nostril

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by nostril 3y ago
This is exactly what I was hoping for. Thanks. I wish there was some way for us to keep in touch. There are a few things I was hoping for some thoughts on, and most of the people here don't have emails in their profiles.
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by nostril 3y ago
smspva is perfect. Thanks! Do you know of one for gift cards? Particularly ones that could be used to pay for services like server rental or Tarsnap.
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by nostril 3y ago
> What's your game? Are you profiting enough to make sense - financially-wise - to break the law? Not at all. Hosting costs $130/mo, and I feel the sting each month. I'm not sure we'll even get enough donations to cov
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by nostril 3y ago
Could you elaborate a little more on how you came to this belief? I'm interested in the process of deciding whether to agree or disagree. A good way to get better at that is to get perspectives from thoughtful people.
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by nostril 3y ago
We're not worried. Our operation is anonymous, and as long as we don't slip up, we'll be fine. Though saying "don't slip up" is very "draw the rest of the owl"; it's most of the work: https:&#x2
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by nostril 3y ago
This is an excellent point. Thanks. Do you mind if I quote your comment in our official policies? It's interesting because libgen also provides most fiction titles, but everyone is rooting for them. For example, one of the books they w
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by nostril 3y ago
As far as I can tell, Books3 seems to be training data for language models. I'm not sure how it was created, but it contains a lot of books. I got it by torrenting The Pile after it was forced offline by the Danes. They're asking
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by nostril 3y ago
One other question: Is there legal basis in Denmark for asking for proof that they control the copyright for the listed works? DMCAs operate on "good-faith belief, under penalty of perjury" but in international situations it becom
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by nostril 3y ago
Hi all. I would like your help with an ethics problem. I run a site called The Nose, a safe haven for AI training data. It operates overseas in a region out of reach of DMCAs. (Past info: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id
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by nostril 3y ago
I think if you're interfacing with your server without going through Whonix, you're asking for trouble. Not only do you need to pay for the server using BTC that can't be traced back to your identity, but anything that touche
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by nostril 3y ago
Indeed. For anyone who isn't convinced, I wrote up some details on our use case (creating a training data DMCA safe haven) in the Tails thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37512147 If you're serious about
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by nostril 3y ago
Other thoughts: Day to day browsing is a pain. I use a VNC client to remote into our server, which is running a desktop environment with a regular browser. That way you can use apps (gmail, discord, etc) from outside the Tor network. But si
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by nostril 3y ago
Hi. We're building The Nose ( https://thenose.cc ), a safe haven for training data that can't be taken down with DMCA. Since this involves copyright infringement, strong anonymity is a requirement. I wrote up our securit
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by nostril 3y ago
If anyone wants to download Books3, it seems to be available here: https://thenose.cc/public/AI/EleutherAI_ThePile_v1/pile_prel... (We noticed The Pile was recently taken offline, so we hosted it: https:&#x2
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by nostril 3y ago
Hi HN, I have been working on something directly related to AI and copyright. Would it be ok to point it out here? Recently The Pile was taken offline from The Eye by DMCA. One solution is to host it offshore, which we're calling The N
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by nostril 3y ago
If you'd care to point out exactly what you mean, I might avoid those traits. But as it stands I have no idea what you're talking about, though I'm familiar with Eternal September. My question was, how did you envision BitTor
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by nostril 3y ago
The fact that copyright infringement works in spite of attempts to kill it seems to be proof that BitTorrent is well-designed, rather than evidence it's broken. What else would it be associated with? People do use it to distribute larg