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- Comment on Why does this website feel like the end of FOSS? 5 days ago:
The terms of use link goes nowhere, so I honestly don’t know.
But I feel like it doesn’t matter whether it is, for the sake of discussing where gen AI seems to be leading FOSS…
- Comment on Why does this website feel like the end of FOSS? 5 days ago:
Yeah, I find it scary how many projects embrace gen AI despite all the training data controversies. I’ve tried to convince some not to, but even the Linux kernel appears to be using it now. It’s sad.
- Comment on Why does this website feel like the end of FOSS? 5 days ago:
I suppose, but then the training data plagiarism moral question remains. Rate seems to be like 2-5% for what they can pin down: dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3543507.3583199 I’m guessing that means the hidden actual rate might be higher… and there are the high profile incidents.
- Comment on Why does this website feel like the end of FOSS? 5 days ago:
I assumed it was real because people seem to be doing this for real: theregister.com/…/ai_kills_software_licensing/
And outside of that, all the gen AI coders seem to be ignoring that apparently AI is plagiarizing training data too. And it seems to happen randomly and unpredictably even for who you would think are expert users, Microslop themselves: pcgamer.com/…/microsoft-uses-plagiarized-ai-slop-…
- Comment on Why does this website feel like the end of FOSS? 5 days ago:
Seems like it might be satire after all: malus.sh/blog.html Will update my post in a second. But the trend seems to be real, with others discussing the effects on the GPL too: writings.hongminhee.org/…/legal-vs-legitimate/
- Comment on Why does this website feel like the end of FOSS? 5 days ago:
Yeah, or the leaked Windows XP source code. Every day any gen AI code use feels more to me like license laundering, if anything then of the t raining data. And I mean this purely as a gut feeling, I have no idea what a court would say but it feels wrong.
- Comment on Why does this website feel like the end of FOSS? 5 days ago:
It means “I am not a lawyer”, which I really am not 🥺
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- Comment on Southern California air board rejected pollution rules after AI-generated flood of comments 2 weeks ago:
It is shocking that this (apparently???) doesn’t seem to be illegal.
- Comment on AI is the digital equivalent of an atom bomb. You can refuse it but you can't prevent others from using it... and there may be dire consequences if only the worst people have it. 3 weeks ago:
AGI talk seems for now to be merely hype to get investors.
LLMs seem likely to be dead end for any logical thought: forbes.com/…/intelligence-illusion-what-apples-ai… This means at the end of the day you just get a sloppy illusion with no useful coherence as soon as it exceeds the complexity of a literal lazy copy&paste job: fortune.com/…/mit-report-95-percent-generative-ai…
There is currently no technological innovation to fix this. Instead, AI progress seems to be stalling: futurism.com/…/experts-concerned-ai-progress-wall
- Comment on AI is the digital equivalent of an atom bomb. You can refuse it but you can't prevent others from using it... and there may be dire consequences if only the worst people have it. 3 weeks ago:
LLMs are proven to be a dead end for any logical thought: forbes.com/…/intelligence-illusion-what-apples-ai… This means at the end of the day you just get a sloppy illusion with no useful coherence as soon as it exceeds the complexity of a literal lazy copy&paste job: fortune.com/…/mit-report-95-percent-generative-ai…
There is currently no technological innovation to fix this. Instead, AI progress seems to be stalling: futurism.com/…/experts-concerned-ai-progress-wall
Therefore, it’s not naive to assume it may go nowhere until proven otherwise.
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It’s so good. www.youtube.com/watch?v=3400S4qMH6o
- Comment on At one time, a man seeing a female's naked knee was equivalent to a man seeing a female's breast today. 3 weeks ago:
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- Comment on 'What a great way to kill your community': Discord users are furious about its new age verification checks — and are now hunting for alternatives 5 weeks ago:
I disagree TPM is a good candidate.
- Comment on 'What a great way to kill your community': Discord users are furious about its new age verification checks — and are now hunting for alternatives 5 weeks ago:
Here are my sources:
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pluralistic.net/2025/08/14/bellovin/ (I don’t agree with every bit of that article.)
In practice, the security and privacy guarantees of the CL protocol require two different kinds of wholly independent institutions: identity providers (who verify your documents), and certificate authorities (who issue cryptographic certificates based on those documents). If these two functions take place under one roof, the privacy guarantees of the system immediately evaporate.
(“CL” seems to refer to a common zero knowledge proof algorithm.)
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github.com/…/architecture-and-technical-specifica…
Technical Requirements: An Age Verification App shall support the following: […] Request from the operating system a tamper-evident attestation of AVI properties
(As far as I know, they mean device attestation with this where you no longer own your device.)
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github.com/eu-digital-identity-wallet/…/20
The EUDI Wallet team is participating in a wider, EU-wide collective sleepwalk into a serious trap: You, along with the entire EU Digital-Identity movement, are hard-wiring the EU’s civic governance to Apple and Google’s hardware and software stack.
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github.com/eu-digital-identity-wallet/…/15
Requires accepting “Terms of Service” to access basic functions of being a citizen. Your demo video shows you requiring accepting “Terms of Service” and “Data Protection Information” which I guess should really be “Privacy Policy”.
What are your sources?
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- Comment on 'What a great way to kill your community': Discord users are furious about its new age verification checks — and are now hunting for alternatives 5 weeks ago:
I am referring to the EU Wallet age verification app: github.com/…/av-app-android-wallet-ui/ Sorry that I forgot to link it.
And just because it might beat PostIdent, doesn’t mean it’s sane to give up online anonymity for age checks everywhere. The EU claims the wallet will allow anonymous age checks, but if they ever tracked you, pretty sure you wouldn’t know.
- Comment on 'What a great way to kill your community': Discord users are furious about its new age verification checks — and are now hunting for alternatives 5 weeks ago:
Sorry if I misread your post, but hopefully this comment of mine is relevant:
In my humble opinion, the digital wallet is horrible, because as far as I can tell 1. it requires Google device attestation so all custom ROMs are out and to be a citizen you can apparently no longer own your device, 2. unless you use iOS or Android you’re apparently not a citizen, 3. once everyone is used to using some citizen app like that, I feel like a fascist government could easily tie it to a social score or other authoritarian measures bewyond the age verification. 4. There is a privacy friendly alternative approach for age verification anyway, that most governments seem to conveniently be ignoring: politico.com/…/california-law-online-age-checks-0…
Also see here on the EU apaprently trying to make this mandatory: leminal.space/post/31858818/21120139
- Comment on 'What a great way to kill your community': Discord users are furious about its new age verification checks — and are now hunting for alternatives 5 weeks ago:
The EU has apparently decided that this has to be done by July 2026, so Discord may not have much of a choice and other platforms will likely follow:
I could be wrong I’m not a lawyer, assume everything I write from here is bullshit, but see here:
mlex.com/…/online-services-get-up-to-12-months-to… “Online services get up to 12 months to apply age verification, EU guidelines say” This was in July 2025.
EU guidelines in question seem to be: …europa.eu/…/commission-publishes-guidelines-prot… + ec.europa.eu/newsroom/dae/redirection/…/118226 Quotes:
“[…] the Union legislature enacted Article 28 of Regulation (EU) 2022/2065 of the European Parliament and the Council (6). Paragraph 1 of this provision obliges providers of online platforms […] to ensure a high level of privacy, safety, and security of minors, […]”
“Self-declaration is not considered to be an appropriate age-assurance measure as further explained below.”
“In the following circumstances, […] the Commission considers the use of access restrictions supported by age verification methods an appropriate and proportionate measure to ensure a high level of privacy, safety, and security of minors: […] an online platform accessible to minors has identified risks to minors’ privacy, safety, or security, including content, conduct and consumer risks as well as contact risks (e.g., arising from features such as live chat, image/video sharing, anonymous messaging)”
“Age estimation methods can complement age verification technologies and can be used in addition to the former,” (AKA the alternative to a literal gov ID check seems to be big data AI sucking up all user data to estimate user age.)
The in my opinion horrible solution the EU seems to have found to avoid sharing the physical ID for services that don’t want to request one, is apparently this app: github.com/…/av-app-android-wallet-ui Which from what I can tell 1. it requires Google device attestation so all custom ROMs are out and to be a citizen you can apparently no longer own your device, 2. unless you use iOS or Android you’re apparently not a citizen, 3. once everyone is used to using some citizen app like that, I feel like a fascist government could easily tie it to a social score or other authoritarian measures bewyond the age verification. 4. There is a privacy friendly alternative approach anyway, that most governments seem to conveniently be ignoring: politico.com/…/california-law-online-age-checks-0…
Anyway, I’m not a lawyer and this isn’t legal advice. But spread the word, somehow press seems to be ignoring this.
- Comment on Microsoft’s $440 billion wipeout, and investors angry about OpenAI’s debt, explained 1 month ago:
economictimes.indiatimes.com/…/127780471.cms This isn’t investment advice, I just thought this might be interesting to read!
- Comment on Campaigners urge EU to mandate 15 years of OS updates 5 months ago:
I continue to believe the risk is real and that it’s documented on the issue I initially linked, as well as the quote I gave above. You’re free to disagree.
- Comment on Campaigners urge EU to mandate 15 years of OS updates 5 months ago:
I will stop discussing since suddenly this is about “normal” and “abnormal” donations, and I don’t think we’re having a clear-headed debate here. Donations can apparently trigger the EU CRA, is all that I said.
- Comment on Campaigners urge EU to mandate 15 years of OS updates 5 months ago:
Did you actually read the quote I gave? I’m honestly confused.
- Comment on Campaigners urge EU to mandate 15 years of OS updates 5 months ago:
eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/HTML/?uri=…
Supply in the course of a commercial activity might be characterised not only by charging a price for a product with digital elements, but also by charging a price for technical support services where this does not serve only the recuperation of actual costs, by an intention to monetise, for instance by providing a software platform through which the manufacturer monetises other services, by requiring as a condition for use the processing of personal data for reasons other than exclusively for improving the security, compatibility or interoperability of the software, or by accepting donations exceeding the costs associated with the design, development and provision of a product with digital elements
TL;DR, just donations can already be a problem.
- Comment on Campaigners urge EU to mandate 15 years of OS updates 5 months ago:
As far as I understand, the license doesn’t matter for EU regulation.
- Comment on Campaigners urge EU to mandate 15 years of OS updates 5 months ago:
If you read the post in detail, it should answer your questions. The “owner” always exists and is typically the maintainer, if in doubt that’s the person with repository write access.
- Comment on Campaigners urge EU to mandate 15 years of OS updates 5 months ago:
The EU has been so far bad at making sure FOSS isn’t seen as a paid product for regulation, even in cases where it’s clearly unpaid, see here. They can’t be trusted to get this differentiation right.
Therefore, unlockable bootloader seems like the better idea. Get people to Linux and open Android variants if the closed-source companies won’t serve them.
- Comment on Humans can't consent to reading. 6 months ago:
how does this work as well as it does 😭 😭 😭
- Comment on Why using ChatGPT is not bad for the environment 7 months ago:
Many of us dislike all the things you listed, including AI.
- Comment on Why using ChatGPT is not bad for the environment 7 months ago:
I think most people would argue 1-3% of datacenter use is still a significant global pollution factor that is a problem.
