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by growse 1y ago
I'm interested in your idea that "merit" is some sort of objective measure. If it works for me but not for you, does it have more merit?
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by growse 1y ago
> Replying to some sibling comments asking why anyone wouldn't want to use systemd. I get why some people don't want to use systemd. That's fine. I really don't understand why this group of people are so passionate ab
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by growse 1y ago
So with the plethora of people who care about progress and its success, and the army of people willing to work on it for a competitive wage, we should be seeing lots of activity on the project, right? > Give me an option to donate direct
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by growse 1y ago
What stuff?
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by growse 1y ago
> Since /64 is smallest network in IPv6 A /64 is not the smallest network in IPv6. Nothing stops you having a /112 or a /126 or whatever you like. It is the only network size on which SLAAC works however, so it's
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by growse 1y ago
> DoH seems to exist mainly to circumvent that control. Hate to break it to you, but if I control the client, then I'm not in any way obligated to use DNS or any other IETF-endorsed protocol to turn names into numbers when I'm
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by growse 1y ago
> It seems disingenuous to suggest that the open sourcing was in bad faith given it happened years and paradigms apart from the closed sourcing, even though I don't agree with the decision either. The problem here is that their acti
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by growse 1y ago
API keys are just Basic Auth wearing a silly hat. There's so many better options than just dumping the secret on the wire.
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by growse 1y ago
> So you don't see how having an automated blackbox that takes copyrighted material as an input and provides a competing alternative that can't be proven to come from the input goes against the idea of copyright protections? Se
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by growse 1y ago
That doesn't mean that all of the output from an LLM trained on GPL code is a derivative work (and therefore GPL'd too).
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by growse 1y ago
> Can we start at "humans are not computers", maybe? Sure. So it stands to reason that "computers" are not bound by human laws. So an LLM that finds a piece of copyright data out there on the internet, downloads it, a
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by growse 1y ago
Personally, as an un-paid OSS maintainer, I chose to go get a job. Other's might choose different paths.
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by growse 1y ago
Ah I see what you mean. Yes, agree. But that's orthogonal to OSS and like you say is a reg issue.
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by growse 1y ago
How is training a model on GPL code and then having it write code any different to having a human read GPL code and then write code? Unless there's a specific copyright claim over a specific piece of code that was copied and published,
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by growse 1y ago
If you solely fund the development of the software, you own the feature backlog . If you can't use that as a competitive advantage, I don't really know what to tell you.
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by growse 1y ago
I disagree with you on a lot, but you're bang on the money here. If you want a business, build a business. One key aspect of building a business is understanding what your IP and trade secrets are, how they affect your bottom line, and
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by growse 1y ago
They can't "copy anything". They can only copy what they're explicitly legally allowed to. Elastic explicitly allowed AWS to copy and use their source code, then whined about it.
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by growse 1y ago
Large companies using their scales to compete is a feature of capitalism, not a bug. AWS only gets to compete using their source code because they opened it in the first place. The competition was explicitly invited.
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by growse 1y ago
The solution to the old problem of "what if someone uses my code to compete with me" is "don't open source your code". This isn't complicated. It's trade secrets 101. I'm being disingenuous though. Of
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by growse 1y ago
This is not a suddenly emerging "gotcha". This risk has always existed. It existed when they chose to open source it in the first place. Time and time again we see the lesson being learned the hard way that "if your busines
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by growse 1y ago
> Someone that has seized control of your core network such that they were capable of modifying traffic, is not going to waste precious time or access modifying the flags of ls on your man page server. They will focus on more valuable th
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by growse 2y ago
Who do you think signs the DNSSEC root?
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Apple removes E2E encryption in the UK(twitter.com)
4 points by growse 2y ago|1 comments
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by growse 2y ago
Someone asked them why they dropped SMS a few years back and got a detailed reply: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33258684 The most compelling bit here for me is RCS. Lots of devices will auto upgrade an SMS chat to R
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by growse 2y ago
I've just remembered the firewall alignment chart, which asserts a view of the world that an excavator is a firewall. https://sh.itjust.works/pictrs/image/421c9549-83ee-487a-9fa0...
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by growse 2y ago
Sure you can, the tradeoff is that you can't reliably do SLAAC (which I agree needs to get deprecated yesterday).
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by growse 2y ago
But this feels tautological. It's been reduced to "If you want to use NAT with features that only a firewall gives you, then that forces you to use a firewall". I suspect when people talk about "NAT" in the context
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by growse 2y ago
Not by allocated IP address count.
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by growse 2y ago
Home networks don't usually have the problem of having to suddenly merge together with another, similarly-addressed network. Nothing stops you getting a subnet allocated from your local RIR and announcing that on the internet, if you c
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by growse 2y ago
Yeah, that one's a bit silly.

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