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by bawolff 4mo ago
I'm not sure i think those situations are comparable. If a rust func is taking an Option<t>, its essentially advertising that it can handle None values. That feels quite a bit different from giving a c function a null pointer and
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by bawolff 4mo ago
Nobody said doing it yourself was neccesarily easy. Its just an option that is there.
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by bawolff 4mo ago
> More like putting a sign on the package saying “If you stole this package, please kill yourself”. If someone steals the package and kills themself, it’s on them. Contrary to popular belief, AI's aren't seintient and they don&
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by bawolff 4mo ago
How did they violate the license? Jqwik is under the eclipse license. Seems like AI usage is allowed by that license. > Just like those taint chips in clothing stores only screw with people who steal clothes. If we are going to extend th
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by bawolff 4mo ago
What did the AI actually do? Because `rm -rf .` is not something git can help you with.
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by bawolff 4mo ago
When we are talking about one of the most used pieces of software in the world, there is always things to do.
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by bawolff 4mo ago
> And it surprises - and saddens - me that not even friggin curl has the financial muscles to have somebody on-call for one month... Is it that they can't or don't want to. I'm sure curl is popular enough that it could att
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by bawolff 4mo ago
> Especially since it appears there is a solution if you truly need a fix. If you ever really need anything fixed in the open source world, there is always the option of doing it yourself
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by bawolff 4mo ago
> restic/borg is not a backup application because you backup to a folder in the same directory called `.git`... doesn't sound right does it? It does sound right. Obviously the world isn't black and white, and whether somet
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by bawolff 4mo ago
> if we ignore the requests of humans who create new, useful things The author of this tool consented when he choose a license that allowed such things. If he wasn't ok with it he should have chosen a different license. Intentionall
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by bawolff 4mo ago
> They can license the code for use under almost any terms they like, including restricting how you use the code. The open source definition requires no discrimination against fields of endeavour. If you place restrictions like this in t
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by bawolff 4mo ago
This has the same energy as, technically officer, i didn't shoot him, i just aimed at him and pulled the trigger. After that point the bullet just did its thing. Go blame the bullet. When it comes to responsibility, usually we consider
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by bawolff 4mo ago
> So when are we nixing Widevine, EasyAC, carrier locks on phones, and TEEs that the user can't look into? Contrary to popular belief, most users want those sorts of things or the things they enable.
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by bawolff 4mo ago
The backup part of that is that you are sending a copy of your code to a separate server (github). It has nothing to do with git. Making a copy on a separate server would still be a backup even if you weren't using git. Using git with
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by bawolff 4mo ago
I feel like there is a line somewhere here. Just because you dont like someone or what they are doing doesn't mean its ok to intentionally screw with them.
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by bawolff 4mo ago
I feel like LLMs kind of speak to making things be average. For half the population that is a step up, but for the other half that is a step down.
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by bawolff 4mo ago
However their argument essentially amounts to: nothing is unique to earth, therefore conciousness isn't. This feels deeply unsatisfying to me, because the argument is not specific to conciousness so it doesn't tell us anything abo
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by bawolff 4mo ago
But its also pretty hard to observe in others, which makes it hard to come up with a satisfying definition. Without a concrete definition, you can't really do science with it.
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by bawolff 4mo ago
Reading the paper, this seems kind of silly. The argument essentially is. The universe is really big. It would be weird if we were the only thing alive in it, so probably there are other life forms out there. Given enough of them probably s
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by bawolff 4mo ago
Unless you are talking about a Burqa, i think that is not true.
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by bawolff 4mo ago
And what if upstream is problematic? Even if it stops this particular attack, reading just the AUR file feels like fighting yesterday's war. I don't think advice to the effect of, just read the parts of the code that have been use
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by bawolff 4mo ago
> Yes, and people will sit there and sip tea while waiting for "someone"? For how long? Until someone cares enough to do it. This is open source software. When it comes to open source, the golden rule is you either do the thing
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by bawolff 4mo ago
> Ok but who is going to sift through it all to triage the good bits when you're working on something for free? Its like anything else in open source. Maintainers will do so if they care. Maybe they decide they don't care. That
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by bawolff 4mo ago
Is this legal? Seems pretty arbitrary. Its not like usa forbids selling pentesting services to foreigners.
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by bawolff 4mo ago
There is a huge difference between the company founder saying something like that and the us government saying so. "Our product is so good the US had to make it illegal for foreigners" is a hell of a marketing slogan.
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by bawolff 4mo ago
> nearly inexhaustible supply of LLM slop daily, Actual well written vulnerability reports are not the same as slop. AI slop is a real problem and annoying. Just because it exists does not mean every vulnerability report is AI slop. Ffmp
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by bawolff 4mo ago
I think the internet is the real problem. Infinite choices, and sites designed specificly to keep you hooked. I feel like addictivity falls a lot when you are stuck with just offline things.
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by bawolff 4mo ago
As far as i know, wikilambda isn't really based around the mediawiki template system. And the mediawiki ecosystem itself is turning away from complex wiki syntax templates to lua based templates. Regardless i do agree with you though.
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by bawolff 4mo ago
People have been gamifying war since prehistoric times. Most traditional sports are basically practise for war. While we have moved past it in the last few decades, most toys for boys are war based (tin soldiers aren't being used to ac
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by bawolff 4mo ago
> involving fully autonomous drones set to destroy anything in a given area, with confirmed casualties I mean, is that really different than a heat seeking misile at the end of the day? If its set to kill everything in the area, its not

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