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by dcow 2y ago
Is it a breaking change?
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by dcow 2y ago
Yes but that doesn't necessarily mean it is lacking the functionality to fully copy metadata. It could mean that openrsync has removed archaic and vestigial options to simplify implementation.
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by dcow 2y ago
> The current documentation of openrsync does not make any guarantee that it can make complete file copies, so by default I assume that it cannot, so for now it is a program that I consider useless. Is it possible this is just a document
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by dcow 2y ago
Choosing “free” in free vs paid is not the same as choosing “none” in none vs paid.
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by dcow 2y ago
So ask for one without a bull whip. Archeologists don’t wield bull whips either.
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by dcow 2y ago
Trademarking your likeness is absurd. How do we even let that happen.
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by dcow 2y ago
Well technically it wouldn’t be piracy once copyright banished. It’d be remixing, appropriation, derivative, etc., all legal. So make copyright like patents. That’s what a lot of the copyleft movement has been arguing for forever. Make a co
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by dcow 2y ago
And surprise movies are a rip off and people have stopped going.
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by dcow 2y ago
I am supportive of private and charity funding. I think we can do it without a focus restricting copying. I think this because there is precedent with any industry that relies on trade secrets. Once I can copy a Coke with a food printer we&
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by dcow 2y ago
Either, (1) LLMs are just super lossy compress/decompress machines and we humans find fascination in the loss that happens at decompression time, at times ascribing creativity and agency to it. Status quo copyright is a concern as we
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by dcow 2y ago
It strikes me that perhaps the prompts are not expansive or expressive enough. If you look at some of the prompts our new wave of prompt artists use to generate images in communities like midjourney, a single sentence doesn't cut it. I
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by dcow 2y ago
If the book is the compiled work, then the source of a book is the author's creative process. And certainly that isn't open to all simply by purchasing the book. But less obtusely: you don't copyright a book--which is why kno
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by dcow 2y ago
We're talking about copyright in this subthread, in the context of AI. I'm not sure how a copyleft slant implies pro-ai, but whatever. There are a lot of reasons to be dubious about AI. But "AI is going to destroy human creat
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by dcow 2y ago
It's not obvious at all! You are citing the only difference that typically comes up. A quesadilla is beyond trivial to reproduce and most people have the ingredients readily available. 3D printers make it trivial to reproduce things
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by dcow 2y ago
I imagine they're licensed--the original creator or their estate had to be looped in to make them happen, and probably financially benefitted.
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by dcow 2y ago
An artist is a small manufacturing facility that produces a physical (canvas, print, mp3, etc) product, no? What is different about the production of Micky Mouse cartoons? Why is it normal for industries to compete in manufacturing of physi
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by dcow 2y ago
Yes, and notably the source recipe can’t be copyrighted. Trade secrets and recipes are not copyrightable. That’s the point. We have entire vastly profitable industries built around protection of trade secrets, with no copyright in play. Com
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by dcow 2y ago
Consider consulting documentation then. A model can help sift through orders of magnitude more literature than you can in the same timeframe.
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by dcow 2y ago
I guess I’m saying that the specific application of stereotypes may be a feature. I don’t think we’ll see a single prevailing winner takes all model, so there is diversity in that respect too. And I think you will even see diversity from a
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by dcow 2y ago
It's a rhetorical example. Suppose you need to create an avatar of your character. Why does it follow that it's not beneficial to have an AI help generate the avatar? You're responding to the specific example, not the gener
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by dcow 2y ago
It’s only a flaw insofar as it’s used in ways in which the property of the tool is problematic. Stereotypes are use for good and bad all the time, let’s not pretend that we have to attack every problem with a funky shaped hammer because we
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by dcow 2y ago
Obviously the former status quo wasn’t that bad . But the opposite is also true, AI democratizes access to pop culture. So now when I connect with a human it’s not to share memes, it’s higher order. IOW we can spend more time playing D&amp
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by dcow 2y ago
> We won't need Disney to give us their opinion on Star Wars - we can make our own. Disney would say that you can’t. And in the current copyright regime, it’s not unlikely that they’d convince the court that they’re right.
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by dcow 2y ago
How do restaurants work, then? You can’t copyright a recipe. Instructions can’t generally be copyrighted, otherwise someone would own the fastest route from A to B and charge every person who used it. The whole idea of intellectual proper
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by dcow 2y ago
You don’t need credit to talk about pop culture. I don’t need to credit the Indian Jones copyright holder when I paint a stunning likeness of Ford in a kaki outfit with a whip, even if the holder might try to sue me over it. Copyright and c
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by dcow 2y ago
On the battery topic I’m curious if you have anything more than anecdotal evidence. A basic full tunnel wg network extension doesn’t affect battery in a noticeable or unacceptable way, in my experience. Is tailscale’s implementation doing m
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by dcow 2y ago
This was true in 2015. It is not true anymore.
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by dcow 2y ago
I quite like the idea of our debts becoming real. Then we can’t live in the dishonest fantasy where we just print money and ignore debt anymore.
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by dcow 2y ago
I wonder if this will result in a reconsideration of the runtime abstraction boundary itself. Right now the runtime umbrella also includes the way you build native menus and work with the system tray. So if you wanted to swap out runtimes,
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by dcow 2y ago
On top of that, the person I want flying more of the same plane is one who’s experienced piloting it during major failure conditions. Instead they retire the experienced guy and put some other fresh hotshot in the seat.

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