So, if they are putting up cameras without permission / without contracts then it shows clearly (as if we didn't already know) that even their supposed customers (the police depts) are just a means to an end - to get that data for the REAL customers - which I am sure are big gvt and data brokers

We live in the stupidest / shittiest timeline.

Reverse engineering (AI-assisted of course).

If I publish a novel that incorporates some quotes from Mother Goose Nursery Rhymes, will courts rule that I have no copyright and the entire novel is public domain? I don't think so. Prove me wrong.

If I publish a program product that incorporates some public domain code, AI-generated or otherwise, will courts rule that I have no copyright and the entire product is public domain? I don't think so. Prove me wrong.

Of course the portions that are in the public domain remain in the public domain and everyone is free to copy them. But if you want to copy these portions, it is entirely up to you to identify them. I as the publisher don't have to assist you in any way.

Also note that if I publish an arrangement of a public domain tune, I have copyright on the arrangement, although not on the tune. Likewise, if I substantially edit public domain code, the copyright on the edits is mine. You are welcome to undo my edits and use the public domain portion as you see fit. I don't have to tell you what my edits were. Good luck.

this... tracks.

I've been using Claude Code at work for a low-stakes project so that my company sees me being all "AI forward" and stuff (They're really drinking the Kool-aid) and yeah I'll admit its been doing OK on the project.... and yeah I see where you're coming from, there is a certain prose about how it outlines/summarizes things that feels familiar here.

I would really like a true new browser that doesn't use WebKit, Chromium or Gecko (and don't get me started on Goana) but I question such a tiny team being able to do so securely and in a manner that is actually maintainable. I WANT it to be true but I have my concerns and the AI summary thing just kind of puts the icing on the cake.

>You can't use the TV without accepting

You have to accept the top two, but it is perfectly usable without clicking accept on the bottom three. The top two I don't believe (though I haven't double checked) do anything malicious. The bottom ones do.

The fact that they're so proud of "her writing 100,00 lines" no, she prompted AI and it wrote 100,000 lines of code. And if she wants to add a new feature, chances are good AI will just tack on more to it without following SOLID principles, leading to massive bloat and duplication, and a codebase that nobody can maintain - that AI just basically has to rewrite or kludge shit in.

Congratulations, you've built a kludge tower....

We're now adding a ton of very bloated, completely opaque AI vibe coded projects to the dependency stack in a way that makes the they don't reinforce each other and just sort of like a "code stripeset" may well increase speed (of development) but at the cost of incredible fragility.

I just need to wait till XKCD says it in a far more clever way so I can point and say "YEAH THAT"

Chevrolet stopped providing (selling) updates to my 2016 Colorado's nav system, so I bought a Garmin standalone unit for maps and just use the colorado screen to connect speakers to my phone and stream.

If it ever started doing that ad thing (not likely since they aren't doing updates on my truck) I'd rip out the built in and put in a third party unit.

Honestly, part of me wants to go in and rip out the OnStar box so they don't decide to monetize my driving telemetry without my consent. (they charge too much for the onstar crap)

Also, the majority of us (in said minority) are probably running ad / tracking blockers (I run uBlock Origin on Waterfox with NoScript - which probably makes it easy to fingerprint me .. if not precisely, then as someone who is not going to watch/see their ads).

So yeah it would need to be a nonprofit or a paid engine.

I really liked the idea of Kagi but their reliance on Yandex (Russian owned /operated engine which Putin has had increasing say over since 2019)

I mean, I think somewhere there are projects that have made their crawler result set available - maybe there's room for a nonprofit to build a better interface / search on one of those?

I dunno, it's one thing to understand on a high level "we need a reliable up to date index, and then make a fair, transparent search system that implements a patent-free ranking algorithm (is Page rank up yet?) and just searches using provided keywords and respects 'exact quoted phrases', but it's quite another to build something that can keep that index updated, and that can handle queries at scale and not cost so much that its impossible to do without an advertising model.

Are we great again yet?

Ok Ok low effort reply there but truthfully this is a direct example of brain drain due to an administration that is downright hostile to science. We used to be the envy of the world in terms of our research institutions and science.

The more the nationalists try and keep others out and the more they make science into a political point the more folks are going to just give up on America.... and I don't blame them. If I had any "in" elsewhere (family history, available opportunity) I'd leave

Sorry in truth I really wish they hadn't made science and education and many peoples very humanity and human rights political...

I'm ambivalent on this... On the one hand - google killing yet another thing they bought and then threw out after picking the parts

On the other hand, I can't stand emojis and pointless animated gifs.

Turnip Logic: if we don't collect the data then there is no climate change.

if we stop requiring measles cases to be reported, then there is no measles outbreak.

If they have a towel over their head they can't see me - which means I guess I can't see them.

My server got compromised last week by this, Slashdot is quite far behind.

There's two new exploits in the Copy Fail class that do privilege escalation everyone should be worried about on shared servers. Copy Fail 2: Electric Boogaloo (https://github.com/0xdeadbeefnetwork/Copy_Fail2-Electric_Boogaloo) and Dirty Frag (https://github.com/V4bel/dirtyfrag)

I am rather disappointed that Ubuntu sat on these LPEs for a month without releasing a fix.

I had much the same thought (on the "this couldn't possibly end poorly" response to trusting AI to code this...

But I stuck around for the AI bubble tie in -

100% agree

I hate the AI hype and BS so much I just can't wait for that bubble to pop but yeah it's going to reveal we're in a recession.

The "good" news is that we already are in a recession - like when the bubble pops it won't suddeny make one - we are already here but it WILL finally affect the stock trading/speculation class

I'm hoping when the bubble does pop, the pressure for companies to put all their eggs into AI basket will vaporize and maybe some of them will realize that they need to back out of that track, stop trusting/using AI for hiring and coding and support and maybe eveentually they'll hire humans again.

Naah surely there will be yet another bubble/grift/magic bean

The promise of AI that CEOs find irresistable is that it provides them all the upsides of being on the master end of slavery without all that pesky moral (legal) complications. Except of course if they ever actually did get true AGI - to my mind that would mean sapience and once it's sapient then it would be ... slavery

Sorry this went off on a tangent but just honestly for better or worse I am an accelerationist - not of AI but of the bubble bursting - so we can get on with maybe putting an economy/society back together not based on "but if we throw enough power and chips at the word-guessing machine it might learn to cure cancer"

My first thought was

"""
"what did you expect from a porn site..

oh wait, oh whitehouse dot GOV not dot COM

Oh yes, indeed sorry, my bad, I should have realized- the porn site would not have been so sloppy.
"""

But on a serious note, I just about guarantee this hot mess was vibe coded and "the developer" is just some grifter who went all in on the "lets get a piece of the trump grift"

Like honestly, the whole corruption/grift machine from the trump admin is actually a sort of working "trickle down grift"

The majority is indeed at the top but all these dedicated hangers on glom on to it hoping to get a bit of the spillage and/or it's a grift franchise where someone convinced turnip they can turn him a profit by "making an app" and likely get 20-30% of the population to willingly install it .. because Turnip

I've always thought his hatred of windmills / wind power was delusional/psychotic

yes I know it's something about him hating how they looked offshore of some golf course he owned or something but.. seriously

Donald J Quixote

is modern-day tilting at windmills