d ago
And they had also switched to NEXTSTEP on SPARC, HP-PA, and x86 hardware a couple years after the last NeXT hardware shipped. (It’s a trivial recompile for 99.9% of NeXT software.)
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by eschaton 27d ago
The Pyro accelerator.
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by eschaton 2mo ago
At a certain point you have to take people at their word; I’m reporting what the contributor said they did (used the documentation to generate the code).
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by eschaton 2mo ago
A couple of things: The “AI industry” is nowhere near as large as it pretends to be, most of its valuation is in the form of IOUs being traded back and forth. However, the bubble popping probably will wipe a few hundred billion of value fro
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by eschaton 2mo ago
Not quite the precedent that it may sound like. A district court judge ruled that using copyrighted materials for the training itself was not infringement, but that the materials must be obtained legally. Anthropic is trying to settle the c
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by eschaton 2mo ago
If someone were to train a coding-oriented LLM on only GPL code, I would assert that any code it outputs is covered by GPL because an LLM is fundamentally storing and reproducing its input, not understanding it and generating new things bas
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by eschaton 2mo ago
The starting point of GNU was that Stallman was pissed he got in trouble when he got caught copying code from the Symbolics sources to the MIT and LMI sources, which was against the agreement Symbolics and LMI had with the AI Lab, which was
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by eschaton 2mo ago
I have personally seen this happen: Someone tried to contribute “vibe-coded” device support to a project I’m involved with, they said they did it all based on the device documentation, the code their agents spit out was copied verbatim out
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by eschaton 2mo ago
Not really, no. There have been many settlements of lawsuits, which means they are very explicitly not precedents. The LLM companies likely prefer to settle because of the existential risk being found liable for copyright infringement wou
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by eschaton 2mo ago
It was a strategic invention that has only ever applied to the plebs, the plutocrats have always been exempt from it.
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by eschaton 2mo ago
If someone wants me to spend my time reading something, they need to be willing to spend their time writing it.
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by eschaton 2mo ago
Oh no. The horror. How terrible.
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by eschaton 2mo ago
It’s incredible to me the lengths these people will go to just to avoid using the standard tools.
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by eschaton 2mo ago
Because it would cost Apple a substantial amount of money to make it possible to build your code for iOS on other platforms in any sort of supported fashion. So all the stuff they invest very substantial amounts of money into creating and m
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by eschaton 2mo ago
It’s not really that onerous for a platform to require that, to develop for it, you need to actually take part in it. For Apple platforms that means becoming a Mac user. For IBM i and z that also means getting substantial hardware or paying
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by eschaton 2mo ago
Xcode’s a lot more than a wrapper for UNIX utilities. For example, it has an entire build system. It doesn’t just invoke xcodebuild under the hood—and even if it did, xcodebuild uses the exact same code to build your projects as the IDE. Mo
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by eschaton 2mo ago
Sounds almost like allowing web pages to run scripts was a mistake.
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by eschaton 2mo ago
What you’re calling a “high horse” is having morals and ethics. Your employer said not to do what you’re doing, so you either convince them to change their mind without doing something they explicitly said they don’t want you to do, or yo
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by eschaton 3mo ago
Why can’t upstream just take their drivers? Isn’t that the point of requiring those drivers to be GPL?
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by eschaton 3mo ago
You literally said as much, and I am not calling you names, I am accurately describing your behavior in a way you yourself appear to recognize: > So yes, call me sociopath if you like, but I will lie, > produce better software and get
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by eschaton 3mo ago
You should have been fired for cause, because the way you chose to work exposed your employer to substantial liability due to the “copyright laundering” nature of LLMs. But you prioritized feeling good over everything else. You’re a sociopa
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by eschaton 3mo ago
You block them from using AI by making sure they know your project doesn’t want contributions from people using AI. Either they’re a decent human being and they’ll comply with the project’s wishes, or they’re a sociopath who will violate th
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by eschaton 3mo ago
How do they enforce that contributions aren’t copied and pasted from AGPLv3 or proprietary codebases? The honor system and intuition and occasionally flat out asking people. Do you think sociopaths willing to lie about how they came up with
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by eschaton 3mo ago
A lot of people will disagree with you on that. A lot of people might also have coherent reasons to think that analogy applies equally to the US House of Representatives and the US Senate.
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by eschaton 3mo ago
I’m not even disagreeing, I’m saying that there are different (and somewhat opposed) ways in which someone could find an image offensive, so it’s worthwhile to provide further context.

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