The licenses state if you change something you must give back,

No, GPL states that if you distribute anything, you must also provide the source code. Presence or absence of change is irrelevant.

See section 4, "Conveying Verbatim Copies", section 5, "Conveying Modified Source Versions", and section 6, "conveying non-source forms".

If a person doesn't accept the terms of the GPL, they may instead treat the software as if the authors said "All Rights Reserved", which means no distribution.

AI learning from Opensourced code is no different than a human doing the same other than at a faster rate

Large-language models don't actually learn, they just determine what's the next token that's statistically likely to be printed.

If you GPLed your code you can't expect anything back from anyone who uses AI to write code that is not a modification of your code.

The only way to avoid distributing things under the GPL is to not distribute anything at all. If a person redistributes software that was originally released under the GPL, they may only do so by complying by the license, and that's a full source code release.

A vibe coder that takes AI generated code taken from a GPL repository must also release their software under the GPL, and the AI system must also abide by that restriction as well.

Where is all the money for this UBI going to come from?

It can come from the same place that banks use to pay a trickle amount of interest on the bank accounts. And yet, banks have not faltered.

Tax the rich?

Considering that wealth is supposed to "trickle down", taxing the rich makes sure that there's no blockage.

In fact I challenge you to ask 100 people in the street (limit yourself to windows only users) if they even knew phoning Microsoft was an option

They wouldn't, because the standard is now to have all computers with an always-on internet connection, and would most likely self-activate as soon as you login to a microsoft account. As it's done in the background, there's no prompt.

On the other hand, those using Windows XP would have seen it as an option, especially if they were one of the few people at the time still on dial-up.

Also, an AI "band" can't go on tour.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

If Vocaloid can do a concert, the team clearly can go on tour and do the event in different locations with their holograph tech to make them look 3D on stage.

It won't be the same as an acutal band, but it's still possible.

Free Software benefits from bug reports - eventually the software gets better.

Only the legitimate and quality ones.

The author of curl has been receiving a variety of reports that were generated by AI, none of which are legitimate. The latest one seems to involve a function that doesn't exist within curl, meaning he spent time tracking down a bug that didn't exist.

As for the Free and/or Open Source Software paradigm - it requires both "many eyes" and "many hands". Being able to spot problems doesn't mean a thing if there's nobody able to fix these problems.

Perhaps these requirements to drop DEI were not so much about DEI

X11Libre, a DEI-free fork of X11, needed to explain its DEI-free commitment: https://github.com/X11Libre/mi...

And in doing so, the developer used the wrong "power-of-two" operator: https://github.com/X11Libre/xs...

This fork was specifically created because the developer was thrown out of the parent project for pushing code that broke things too much, requiring a mass rollback.

It's only technically correct that a dropping DEI isn't related to DEI. Rather, it's an overt requirement to dislike people based off skin colour. This is consistent with the US's demands on French companies, and their policies that attempt to deport immigrants that don't look like americans.

but about savings and getting the job done.

Python is open source software. Anti-DEI policies run anti-ethical to it, simply because they take contributions from all over the world. Putting in policies that prohibit most of the world from contributing is much more costly, especially since labour is provided by unpaid volunteers - all of whom can decide to split off and create a new fully-compatible software package, "Vyper".

And, considering that "DEI" is the current code word for dark skinned people, I find this unlikely. If the government actually wanted savings and getting the job done, they can make provide efficiency benchmarks in the funding guidelines.

Since they're claiming it's a Weather Balloon, it was really hit by Swamp Gas.

Source is the UFO identification chart..

More like a coder for a previous version of the Apple calculator app:

https://thedailywtf.com/articl...

Note how it drops button presses, meaning 1+2+3+4+5+6 = 75.

You shoehorn a claim with 21K vaccine deaths per month...

Come on, that's a 99.8% survival rate since those vaccines started. Vaccine denialists say that number is perfectly fine, being happy enough to plop the same number on the side of a protest sheep.

Let me know when this death rate approaches the older claims where everyone would die within 2 years of taking the vaccine.

And if you got it, you had to include the sector number in the file name.

Only if you're using a custom loader (e.g. commercial game). Commodore 64 Basic abstracts this with the LOAD and SAVE commands, and the 1541 also takes care of placing files onto any available sector. It's not like most developers needed to memorize the file system just to write a file.

It didn't have any security features AT ALL,

It's basic security feature is restoring itself to factory settings whenever the machine was turned off. This didn't stop viruses, but it greatly reduced the spread, and makes it slightly easier to try detecting if there is a virus on the system. Because there wasn't an obvious soft reset, it was safe.

This is compared to Amiga, where resetting the system didn't always clear memory, or PC, where a virus could sneak itself into a boot sector of a hard drive, and where both systems were designed to allow multiple programs to run at once (as opposed to the C64, where hiding a program in memory might not be practical.)

no logins, no memory protection

This is less important for a single-user and single-tasking operating system.

Logins would be substituted by bringing around disks with you, and memory protection is more of a shoot-self-in-foot approach. Even with memory protection, it doesn't stop assembly code from soft-locking the system, because the executable had a bad assembly code in it.

Same with finding the best prices.

This isn't too hard, simply by tracking known websites (i.e. any major retalior, etc.)

I don't know about security

AI falls for fake websites. https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

Pretty sure AI browsers would check email, see an important account issue from a scam email, and happily log into the scam website to resolve said issue.

25 bug reports submitted. https://gist.github.com/bagder...

These include gems like:

* Vulnerability code changes are disclosed on the Internet
* Buffer overflow in Strcpy (which didn't get reproduced)
* Vulnerabilities that exist, but the code identified as the cause didn't appear in the codebase
* Local file accessed using file://
* And the latest: Cookies leaking from 127.0.0.1 to 127.000.000.001

"If you do not do anything for me, why should I give you money?"

"At this festive season of the year, Mr. Scrooge," said the gentleman, taking up a pen, âoeit is more than usually desirable that we should make some slight provision for the Poor and destitute, who suffer greatly at the present time. Many thousands are in want of common necessaries; hundreds of thousands are in want of common comforts, sir."

"Are there no prisons?" asked Scrooge.

"Plenty of prisons," said the gentleman, laying down the pen again.

"And the Union workhouses?" demanded Scrooge. "Are they still in operation?"

"They are. Still," returned the gentleman, "I wish I could say they were not."

"The Treadmill and the Poor Law are in full vigour, then?" said Scrooge.

"Both very busy, sir."

"Oh! I was afraid, from what you said at first, that something had occurred to stop them in their useful course," said Scrooge. "I'm very glad to hear it."

"Under the impression that they scarcely furnish Christian cheer of mind or body to the multitude," returned the gentleman, "a few of us are endeavouring to raise a fund to buy the Poor some meat and drink, and means of warmth. We choose this time, because it is a time, of all others, when Want is keenly felt, and Abundance rejoices. What shall I put you down for?"

"Nothing!" Scrooge replied.

I will support economic fairness rather than handouts

Economic fairness may refer to: Equal opportunity, Economic equity, or Economic justice. In all three of these, it most likely requires taxing those that prevent them, and giving handouts to where it's needed.

But regardless, you'll quickly hit a road block. Because you have affinity to "If you do not do anything for me, why should I give you money", it will be used by any rich person that hoards as much money as possible, including those that caused inflation at the grocery store level. With the added bonus of them not even wanting to pay those who gave them stuff (e.g. Donald Trump stiffing worker's wages.)

As such, you should answer your own question before applying it as a purity test for just one side.

both sides are stupid

ENLIGHTENED CENTRISM

So... you think that just because someone feeds a prompt to an "AI" thing, and has it generate a video, that causes an increase in the amount of electricity that rack of computers 'someplace' uses?

CPUs and GPUs can be idle. While they're idle, they consume less electricity, generate less heat, which causes the cooling system to likewise use less electricity.

Additionally, a server farm that doesn't need all servers running can have some of the servers power down, thus saving more electricity than simply being idle.

@Sigma 7

This is not discord, nor whatever social media you're thinking about. Additionally, you don't need to use tagging when doing a direct reply on Slashdot or other normal forums, because the user is going to be aware of the reply.

I don't understand why anyone opposes this.

There's the environmental impact - autogenerated AI stuff tends to require expensive server farms that just churn CPU power endlessly. Similar to Cryptocurrency - endless CPU churning just to keep a trustless database secure.

There's the quality impact. AI Generated content would be less likely to come up with works similar to some of the D&D films where actors are coreographed to make their attacks every 6 seconds, and possibly bland or sterile as the generator chases after the most probable result.

There's the economic impact, it pulls money away from those who are skilled, and into the hands of those who are unskilled - or perhaps elite tech bros that can endlessly spin the slot machine in hopes of getting something that's accidently viral.

There's the bandwagon impact, everyone does the make-money-fast trick, and thus collapses that method of income.

There's the archival impact. Even though the number of potential books is infinite, libraries do a good job at keeping a large chunk of what's been published. Now, there's infinite content generated at the press of the button.

There's the copyright impact. If you use AI content, you don't know where's it's taken from, and authors that were trained on said AI aren't receiving anything for their work. Additionally, the AI companies take works from others, but prefer withholding their own data.

There's the bubble impact. AI companies are currently inflating themselves due to investor or stock market hype, and have a good chance to collapse.

And finally, the long-term skill impact. People are allegedly becoming dumber due to AI, likely because they take ChatGPT at their word without verifying it, and people aren't being educated in a way that lets them reproduce what's needed in the future.

It sounds like a great way for minimally skilled people to bypass being a wage slave and market in-demand product (videos) direct to consumers, thus screwing over "the man".

UBI is easier to implement. Kills wage slavery, and if corps want workers they can start paying properly rather than constantly ramming things down to minimum wage.