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Re:Tell HN: Locked Google account reopened after two years on Thursday June 15, 2023 @09:06AM (#36339899)
Did you buy it through Google Domains? I think you can migrate it to some other service without affecting the gdrive account.
Re:Europeans Take a Major Step Toward Regulating A.I on Wednesday June 14, 2023 @07:02PM (#36334072)
Where do you see this obligation to register your AI service?
Re:Europeans Take a Major Step Toward Regulating A.I on Wednesday June 14, 2023 @12:46PM (#36328675)
I'd advise you not to take a single article from a general news source at face value.

https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:7066108...

Re:Reddit Is OpenAI’s Moat? on Wednesday June 14, 2023 @11:24AM (#36327381)
Plus Reddit doesn't own the copyright to the posts, the users do.
Re:Burn My Windows on Tuesday January 04, 2022 @07:54PM (#29803370)
Yeah, Compiz could literally play a movie across two or three sides of the cube, with the video player "bent" in 90º. Felt quite impressive that the graphics card could even handle that.
Re:Debit cards are hidden financial infrastructure on Sunday November 14, 2021 @06:41AM (#29216672)
Only if it actually costs you more to use the credit card. If not, it's the cash buyers that are paying for your rewards.
Re:Debit cards are hidden financial infrastructure on Sunday November 14, 2021 @06:10AM (#29216564)
That's only true if you do not have overdraft, and therefore some transactions will be denied.
Re:Breaking down the 'payment for order flow' debate on Sunday November 14, 2021 @05:36AM (#29216465)
Only because they have been artificially inflated? That seems unlikely; the materials and labor costs alone would take multiple years to pay off by an average family. Being able to move in immediately seems useful, even if currently we're paying way too much for it.
Re:Breaking down the 'payment for order flow' debate on Sunday November 14, 2021 @05:18AM (#29216396)
That there were funds profiting alongside WSB was well understood in the discussions, IIRC.
Re:Automation != Leverage on Wednesday November 03, 2021 @07:40AM (#29093328)
This sounds a lot like pg's Do Things that Don't Scale: http://paulgraham.com/ds.html
Re:How to build a low-tech website? (2018) on Wednesday November 03, 2021 @06:26AM (#29092843)
Pretty green. An advantage of running very large infra is that it makes sense to spend engineering time optimizing energy use, even in a fully profit-driven sense.
No, not all sites use identifying information to "enhance the prominence of information with respect to other information". YouTube doesn't have to use my location to decide which videos do show. In fact, I'd prefer it didn't.
No, not everyone was angry about it. Biden, for example, said in January 2020 that it should be "revoked immediately"[1]. There were also other proposals backed by some democrats to limit it, like the EARN IT Act.

https://www.theverge.com/2020/1/17/21070403/joe-biden-presid...

Why would YouTube need to end? You could still search for videos, subscribe to channels, share them, etc. You'd just lose the sidebar.
Re:The Bitcoin mine with its own power plant on Saturday July 31, 2021 @05:12PM (#28021597)
I don't agree; for most computing tasks, the result of every computation produced by each node is used. In Bitcoin, only the "winner" for each particular block gets their computation result used, everyone else literally throws their results away.
Except that's not a winning move either, because (currently) you'll be heavily criticized for it as well.
Re:Techdirt Is Now Without Any Google Ads or Tracking Code on Thursday July 29, 2021 @07:16PM (#28002658)
Yes, so what?
In theory, just publishing the invention means it'll become prior art and prevent its patenting. Supposedly the US patent examiners will review places like https://www.priorartarchive.org/ before issuing a new patent.
Only if money actually changed hands...
Re:Is GitHub Copilot a blessing, or a curse? on Tuesday July 20, 2021 @04:47AM (#27891369)
Which repo marked as GPLv2 has been used on Copilot? I think the trouble is that some repos marked as MIT/BSD actually contain GPL code.

Not that this excuses GitHub/Microsoft in any way, this was an obvious outcome and they're morally and legally responsible.

> Or perhaps the limit is just to persuade people to start paying for Google Apps for your Worksuite?

I'd say this is the case. Individuals might work around the limit, but companies will be persuaded to pay even if most meetings are under 1h.

Meet has been the most popular tool in the companies I've worked for (in the Benelux and Portugal), followed by Webex. Never met anyone using Teams. That said, I've mostly worked for small-to-medium companies.
But software built from source copied using Copilot is not guaranteed to preserve those freedoms to its users. Which is the whole point of the GPL - preserving these freedoms to subsequent users, as a chain.
The argument is whether copyright should exist at all, not if it should be shortened. They are very, very different discussions.
> Can you even trust that the License in a random repo is accurate and expresses the actual copyright of all the contained code?

In fact, that seems to be exactly the problem shown in the tweet - someone copy-pasted the quake source and slapped a different license on it, and copilot blindly trusted the new license.

Re:NymphCast – Open-source Chromecast Alternative on Saturday June 12, 2021 @09:44AM (#27484440)
Check out Kodi plus the TubeCast add-on. I can cast stuff from the official YouTube app for Android into my Raspberry.
I think the problem in Portugal is the opposite; the authoritarian regime was taken down in '74, but entirely too many people still have that mindset, even if they disagree on who should be the authority.
Doesn't apply to law enforcement, but it does to government generally. In fact, one of the biggest fines yet in Portugal was paid by a public hospital.

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