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Re:Running a law firm on Free software on Tuesday November 10, 2026 @03:49AM (#50437681)
this is a common misconception, but in my experience including these kinds of instructions will often work, but not every time. this means that every document still needs to be carefully checked, and it's usually easier to just do the work oneself
Re:Asahi Linux Progress Linux 7.3 on Sunday November 08, 2026 @05:13AM (#50411916)
changing the licence is much cheaper than pursuing legal action, and sends an immediate and very public signal of disapproval. given that legal remedies would be required either way, and are extremely time-consuming and expensive, it makes sense to send the signal first
Re:Asahi Linux Progress Linux 7.3 on Sunday November 08, 2026 @05:09AM (#50411892)
> the poison pill of GPL

not sure that concept makes any sense at all. the entirety of LLMs' capability to perform software design and development tasks, such as it is, comes from the massive resource of copyleft projects, including those using GPL, that the AI companies have ingested

these are such classic american thought-terminating cliches. "we have more land and more people than anywhere else" "our population contains too many migrants who aren't as smart as americans used to be" etc etc. the different states and territories that make up the USA all have analogous counterpart countries whether you're comparing climate, population in the absolute, population density, GDP, or any other metric you care to name. many of the comparable countries will have a worse standard of infrastructure than that US state, but there will always be several which perform better, usually utilising fewer resources.

the thing all american states have in common is their american ideology, their american political economy, and their population of americans. it just so happens that these are almost always found, coincidentally or not, alongside extremely outdated and poorly-maintained infrastructure, and a class of ultra-rich parasites hoarding many of the resources. drawing connections between any of these phenomena is left as an exercise to the reader

i think it would be difficult to learn how to reproduce certain phenomena that the models often exhibit. this article breaks down some of them: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50223647
"A user you’ve blocked has previously contributed to this repository." is how i know as soon as i open the github page that i won't be using this tool
Re:What Happened to the Snowden Archive on Monday September 21, 2026 @07:43AM (#49786000)
the same indonesia in which the us government helped organise mass killings of hundreds of thousands of alleged left-wing political activists and voters? [0]

[0] https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2017/10/th... 'What the United States Did in Indonesia', The Atlantic

Re:What Happened to the Snowden Archive on Monday September 21, 2026 @07:40AM (#49785968)
we also don't have to flatten these historical events (snowden maybe making some mistakes vs the US government's spying) so we can pretend that they're of equal valence, scale and severity. they are actually extremely dissimilar and one is very transparently worse and more serious than the other
Re:What Happened to the Snowden Archive on Monday September 21, 2026 @07:35AM (#49785923)
> What happens in his own society to its values, customs, and beliefs will definitely directly affect a citizen of that society and his children. What’s happening to the Pakistanis won’t.

this is the kind of thing one has to be american to actually come up with and write down

Re:Günther Anders, the Philosopher at the End of the World on Sunday September 13, 2026 @05:22AM (#49681829)
right, so this is the second one, i.e. the thiel-funded "centrist" magazine that coincidentally publishes writing from people like nina power (famous for having her alt account unmasked and her pro-nazi posts revealed).

far be it from me to criticise anyone for trying to get this website's userbase to care about anything other than agentic LLM lifehacks, but this kind of "philosophy" mag is not really a big improvement if it's just laundering reactionary ideas through a centrist-yet-contrarian technocrat aesthetic

Re:Günther Anders, the Philosopher at the End of the World on Sunday September 13, 2026 @05:04AM (#49681704)
i can never tell between them by the URLs, is this the explicitly far right German Compact Magazine or the less-explicitly far right Anglophone Compact Magazine?
"Notably, none of the designers I spoke to are against A.I. altogether. All of them said that the technology is unavoidable..."

these people are not very bright