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by rlpb 4mo ago
Better: set up a git diff driver so you see the semantic changes, not line-by-line changes.
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by rlpb 4mo ago
Placing various artifacts (eg. build artifacts) inside the source tree always seemed like a historical mistake to me. It leads to various accidents such as people checking in their credentials and accidentally bundling such files in source
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by rlpb 4mo ago
Arrests seem like overkill. Ask them to stop, issue a fine, whatever. Sure I get you're asking for any enforcement at all. But hyperbole has a polarizing effect on discourse we should try to avoid, IMHO.
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by rlpb 4mo ago
> that has hired 3 brazillians back to back I've seen this kind of thing happen not through bias but because good people know good people, where by "good" I mean highly competent. They knew each other through university an
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by rlpb 4mo ago
The paradox of tolerance applies though. It helps to keep the intolerants at bay.
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by rlpb 4mo ago
All the items being discussed are useful things to think about and cover in the commit message. Certainly if after reading a commit message I do not know what was intended (eg. “is this a refactor that is not intended to change behaviour or
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by rlpb 4mo ago
> sometimes resulting in arguments with authors that the editors need to smooth over This is an understatement. A friend of mine is a published author in a field that requires correctness. The "legions of people" all got in the
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by rlpb 5mo ago
> However, with some of the shenanigans that the Linux distributions are pulling around age verification/attestation... You've been misled.
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by rlpb 5mo ago
> ...they have literally shipped straight-up broken packages before, because fixing it would somehow make it not "stable" Irrelevant strawman, since you're not accusing the dnsmasq package in Debian stable of being straigh
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by rlpb 5mo ago
> ...upstream package maintainers who are expected to deal with bug reports from ancient versions... They are not expected to deal with this. This is the responsibility of the Debian package maintainer. If you (as an upstream) licensed
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by rlpb 5mo ago
Refactoring and rewrites prove time and time again that they also introduce new bugs and changes in behaviour that users of stable releases do not want. For what you want, there are other distributions for that. Debian also has stable-backp
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by rlpb 5mo ago
Debian has had a better "software supply chain" posture than any other player in the ecosystem since before the turn of the century. While we all face the risk of malware from upstream, Debian is the least at risk of being affecte
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by rlpb 6mo ago
> In this context we are talking explicitly about cloud-hosted AIs. Looking upthread, we seem to be talking about Claude. Claude is cloud-hosted inference but the harness is local if you're using Claude Code, and can be MITM'd
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by rlpb 6mo ago
> It boggles my mind to see legal firms increasingly rely on consumer-oriented cloud services while acting like they are retaining custody of the data entrusted to them. My theory is that lawyers tend to lean on the law to protect them m
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by rlpb 6mo ago
A smart AI would realise that I can MITM its web access such that sees the .well-known token that isn't actually there. I assume that the model doesn't have CA certificates embedded into it, and relies on its harness for that.
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by rlpb 6mo ago
> It's all circumstantial but everything points towards "desperately trying to cut costs". I have been wondering if it's more geared at reducing resource usage, given that at the moment there's a known constraint
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by rlpb 6mo ago
It sounds more like a "driver program" gatekeeper so you are arguing about semantics. I'm not claiming that there is no problem, just that an argument based on the distinction between "hardware" and "driver&quo
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by rlpb 6mo ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mens_rea#Levels_of_mens_rea_wi... is relevant here. There are exceptions - I don't know the specifics especially in relation to US law - but the starting point is that unknowingly cau
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by rlpb 6mo ago
The markets accomodate that though. Market participants buy energy futures because they do need guaranteed future energy. Solar and wind producers cannot sell such futures (or else they can but will be forced to buy from gas plants to fulfi
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by rlpb 6mo ago
> Investors begin to refuse to build new potato farms because a return on their investment gets worse whenever anyone decides to build a new farm. If they all refuse, then they're leaving money on the table. One investor could inves
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by rlpb 6mo ago
> Sure, but those same free markets will happily see those expensive producers go out of business. No, because remember you are only able to meet 10% of market demand. The expensive producers will still get 90% of the business, and the m
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by rlpb 6mo ago
> Doesn't this mean that solar/wind are insanely lucrative? This is how markets are supposed to work. It provides an economic incentive for production to increase, which is what we want. Consider what happens if you develop a f
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by rlpb 7mo ago
> This might be obvious, but all of those things have a single common denominator: Microsoft, over you, getting to decide what your computer is doing. Sure, but Microsoft have to strike a balance, too. If they push too hard in this direc
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by rlpb 7mo ago
You cannot git push something that is not committed. The solution is to commit often (and do it over ssh if you forget on a remote system). It doesn't need to a presentable commit. That can be cleaned up later. I use `git commit -amwip
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by rlpb 7mo ago
TCP has an "urgent data" feature that might have been used for this kind of thing, used for Ctrl-C in telnet, etc. It can be used to bypass any pending send buffer and received by the server ahead of any unread data.
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by rlpb 7mo ago
It absolutely could have happened when the ecosystem norm is `curl https://third.party/installer|sudo sh`. That was the normal method for third parties to ship software before snaps came along. We have Flatpaks to solve thi
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by rlpb 7mo ago
Here's an article that seems relevant to the topic: "District Court Finds That Using Copyrighted Works to Train Large Language Models Is Fair Use" https://www.finnegan.com/en/insights/ip-updates&#x2F
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by rlpb 7mo ago
Whether they are derivative works in the context of copyright law (which the GPL relies upon) has not yet been decided by the courts AFAICT. So your assertion may be your personal opinion but we don't know if the law agrees or not yet.
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by rlpb 7mo ago
What if a person puts in the work, but the work was worthless or can be trivially reproduced without effort? See also: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sweat_of_the_brow
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by rlpb 7mo ago
There is well established case law on the contract that forms when you buy something from a store (say with cash). There is a contract, on implied terms . I think what we’re talking about here is entering into a contract (or not) on expli

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