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by eschaton 7mo ago
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by eschaton 7mo ago
You can, in fact, be pursued both civilly and criminally for fraud. Your admissions here are enough that if you tried to contribute to any of my own Open Source projects, I would reject your contributions, and if I had accepted any prior on
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by eschaton 7mo ago
What about IBM i and z/OS, and Stratus VOS, and Burroughs MCP, and Tandem GUARDIAN, and VxWorks and OS-9 and… These all not only still exist but run huge transaction volume (for the mainframe and minicomputer systems) and run a huge am
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by eschaton 7mo ago
If you’re going to lie and say there was no LLM involved, what else are you going to lie about? Copying code from another codebase with incompatible license terms, perhaps? I would say people should be wary of any contributions whatsoever f
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by eschaton 7mo ago
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by eschaton 7mo ago
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by eschaton 7mo ago
It is entirely reasonable for a project to require you to attest that the thing you are contributing is your own work. The unreasonable ones are the ones with the oppositional-defiant “You can’t tell me I can’t use an LLM!” reaction.
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by eschaton 7mo ago
Tell me, how have laws “caught up with” “the [RIAA…] throwing threats around sharing MP3s?” So far as I know that’s still considered copyright infringement and the person doing it, if caught, can be liable for very substantial statutory dam
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by eschaton 7mo ago
“Taint” has been a term of art in Open Source for decades. That you don’t know this reveals your ignorance, not any sort of cleverness. LLMs regurgitate their training data. If they’re generating code, they’re not modeling the syntax of a l
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by eschaton 7mo ago
Indeed, you have to prove that the LLM is generating code from a specification . Right now they don’t do that; what they do is regurgitate portions of their training data based on correlations with input tokens. Put the programmer’s refe
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by eschaton 7mo ago
“Barbarians Led by Bill Gates” is required reading on the matter.
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by eschaton 7mo ago
This is exactly what magnetic flux imaging does, it just uses a regular floppy mechanism with all the risk that entails. If one built a more sensitive head mechanism that floats above the disk, one could (say) load a disk sans envelope&#x
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by eschaton 8mo ago
Are you suggesting this didn’t happen, or that they’re hypocrites for publicizing it while taking Saudi money? Every authoritarian regime does this, and some legitimate non-totalitarian governments do too.
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by eschaton 9mo ago
Oh, is that what MIT’s using these days?
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by eschaton 9mo ago
What, pray tell, would you do for a first assignment in an Operating Systems class at a top-tier school that actually involves making changes to on realistic operating system code?
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by eschaton 9mo ago
Yes and no; kernels aren’t magic, and “change how this kernel is loaded to match how Linux does it” is actually a reasonable first assignment for an Operating Systems class at a top-tier school. (You’re basically just creating an alternativ
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by eschaton 9mo ago
My point is that as long as OpenBSD can boot like Linux, you just have to tell whatever VM front-end you’re using that you’re booting a Linux but give it an OpenBSD kernel and RAM disk. Traditionally BSD has booted very differently than Lin
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by eschaton 9mo ago
It should just be a matter of producing a kernel and, if necessary, RAM disk that can be booted the same way as Linux.
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by eschaton 9mo ago
At least as of the last major macOS release, that will not work, because the PCIe LSI SCSI HBA driver doesn’t have the extra stuff needed to support external PCIe. It’d be a pleasant surprise if Apple implemented that for macOS 26 but I wou
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by eschaton 9mo ago
The SCSI protocol driver on macOS is there mostly for USB devices speaking the enhanced storage protocol and similar use cases. That’s how a USB-SCSI adapter from 1999 actually still works on modern macOS. The PCIe SCSI card driver on mac
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by eschaton 9mo ago
This is what GBSCSI/ZuluSCSI are already.
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by eschaton 9mo ago
They’re not really designed to be adapters in that direction anyway; the more intended use is that you use it to image a drive to a file on an SD card, and then use that file with a GBSCSI or ZuluSCSI going forward.
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by eschaton 9mo ago
GBSCSI and ZuluSCSI support “initiator mode” that can be used to either image an attached SCSI disk to a file on an SD card or provide live access to it over USB as a mass storage device—with better performance than the old USB 1.1 SCSI ada
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by eschaton 9mo ago
By 1992, the Mac had supported color for almost twice as long (5 years) as it had been a monochrome-only system (3 years).
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by eschaton 9mo ago
There’s a huge difference between anti-design bias and calling out Liquid Glass for the garbage human interface design that it is. If anything, it demonstrates a substantial *pro-design* bias because it shows that people actually care about
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by eschaton 9mo ago
The state gets to say what the limits on private property held by people and entities outside its jurisdiction are.
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by eschaton 9mo ago
The US doesn’t believe universal jurisdiction applies to it or its vassal states and proxies , which includes Israel. On the other hand, the US didn’t try to prevent Slobodan Milošević from being tried at The Hague for war crimes and genoc
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by eschaton 9mo ago
It has not, and that’s not what I said. Let me restate: The US position is that the US justice system “works” and thus *US persons and institutions* must be pursued *within the US system* even by foreign entities. In other words, the US pos
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by eschaton 9mo ago
Not quite: The US helped invent that argument, and has used it extensively to pursue its foreign policy goals since World War II. What the US has argued historically is that American people and institutions are not subject to it because t
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by eschaton 9mo ago
Crimes against humanity are subject to universal jurisdiction. A state need not be a member of the ICC to be subject to its (or any other entity’s) jurisdiction in investigating, prosecuting, and adjudicating such crimes.

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