I don't know. Those licenses always had terms, fine print, and EULAs. Many of which I an confident had clauses that allowed the vendor to terminate your write to use the software at least under certain conditions.

Just because they had not effective detection and enforcement mechanism does not mean the legal condition never existed.

Honestly that gets us into other odd questions like what is a sold license is it an authorized/authenticated copy, the split of paper the license terms are printed on? If you did continue to use the software after an action that should have triggered revocation but the company did nothing to stop you from continuing would that take us into "adverse possession" territory?

Honestly if the lawyers really want to have fun the whole world around selling boxed copies of software with 'enter your license key' from the disk sleeve could have become really strange had it continued.

This is the problem. The practical uses cases as I understand them pretty much fall into the same buckets we use NLP for now. If you don't want to use LLM or GenAI technology we already have a lot of really great ML/NLP tools that do a really really good job.

In fact a lot of these tools would do a better (or at least more reliable) job of about 70% of what I see companies deploying in the customer service chat bot space, they'd be much cheaper and faster too. I have tried to explain to several clients, "You know you could do all this with Google DialogFlow" but no they'd rather wank around building MCP/SEE/Agenic replacements for the REST services they already have, futz around with prompt design, and then figure out how to test for abuse cases all so they can pay for tokens..

By they time you chain down Gemini/CoPilot/GTP down to respond in corporate approved ways half of customers could not tell the difference anyway and most would probably enjoy an experience that is consistent focused and quick.

And so it seems to go with 2Brains here, seems like an expensive and complicated way to do things we have been able to do well with NLP for 15 years now. Using LLM at scale means an expensive and complicated pile of machinery, but what is attractive about using them places where they are not really needed is "Its what all the cool kids are doing" not the expensive and complex part... Good luck 2brains...

This is crazy. like all the lollypop stickers of the recent 5 centuries, all for free and with no liability at all. God, how long have I waited for this moment?

It's always the same faults, over and over and over and over again.

Oh for sure! Running any of the jailbreaks for iPhones has mostly meant installing a huge heap of packages from Gwd Only Knows Where

Useful for having a run-time environment to study an application from you do plan to use on an uncompromised device, perhaps for reusing older hardware for some other non security critical use case, but no frigging way would I consider using a jailbroken phone as my actual phone, with real contacts and access to real data and accounts I care about on it.

This is a case where regulation KILLED.

Basically this a was thing that was essentially marketed to wealthy tourists. It WAS done under a regulatory environment, and so those people had far more trust in it than they should have. I bet had they been forced to drag the thing out to international waters and do some sketchy bitcoin transaction to pay or whatever they would not have found takers!

Regulation of this kind of stuff simply does not work. What regulator has any experience inspecting a deep sea sub? - None.. What engineer could draft what appropriate safety standards are for something like this? - None at least not without completely stifling innovation.

Yes we know from the post incident analysis corners were cut compromised materials were used and engineers and officers on the project should have know better, but that is negligence and it is why we have torts.

Modern rail roading is a good example, we have a lot of regulation. Mostly it works, but there are still the occasional accidents. Pretty much every rule in the book has one or more corpses behind it, it isn't like someone say down and just wrote out the FRA's inspection schedule, we learned the hard way the inspection frequencies required to catch certain problems before they turn into dead bodies -> then -> we said ok everybody is going to do that.

Honestly the DOT (US or CANs) should have exactly one regulation covering something like this, something akin a product safety label that says, "the safety of traveling aboard a device of this class is not well understood, proceed at your peril"

I am fan of owning your own device so I generally consider a positive thing when this stuff happens, provide the exploit path requires physical device access that inst possible to do superstitiously, IE tether then thing and put it in DFU mode, with the full restart that implies, vs pairing some bluetooth thing or something and exploiting the running OS.

Yeah I get it it means it isnt secure to travel with it - fair argument.

This though is almost cruel to release. Most of the affected devices are old enough Apple will probably just move up their end of support plans for them. Probably harms more people trying to save a buck and hang on to old kit, than helps people who might like to play with it without the lock down..

I remember reading somewhere that Apple kind of foresaw this coming and purchased extra memory so they wouldn't have to raise prices as long as possible.

It looks like they've reached the end of their extra supply.

You can refit every drone to make it a weapon, and there's nothing what CCP fears more - besides old age.

That timeframe is ridiculous. There's no reason why the courts can't operate more efficiently than they do other than that the lawyers and judges have no incentive to move things along.

Tell us you don't know how courts operate without telling us you don't know how courts operate.

The parties have to file the appropriate paperwork and there are specified timeframes when they have to be done. For example, the plaintiff files to start the case, the defendant generally has 20 - 30 days to respond. Then the plaintiff has additional days to respond to the defendant's response. And so on. This doesn't even take into consideration the discovery process. Just getting to the point to start a trial can take up to a year with all the back and forth filings, motions, and so on. In many cases, one or both parties will wait until the last moment to file just under the last possible filing date to drag things out.

Then the court has to schedule the case in between all the other cases they're dealing with. The parties may be ready to go to trial on April 1st, but if the first available slot in the court's docket isn't until June 1st, guess when the trial starts.

Archlinux developer and d00fus are synonymous, no wonder they are helpless and disoriented right now.

I have updates turned off. Every time I open Fx after a shut down, it harasses me. Then, about a minute later, it does it again. Throughout the day it harasses me.

If I tell it never to install updates unless I choose to, don't harass me.

It used to be like that until a year or so ago. Check the box, never be harassed. Now it's incessant.

Have they removed the incessent harassment notifying you there is an update?

There used to be a time when you checked a box, you were never harassed. Clear, simple, and useful.

I guess that's no longer possible.

The ObamaPhone was started by Bush.