I think it should be a barf vacuum cleaner, not a bag. Basically, when you feel the urge to retch, you stick a tube in your mouth and suck up all the goodness into a tiny collection device, then eject it into a parabolic trajectory towards the sun.

Maybe you should stop calling it wrong, as if there's some kind of invisible sky giant who frowns upon that kind of thing and will do something about it any minute now?

It's not usefully wrong: it's an inevitable consequence of the choices you make. Eg if you're worried that your house is on fire, why aren't you putting out the fire? The longer you wait, the bigger the consequences get, and the more effort it will take. Inevitably.

What's wrong with that? If people aren't willing to stand up for themselves and refuse to be drafted when the man calls, maybe they need to learn a forgotten lesson...

There used to be radio "talk" shows in the 50s bought by fridge companies. Why wouldn't an "AI" company buy a talk show in the 20s?

(sorry, propaganda is not new)

You'll be waiting a long time.

No, it's been documented that the actual code from open source projects was downloaded and processed. Look it up. There's no clean room anything going on here, the people mentioned in TFA are deluding themselves.

You're wrong on this one. Clearly unable to see the forest behind the twig.

I stand corrected. All this stuff that's happening now is because *in the future* there will be identity verification! It's re-tro-ac-tive, you see! Nothing happens today if we fix the future first! I get it now.

And that's why it's more important to do nothing today. Best to shout on a geeky forum about the dangers of one highly specific annoyance, so that *other* people can go fight against the man, secure in the knowledge that *someone* has done the important work of writing a comment on the Internet for them.

This is truly the origin of the phrase "always look on the bright side of life"

(Ti dum. Ti dum, didum didum...)

Most people will balk at paying tariffs without actually having something in the end for their troubles.

Is that why most people refuse to pay tariffs in America? Drat, I hope nobody ever tries to make them pay tariffs, or there will be a bloodbath in the streets *the very next day*, with guns and car crashes and everything!

Sure, here you go:

First, there was light.

???

Profit!

25k loc isn't that much. It depends largely upon the language and the task. Sure, 25k loc of Brainf*ck is going to take a year to write, but 25k loc of Java? Pretty likely not, for several reasons. One is the extreme verbosity if you use a corporate style, two is the extreme simplicity of the likely applications (Java is not C++ etc, and would not be the first choice for algorithmically complex programs). Three, the language was expressly designed to be simple to teach, leading to fewer bugs.

Railing against age verification while an orange man is sending the military into your cities, destroying your way of life and antagonizing the whole world against you is priceless.

Open Source has changed radically.

Consider how IBM / Red Hat are actively overriding the licenses of the software they distribute.

Consider how coding LLMs copy without attribution open source snippets found by their company spiders. Are there license terms? Yes. Are they being ignored on an industrial scale? Yes.

Consider how Google locks up Android code by making closed source play services effectively essential. This is straight out of the Microsoft playbook when they made IE deliberately essential to control the web.

Consider how web sites use modified open source tooling without sharing their added code back.

We live in a different world. And yes, it's infringement, not stealing like I said. But licensed code is not given away like you say, it's licensed for particular uses with limitations. So we're even.

Noooooooo! It took me 15 years to purge that from my brain! I don't want it back! Vade retro parve munde!