I think if you look at specific examples you’ll learn more. Who is getting away with what?

Nobody believes that bullshit. They had thirty days, and only now they spring the news. With no timeline for future releases. With no explanation of the redactions.

Anyone who has run any program of any size or shape, ever, knows how to explain dates and actions better than this.

A kill switch? Easy. Make it an extension. Then we can actually kill it.

Or like, keep lying, take that AI money and sell hot air. Sad.

That may be true, but it’s also a non denial denial. Well done, we appreciate the lulz.

Well, falling birth rates is actually a good thing. It’s sustainable. It’s necessary. But I enjoyed the rest of your rant.

Right. He doesn’t want to call Trump a pedo to his face for political reasons. But he’s clearly pointing it out. Call it deceitful, call it politeness, your choice, we all understand the message.

We. Who is we? Most of the world is not fucked. :-)

How to say you never studied government without saying you never studied government. Classic.

So you agree that it will be baked in and impossible to actually turn off. Yep.

Otherwise, they would have made it an extension, right? If it’s optional, it needs to actually be optional … that’s what am extension is. That’s the whole point of them.

Right right. If they had real innovation, they would have defined it clearly as you suggested. But they didn’t, so they don’t. It’s all snake oil, again, because that’s the entire AI industry.

Firefox is no longer trusted. Fuck that AI bullshit. We don’t want it, we don’t need it, and they don’t care.

Well that’s a shitty attitude. The average Russian has as much power as … yeah … pretty much nothing. Like all of us who aren’t ultra rich in every country in the world. Doesn’t mean we shouldn’t try, but that’s a different matter.

This is such important coverage because people can claim they want to protect the victims. But when we have victims who already went public, that ends up just being a bullshit reason.

Of course they say it’s opt-in right now and then later it will be opt-out. This is the standard bullshit reasoning that companies always give. Can you stop pretending that’s not what’s going to happen?

Several explanations exist. First ShareAlike or GPL require re-sharing of downstream content. But if things are used for training, and later the model produces new code, that isn’t implicated by copyright legislation… And we could discuss whether that’s ethical or moral, of course, and there are various opinions…

I feel like this is similar to the weakness of BSD licenses, Public Domain releases, and CC BY licensing. Someone can come along and take all of your work, polish it a little better, and sell their new service. Then you don’t get recognition or support, they get some contracts from their friends’ companies for a few years, and you feel sad.

The other commonly-remarked angle is the death of the Web. Because so many websites are script-generated copy/paste, and they are tweaked to fit SEO, and Google doesn’t give a fuck, it’s hard for real website authors to get seen, and without any visibility, their work ends up being personal or pointless. This isn’t limited to open source, but it’s closely connected.

You never know when the mark will realize they’ve been conned … the cognitive dissonance lasts for so long, and then one day they start to use their brains again, just a little … and for some people this day was yesterday.

Somehow it amazes me that this is the issue. January 6th didn’t do it, the mass murder of South American fishermen didn’t do it, the sexual assaults and rapes didn’t do it, the crypto-coin bribery schemes didn’t do it … Jeffrey Epstein and the pedo ring got close, no doubt about it, but not quite … and finally, talking shit about a guy who died, that’s their line, that’s indecent, that’s unacceptable.

Well OK, that’s a weird world view, but that’s what they got.

Ah that’s not true. Have you visited countries that were formerly ruled by dictatorial governments? Everyone knows that the average citizen wasn’t responsible for national level badness. There’s no judgment on the ordinary person, because blaming the victims is rather pointless.

That’s easy to say, but making it reality is a harder task because of gerrymandering, voter suppression, racism in the justice system, and of course the giant disaster of campaign financing, which guarantees that corporate lackeys are going to fill congressional seats in large numbers…

And I’m not saying we shouldn’t try. But don’t rush to blame “the people” when many of us are trying quite hard to effect positive change. Or blame us, if you want, but then you’ll be helping maintain the status quo.

Speak for yourself. Many Americans have worked for decades to advance national health care.

Again, you confused “all democrats” with “corporate democrats”. Please be careful! There is a difference between a leftist and a corporate lackey, and if you can’t see it, you will keep getting played for the rest of your life.