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by zaarn 5y ago
Most of the relevant ZFS patents already expired, I don't think there is anything for the Oracle lawyers. Plus i live in a country where Software patents aren't recognized, so double good luck to Oracle.
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by zaarn 5y ago
I don't think that is so easy, a tiny training set would obviously defeat the point but the other part is that the AI can't commit copyright infringement, and I don't have to ask it to produce anything. I merely fed it copyri
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by zaarn 5y ago
I'm not talking about a transpiler, I'm talking about feeding massive amounts of non-GPL code into an AI and then ask it to produce new code based on that. A transpiler would simply take a single codebase and translate it into a n
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by zaarn 5y ago
This would eliminate any ambiguity, ZFS would simply be GPL now.
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by zaarn 5y ago
A programmer is a living breathing human, a legal entity that can hold copyright and is capable of violating copyright. An AI cannot hold copyright however and isn't capable of violating copyright (legal entities are, which an AI is no
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by zaarn 5y ago
If the code ends up being non-IP infringing on the code used to train it, that would be a big win for open source / free software. Now you can just grab any leaked code of a closed source program, feed it into your AI and get back code
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by zaarn 5y ago
It's not literal malware though, unless you have proof that it does something malicious like encrypt a users directory or exfiltrate sensitive data and that every single anti-cheat does that.
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by zaarn 5y ago
But it's not impossible to prevent cheating. CS:GO has a very low occurence rate of cheating as most cheaters are caught extremely early by anti-cheat or later by other anti-cheat efforts with more complex functionality.
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by zaarn 5y ago
But if you play online with strangers, you're not really participating in a local basketball competition are you?
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by zaarn 5y ago
What would be the point of a competitive game if you could just cheat? Racing games like Trackmania live off verifying people don't cheat because it's a game where people compete for leaderboards. Should they not be allowed to pre
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by zaarn 5y ago
From the same place that real-life competitions tend to have rules about cheating that are enforced. Why do people think that they get a free pass because they can't see the opponent face to face? If you want to play with friends, plen
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by zaarn 5y ago
Active cooling in lithium (or any chemistry) batteries exists to allow fast charging and discharging of the battery, as those actions produce heat. Without any cooling system, you're limited by the passive heat dissipation of the batte
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by zaarn 5y ago
And the needs of other players to have a fair game are also irrelevant then? After all, you're the top rank in CS:GO not because of your skill but because you simply exercise your freedom to have everyone else play against your compute
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by zaarn 5y ago
Generally, getting a wheelchair or similar is a bit of a paper war with the insurance. Once you have it though, the barrier is lower to get a replacement or upgrades.
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by zaarn 5y ago
>Further digging into CFs behaviour reveals: "The Accept-Encoding header is not respected and will be removed.". It appears they decide what to compress based on UA. Again, this doesnt sound like any upstream middlebox protecti
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by zaarn 5y ago
>I also said there is a difference between TRANSFER-encoding (which is a choice of middleboxes) and CONTENT-encoding (which is a choice of client) - and that its not clear from the author which they were talking about. It is very clear,
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by zaarn 5y ago
There is no transport compression in HTTP? Have you ever heard of Content-Encoding? You seem to be under the impression that this is somehow not a transport compression in some way (it is). Either way, a brotli encoded HTTP body will cause
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by zaarn 5y ago
No this is very much about brotli transport compression, the original post mentions this more than once. I am actually not aware of any single image format that has widespread brotli content compression support (which will probably not be v
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by zaarn 5y ago
In my experience, Google largely bets that the pixel won't live that long, considering how quickly after 2 years my Google phone broke.
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by zaarn 5y ago
Like with most other newer web features, browsers largely only allow them with HTTPS to A) push for more HTTPS adoption and also B) ensure that proxies can handle upgrades via ALPN and h2 Negotiations. Brotli and h2 both will break a lot of
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by zaarn 5y ago
Firefighters are loosing trust somewhat because of the culture they've grown in the volunteer groups. I tried to join my local volunteer group a few years ago, to help out in my community, was like 12 people back then. Sadly after the
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by zaarn 5y ago
Fun fact: PATH_MAX and FILE_MAX are glibc/muslc limitations. The Linux Kernel doesn't have a limit here and will happily let you walk into a directory with a 2GB pathname. ext4 doesn't limit directory depth; only filename len
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by zaarn 5y ago
I was hoping most of HN would be aware that this only applies to CSAM (in fact there is a clause in there that prohibits use outside CSAM detection) and doesn't affect a providers ability to just encrypt the users communications. This
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by zaarn 5y ago
The Second Defenestration in Prague, May 23, 1618. Three people of the catholic church were thrown out a window and dropped 17 meters below on a pile of manure, all the survived, one with head trauma. What followed was the 30 Year War, a to
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by zaarn 5y ago
It's not necessarily about reversing causality, it can simply be breaking it (ie, the effect happens before the cause without being able to influence the cause).
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by zaarn 5y ago
That's because in that case the legal entity of the company and the natural entity behind it are the same. A GmbH and similar are not directly associated with that. The quick way to prevent issues is to quickly register private insolve
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by zaarn 5y ago
Can you launch those mirrors into space on a rocket without them turning into very fine glass dust? Cuz I bet a lot of mirrors in land-based telescopes would simply shatter or break on a launch.
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by zaarn 5y ago
I've seen more than a few instances of bikers thinking the side of the autobahn is a great place to take the fast route to some destination. Probably their GPS navigation or them being rather light on the entire "being alive"
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by zaarn 5y ago
They did. Multiple times. HobbyKing went on the ol' "You have no jurisdiction" route, or tried to. Additionally, the devices interefered with Aircraft and GPS Frequencies. If you jammed around in a less sensitive band (ie, bl
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by zaarn 5y ago
It doesn't. Jamming TCAS or ILS systems doesn't cause crashes. At worst, a go-around and increased workload in the Tower. But since you're disabling safety equipment or their redundancies, in practise it's rightfully tre

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