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by sellyme 5y ago
> the artist would have had to reach out to Apple’s legal team to get consent to do this at one of their stores Oh that's the smarter thing to do for sure, but you're still going to be contacting one employee (who then potentia
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by sellyme 5y ago
> The author wrote a 9,401 word blog post and you think it's possible they were vague with that one aspect of the story for anything other than concealing the truth? Yes. For starters, it's referencing a conversation that occur
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by sellyme 5y ago
> Installing software on an entire Apple Store's set of display models because one employee supposedly "consented" is a serious violation of their property. I wouldn't have thought that the number of employees ask
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by sellyme 5y ago
The author seems to have asked: > I saw people taking pictures inside all the time, so I just had to double check with an employee
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by sellyme 5y ago
> There was no consent to install software onto their computers. Higher up in the article when the author first introduces the software, they say this line: > I just had to double check with an employee. Very vague, yes. It's ent
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by sellyme 5y ago
> without your consent The author mentions getting consent from Apple employees on multiple occasions. If you asked me if you could install spyware on my computer and I said "yes", then of course it would be legal.
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by sellyme 5y ago
Hence the "at least some level". Although the fact that he was on-site for the demonstration and was allowed to walk out without even a "hey, what the hell?" would seem to indicate that the employees had at least some un
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by sellyme 5y ago
> There are plenty of things where the cops say "its illegal, but not worth our time" Yes, and not many of these involve sending the secret service for a visit anyway.
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by sellyme 5y ago
Is there a statement from one of the involved employees that wasn't covered in the blog or is this pure speculation?
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by sellyme 5y ago
That's the second quote, the first quote was about the software installation.
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by sellyme 5y ago
The grandparent comment explicitly mentioned legality.
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by sellyme 5y ago
It wasn't illegal, hence why no charges were ever filed.
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by sellyme 5y ago
> The author installed software on computers in Apple Stores, without Apple's permission They had at least some level of permission: > I saw people taking pictures inside all the time, so I just had to double check with an employ
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by sellyme 5y ago
A couple of years ago there were allegations that David Cameron had performed sexual acts on a pig as part of a hazing ritual in his school days. There was no compelling evidence, but on account of it being extremely funny (and relatively i
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by sellyme 5y ago
I was talking about the pig episode.
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by sellyme 5y ago
> I want to see a show on Broadway, but I don't live in New York so I guess I should just find it on the pirate bay? No? How is it any different? Yes. Is this meant to be some kind of gotcha? This is absolutely what you should do. T
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by sellyme 5y ago
> That's irrelevant You said "copilot just regurgitates code snippets", and the example given wasn't a code snippet. Of course it's relevant. > if copilot is copy+pasting random licenses then it's definit
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by sellyme 5y ago
At least one significantly more far-fetched Black Mirror episode has come to life, so I think that adjustment of expectations has already occurred.
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by sellyme 5y ago
> it's clearly showing that copilot just regurgitates code snippets from other peoples opensource You consider a license file to be code?
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by sellyme 5y ago
> Is it clear how many people have access? If access is fairly limited, I'm not surprised at the low number of examples. I wouldn't be too surprised either, what surprised me was the large number of people who explicitly said w
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by sellyme 5y ago
While that's obviously a UX flaw that definitely shouldn't have made it to release, I find it hard to envision it ever actually being a problem. If someone's accepting auto-generated copyright notices and licenses that don&#x
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by sellyme 5y ago
I've seen a lot of people ragging on Copilot for "copy+pasting" code - does anyone have links to cases where it has done this without the user intentionally trying to generate a specific (extremely famous) code snippet? I&#x2
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by sellyme 5y ago
The same way I verify that my own regex is correct: by running a few test cases and then crossing my fingers.
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by sellyme 5y ago
> I'm less familiar with Australian politics, but assuming you mean the 2013 election They definitely mean the 2019 election.
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by sellyme 5y ago
> handing your credit card to the waiter at a restaurant is still pretty common I believe this is one of those things that's almost exclusively an Americanism. Where I live (Australia) you'd be hard-pressed to find anyone that
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by sellyme 5y ago
> I don't think the author's argument is that comedies can't be made They literally say "Borat could not be made today". Trying to justify that in a footnote has the same energy as advertising "Our product
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by sellyme 5y ago
> I’ve been using Mm too, but only when I have a reasonable expectation that it will be understood. IOW, rarely. Yeah, I mainly only use it in chats (where I can immediately explain it if needed) or in person (where the actual pronunciat
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by sellyme 5y ago
Not a joke, the AU is a pretty common unit of measurement when talking about distances too large for metres and too small for light-years, especially since it's based on one of the most widely understood astronomical distances. Of cour
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by sellyme 5y ago
> If someone was to ask me how far is was from sun to earth, and I answered 1AU, and they asked what an AU was? You'd probably do the same thing that you would do if they asked what a km was: keep changing the units until you get on
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by sellyme 5y ago
> Same reason for we say 1000 km instead of 1 Mm Speak for yourself, I've been trying to popularise "1Mm" for years. Admittedly not with a huge amount of success. > or Sun to Earth 150 M km instead of 150 Gm Surely &quo

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