Comment Re:Fully local my arse. (Score 1) 76
Comment Re:Too bad for Slashdot (Score 1) 75
My inner pedant has been awakened! I must insist you stop mixing measurement units forthwith, or there will be further comments!
A UID is measured in bits, not years.
Comment Re:Reese Richardson (Score 1) 16
Comment Re:Took 7 years but... (Score 1) 133
Comment Re:horse needle incoming (Score 1) 51
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 Extra! Extra! (Score 5, Funny) 40
Action-at-a-distance! Get your action-at-a-distance here or there! Packaged in a wave! No field of enquiry, is too small.
You, sir, do you want to read the story? Only two cents!
Extra! Extra!
Comment Re:I think it's missing some nuance (Score 1) 92
Comment Re:thinking it through (Score 2) 49
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.