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by kmeisthax 2mo ago
There have been cases in which friends or family of Google employees have gotten the Google Death Penalty. In those cases they were internally stonewalled about this for weeks. Google's risk department works like secret police[0] and I
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by kmeisthax 2mo ago
...then how do you maintain an adversarial proceeding? Like, it's a pretty basic part of American law that courts only hear "cases and controversies" - that is to say, you need to have two parties who disagree before judges
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by kmeisthax 2mo ago
No. In fact, Sony had their own version of this that had three generations of media before getting shitcanned. I think it wound up going to something like 300GB discs - which is like 2.5x what consumers can do with BDXLs.
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by kmeisthax 2mo ago
The funny thing is, Rust doesn't quite have a destructive move either . Or, at the very least, it's not exposed to the type system. The Drop trait that tells you if a value of a type T was destroyed can only give you a &mut T
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by kmeisthax 2mo ago
Yes, but at this point the critical piece that made no-GC memory safety possible - linear types - had already been researched and known in the FP community. Rust's critical invention was "what if we modeled heap ownership and borr
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by kmeisthax 2mo ago
There was a point in time in the mid-2000s when P2P networking had briefly made running your own server attractive to end-users again. And then the iPhone came out and completely killed any hope of that becoming the norm. The thing about sm
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by kmeisthax 2mo ago
Between how long it took us to get standard library hardening in C++ and seeing what ISO did to the co-founder of MPEG, I'm convinced ISO is fundamentally incapable of actually being responsive to stakeholders, specifically because of
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by kmeisthax 2mo ago
I don't think I'm ever going to have time to read all of this, and I didn't finish reading the METR report, but... > I don’t think the distortion is that large, but yes METR warns that Sol may be presenting all this as mor
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by kmeisthax 2mo ago
Let's say a magical enviro-fascist cabal of superhumans appears tomorrow and are somehow able to completely dismantle and ban all sources of energy that emit large amounts of CO2 while also somehow providing replacement quantities of n
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by kmeisthax 2mo ago
As I hinted at before, "left" and "right" aren't very well defined and it's easy to confuse one for the other, especially when cultural or national barriers are in the way. But I also do not want to spend parag
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by kmeisthax 2mo ago
Yes. However, there are a lot of attorneys who do not want to take on the risk of representing a small client[0] and advise them to just settle - that's why copyright trolling works. In addition, some platforms have their own parallel
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by kmeisthax 2mo ago
Yes, the Ayatollahs were very notable in using foreign media to provide cover while they turned a liberal revolution into a far-right Islamist one. I believe there was also a few radical feminists who were so pissed off about America they t
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by kmeisthax 2mo ago
> OK, let's go 30 years back and see how many terror attacks, worldwide, were from islamists: it's something like 95% of all terror attacks. Islamism is a far-right ideology. Islamists even collaborate with other flavors of far
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by kmeisthax 2mo ago
Trump wasn't elected on a mandate to govern differently, he was elected because the DNC is a shambling corpse of a party that is paid to lose. Due to some decisions made to protect """free speech""" - spec
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by kmeisthax 2mo ago
The Bitter Lesson says that the only things that scale are search and learning. Stockfish is the best chess search engine we've got, and you can learn some good heuristics for chess search policy that will make time-limited chess searc
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by kmeisthax 2mo ago
> How were they supposed to know about "previously unknown vulnerabilities"? By disabling the models' own internal restrictions (or training without them) OpenAI was, effectively, running an AI malware lab. The standard IT
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by kmeisthax 2mo ago
I was seriously worried the various incompatibilities the M3 bootloader had with Asahi's debugging setup would mean way slower bring-up than M1 and M2 had. Seems like that wasn't the case - or, at least, won't be the case any
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by kmeisthax 2mo ago
...did Bytedance invent another Torment Nexus or was the name a coincidence?
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by kmeisthax 2mo ago
I'm pretty sure[0] they're all using shadow libraries, and saying things in favor of them would increase their liability. Furthermore, every pirate wants to be an admiral. None of the big tech companies are actually in favor of an
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by kmeisthax 2mo ago
> Exempt small-volume sellers and micro-enterprises from cross-border packaging obligations. The threshold would apply only to producers that are below a specific volume of waste and/or a specific yearly turnover. AFAIK this exists
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by kmeisthax 2mo ago
Book publishers have spent the last few decades making a profit off of managing the decline of their entire field of endeavor. Every opportunity to expand the medium was thrown out, and every big fad wound up hurting rather than helping. Fo
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by kmeisthax 2mo ago
Perhaps the scam hasn't jumped cultural / linguistic borders yet. Pig butchering scams used to be almost exclusively targeted at Chinese users until China kicked out the Triads. The Triads then set up slave camps in Myanmar and st
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by kmeisthax 2mo ago
You skipped a step between d) and e) - the stealth reimposition of gatekeepers under the guise of sorting through the crap. On the Internet, this took the form of "recommendation algorithms". The problem with a recommendation algo
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by kmeisthax 2mo ago
> Is it legal? In the US, yes: the Librarian of Congress’s 2024 DMCA exemptions (in effect through October 2027, next rulemaking already underway) cover rooting tablets you own to remove unwanted software. My device, my risk, my API bill
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by kmeisthax 2mo ago
Great, but SynthID watermarking isn't a cryptographically-secure scheme, nor could one be made, because all the things necessary for the scheme to be crypto-secure are also things that go against being human-comprehensible. The SynthID
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by kmeisthax 2mo ago
I specifically meant a tool that shows code diffs for transitive dependencies.
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by kmeisthax 2mo ago
The National Emergency Library stunt definitely provoked action from the publishers in that lawsuit, but they were very clear that they did not accept the premise of Controlled Digital Lending. Furthermore, the judge ruled against the CDL s
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by kmeisthax 2mo ago
I read that as "here's a list of reasons why Anthropic isn't usurping the market for copies of these books" and not "destroying a book makes scanning it legal". Non-destructive book scanning wasn't going t
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by kmeisthax 2mo ago
They didn't say that the Internet Archive wasn't "IP theft" - nor did they say that IP theft was inherently wrong. "AI training is infringement" is not exactly a copyright-maximalist view. The explicit training
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by kmeisthax 2mo ago
No, it doesn't. Copyright doesn't care about copies, it cares about copy ing . If it did care about copies - i.e. the total number of copies in circulation - then ReDigi and the Internet Archive's Controlled Digital Lending (

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