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by strbean 2y ago
That's not even remotely what I'm saying. I'm saying if a company modifies open source software and distributes it, they should be required to distribute the modified source as well. I'm further claiming that providing a
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by strbean 2y ago
Small indie providers should absolutely be able to sell their MongoDB / Redis / XYZ as a service, but they should absolutely also be required by the license to contribute back their modifications to the software. Like I said, I un
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by strbean 2y ago
It's wild to me that the prevailing opinion seems to be "It is only TRUE Open Source if megacorps can modify the software and resell it without sharing their modifications". The hosted vs. distributed loophole is just that, a
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by strbean 2y ago
That's the "the video", that's a video by a third party about the study, and it doesn't include all footage or all participants. The comment you replied to links to footage of one of the participants. You can see in
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by strbean 2y ago
This is all speculation based on the development of AGI. If we achieve AGI, yes, it would enable humanity to have a Star Trek-style fully automated space communism utopia. However, that hinges entirely on access to AGI and the fruits of it&
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by strbean 2y ago
Because AGI is probably going to be incredibly expensive to develop, require mega-scale access to data and compute to train, etc. And unless the models get leaked or stolen, whoever gets there first likely won't give out the secret sau
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by strbean 2y ago
Are we getting to the critical point where we declassify a bunch of stuff as AI? Used to be expert systems were considered AI. Now anything-not-an-LLM is going to stop being AI?
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by strbean 2y ago
I'm fairly conspiracy-minded, but fluoride is prescribed for ingestion in some cases: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fluoride_therapy I was prescribed fluoride tablets by my dentist as kid.
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by strbean 2y ago
This also seems like a problematic practice. Perhaps we should start expecting a shorter author list, and have separate credit for advisers, small contributions, overseeing, etc.
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by strbean 2y ago
And yet it rings true. Sure, if everyone was a Mr. Smith it would be fine. But with poor incentive structures, people are collectively going to do what they have to do. The same applies to police who aren't actively corrupt, but don&#x
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by strbean 2y ago
I could be wrong, but I took the parent's comment to mean that we should design incentive structures transparently, instead of obscuring them or outright ignoring the whole concept when engineering society.
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by strbean 2y ago
https://www.npmjs.com/package/temporal-polyfill
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by strbean 2y ago
Mega succeeded Megaupload and together they operated freely for almost two decades. I think we can conclusively say they were not a threat to US industries.
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by strbean 2y ago
I just didn't want to speculate, as I'm not familiar with the security considerations here. But, thinking about it a bit, couldn't a compromised STUN server establish a MITM by lying to you about your IP, and then relaying to
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by strbean 2y ago
> From my layman's understanding, in the US, it is almost impossible to get FDA approval for drugs that "improve" or "enhance" human biology. Drugs must treat disease, and the benefits must outweigh the risks. Wi
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by strbean 2y ago
You can pass configuration to disable ICE entirely. Looks like it's using PeerJS, which defaults to a config of using a Google STUN server and no TURN servers. Not sure if using a STUN server compromises the E2E in some way?
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by strbean 2y ago
A cool way to structure the class, but hurt by the fact that the professor steadfastly refused to provide anything beyond the man pages. Even the lectures consisted of him putting a man page up on the projector and reading it aloud, verbati
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by strbean 2y ago
This is nostalgic. For a Systems Programming course, I had the following assignment: - Implement readline(3) - If you have any questions, see the man page. - Extra credit: implement all GNU extensions.
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by strbean 2y ago
The rationale they provide is that you can't see the door to the bus. So we are looking at the driver's side of the bus. Ignore "Which was is the bus going?" and instead ask "Which side is the front of the bus?&qu
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by strbean 2y ago
> any logical framework which can express Peano arithmetic (with a finite list of axioms)
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by strbean 2y ago
I'm confused. Does SSPL not require more sharing of source code than GPL and the like? I've always thought the "we're just hosting a server with our modified version of this OSS code, so we don't have to share the
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by strbean 2y ago
> (The problem is not with how the key was originally generated; it doesn't matter whether it came from PuTTYgen or somewhere else. What matters is whether it was ever used with PuTTY or Pageant.) Sounds like your server keys are sa
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by strbean 3y ago
I am curious; if I was infected with a retrovirus and took an mRNA vaccine, could the reverse transcriptase of the retrovirus pick up mRNA from the vaccine and reverse-transcribe it into a cell's genome? I suppose the lineage of that c
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by strbean 3y ago
Thanks for the info!
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by strbean 3y ago
Recently learned that if you Ctrl-F again after the highjacking, it brings up the browser search box. Discovered this thanks to a site (don't remember which) that included a tooltip about this fact in their hijacked search box. I was c
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by strbean 3y ago
That's the real distinction: does the for-profit subsidiary subsume the supposed public good of the parent non-profit? If OpenAI Co. is gatekeeping access to the fruits of OpenAI's labors, what good is OpenAI providing?
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by strbean 3y ago
I kind of hate that. Why have variation in the grammar based on what tag is used? Always using `<tag></tag>` or `<tag/>` is so simple and easy.
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by strbean 3y ago
Can't even rely on a package to have statically defined dependencies. You can just make setup.py generate a random selection of packages!
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by strbean 3y ago
The difference is that it is somewhat feasible to control access to the materials necessary to produce nuclear weapons. It is not remotely feasible to control access to computing devices.
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by strbean 3y ago
"Is the content worth paying for?" feels like the wrong metric wrt. tipping. I think a more accurate question is "Does the content make me want to support the creator?" This is why tipping thrives in settings like Twitch

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