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571.
by ronsor 1y ago
Protecting the margins of media companies...errr I mean users from spyware-laden illegal streaming apps!
572.
by ronsor 1y ago
It almost certainly can run basic CLI apps linked only to kernel32.dll
573.
by ronsor 1y ago
I'm fairly sure you need Windows Update components for that
574.
by ronsor 1y ago
Ignoring the fact that if AI training is fair use, the license is irrelevant, these sorts of licenses are explicitly invalid in some jurisdictions. For example[0], > Any contract term is void to the extent that it purports, directly or i
575.
by ronsor 1y ago
It's very amusing to suggest EU laws matter outside of the EU.
576.
by ronsor 1y ago
Isn't the usual definition of true "not 0" (or rather "not false")?
577.
by ronsor 1y ago
I think the most likely explanation is they tried Bitcoin a while ago and subsequently forgot about it. Then they discovered the wallet when checking an old backup or booting up an old PC from that era.
578.
by ronsor 1y ago
I wonder which RIR it is. ARIN or RIPE?
579.
by ronsor 1y ago
> Pro-se litigants I wonder when we're going to see an AI-powered "Online Court Case Wizard" that lets you do lawsuits like installing Windows software.
580.
by ronsor 1y ago
Every time they add new things to the OS, the old functionality is crushed under the weight of the new.
581.
by ronsor 1y ago
Most of the world loves being shackled by a Meta product for some reason. The allegiance to WhatsApp is mindbending.
582.
by ronsor 1y ago
"Two more weeks" is a meme phrase used when an event will never actually happen. For example: "trust the plan! just two more weeks until XYZ" when XYZ will not happen.
583.
by ronsor 1y ago
People were exploiting the poor mobile carriers.
584.
by ronsor 1y ago
Improving that problem probably would've been a massive undertaking. That aside, there's the problem that implementing kernel mechanics is a lot more than faking syscalls: the various types of namespaces, FUSE, random edge cases t
585.
by ronsor 1y ago
I've genuinely never seen a server that supports the BIND command.
586.
by ronsor 1y ago
Sir, this is a comment thread about speed limits.
587.
by ronsor 1y ago
He's been against people submitting garbage they don't understand, not AI as a whole.
588.
by ronsor 1y ago
To anyone who thinks about our current situation for than a few minutes, AI is * Clearly useful to people who are already competent developers and security researchers * Utterly useless to people who have no clue what they're doing But
589.
by ronsor 1y ago
The vast majority of DRM is cracked very quickly; the only reason DRM cracking tools aren't more widespread is because of copyright law and the idiotic anti-circumvention provisions. Consider that even DRM'd content is on torren
590.
by ronsor 1y ago
These video generators are mostly useful for memes at this point, and adding copyright shackles make it a lot less useful for memeing.
591.
by ronsor 1y ago
The only thing we need is an emergency copyright deprecation.
592.
by ronsor 1y ago
I was trying my hand at satire; but I understand that many people now genuinely hold such extreme views.
593.
by ronsor 1y ago
> (I'm ignoring copyright aspects, of course, because those are too boring :D) You must understand that infinite copyright is the author's right, and AI companies must be sued for 50 trillion dollars.
594.
by ronsor 1y ago
If the expectation for parents to monitor their children's activity is unfair, then it is even more unfair to ask for everyone else to do it for them.
595.
by ronsor 1y ago
I don't think people should be held liable for the misuse of tools they create, unless the tools were created for that purpose.
596.
by ronsor 1y ago
Legislators around the world have been doing that for a while now.
597.
by ronsor 1y ago
Hackers shilling for copyright is a funny picture.
598.
by ronsor 1y ago
That's funny. I see half of everyone on HN being critical of AI, often unfairly so, but we only ever notice the people we disagree with. I'm guilty of this as well, otherwise I wouldn't be writing this.
599.
by ronsor 1y ago
I'd rather not pay OpenAI either. I'll stick with my open-weights models, and I rather anachronistic rent-seeking not kill those. You're not getting a cent from OpenAI, and the government isn't going to do anything about
600.
by ronsor 1y ago
> Apple would sue them. Apple fears the tariffs.

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