Have you ever read an open source license? They gave away those rights, voluntarily.
If you have evidence that AI is being trained on world licensed to the contrary then by all means get exercised about those “workers” rights (right on, man,) but given the vast quantities of code released under permissive open source licenses, it’s not going to change anything.
Starlink coming back to Earth?
I don’t know if it was a decade ahead, but it was really nice. Well thought out UI, really nice and fluid even on not the best hardware, the address-book integration with messaging and throughout the OS was really nice for its time, and some of the phones were actually pretty good (my Nokia had a great camera compared to most.)
Most important for me, at the time it had by far the best dual-SIM support - with active/active radios and proper management of things like separate default SIM for messaging/calls/data at a time when most Android phones with dual SIM were pretty awful, and nearly a decade before Apple would offer dual SIM at all.
I was genuinely sorry to let my last Windows Phone go.
How is it “stealing” if it’s open source?
I have sympathy with artists, authors and the like whose work was taken to train AIs. But software engineering - nah. We gave the training data away for free, neatly catalogued in bitesize chunks with explanations for every change - we don’t get to call “take backsies” now.
I2C/SPI - and indeed most hardware interfaces - are of course trivial to anyone skilled in the art. Digging through badly written vendor documentation though, then comparing it with the reference implementation that was buried on a website behind a sign that says “beware of the leopard” and which directly contradicts the documentation on various key points, is a non-trivial and ultimately unproductive use of time - and AI tools can be pretty good at that shit.
Generative AIs are a useful tool. Most of the criticisms of AI vendors are also valid (apart from the water one, that’s just bullshit,) but that doesn’t stop them being a useful tool - and engineers who learn to use them as a tool will be more productive and will be more employable than those who stick their fingers in their ears and insist on only producing artisinal code hand-whittled with their grandfather’s tools.
That seems unlikely; trust me, there are services running behind Cloudflare tunnels that are doing more requests per second than whatever you’re hosting does in a year.
The only times I’ve had performance problems with Cloudflare tunnels it’s been intermediate network kit that didn’t like IPv6 or didn’t like QUIC (or both). You can try disabling both in cloudflared to diagnose (at least, you used to be able to disable them/switch to HTTP/2+IPv4, it’s been a very long time since I’ve needed to so I’m just assuming it’s still an option.)
Thanks! (And I should say, it was a genuine question :-)). I’ll take a look at them; I don’t listen to any Spotify exclusives (yay!), but there are one or two that I subscribe to their supporter schemes and at the moment I do that through Spotify. I guess that’s my next task, work out if there’s a way to subscribe directly and use something like Antennapod.
New workers’-day-weekend project dropped…
Hmm. Sadly not available in my country yet (and while I’m sure I could pull some shenanigans to subscribe with a foreign address, I’m going to assume that also means none of our local music labels will be covered, so that’s a non starter.)
I’ll keep an eye on it. But in the meantime, I also gather it doesn’t do podcasts - anyone have any recommendations on where I could be migrating podcasts, from Spotify? Non-US companies only (which for avoidance of doubt, absolutely definitely excludes Apple).
Where are you getting that from? That’s not the case at all.
The New Yorker is still good for long-form journalism, if you’ve never given it a try it’s worth a look.
Did you miss the “of” part? Because that’s more or less exactly what OnlyFans is. (Ok, maybe it has better environmental credentials…)
This isn’t an AI story, it’s a “completely fucking idiotic sysadmins exist” story.
Treat an AI like the idiot intern without any references you just hired. Gave the idiot intern permission to delete your production database? That’s entirely on you, zero sympathy. (Actually, give any developer that power? You get what you deserve.)
Honestly, China is amazing, and well worth visiting (not just Shanghai though, which is far too westernized.) Fantastic people, too.
You wouldn’t get me in the US again at gunpoint, though.
Gas chambers 🥰.
What a country…
That’s brilliant, thank you!
They should cover JPEG compression at some point; when I first learned how that worked (at uni nearly 40 years ago… God) I was blown away by how beautiful that algorithm is.
You think treating batteries as disposable is great for the environment?
My phones don’t become ewaste, they get passed on to new owners when I replace my phone, or at worst returned to the manufacturer for tradein/recycling. I do hope you are as diligent at recycling batteries up there on your high horse.
I hope you’re right. I 100% respect your right to want a phone with a replaceable battery; but I equally absolutely want the slimmest phone possible and really really don’t want the compromises that a user-replaceable battery calls for.
Both are valid choices, and that clause would seem a good way of ensuring both are provided for.
New Tier 1 actually; Shanghai is very much China for amateurs, of course - but that’s irrelevant; you might not realise this but the vast majority of Chinese also don’t live in Shanghai.
I was contributing to Open Source almost certainly before you were born, so wind your neck in kid. But, even if we suppose you are right and the GPL somehow restricts the use of licensed works for AI training (although a quick refresh on the license shows no evidence that it does) - while GPL fanatics make the most noise, it is absolutely not the most popular open source license.
GPL variants covers roughly 20% of the licensed work on Github. The vast majority of such work is permissive open-source licensed, with the MIT license covering almost 50% alone. That’s because the vast majority of open source contributors are not in fact wannabe Citizen Smiths, but rather people who want, without restriction, to contribute to the advancement of computing.