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  • This AI Tool Rips Off Open Source Software Without Violating Copyright

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  • All it will take is for the reverse uno card to be implemented at a large enough scale against proprietary software before companies throw a pissy fit and this will all go away. Alternatively GPL could stipulate that AI implementation would trigger copyleft protections.

    This whole thing is stupid and in such bad faith. Maliciously clean room engineering open source software just to get around pesky licensing issues will cause so many more problems for these morons that already leech off the hard work of open source devs anyways. They literally have a steady stream of free software and all they have to do is NOT steal it. That's it. Just don't be a fucking evil goon, that's the only stipulation. They're shooting themselves in the foot so hard.

    But no, having free access to the hard work of others isn't enough, they have to hoard it for themselves, like everything else in this deeply rotten civilization.

  • What was the smallest python hobby project you worked on?

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  • Check out pi pico and hardware/microprocessor programming. I found it easier to wrap my head around certain concepts when I had a practical application for them right in front of me.

  • Any tech wizards available know how to boot a F-35 into Safe Mode? Speedy replies appreciated

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  • I’d be so mad if the last thing I saw before plummeting to my fiery death was that stupid smug little sad face and a BSOD

  • Trump administration orders dismantling of the U.S. Forest Service

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  • This country is such fucking ass, I’m sure they’ll privatize it and find some way to ENSHITTIFY NATURE

  • Ex-Meta worker investigated for downloading 30k private Facebook photos

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  • Abolish Facebook

  • Lol, get fucked Google

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  • They will nuke your account after 14-30 days if you don't comply.

  • Post age-attestation distro migration | Artix vs Void vs endeavorOS vs ???

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  • Thanks for taking the time to share that with me. I am no Zionist. However, I do pose the question, because of Red Hat's stewardship of Fedora, do you believe that makes Fedora morally compromised? Because Red Hat develops systemd, does that mean all Linux distros that use it are thusly compromised as well? ARPANET, the technology that the modern internet stems from, was developed directly by the US Deprtment of Defense. Can a leftist then morally use the internet? I don't mean this as a sarcastic strawman but as a genuine question in good faith. I myself don't have an answer, probably a bit yes and a bit no. I will point out the distinction that while Fedora doesn't have control of what Red Hat does or does not to, it does have direct control over whether or not to implement these age verification laws in question.

    What about a distro like Universal Blue, which is directly downstream of Fedora but not affiliated with it organizationally? Where do we draw the line between consent and simple happenstance? Everything is connected to a Nazi, a Zionist or colonialism if you dig deep enough, we live in capitalist hell-world, it's the foundation of our very society. Consent is implied an in many cases, unavoidable.

    That being said you have given me quite a bit to think about and if anything have solidified my decision to move away from Fedora. I hope you don't interpret my response as adversarial in any way like others who have responded to my post. Cheers

  • The open web isn't dying. We're killing it

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  • The issue that seems insurmountable to me is that convenience will always be the path of least resistance to the great majority of users because they DO treat web usage as consumption, because they themselves are economic units that have been trained in their economic conditions to be consumers.

    To 90% of users instagram might as well be magic. The tech doesn’t matter. Authentication, identity, security, these things are MEANINGLESS to the average user. They see security as something that’s burdensome and forced upon them my their IT department, and that actually materially affects their real lives in a big way. Open internet? They couldn’t be bothered.

    Until open web or fediverse or whatever can be as absolutely frictionless as signing up for instagram, they won’t use it. They already have complicated lives, they aren’t going to give a fuck about “stewardship” of the web.

  • Post age-attestation distro migration | Artix vs Void vs endeavorOS vs ???

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  • Care to backup your claim? I’m not familiar with that bit.

    As far as I’m aware, fedora is a public project and not a org that is “owned” by anyone. You’ve got to do a great bit of mental gymnastics to arrive at your conclusion just to try and make me feel stupid. Why?

    Also don’t act like there aren’t serious implications of imposing age checks in supposedly free libre software. Libre software should be a fundamental human right. You can believe in that and also that military interventionism is also bad.

    You can conflate my point of view all you want, but let’s dial back the cutesy sarcasm. Thanks.

  • "FOSS" and "GNU Linux" do not automatically mean "for the community" or "for human rights"

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  • I’m no Marxist

    the people who own Walmart and Amazon are the people who work there

    Friend, may I introduce you to a little something known as "Dictatorship of the Proletariat?"

  • Post age-attestation distro migration | Artix vs Void vs endeavorOS vs ???

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  • I'm less twitchy on the AI thing. CEO's gonna CEO, and I think this whole AI thing is going to quietly die down. It's just... not as useful as the people pushing it says it is. You can't just mass-delusion people into thinking something does what it doesn't do. It writes bad code. It is insecure. It makes people insane. These are facts. The tech is not improving.

    Not to mention, I find the Register quite often to be a bit too-cute-by-half in its "reporting". We'll see.

  • Post age-attestation distro migration | Artix vs Void vs endeavorOS vs ???

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  • https://github.com/BryanLunduke/DoesItAgeVerify

    endeavorOS is listed among those who have "decided not to age verify" but I will say the author of this page is a certifiable moron so take that with a grain of salt. Of all the distros listed and not implementing age verification, endeavorOS's seem the least explicit.

  • Iran Threatens to Attack U.S. Tech Companies Starting April 1

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  • hate to hand it to them but they've impressed me lately in the privacy/security space. apple has put itself miles ahead of stock android and microslop when it comes to enshittification of its services and not spying on its users.

    of course that's the bare fucking minimum and FOSS is always the best answer, but still, it should be said.

    edit: those of you downvoting please enlighten us how much better Google and Microsoft are at handling your data.

  • Post age-attestation distro migration | Artix vs Void vs endeavorOS vs ???

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  • Fair point, but I think at this point it's extremely likely Fedora will comply, and my issue with this is ideological, not practical. I will not use a distribution that complies with this law because I believe it is morally compromised.

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    Post age-attestation distro migration | Artix vs Void vs endeavorOS vs ???

  • The Digital Leviathan

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  • This one lost me when it listed Matt Taibi as one of the "sharpest minds of our moment" lmao

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  • The technology itself is novel and cool. Its the complete and utter meltdown of all tech companies into brainless hype machines that is harmful, which is course, is a function of capitalist incentive and the need for the tech industry to come out with some new paradigm shifting innovation every decade. A normal, healthy society would have been able to leverage machine learning and LLM technology where its most useful, like parsing large amounts of data, or running a local instance on your computer to ask a few questions, etc. We wouldn't see LLMs in every text editor, pencilcase and pair on sneakers but these snake oil salesmen who run the US economy are absolutely desperate for a new paradigm shift so they can keep making exponentially more money.

    The thing is, we don't need to build these datacenters siphoning comically evil amounts of energy from the grid and making personal compute a thing of the past. Average everyday person doesn't need cloud compute, they can run a local 4b parameter (very, very small) model on their laptop or phone if they need to ask chatgpt to make them a workout routine or to ask them who won the 1918 world series. But these fucking cretins don't care, that's not the point, they are in this because it's a golden ticket to growth city and once they cash their check they don't give one hot fuck about the human-spirit-stealing-machine they built.

    TLDR: our society is broken and that's why we keep getting the shittiest, lowest-common-denominator version of everything. everything has to suck by definition because that's the only version that the system we built will allow.

  • Copilot is now injecting ads into PR descriptions

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  • Microsoft has become spiritually similar to one of those late night infomercial companies. So shameless and deeply unserious.

  • Is Lyme Disease recognized in the US?

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  • I live in the US, and I had Lyme when I was a teenager. Simple blood test confirmed it, I was prescribed antibiotics and it cleared up nearly instantly. No one told me it didn't exist.

  • Fedora Project Leader Suggests Linux Distros Could Adopt Apple's Age Verification API

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  • If we're talking about the criminals who are harming children (social media companies, roblox, etc) and actively pushing to influence legislation that allows them to continue this behavior while punishing the rest of us while taking away privacy for normal people, then idk. Prison seems too generous for those scum.

    I think the commenter here might be referring to regular people who are powerless and/of less than informed on the subject which I of course disavow. But if somelike like Mark Zuckerberg or Elon Musk never see the inside of of a prison cell, which is much more than they deserve, there is no justice in this world.

  • Fedora Project Leader Suggests Linux Distros Could Adopt Apple's Age Verification API

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  • I know this is tongue in cheek but kids should be able to use the internet. It's important that kids become digitally literate and the wonders of the internet are great.

    It's so obvious that social media has made the world an objectively worse place and this is just another extension of that. Social media companies should face consequences when they harm children, full stop. Personally, I'd be fine with banning social media outright but I understand some may have free speech concerns. However, I don't see how the interests of corporate capital and the attention economy can be squared inside this circle. Corpos will always want to maximize screen-time and they don't give a hot fuck who's brain they melt. Unfortuantely we live in a world where even the president of the US is a demented pedophile rapist so I don't have much hope for people like Zuck seeing the consequences of his actions.

    Social media is a societal disease and until we actually deal with the root of the problem, which honestly doesn't have anything to do with kids at all and really boils down to capitalist incentives and their relation to the attention economy, we will continue to see harms inflicted upon the digital citizens of the world.