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Comment Re:horse needle incoming (Score 1) 51

Much better then finger sticks 20 times a day leaving the tips of your fingers covered in bruises, pin pricks or just numb.

Man, you must have some seriously major case of diabetes if you need 20 sticks per day! I take 22 units of Lantus every morning and Novolog on a sliding scale with each meal and only four sticks per day. One before each meal and one at bedtime.

Comment Re:thinking it through (Score 1) 49

The breaking of licensing terms often takes place in private. For example, if X steals his employer's source code, slaps a fake open source license on the stolen code, and submits it to Debian, there's no way to know. Except if another employee Y happens to find the code online and notifies Debian about X's fraud.

Enforcing a lifetime ban on X's contributions is the least Debian can do in that case to protect itself legally from the wronged company.

Comment thinking it through (Score 3, Interesting) 49

He thinks that any policy statement that says AI isn't allowed simply won't hold up, as the tooling keeps getting harder to detect...

It shouldn't be about detecting and preventing AI contributions with 100% accuracy. Some AI contributions will get through because people will always try something.

It should be about spelling out the rules, then banishing people who break them, ripping out their "contributions" and shaming them publically if and when they are found out.

This is not any more difficult than policing licensing terms is today. Debian already has a history of banishing non-Free software packages into special source repos. And, like any serious open source project, they already rip out code that isn't legally safe for them to use (eg if someone steals code and passes it off as their own and makes up a fake license).

Eventually, the answer will be to have a standard mechanism for reporting suspicious sloppy source code and whistleblowing on the cheaters.

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