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by surround 9mo ago
Anna's Archive announced they intended to infringe on the label's copyrights by distributing their music without a license. The law allows the court "to prevent or restrain infringement of a copyright" (emphasis mine).
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by surround 9mo ago
Wikipedia says Ek's initial pitch to Lorentzon was not initially related to music, but rather a way for streaming content such as video, digital films, images or music to drive advertising revenue. So yes, they were always inten
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by surround 10mo ago
Where does it talk about his use of English or his lawyers?
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by surround 10mo ago
I can't find anything on his Wikipedia article for "English" or "lawyer." Can't we assume good faith?
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by surround 1y ago
The leaderboard hasn't changed since it was updated to add gpt-5. Here's what it looked like yesterday https://archive.is/XIrbN If you saw gpt-5 was ahead, you might have been looking at the leaderboard with style
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by surround 1y ago
You may have already figured this out, but the leaderboard you linked to ( https://lmarena.ai/leaderboard/text/overall-no-style-control ) shows gemini-2.5-pro ahead with a score of 1471 compared to gpt-5 at 1462.
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by surround 1y ago
> The betting markets were not impressed by GPT-5. I am reading this graph as "there is a high expectation that Google will announce Gemini-3 in August", and not as "Gemini 2.5 is better than GPT-5". This is an incorr
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by surround 1y ago
GPT-5 knowledge cutoff: Sep 30, 2024 (10 months before release). Compare that to Gemini 2.5 Pro knowledge cutoff: Jan 2025 (3 months before release) Claude Opus 4.1: knowledge cutoff: Mar 2025 (4 months before release) https://pl
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by surround 1y ago
> The purpose of Stallman’s open source movement My understanding is that the purpose of Stallman's free software movement is "that the users have the freedom to run, edit, contribute to, and share the software." The F
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How a 25-year-old dev made 600 apps without being able to code (2015)(cultofmac.com)
3 points by surround 1y ago|0 comments
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Can a rogue .wmv file “hijack” Windows Media Player?(security.stackexchange.com)
3 points by surround 5y ago|0 comments
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Lego's magic number is 37,112(phillipecantin.blogspot.com)
4 points by surround 5y ago|1 comments
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Why Japan Celebrates Christmas with KFC (2016)(bbc.com)
87 points by surround 5y ago|100 comments
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by surround 5y ago
Sounds like https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27454589 "I currently have 10 fully remote engineering jobs"
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by surround 5y ago
chess.com ranks #195 whereas lichess.org ranks #1546 on Alexa's top sites. https://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/chess.com https://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/lichess.org
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by surround 5y ago
Previous discussion on the original article (447 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27456500
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No-Prizes (1986)(web.archive.org)
2 points by surround 5y ago|0 comments
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Polar Bear Jail(en.wikipedia.org)
6 points by surround 5y ago|0 comments
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by surround 5y ago
Try https://libredd.it/ Or https://teddit.net/
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by surround 5y ago
Bibliogram is an unofficial front end to Instagram. Among other features, it won't prompt you to log in. Here's Ollie's page on Bibliogram: https://bibliogram.art/u/polite_cat_olli_official Reddit on mob
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Libreddit – Private front-end for Reddit written in Rust(github.com)
4 points by surround 5y ago|0 comments
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by surround 5y ago
Try https://libredd.it/ Or https://teddit.net/
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by surround 5y ago
It is a dark pattern - it tricks the user into thinking their data won't be submitted until they click "submit," but instead saves it right away. It would only not be a dark pattern if the form clearly said "your email a
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by surround 5y ago
A dark pattern is tricking the user into doing something they didn't mean to do. I don't expect or intend my email address to be uploaded before I click submit. I expect it to happen after .
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by surround 5y ago
A bit off-topic, but does anybody have any examples of websites which use this dark pattern? I am interested in trying to disable this "feature" client-side for the sake of privacy.
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by surround 5y ago
If it's "pretty benign" to save a user's email before they click submit, then it wouldn't be a big deal to inform the user that you just saved their email instead of trying to silently hide the fact.
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by surround 5y ago
The dark pattern is saving the email without informing the user or asking for permission to do so. Normally, permission is given when the user clicks "submit," but if you save the email before they click submit, it's a dark
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Stealing Data with CSS (2018)(mike-gualtieri.com)
1 points by surround 5y ago|0 comments
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by surround 5y ago
Dupe https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27609027
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by surround 5y ago
Dupe https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27609027

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