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- Comment on Obsidian is now free for work - Obsidian 11 hours ago:
Doesn’t appear so but there is that potential in a future update as they’re in control of what the software actually does. If data is indeed stored in plain text files then hopefully an alternative software could still read that data.
- Comment on Tesla Installing Countermeasures as People Are Hacking the Cables Off Superchargers 15 hours ago:
Batteries and liquid fuel are both hazardous in terms of catching fire, do you mean something else?
- Comment on Welcome to 2030. I own nothing, have no privacy, and life has never been better 1 day ago:
Even the most comfortable prison is still a prison - Captain Picard, TNG
- Comment on HP to Acquire Parts of Humane, Ai Pin Startup From Ex-Apple Managers, for $116 Million 2 days ago:
HP nickel and dime their printer customers… for this?
- Comment on Can I ethically use LLMs? 3 days ago:
I’m unsure that using complicated algebra to regurgitate parts of people’s works is different from just copying it. Perhaps you could say a human brain learning how to code is just regurgitating the code it’s had as an input before, but intuition says directly copying is somehow different.
I add copyleft licenses to code to ensure the code cannot be legally copied into proprietary software, for moral beliefs. If the output of a LLM was free software and copyleft (as would be the input) then perhaps that would be fine. Github probably has some complicate legalese that says by uploading it you permit them to use it, I’d want that to be legally voided.
- Comment on Open Source Software and Corporate Influence. 5 days ago:
Money to live is an important point but open source is still preferable to proprietary as any company shenanigans can be found, removed and the new version shared legally.
A universal basic income would allow software authors to more easily work on less profitable projects.
- Comment on A woman made her AI voice clone say “arse.” Then she got banned. 5 days ago:
The harm this time is indeed less, but the potential for harm is still the same as Meta. There is always the temptation to use power over your SAS users for your own gain. Maybe one day they’re a bigger company who think ‘you know what, maybe it’s better for the company that our users not swear’. Either way lets hope for libre, self-hosted alternatives.
- Comment on I Paid $70 for an AI Boyfriend: Here's Everything I Learned 5 days ago:
If only people would do that, but I bet that advice is just like telling an overweight person to stop eating.
- Comment on Tesla has sued customers and journalists in China — and won most times, review finds 1 week ago:
If you need to ask a company for data recorded on YOUR hardware then something has gone wrong.
- Comment on Jeep Introduces Pop-Up Ads That Appear Every Time You Stop 1 week ago:
Who so they think owns the Jeeps?
- Comment on Cloudflare Joins CAI and Enables Content Credentials for 20% of the Internet 2 weeks ago:
They say it’s not hard when you know how. I don’t know how and even when I think I do it’s usually still difficult :)
Currently using no-ip so friends can use a web address for game sever or get some files, instead of my every changing IP, for free.
- Comment on Cloudflare Joins CAI and Enables Content Credentials for 20% of the Internet 2 weeks ago:
what to use instead of cloudflare?
- Comment on US Bill proposed to jail people who download Deepseek 2 weeks ago:
I doubt they understand local vs server distinction.
- Comment on Bluesky now has 30 million users. 2 weeks ago:
Yes that’s what they mean. I tried to persuade against meaning that.
- Comment on Bluesky now has 30 million users. 2 weeks ago:
The right to take legal action for harm done is imperative. It’s importance is diminished if conflated with a legitimate business risk (like research and development). It should be illegal to deny it.
- Comment on Bluesky now has 30 million users. 2 weeks ago:
We’ve seen Disney try but then withdraw an attempt to enforce arbitration when a lady died from an allergic reaction in their* restaurant and their partner had signed up for Disney+ free trial. It’s not unimaginable a court would hold you to it since we’re already bonkers land where forced arbitrary is legal.
- Comment on Bluesky now has 30 million users. 2 weeks ago:
Let’s not call disabling the right to sue a “business risk”. That’s like calling the right to stop paying for the service a “risk” - it’s riskdiculous.
- Comment on AI Company Asks Job Applicants Not to Use AI in Job Applications 2 weeks ago:
An admission there are scenarios where people do not want AI involved when interacting with others. Bit too late to be thinking about that.
- Comment on HDMI 2.2 will require new “Ultra96” cables, whenever we have 8K TVs and content 1 month ago:
I don’t want Digital Restrictions Management in my cables.
- Comment on Apple, Google, and Samsung will accept Matter certification for their own Works With programs 1 month ago:
- Comment on Maps.me co-founder tries to close down Organic Maps open-source fork - HN 2 months ago:
Sad, but also funny to see someone revoke an MIT license. Presumably they think that is retroactive as why do it otherwise. Instead of preventing use they just un-invite themselves from any group that wishes to continue it’s open source development.
- Comment on D-Link refuses to patch yet another security flaw, suggests users just buy new routers — D-Link told users to replace NAS last week 2 months ago:
When the users are in control of the software running on their devices then “EOL” is dependent the user community’s willingness to work on it themselves.
- Comment on "What Is Your Dream for Mozilla" - Mozilla is doing a survey, questions include "What is most important to you right now about technology and the internet?" 2 months ago:
Prolong your browser for as long as necessary and explore the possibility of using the internet without any web browsers. Firefox is a last stand of competition and having only Google as an option might as well be a dead market.
Is it wise to have such a complex everything-app with no end in sight? (more like, no end in site)
- Comment on YouTube tests removing viewer counts — here’s what we know 3 months ago:
I doubt that would be the reason for their ban. If it is a creative work then in some countries it’s automatically copyrighted, but it’s not like most would go out of their way to stop it (unlike with like people reacting to other YouTube videos, films, anime, etc).
- Comment on YouTube tests removing viewer counts — here’s what we know 3 months ago:
What type of reaction content? If it wasn’t using the minimum amount of copyrighted material needed to comment or being transformative, and was distributing the majority of a work, then at any point a DMCA will nuke em. Google might not think it’s worth the risk hosting that reaction content forever.
- Comment on Annoyed Redditors tanking Google Search results illustrates perils of AI scrapers | "Spreading misinformation suddenly becomes a noble goal," Redditor says. 3 months ago:
Relying on info gathered from the copying of info without asking is also selfish.
No I don’t think users “agreed to it” because page 165 of 245 of legalese says Reddit owns the posts. If anyone reading does then why not complain about Reddit, not the users.
- Comment on Using AI generated code will make you a bad programmer. 3 months ago:
Just because you are “bad programmer” does not mean you are a bad programmer.
- Comment on Twitch regrets blocked Israel accounts 3 months ago:
The total number of countries on Earth is… depends on who you ask.
- Comment on LG monitor asking about ad tracking preferences 3 months ago:
It’s our hardware so we should be able to select another provider or host our own. Not that I consider ad tracking a “service” unless you count ad-blockers.
- Comment on LG monitor asking about ad tracking preferences 3 months ago:
Later or Agree
No option to “Disagree”A rapist mentality.
