Ajedi32

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by Ajedi32 6mo ago
They're essentially saying "yes, the code is open source, but you're not allowed to modify it or we'll ban you and threaten you with legal action", which is completely antithetical to the whole idea behind open sour
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by Ajedi32 6mo ago
> Bots are slowly taking over in forums where they previously would have been immediately spotted and banned. Failed to mention this but part of the reason for this is that even after getting past CAPTCHA and creating an account, spam bo
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by Ajedi32 6mo ago
> they have a choice: stricter annoying rules with fewer victims, or looser rules with more victims? Yep, there's a reason freedom vs safety (or libertarianism vs authoritarianism) is an axis on many political spectrum charts. This
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by Ajedi32 6mo ago
I disagree. Bots have always been an issue, but now every form of CAPTCHA that can be solved by a human can also be solved by a multi-modal language model. Bots are slowly taking over in forums where they previously would have been immediat
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by Ajedi32 6mo ago
If they're providing content-neutral infrastructure I don't see why it matters whether that infrastructure technically counts as a network or not...
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by Ajedi32 6mo ago
> how does the service you’re using know your passkey is secure That's my business, not theirs. If my password gets stolen, that's my problem, not my bank's. Same deal if my passkey gets stolen. They're welcome to try
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by Ajedi32 6mo ago
Right, this doesn't work in sovereign nations, only in federalism where there's a federal government that can guarantee some minimal set of freedoms to everyone (like the freedom to move to another state without impediment). Other
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by Ajedi32 6mo ago
Fair point, though I still think it's a pretty good backstop if the worst thing a tyrannical government can do to you is force you to move 100 miles.
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by Ajedi32 6mo ago
> But how can you trust Google to autoinstall one on your machine Why are AI models something I'd be uniquely unable to trust Google to install, compared all the other code included in Chrome updates? Is your point just that you sho
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by Ajedi32 6mo ago
Yep. In short, this is an oil shortage, not a gas station shortage.
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by Ajedi32 6mo ago
> which makes them irresponsible owners because they do not face consequences when the moves fail Again, isn't that entirely the bank's problem? They're responsible for the debt if the company can't pay it, right? I a
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by Ajedi32 6mo ago
The question I'm asking is: what problem? If a bank takes a risk and that risk doesn't pay off how exactly is that society's problem? And yes, I do think laws should be based on consistent principles. I'm surprised you c
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by Ajedi32 6mo ago
Fair point, it's a corporation taking out the loan so there's nobody to go after if the company goes under the way there is if the value of your house tanks and you stop paying your mortgage. But doesn't the bank take that ri
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by Ajedi32 6mo ago
In a free market "scarcity with a low price" is a contradiction. If there's scarcity the prices will be high, not low. And nobody's going to be reducing production if the prices are high. > instability of oil producti
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by Ajedi32 6mo ago
> Too low and players start losing money Only the non-competitive ones. That's how competition works. OPEC would be deemed an illegal anti-consumer price fixing scheme under the laws of any country with even the most basic of anti-t
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by Ajedi32 6mo ago
Usually only after they stop being democracies. It's rather difficult to repress people who can fire you if they don't like the job you're doing. But in principle I agree, democracy on its own doesn't guarantee morality.
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by Ajedi32 6mo ago
Nice theory, but it seems demonstrably untrue to me. Has China made any major strides in civil rights since their economic miracle? They seem as determined to stamp out the few remaining bastions of civil rights in their corner of the world
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by Ajedi32 6mo ago
Exactly. Unfortunately, "arguably better" doesn't always turn out to be "actually better" once you have the benefit of hindsight.
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by Ajedi32 6mo ago
Yeah I would refine that argument a bit and say the US will sometimes support (or rather, ally with) dictators when the only viable alternative is an arguably worse dictator. There aren't exactly a lot of democracies in the middle east
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by Ajedi32 6mo ago
Of course ~nobody wants low-effort "I pasted a one-line prompt into Suno and got this out" in their feed. If they did they'd be listening on Suno and not Spotify. The problem is there's no objective , let alone automate
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by Ajedi32 6mo ago
In that context it seems like "specialized" means "not commercially available", no?
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by Ajedi32 6mo ago
At the end of the day, copyright is a government-enforced monopoly. Crushing competition is literally the point. Cases like this though make a good argument for copyright reform in my opinion. Video games probably don't need as long a
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by Ajedi32 6mo ago
Update: Deleting C:\Programdata\Backblaze\bzdata\bzexcluderules_mandatory.xml resolved the problem for me. Seems like at one point[1] they started excluding .git directories by default, got a bunch of backlash, reverted that change, but nev
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by Ajedi32 6mo ago
Deleting C:\Programdata\Backblaze\bzdata\bzexcluderules_mandatory.xml resolve the problem for me. Seems like at one point[1] they started excluding .git directories by default, got a bunch of backlash, reverted that change, but never change
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by Ajedi32 6mo ago
> For this to work everything would have to be locked down right? No. As long as the focus is on giving parents tools to parent their kids and not on the government taking over that responsibility completely then there's no need f
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by Ajedi32 6mo ago
Ah, I see your point. I could see a way to interpret the language in the bill to mean exactly what I was thinking[1], but it's pretty vague and I could also see a way to interpret it that would seriously hurt privacy. If it's just
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by Ajedi32 6mo ago
Given how broadly the commerce clause has been interpreted I don't think we can rely on that to save us here. Criminalizing Bob publishing his OS on GitHub is still too authoritarian for my liking. Just off the top of my head, somethin
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by Ajedi32 6mo ago
Based on the few snippets quoted in the article, I think as written this bill gets closer to a good, privacy-preserving, non-authoritarian version of "age verification" than any of the attempts so far. What it seems to be aiming
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by Ajedi32 6mo ago
Well there's this which goes back to 1967: https://www.census.gov/library/visualizations/2025/demo/p60-... I'm having trouble finding the raw data though. In any case I'm not seeing any bi
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by Ajedi32 6mo ago
Where are you sourcing that data from? The graph I linked using data from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics doesn't go back that far, so comparing to 1970 would not be possible.

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