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by gpm 1y ago
I'm all for applying the principle of charity when it comes to "someone just heard of this and that was their first idea", and even with "there are maybe some responsible use cases involving driving". But the blue f
932.
by gpm 1y ago
"Don't anthropomorphize the founder, they're just responding to market pressures" is not the defense that you think it is. For the same reason you don't want to do business with Oracle (see the great rant from which
933.
by gpm 1y ago
> Someone should tell nvidia that To be fair from what I hear someone really should tell at least half of nvidia that.
934.
by gpm 1y ago
I've been unable to connect Orca Slicer to my A1 mini over LAN and I'm led to believe that as a result of that firmware update it is impossible. It's possible something else went wrong and I just gave up because of a misunder
935.
by gpm 1y ago
In principle https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liquid_democracy is an interesting idea to address this sort of issue.
936.
by gpm 1y ago
It's funny how you're proposing this in bad faith as a terrible idea having tried to think of the worst place you could possibly put these things. And yet we've done it, and everyone around it likes it: https://en.
937.
by gpm 1y ago
WPE says they use WordPress unmodified from the upstream source (which they contriubte(d)) to. The AGPL would not have changed anything in this dispute.
938.
by gpm 1y ago
It's been almost a year, I'm curious if there's been any serious discussions about settling this case (e.g. a proposal both sides were actually actively considering/negotiating)?
939.
by gpm 1y ago
As one of the people being highly critical of Matt in this thread, I actually mildly agree with this. The CFAA interpreted broadly is a terrifyingly overbroad law, and while I don't approve of the conduct of seizing the plugin (and cou
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by gpm 1y ago
I don't agree that WPE's behavior was shitty (as already discussed), let alone "equally" shitty. Even if I did though, so what? Two wrongs don't make a right. Shitty behavior doesn't justify someone else's
941.
by gpm 1y ago
By WPE - I don't think anyone has even claimed that informally - since they don't distribute software and WordPress is GPL not AGPL it would be hard to. Moreover they (according to themselves) use an unmodified version of WordPres
942.
by gpm 1y ago
If we're listing them in detail personally I think one of the most offensive (though least commercially relevant) offenses was to attempt to use public resources, the trademark owned by a 501c3 charity, fraudulently transferred back to
943.
by gpm 1y ago
WordPress is GPL - the GPL, like all "Open Source" (using OSI's definition) licenses enables commercial use, and that is a subset of one of the FSF's core principles (The freedom to run the program as you wish, for any p
944.
by gpm 1y ago
No amount of altruism or engineering work entitles you to lie/cheat/extort/defame/... When you publish something under an open source license, you entitle the rest of the world to use it to get rich. That's what the
945.
by gpm 1y ago
I agree, but note that the "computer hacking" (1030(a)(5)) CFAA claim survived, outright. Only the extortion (1030(a)(7)) CFAA claim was dismissed, and it was dismissed with leave to amend.
946.
by gpm 1y ago
Just the claims where dismissal was outright denied are also potentially (up to judge and jury at later stages) enough for some pretty devastating damages... I second that this was a loss for Matt. It wasn't even "a draw" whe
947.
by gpm 1y ago
That's greater uptime than your average coal (85%), nuclear (91%) or gas (95%) power plants... https://www.nrdc.org/bio/rachel-fakhry/myth-247365-power-pla... This, like normal power plant outages, is fine be
948.
by gpm 1y ago
Yeah, I'm just arguing that "baseload" should be understood to be a bad thing in my comment above. If you want to argue that nuclear is affordable as non-baseload power, because the (non-economic) cost to the environment of t
949.
by gpm 1y ago
> Renewables make the net-demand curve (demand - renewable generation) very lumpy which generally favors dispatchable (peaker plants, batteries, etc.) generation over baseload. Even without renewables in the equation, the demand side of
950.
by gpm 1y ago
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/south-korea-nationals-r... > South Korean officials originally hoped the Korean Air plane would leave Atlanta as early as Wednesday afternoon local time, shortly after it ar
951.
by gpm 1y ago
No - there is no due process or criminal charges at play here. The government detained them per immigration law in order to deport them, for the sake of argument lawfully. The government arranged to repatriate them. Then in order to attempt
952.
by gpm 1y ago
There's definitely a dispute over whether at least some of the people detained were operating within the bounds of their visa's: https://www.reuters.com/business/retail-consumer/lawyer-says... It's
953.
by gpm 1y ago
> Fair use is what is called an affirmative defense Yes > it means that yes what I did was technically a violation but is forgiven Not at all. All "affirmative defence" means is that procedural the burden is on me to establ
954.
by gpm 1y ago
The settlement doesn't set any kind of precedent at all. The existing ruling in the case establish "persuasive" (i.e. future cases are entirely free to disagree and rule to the contrary) precedent - notably including the part
955.
by gpm 1y ago
Just a FYI that it's closer to $6750 (Anthropic pays $9000, but 25% is likely to go to the attorneys - the exact number here is up to the court). Can't help but feel the reporting about $3000/work is going to leave a lot of a
956.
by gpm 1y ago
Baseload is quite irrelevant, because baseload also doesn't supply those critical needs. "Baseload" is by definition power production that can't follow the demand curve, and thus can't provide the power to keep the
957.
by gpm 1y ago
> The other party has to accept a settlement, not the judge. Not to defend the absurd statement about a bribe, but with regards to the $1.5 billion dollar settlement this isn't quite true. Because it's a class action the judge
958.
by gpm 1y ago
Anthropic paid $3000USD per work because they pirated works and US copyright law comes with statutory damages completely unrelated to the amount it would have cost to acquire the same thing legally. The same thing, legally, according to the
959.
by gpm 1y ago
There's some small wind generation (e.g. designed to go on top of buildings), though I don't think it's ever been a significant commercial success.
960.
by gpm 1y ago
Why do you say that? I can't say I'm an expert on the matter, but my understanding from industry reporting on some likely intentional ones in the Baltic where that they were still unambiguously done with anchors. Just by someone i

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