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3mo ago
1. It's unclear whether the online check is done when you tap the oem unlocking option, or it's done asynchronously in the background. If it's the latter, then it doesn't really matter because it'll get unlocked any
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>>> Beethoven is potentially the second-best known world-wide behind Da Vinci >>You mean Europeans? >Jesus isn’t European That's exactly the point?
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Practically speaking none of what you brought up are actually issues because once the phone connects to the internet once, it's unlocked forever, including after relocks/flashing. It's like saying you don't "own&quo
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3mo ago
>What else should they have done? Use an AOSP fork like grapheneos or lineageos. Barring that, voting with their wallets and buying a HarmonyOS phone. If for whatever reason they're doing that too, there's probably more powerfu
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3mo ago
>Not before connecting it to the internet, even Pixels will go through hundreds of megabytes of data before allowing you to unlock them (see 0). What's the problem here? Are you roaming all the time and that imposes a unreasonable c
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3mo ago
I think the sane take here is that if you let loose a coding agent in a project, you should assume it can read everything, because at any point it can issue a read tool command to read arbitrary file. If you want to be selective in what you
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3mo ago
>2) The OpenAI sandbox is such a horrible hack that the AI managed to escape using standard and well documented script kiddie methods. >3) Huggingface has no security and the AI broke in using standard script kiddie methods. Isn'
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>They kept everyone up for hours with food and then let them sleep for about 2 hours before waking people up for arrival at 12pm. Weird, must be airline specific? All the intercontinental flights I've taken recently follows a "
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3mo ago
>And it's also cute when people imply the internet is unregulateable. There are plenty of tools that countries use to regulate internet traffic. They can require ISPs to DPI the traffic and block it. They can MITM traffic. They can
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3mo ago
Right, but also using the cache refreshes/extends it, which means you can pay for a write once, then have it extended for very cheap (1 token).
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3mo ago
The point still stands. The chinese labs don't have super discounted plans, so if the price per task benchmarks[1] are correct, and we apply the discount, you'll actually be paying more by using cheaper chinese models and this tec
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3mo ago
The "hardly use" comparison quickly runs into issues, though. If I use AI and it completes a job that would have taken an hour in 1 minute, should that be counted as a factor against AI, because I'm "hardly" using i
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3mo ago
>that most people hardly use at all Speak for yourself. For "most people", "streaming" is basically TV for them, and the average american watches 2.6 hours per day [1]. It's probably safe to say that at least ha
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3mo ago
>I think it’s massive. So what about the other 3%? That's not "massive"? Or it gets a pass because it's not AI? The whole debate over datacenter resource consumption feels like a rorschach test. Either you think the t
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3mo ago
>- there's no standard metric on "how much do our employees pay on healthcare" (i.e. employee premium contributions, deductibles, copays), "how much time do employees spend on the phone with the insurance company"
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3mo ago
>1. Libraries have used Authors Guild as legal cover to lend out ebooks for paper books that they own And has this been tested in court? After all, you see people uploading tv shows on youtube, then pasting a snippet of fair use in the d
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3mo ago
It's literally in the constitution: > [the United States Congress shall have power] To promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts, by securing for limited Times to Authors and Inventors the exclusive Right to their respective W
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3mo ago
>Is that settled law? I doubt it. That just seems like a cope unless you have actual evidence that the lower/appellate courts have misruled. And no, "I don't like the ruling because [all the reasons AI is bad]" doesn&
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>Internet Archive got the exact opposite outcome in court for doing the exact same thing No, it's not the same thing. Contrary to what many people think, "fair use" isn't something you can invoke to do whatever copyri
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3mo ago
Wait till you hear about Perfect 10, Inc. v. Amazon.com, Inc. (2007) and Authors Guild, Inc. v. Google, Inc. (2015), both of which ruled that lossy and verbatim copies (respectively) are allowed for for-profit use.
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>We will take it, we won't pay for it, and we will use it to replace you and make ourselves rich The whole point of fair use (which courts have so far ruled AI training is) is that you don't have to ask for permission or pay th
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3mo ago
So who is this trying to convince? All of this is bog-standard anti-AI argument that you can find on reddit. It's closer to preaching to the choir than actually trying to convince anyone.
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But nobody really pays the 3x (ie. api) rates, except for enterprises. Everyone else are using the consumption plans, which are heavily discounted[1], possibly cheaper than even the chinese models, which don't do consumption plan disco
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They're probably going for the national security/domestic manufacturing angle. > Aren't consumers benefiting from this practice by getting better cheaper models as a result? Aren't consumers benefiting from cheap chin
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>The three incidents they're referring to involving a Waymo, for reference Article: " cause “way mo” fatal crashes" and "Waymo’s autonomous cars cause crashes that result in serious injuries" In that case the
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>It is split between the publisher and the author, also publishers will have a large catalog of books they will submit, an author typically will only have a few -- the payout will be going to the lawyers and mostly to publishers. This is
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>Creating derivative products you charge for surely can't be considered fair use? All US courts so far have ruled yes.
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>This is such a petty and impotent ruling. If you want to ban them from using culture to make derivative works without proper compensation then do that. That's because the judges are supposed to rule on questions of law (ie. "i
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>Many places don’t respect privacy laws, in certain situations you may be forced to unencrypt your media, or worse, assumed to be guilty. A Veracrypt hidden volume is useful in the former situation, but not the latter. > ... >Due t
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3mo ago
>DeepSeek continues to host v4 Flash at the existing price despite competitors beating it in price ( https://openrouter.ai/deepseek/deepseek-v4-flash ), their competitors are discounted at around 33%, so it's saf
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