pbasista

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by pbasista 3mo ago
No. No restrictions should be put on downloads. The main point is that the distribution channels should always be free. What should be gated and limited is the commercial use: reselling, relicensing, using for business, etc. > the option
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by pbasista 3mo ago
Of course, the music should still be protected against the commercial use or reselling.
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by pbasista 3mo ago
The users usually not paying is a problem introduced by those platforms, in my opinion. They make the entire experience too generic for the regular users to care. It seems to me that the bands or musicians should distribute their music via
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by pbasista 3mo ago
If I was a musician and produced music nowadays, I would not induce regular copyright rights on it. Because, in my opinion, it makes no practical sense. It mostly alienates the users. I would put the uncompressed flac files of my music dire
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by pbasista 3mo ago
> do you ever go over 1gbit No. None of the local ISPs offer speeds above 1 Gbps. However, I use FriendlyElec NanoPi R5C as the main entrypoint router. It has two 2.5G ethernet ports. It costs less than 100 euros. And it runs OpenWRT. It
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by pbasista 3mo ago
> The associated username is not validated, so any provided username will succeed when paired with the backdoor password. Great. I am really wondering why should the customers trust these manufacturers. At this point I would not use any
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by pbasista 3mo ago
> if you couldn't do long division by hand But the people studying math and the related fields are able to do division by hand on paper. They are just slow when doing it. I believe that the calculator was meant to solve the slowness
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by pbasista 3mo ago
> Public Money, Public Code This seems like a very good principle to adhere to in general. Anything that is funded by the public needs to serve the public interest, in my opinion. Putting public money into e.g. proprietary software and p
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by pbasista 4mo ago
> Models that you can run at home (Like Qwen 35B) aren't remotely close to Opus or GPT 5.5. Is that characterization based on some objective facts or benchmarks?
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by pbasista 4mo ago
> they inserted themselves I am unaware of such a capability of Cloudflare. I believe it is the site administrators who have inserted Cloudflare in between their sites and their users. Usually it is done for rational reasons of establish
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by pbasista 4mo ago
> full on communist Please do not use the term communist lightly, i.e. as an umbrella term for people who express ideas that e.g. more government control or regulation is in some circumstances reasonable. The only forms of communism that
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by pbasista 4mo ago
In general, it seems to me that an abstract resource like AI cannot possibly be regulated. Even if US forced their hand and took ownership of the controlling stakes in the current major AI companies, what stops the other AI companies from r
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by pbasista 5mo ago
> pretending everything else is fine No one pretends that everything else is fine. It is in my opinion reasonable to call out any violations of any law or any violations of the users' or companies' privacy as they are spotted.
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by pbasista 5mo ago
> time spent on reducing memory footprints is seen as wasteful by the business I think that there is a way to change that. If an application runs significantly better on lower end hardware while delivering the same results, the customer
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by pbasista 5mo ago
> if they are part of the training That would be an intentional poisoning of the models with biased or outright untruthful data. I believe that many people would be unwilling to use such models.
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by pbasista 5mo ago
> but virtually impossible to block the text itself Why do you believe so? As long as there is a clear indication somewhere on the webpage (in the metadata or in the text itself) that a specific portion of a text is an ad, a browser exte
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by pbasista 5mo ago
That is how I understand it as well. Enshittification of the AI tools has officially begun. Maybe we will soon find e.g. AI-generated pictures of ourselves in branded clothes or using branded products to appear among our photos, discretely
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by pbasista 5mo ago
> How good are you at writing assembly? How is that relevant to the topic of this discussion? Compilation from higher order languages to the machine code is deterministic . It is sufficient to review and well-test the tool which does
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by pbasista 5mo ago
> hoping the agents will get so good in near future, that there won't be the need for understanding the codebase Agents might get better. But who will own the code and take responsibility for it? The AI agent? The company who create
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by pbasista 5mo ago
> And I haven't written a single line of code myself since what - February maybe? Have you measured the impact of that on your ability to create good code? From my experience, relying on AI tends to degrade that ability. Also, you s
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by pbasista 5mo ago
I see. Then I would ask a follow-up question: "Why is that a problem?"
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by pbasista 5mo ago
> It should be easy to do X and hard to do Y > you're pushing a behavior-modification scheme onto users In general I think that your comment is reasonable. I just would like to point out that such "behavior-modification&quot
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by pbasista 5mo ago
What is the motivation for such a measure? In other words, which problem is it trying to solve? And how it is supposed to do so? I think that we should not carelessly invent laws that just "sound good" to some lawmakers but have n
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by pbasista 5mo ago
> the ads are separate from the AI responses Ok. But that is in my opinion a distinction without a difference. It does not matter whether the ads are built by the AI itself and seamlessly embedded into the regular responses. Or just made
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by pbasista 5mo ago
> Every time this comes up there are comments assuming that ads are being injected into the normal plans No. The distinction between the unpaid vs. cheap vs. expensive plans is irrelevant here. The main controversial point about this top
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by pbasista 5mo ago
Your implication that "you will be fed" other ads if you block the main ones is unsubstantiated. But even if it was true, it does not matter. Because the so-called "opaque" ads can and in my opinion should be blocked as
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by pbasista 5mo ago
> People strongly prefer native apps to PWAs Such a conclusion cannot reasonably be made from the data you have presented. It merely means that your web app was not preferred over your native app.
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by pbasista 6mo ago
That statement looks like an assumption. Do you care to back it up with some factual sources?
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by pbasista 6mo ago
> Man, paying Google/Apple $5/mo is surely a much better solution for her. According to which criteria? There are values beyond "basic convenience" that are important as well. Being independent from a subscription ser
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by pbasista 6mo ago
> forced to watch ... 3 ads There are very efficient ways to block all ads, including YouTube ads. uBlock Origin browser extension is one of them. SponsorBlock browser extension would also skip over in-video ads.

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