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by cestith 5mo ago
Was it Leninism that was so deadly in the USSR or Stalinism? Stalin was a much different leader with much different politics and philosophies than Lenin and Trotsky. Don’t confuse the Communist party with communism, just like many Libertari
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by cestith 5mo ago
It served the minority in South Africa during apartheid. It did so, of course, by using state power to marginalize the majority. Conservatism becomes more complex than just “small government” when it’s combined with colonialism and racial s
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by cestith 5mo ago
In European terms the moderate right is still well represented in the US - by the leadership of the Democratic Party . The fact that there are a lot of liberals, progressives, and leftists who vote for or even belong to that party doesn’t
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by cestith 5mo ago
The Metaverse wasn’t a great success either, but do you think the motive wasn’t profit? Do you think Meta is a public benefit corporation?
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by cestith 5mo ago
Inequality of some level is perfectly acceptable in the societies being discussed. It’s a real problem, though, when it becomes a crisis of affordability for the median earner. It’s a problem when the ultra wealthy can leverage their fortun
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by cestith 5mo ago
Was it communism that killed people in the Soviet times, or was it authoritarianism? You can have authoritarians no matter your economic structure. They have killed people around the world in the name of communism, capitalism, fascism, race
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by cestith 5mo ago
She is in fact on top of more value in shares than when she started giving away money.
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by cestith 5mo ago
You pirate other people’s works for profit all the time?
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by cestith 5mo ago
It was his decision and he conspired with his employees to do it for profit. The statutory maximum IIRC is around $250k per work, on the criminal enforcement side. If the rights holders can show actual damages greater than that they can sue
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by cestith 5mo ago
I’m one of your upvoters. Just making some notes. It’s good fiction, and most fiction has holes when people in the field involved look closely. That’s not a dig at it. I enjoyed reading it enough to engage.
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by cestith 5mo ago
Why wouldn’t he use an agent to find the weakness? How would he know what language is on the backend of a web service without already having infiltrated the server? If he’s in the NSA, why wouldn’t he just sneak a vulnerability into common
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by cestith 5mo ago
Supply chain attacks will still work. Most people aren’t going to have a custom Node, a custom CPython, or all custom libraries. One can fuzz software without the source for common classes of vulnerabilities. With the same handful of models
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by cestith 5mo ago
I promise you some professional developers mostly get better at figuring out what to copy before pasting. Those folks are going to be fine with having no authorship over the majority of the code they put into their applications. For others,
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by cestith 5mo ago
So LLMs are more like InstaCart or DoorDash.
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by cestith 5mo ago
Go win five Grammys with one album and then you can talk smack about Lauryn Hill.
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by cestith 5mo ago
Here’s a list of albums just from 1998. Mezzanine from Massive Attack, The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill, Big Pun’s Capital Punishment, You’ve Come a Long Way Baby from Fatboy Slim, and Hello Nasty from the Beastie Boys. The K&D Sessions
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by cestith 5mo ago
There are well over a million cPanel/WHM installations in the world.
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by cestith 5mo ago
Plesk is a separate team owned by the same parent company.
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by cestith 5mo ago
You’re running cPanel/WHM in a container?
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by cestith 5mo ago
If you want to talk monoculture… cPanel and Plesk are both owned by WebPros the past several years. There’s your #1 and #2 in the space.
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by cestith 5mo ago
You don’t need CopyFail on these systems if you have this one. This gives you root access to the system through the web interface.
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by cestith 5mo ago
The US dollar being the reserve currency means printing more of it will add to inflation slightly slower than otherwise. It doesn’t mean we can just add trillions or quadrillions of dollars of liquidity to the economy with no added producti
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by cestith 5mo ago
Printing more money will speed inflation.
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by cestith 5mo ago
The US dollar is now also the oil exchange currency, and the US is a major oil producer so harder to squeeze. Remember what else happened in 1973 and 1979?
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by cestith 5mo ago
That was one case in front of one judge. It’s weak precedent if it’s precedent at all. Also, the reasoning behind it being transformative instead of derivative is that the output isn’t supposed to be large, unchanged chunks of the input. Th
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by cestith 5mo ago
Do you suspect that an LLM that would recreate a substantial portion of a licensed work would honor any license? Even a 2-clause BSD one?
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by cestith 5mo ago
Whether or not you’re pirating and making illegal copies of something depends greatly on the terms under which you’re allowed to make those copies. You can copy GPL-licensed code all day every day so long as you abide by the license. The sa
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by cestith 5mo ago
Is GPL a larger share of source out there than BSD, MIT, ISC, CC, BSL, Apache, and source available combined? Enough bigger that it is repeatedly mentioned as a singular issue without so much as the words “or other licenses”?
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by cestith 5mo ago
If the trained LLM spits out large, recognizable portions of licensed code and you use it in your product don’t count on that case to keep you from defending yourself in court. The court found in Bartz v. Anthropic that training was fair us
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by cestith 5mo ago
I find it distasteful and disturbing that copyright infringement by the people training the LLM in violation of a license is considered contamination by the licensed code. It’s not contamination. The code didn’t seep into your codebase. If

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