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by fartcannon 4y ago
That's all it is. You're familiar with Mac environments. Great. End of (useful) discussion.
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by fartcannon 4y ago
What if they went the other way, reduced the price and lowered restrictions to the point where, in a world with numerous alternatives, people keep their service simply because it's inexpensive? Because what they're doing now isn&#
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by fartcannon 4y ago
They ARE doing it, you just don't think it's effective. If you can do better, do it! If you can't, or don't want to, well, ... we reap what we sow. There's no reason to throw the baby out with the bathwater.
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by fartcannon 4y ago
Yes, thank you for elaborating, but I did understand their point. The issue is that OP hasn't thought far enough ahead (or doesn't care) and as a result, as GP and myself have now said, a situation where you reap what you sow occu
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by fartcannon 4y ago
You kind of have a baby/bathwater situation, eh? You'd throw the baby out just because the bathwater has a lot of evangelists you personally find unpleasant to communicate with. Doesn't seem to matter that they're fighti
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by fartcannon 4y ago
Over here we call this premium the Canada Tax. Prepare for it never to go away no matter what the Euro does.
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by fartcannon 4y ago
Given the power dynamic between a single customer and large corporations, the smart thing to do is to assume malice until prove otherwise. This puts the onus on the corporations and, if we're lucky, creates an environment where they co
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by fartcannon 4y ago
Authorship attribution AI's
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by fartcannon 4y ago
I think we'll only lose in the way we 'lost' the open source code war. In that, it won't be as shiny at first, but we'll slowly take over the mindshare. Our stuff will always be better because of the freedom it prov
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by fartcannon 4y ago
Agree. Same with places like github.
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by fartcannon 4y ago
My employer is taking notes.
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by fartcannon 4y ago
Godot is a beautiful project. It's open, it's fun, it's a tiny package. To the devs who work on it, thank you. You make the world a better place.
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by fartcannon 4y ago
Great, now give me the options to fully open it up.
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by fartcannon 4y ago
I think you might have read a little too much of your own politics into that question. Supporting abortion rights doesn't mean killing babies.
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by fartcannon 4y ago
This is a pretty common Microsoft move. Let's them pretend to be good guys for basically no effort, while frustrating anyone who isn't using Microsoft stuff. It's to encourage people on the fence to jump ship.
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by fartcannon 4y ago
They've admitted to gaming Hackernews in the past. Nothing is sacred to them. Their 45 plus year reputation as a shitty company is their own fault. Your friends don't need to work for Microsoft. They made their choice.
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by fartcannon 4y ago
To explain, you'd need to know the truth, which you don't. So you're just assuming they're innocent when history has proven time and time again that Microsoft is an active troll/bad actor.
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by fartcannon 4y ago
It's amazing, eh, how people will actively defend a company like Microsoft as if they're friends. They think it's fair to treat them with the same level of forgiveness and fairness you'd treat a colleague. Corporations b
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by fartcannon 4y ago
Just because it hasn't been tested in court yet doesn't mean it's legal, my friend. It's an easy fix. Ask each dev for permission or provide attribution as per each license when the same code comes out of the model. Easy
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by fartcannon 4y ago
Can this search be used to find the code github is laundering through copilot?
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by fartcannon 4y ago
Unfortunately, they're not since it barfs out code verbatim sometimes and gives no attribution. So again, they can say whatever they want, it doesn't make it so.
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by fartcannon 4y ago
Just saying what you want to be true, doesn't make it so. Attribution is required for all licenses that require it. Microsoft is laundering intellectual property.
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by fartcannon 4y ago
A lot of open source licenses require numerous things including attribution, at the very least. So when copilot barfs out someones code verbatim, or nearly verbatim, after having memorized that code and it doesn't say who it's ref
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by fartcannon 4y ago
The loss of attribution, for example, is going to become an issue. Especially since copilot barfs out code chunks verbatim at times. And either way, it's time to yet again to step around Microsoft's interference in the beautiful w
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by fartcannon 4y ago
I think that's probably why its been posted here.. Some schadenfreude.
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by fartcannon 4y ago
That's now the second time you've disparaged me. I think you're wrong and now I also think you're a jerk.
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by fartcannon 4y ago
Dang, I was hoping you or someone could help. Anyways thanks for participating in the discussion none the less.
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by fartcannon 4y ago
Hey, does your website accountkiller work for HN? They seem to be rather strict about their accounts.
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by fartcannon 4y ago
My license says something along the lines of "This is totally free, except for use by Microsoft and Github in anything they develop or sell." So, where does it say they can use my IP?
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by fartcannon 4y ago
Yes it's required, at no point did any license I assign my code give them permission to sell my IP as a part of copilot.

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