I've been a spotify subscriber for... well since they opened up to the USA, and I have never noticed anything about lyrics. I only play it in my ears and in the car, and now I'm shocked to find that they actually display lyrics at all. That's the first thing I think, and the second is: what? Most songs never display lyrics when you listen to them, at least that's how it's been for most of my life so I don't even understand what the fuss is about. Do you need spotify to tell you the lyrics so badly that you might be upset about them going away? I guess maybe I'm just 'get off my lawn'ing here, but this seems like a silly thing to make such a fuss over

Interesting, and that's a good callout. That probably does explain typing a headline like that. But does the editor have the same issue? There's no excuse for it hitting publication in that state.

It's just a remote controlled robot dog. Like a video game with a flame thrower attached. It has autonomous navigation, meaning it can walk on its own, but it cannot spew fire on its own.

Yes the FTC passed the rule. Chamber of commerce has already said they're going to sue to get it tossed. It technically abrogates existing contracts and the 'law' was made by unelected officials. I foresee that this will be tossed. It's too bad, because I agree that non-competes are a real reason why we don't have as much innovation and they are indeed one of the major barriers to new startups. However, I just don't think it's gonna make it.

I'm running it locally on 2 different platforms, without an internet connection. It doesn't contain any code. it's just the model weights so there is literally no way it can be calling home (feeling the overwhelming urge to insert 'you idiot' here but I'm resisting.) Care to restate your alarmist rhetoric?

When the solar companies are complaining that they're going to go out of business without more subsidies for their services, that is a good clue that they are not providing the value that they are taking. If they are going to go out of business because their customers cannot afford them, then they should.

You only have to brute force build them once. Then everyone will pay tens of thousands of times over to run inference.

Americans have the right to protest till their hearts are content; however, that does not mean there will not be consequences. For example, losing ones job for protesting on company time, obstructing company operations, and being an overall general idiot. Google pays these people to do work not because they need a job, but because they presumably do one. If they're not doing it, see ya! This is exactly like the free speech misunderstandings: people rightly realize we have the right to free speech, but that doesn't mean it's without consequences. And it certainly doesn't excuse you from any other responsibilities, like the contract you sign for employment at google.

Yeah this is one place that the 1A WOULD actually apply in the USA. Normally people cite it as a red herring because they don't understand how it works, but in this case, spot on.

While I don't love it that it's illegal even if you don't publish it, I do like that they are putting the responsibility on the generator/publisher not the creator of the AI. This actually makes some sense.

The last company I would want having access to my span port is google. Sure they know everything about me already, but heck if I'm wrapping it up in a gift box for them. I use a VPN for ad blocking, not increasing google's stranglehold over me. It's like their VPN is exactly the opposite, a worst case scenario, of what I would ever consider.

Doesn't the constitution prohibit the making of ex-post-facto laws?

They're also great for blocking Ads via DNS.

You're right. When VPNs first came out, it was adding encryption when there was none. So, if someone had a span port on you, they could read your HTTP traffic. Now, even P2P traffic on the web is mostly SSL, so there's almost nothing added and you're probably suffering a traffic bottleneck at the VPN. Not to mention that VPN is a veritable span port for anything you're running that isn't over TLS.

The unions were a reason that labor was so expensive, true. But that in itself doesn't dictate that you should outsource to avoid those costs. It means you should charge customers more. I don't make the rules.