tangeli
@tangeli@piefed.social
- Comment on European parliament calls for social media ban on under-16s 6 days ago:
MEPs insist that age assurance systems must be accurate and preserve minors’ privacy
The EU, where War Is Peace, Freedom Is Slavery, Ignorance Is Strength and Surveillance is Privacy.
- Comment on Gmail can read your emails and attachments to train its AI, unless you opt out 1 week ago:
Google can read your emails whether you opt out or not.
- Comment on HP and Dell disable HEVC support built into their laptops’ CPUs 1 week ago:
Is it disabled in hardware, firmware or software? Does Linux enable it?
- Comment on Open Source Power 2 weeks ago:
It’s an interesting article but it seems to me that when it comes to opposing abuse of power, free communication is more fundamental than free software. Without sufficiently free communication, free software is practically unavailable and for many purposes (anything that involves communication with others) it is unusable. Without sufficiently free means of communication, the fediverse will cease to exist. Access to and use of the Internet is increasingly regulated.
- Comment on German court: ChatGPT violated copyright law by ‘learning’ from song lyrics 2 weeks ago:
According to Are Song Lyrics Copyrighted? How the Law Works, unless their use is ‘fair use’ or they have a license, then they are violating copyright, if I understand the article correctly. I believe that site explains laws in the United States. It probably varies somewhat by jurisdiction, so I expect it would depend on who owns the website and where they are based.
- Comment on German court: ChatGPT violated copyright law by ‘learning’ from song lyrics 2 weeks ago:
Is ChatGPT a legal entity competent to violate copyright law? I don’t think that’s likely.
I do think OpenAI violated copyright law by copying song lyrics and other media to use them as input to their LLM systems for commercial benefit. Judging by the valuations of the companies that do not yet have significant income compared to the investments, on the face of it, the IP they copied, often without license, as far as I know, is fantastically valuable.
- Comment on Assign privileged port to caddy running with rootless podman 1 month ago:
I’m not running your configuration so can’t tell you with the assurance that I have it working but Forwarding ports with firewalld appears to address port forwarding to rootless podman using firewalld. If that doesn’t work for you you might need to clarify what your firewalld configuration is that obscures the client IP. I wouldn’t expect a simple port mapping to affect IP address.
- Comment on Western Executives Shaken After Visiting China 1 month ago:
What happened to “A rising tide lifts all boats”?
- Comment on Windows 10 support has ended, but here's how to get an extra year for free 1 month ago:
They may accept the ongoing cost, but that doesn’t make it free. There may be no cash payment, but that doesn’t make it free. Cost comes in many forms. The glib misrepresentation of the transaction is disappointing.
- Comment on Windows 10 support has ended, but here's how to get an extra year for free 1 month ago:
It’s not free.
- Comment on Sam Altman says that bots are making social media feel 'fake' 2 months ago:
Yes, but...
Making social media fake is the intention. It's not a failure.
The failure is that the fraud is noticed: the bots and LLMs are not yet good enough to be undetectable.
The fraud will be perfected when LLMs can be fake without feeling fake. At least until the fraudsters have achieved their objectives. After that, will they care how their victims feel? I guess not.
- Comment on NSW to ban people from appealing if working with children check denied 4 months ago:
and a teacher who was charged but never convicted of sexually abusing a foster child.
What happened to innocent until proven guilty?
- Comment on HP ditches 15-minute wait time policy due to 'feedback' 9 months ago:
People who buy HP products get what they deserve.