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by shprd 2y ago
> There are well-established legal processes for resolving issues like trademark infringement. Exactly, if that was the only thing WPE has leeched we wouldn't be here. They were tolerated for years but they kept digging more and mor
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by shprd 2y ago
> millions of dollars per year on event sponsorship Are you for real? Event sponsorship is part of the marketing budget. They're there to promote their company among competitors. It's a universal business expense. > plugin d
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by shprd 2y ago
It's not new, Matt has been trying to reach an agreement for years.[1] To be fair, he has done everything he can for the health of the ecosystem for all these years. WP Engine leech off the WordPress brand from head to toe. Literally,
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by shprd 2y ago
> Use Common Lisp instead of Emacs Lisp. Interesting, why not a scheme? Is it because the popularity in the industry? I don't know much about Emacs or lisps and looking to understand better
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by shprd 2y ago
What wouldn't matter? LLMs feed on content and data scraped from web pages, and writers don't want their work stolen. That's it. It doesn't matter if AI made search engines obsolete and changed the market or whatever. It
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by shprd 2y ago
If only that was the case. Laywers used them in courts, key people are using it to analyze reports and make decisions for them because it's "AI" and advertised as better than humans. The problem is LLMs output look coherent a
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by shprd 2y ago
Users are here because they want to, they chose to participate in this community. You can stop using HN at any minute and Ycombinator will not chase you. But AI companies on the other hand took the internet hostage. They stole any creative
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by shprd 2y ago
Edited the link out. It doesn't make a difference anyway for the purpose of this discussion.
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by shprd 2y ago
> This is a very imaginative use of the word “breach” You're mistaken. You might be thinking of breach in terms of "hacking into", but they used it as: personal data breach Which accurately means "unauthorised
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Reinventing the Wheel(risingthumb.xyz)
2 points by shprd 2y ago|0 comments
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by shprd 2y ago
> There isn't any "victims" here? What do you call the state that indie open source maintainers are in right now? Lack of business mindset? Skill issue? > You and others seem to constantly misrepresent what FOSS explici
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by shprd 2y ago
> But how is that the companies fault that people are unable to say no? Are we seriously blaming the victims now that they're not strong enough to stand up for themselves? Do you go to people who got bullied or fallen for a scam and
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by shprd 2y ago
> I don't understand where the connection of "My projects are MIT" <> "Donation of labor" comes from When people open source their code they usually think people like them would benefit from it and apprecia
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I've Soured on Open Source(greaterdanorequalto.com)
37 points by shprd 2y ago|90 comments
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by shprd 2y ago
> One cannot be DDOSed with junk when not actively trying to stuff as much junk into ones head. The junk gets thrown at you in mass volume at low cost without your permission. What you gonna do? keep dodging it? waste your time evaluatin
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by shprd 2y ago
So you're basically sheltering yourself and seeking human curated content? Good for you, I follow similar strategy. How do you propose we apply this solution for the masses in today's digital age? or you're just saying '
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by shprd 2y ago
No one claimed humans are perfect. But gen AI is a force multiplier for every problem we had to deal with. It's just completely different scale. Your brain is about to be DDOSed by junk content. Of course, gen AI is just a tool that ca
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by shprd 2y ago
> a lot of people in the "weak" camp Define "a lot"? Most people barely know how to use their email. Even among the minority who do actively use "AI" and excited about it, outside of ML engineers they aren&#
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by shprd 2y ago
Any case where someone's work was used without respecting the terms is included in my answer. That's why I used `et cetera` here: > The work of artists, authors, etc.
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by shprd 2y ago
> Who are the weak being "sacrificed"? The work of artists, authors, etc. I know currently the legal situation is messy, but that's exactly the point, anyone who can't engage in lengthy legal battle and defend their p
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by shprd 2y ago
> Your entire argument in this thread is based on not knowing what "casualty" means. First let's acknowledge that at least 50% of those killed are civilians and many were also injured. That's a fact, you aren't d
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by shprd 2y ago
Sorry to burst you theory: 1. Hezbollah only mourned 10 out of the 26 killed so far, claiming them as members (one of them being a medic). So the 50% seems to still hold, even leaving some room for malice and mistakes. 2. Most of the explos
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by shprd 2y ago
The citation, as requested: "two children and four health workers in a hospital in southern Beirut were among the 12 people who were killed on Tuesday." - Public Health Minister Firas Abiad in a press conference So that&
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by shprd 2y ago
> but the combatants holding those devices were at war, no? The attack wasn't as targeted as you seem to think. It also hit health workers and bystanders. Approx half the casualties are civilians (including children). According to H
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by shprd 2y ago
> I’m debating whether or not I should put it on my resume. Tailor your resume for the role you're applying for. If the role is purely engineering, then show relevant tech skills. Instead of I built a startup, you could say I built
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How do you decide what to work on? (2016)(jvns.ca)
1 points by shprd 2y ago|0 comments
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by shprd 2y ago
Right, but the question is concerned with the number of maintainers. The people who play some role, not just passing by. Redis team consists of 8 people: https://github.com/orgs/redis/people
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by shprd 2y ago
- curl: Daniel Stenberg et al. - https://github.com/orgs/curl/people - Lua (programming language): team of 3 - https://www.lua.org/authors.html - openssl: 15 people - https://github.com
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Manual 'Till It Hurts(adactio.com)
51 points by shprd 2y ago|32 comments
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by shprd 2y ago
I'm not involved in this in any way, so I can't definitely say why. But maybe I can share some points: 1. Regarding the answer being old (This seem a major point from your article) Answers on SO are intended to be a living organis

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