If you have a project and it has code that can be licensed, you have your choices.

Asahi is right to select a license that better fits how they want their code used. I'm not saying GPLv2 is better than GPLv3, Apache, MIT, BSD, etc. What I'm saying is it's THEIR project and THEIR code and THEY get to choose the license.

That having been said, they did originally put it under the MIT license so that the scaredy-cats who know nothing of licenses (BSD rats) would shirk away in fear and uncertainty and doubt, monsters under the bed and in the licensing closets preventing them from "being infected" with the "virus of GPL" licenses. That FuD is how BSD justifies maintaining a codebase based entirely on someone else's work but being ok with using it, improving it, and not at all sharing it back.

Asahi offers a valuable contribution to the community. Mac hardware is pretty good stuff performance and quality wise, even though Apple poltiics make disgusting bedfellows and bedbugs.

In simple terms, good on Asahi to continue to allow their code to be used, only requiring those that use it to share back with the community. BSD can use this code too. There are plenty of examples of BSD using GPL code. But those who would take, borrow, etc. and not contribute back can GFT.

Asahi crew: Well done.

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> I don't know if you know...

Nobody cares what you don't know let alone what you don't know about what someone else knows.

> Nothing from AI is "written from scratch".

So you've analyzed the corpus of 100% of all things that came "from AI" and for a certainty state the absolutism that "Noting" is "written from scratch." Do you have any sources for this tremendous religion you are forming?

> All of it is based off of stolen work

I've addressed the "All of it" part in the preceding paragraph, but your claim that 100% of what comes from AI is "based off of stolen work" is absurd (and wrong).
Since you're all about "all" and "nothing" I guess it's easily disproved with one counterexample. Here you go:

Your average consumer friendly LLM ("AI") such as e.g. ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude, has been granted access to —among other things— public domain documents. These include, for this example, the Employment Situation report (aka "Jobs Report") by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. A possible query to the LLM such as "Please graph the last rolling 12 quarters by quarter year summary of jobs added and jobs subtracted" would yield a line-graph with two lines. That would "come from AI" not be "stolen" and certainly wouldn't violate any IP laws (copyrights, trademarks, patents, and Trade Secrets).

Take your copyright maximalist backpart outside and don't let the door hit you on yourself, ass.

ANSI Standard X.364-1979 was published July 18th of that year. It includes control sequences and characters outside the ASCII standard.
https://vt100.net/annarbor/aaa...

The first implementation was the DEC VT 100 in August 1978 (implementing the concepts before the standard was approved or homologated.)

The VT100 was limited by RAM to 24 80-column rows or 14 132-column rows. To get 24 132-column rows you had to get the VT 102.

DEC made a lot of revolutionary hardware, like the DECtalk unit, which gave Stephen Hawking his early voice. The VAX took datacenter size down a few notches, and the MicroVAX revolutionized the desktop (that thing you have paper and pens and paper clips on). The VAX allowed designation of memory areas (program sections or PSECTs) that denied execute or write ability, so no buffer overrun and remote execution hacks.

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The Internet is a communication medium. It allows faster and richer content. Before that was television. It allowed faster and richer content. Before that was radio, still faster and richer than what came before it -- newspapers on the backs of horses and carried by steam trains, with black on white text painstakingly typeset and out of date before they hit the street so you could "read all about it." today your phone reads to you the best of CNN, MSNBC, Wired, Fox, USA Today, Facebook, 4Chan, and whatever swill X has and big Orange Julius Caesar says.

The Internet was never the problem, and one day it too will be as obsolete as a newspaper, just something you use as a large soaking coffee coaster or a Fish N' Chips wrapper. The real problem is the untethered hostility represented by people using the 'net to spew. It's not enough that they have running water and even sinks and toilets. They think it's their right to take a dump on anything and any one -- particularly if told to by Trump. Dumb.

I you hang out with face-eating leopards, one day you'll wake up to the sound of your own screams as the leopards eat your face. Take the L now and quit spewing and stop suggesting that EVERYONE must not have Intternetz becaause your feels might get hurtz.

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> Tesla has yet to disclose key specifications, including range...

310-320 miles as per https://insideevs.com/news/812...

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Trump is an unstable moron.

The rest of *anyhing* he says is bullshit, and while he who asserts must prove, this is the default case. Trump must prove he's not a big ass in a pentagon shape on a t-shirt provided withhis made-in-the-usa TrumpPhone T1 (not available for sale, not made in the US).

Trump is a mem whose time went before it came. He defines meaningless reverse meme. May he rest in peace. There's that Nobel peace prize dangling, but nope, his bellicose belching farting fat-ass will never ever get it.

Man I miss President Obama.

A tool is an item used to in some way ease the required function. A jack lifts the car so a wheel with a good tire can replace the bad one without waiting for Arnold to come by and lift the vehicle. A table-saw cut a 2" x 12" into 2" x 4" and gets you less knotty non-warped boards for a better cost and better product. A cordless drill let's you pre-drill (that's "drill before you drill") and then drill for the head (countersink), then power a screw into it -- all without picking up a screwdriver.

AI, like Peter Thiel and Marc Andreeson are TOOLS. They are of no value until used, must be handled carefully because they can overpower the wrist, and must be properly prompted to get useful results.

However, the tool is not education. Learning to use a tool does not educate beyond exactly that. If you want to be a woodworker, for example, knowing how wood grows, is lumbered, felled, milled, etc. will explain that whole twoby thing and knots. Learning how to run a woodmill or be a tool like Thiel or Andreeson won't.

So yeah, maybe it's time to dumb down America (really the US pretending it's a continent) further. Instead of teaching about slavery, Jim Crow laws, emancipation, LGBTQ+, SCOTUS, the US Constitutions, and our laws... let's just teach how our current ubermasters want us to use their tools.

Peter Thiel is a forum-shopping free-speech hater who killed Buzz because he's gay and hates himself.
Marc Andreeson has money from once backing a good pony (Mozilla) with money he didn't earn. Now he tells others how awesome he is.

Why not just call Donny Trump (Jr or Sr) to join in this miserable group of losers? Remember, group, they may have money, but they're still tools.

Originally the misnomer Artificial Intelligence (AI) was applied to complex massive data analysis of stored language tokens (LLMs). That proved better to promote and market what isn't "intelligence" and "artificial" implies there's a "natural" intelligence but what computer does that? I'll call it AI here to keep it short.

AI company leaders in the US want a slowdown in AI development to prevent so-called "rogue" AIs or anything that will annihilate mankind. So far the only things threatening to do that are Donald Trump, and previously Adolph Hitler.

Trump wants AI renamed, mostly because it's too difficult for our stable [aritificial?] genius to spell or pronounce AI, so he wants to call it Super Intelligence. His family is hot on making T-shirts with a pentagon S on it (Pete Hegseth is creaming his shorts) and it will be Super, which is better than what China's AI has because theirs is NOT super, no S or pentagon or anything like that. Hegseth in background audio: Boo-Yeah!!!

I'm so happy we have the best dear leader ever and his own super intelligence will ensure all our AI are belong to him and his family. If you're still waiting for your made-in-America TrumpPhone may I recommend a payphone on the corner. Watch out for Agent Smith in a garbage truck

Soul Coughing declared yesterday that Super Bon Bon is better than Super Intelligence. Step aside; let the man go through.

Credits: Paul Tracy, the 1994 CART broadcast team. Keith Jasinski, Nick Challis, Vivian Tracy, Bonnie Joyce Minagil, Manic, Obi-Wan (he's your only hope) and the Trump family, who is the only super artificial intelligence lacking both superiority and intelligence. Can't wait till Ivanka "develops" that "island" she "discovered" that happens to be an Albanian preserve. But sociopaths with a thick wad of cash ad no intelligence (just Super Intelligence) don't mind that.

SBF doesn't get a pardon because he didn't suck donny's nubbin. All those January 2016 MAGA cop-killing assholes got pardons.

SBF wants to have his case heard by SCOTUS but it doesn't work that way. You have to buy Uncle Thomas a 1/4mil motorcoach first, along with a laminated explanation story so he can tell everyone how he came by it while pulling himself by his bootstraps.

And finally, SBF is one weirdo with a gorilla-cookie girlfriend. If he had Kim K to speak for him, then, and only then,

Justice would be done!

The PIGS Act would be more appropriate. Studies show the Internet, access to it, and social media in particular, have no negative impact on teens. To the country, access to material on natural parts of life, growing up in society, and seeking information, acceptance, and methods of handling "teenhood" is improved.

No, the people who need to stay away from social media are lying grifting criminal rapists and their constant barrage of lies and threats. Some have created (or bought) their own social medium because their sociopathic posting is antithetical to truth, honest, reality, truth, and not trying to mobilize masses of gullible (non-teen) idiots.

The Protect Internet from Goverment Stupidity (PIGS) Act would remove political hacks, grandstanders, liars, thieves, cheats, carnies, and murderous LEOs from this public plaza.

Waking up tomorrow to no more blathering stupid made up stuff by cluless politicians would be helpful. Requiring proof of age and limiting expression of minors is harmful, stupid, and exactly what is expected of the thieves and self-dealers in government.

USA Today headline: "Teen Reading Slumps... Due to Surge in Screen Time" isn't part of the study, and isn't proven by the study.

Grades are dropping, so if grades are an indication of reading ability then [age group divided] teen reading slumps. Sure. And the use of digital devices is on the rise -- they don't prove, but they say. It used to the boggieman was video games. Before that TV. Before that radio. Apparently EVERYTHING is the cause of people becoming stuipider.

> East Asia was the best-performing region. Chinese cities that participated in the test, Japan, Korea, Singapore and Taiwan had the best educational systems with Britain and Estonia the only countries outside the region that made it into the top 10 in reading, mathematics and science.

So why not break it out by country? Why not add a screentime column to the the matrix. Why not prove SOME causality SOMEWHERE. Too hard I guess.

When electric lights came out people detested them and persisted in using candles. When radio came out newspapers spoke out and lout against these stupefying machines that couldn't possibly distill a newspaper written by gumshoe street reporters over some voice in a box. TV was worse. How enrapting. Then video games. Then electronic toys.

The problems with a reduction in elementary language skills have more to do with the dumbification of schools, the "all child left behind to wait for that one child" and other idiotic programs. But China doesn't have them, nor does Estonia. And why isn't the rest of the FSU affected.

This is 100% non-science CRAP. There is no proven causal link. Just like with blue light now known NOT to affect sleep or salt now known NOT to affect blood pressure.

Go on teens, enjoy your surfing and keep getting B's and C's. School is a racket.

There are two types of cops: bad cops, and the ones who allow that to go on.

Cops spend more timing complaining that they need to be protected, that their job is dangerous, that people shouldn't have rights because "officer safety" and then they kill innocent people almost daily. "He weaponized his car." No, he drove away from your murderous testosterone-shot addled steroid-induced killer self.

Giving these assholes on roids access to military weapons was a mistake we (people who have not comitted a crime worth killing us in this society) will pay for -- for a long long time. SWAT's "S" is "Special" and to today's cops it's just an acronym that means moare gunz, moare mortars, moare battering ram tanks. What used to be a "special weapons and tactics" program that started in the LA area and had its own TV show is now a modern shitshow disaster all over the US as idiot incompetent fat donut-slacker buffoon cops "for officer safety" bulldoze their way through people's homes, cars, offices, daycares, etc.

AND NOW THEY WANT WEAPONIZED AERIAL DELIVERY AIRCRAFT!!! These pieces of shit can't drive a squad car without hitting something and they want to take to the air --unregulated because "we're law enforcement"-- and SHOOT and EXPLODE people?

Civilians. That's what THEY call US. "Thin Blue Line" - that's the made up barrier that puts THEM on one side and US on the other.
No. Military is military. Everyone else, including cops, are civilians. If they "fear for their lives" and "need to be protected" and people
"weaponize their tonka trucks against them" -- time to find a job where they can work within the law, not be fucking murderous psycopaths.

Cops are a huge part of the problem. People who beg that question and just assume it's not a problem and lend an ear to cops' whining
about their lack of magical protection from the "civilians" they're going to kill, lie about, and cover up-- them's the problem.

The FAA didn't put regulations togethet in 1973 for noise. They put them in place to prevent Concorde from beating the pants of noncompetitive expensive under-providing US airlines.

For half a decade non-military flight over US land of supersonic aircraft has been banned due to protectionism.

If it was TRULY about the noise, military aircraft would have been included. They never were and 52 years later still are not.

It would be nice to be abused by TSA's "hands of blue" and "random rules" of the day in security-theater and FAs on a power trip kicking people off flights after downgrading their 100% cash paid FF tix. And now maybe instead of Mach0.85 we can do 2-3x that.

The US is a regulatory mess screwing the flying public to cotton to the least common denomintor -- US Senators.

Typically a preservation letter is sent out to let the recipient know that a court order will be forthcoming, and to preserve all files, metadata, images, etc. If you Google "sample preservation letter" one such example is https://www.cliffordlaw.com/wp....

If the SFPD got this case in January, all they had to do is have some admin send some such letter to Waymo (and any nearby businesses with surveillance cameras) and then in March when they got their fat donut-eating asses on the case the evidence would be there. But they didn't bother.

That's police work in the US these days. They can't be bothered to do police work. Someone has to walk in and hand them a ribbon-wrapped case for them to be bothered to look at it. "Solving a case" isn't like on TV. On TV they have an hour to investigate, collate, deduce, confront, and arrest. In real life that's 3 months of donuts and sitting around watching your ass get all triangle-like, THEN blame Waymo.

Disgusting. I'm sure the Yoga studio is overjoyed.

This was attempted at Biosphere 2, just outside Tucson, Arizona. Also don't miss the Pauly Shore/Steven Baldwin/Tia Carrera movie "Biodome" which made it seem almost as funny as it really was.

The joke around Tucson was that if you wanted to meet a Biospherean, just go to Pizza Hut for buffet lunch... because they kept opening the doors to let more oxygen in... because concrete takes YEARS to cure and absorbs a ton of oxygen along the way.

Eventually the failure of an experiment was destroyed by its hippie ex-Biosphereans who busted open the doors to let the real Biosphereans out, thereby completely killing the closed-loop nature of the dome. (It IS a dome...)

This 387 day experiment will be a complete waste of taxpayer dollars. There's no mission to Mars nor will there ever be one. It's a suckers' game to see who will provide money to Elon and Fwends. Artemis is not even funny anymore, nor is the Senate Launch System or Huntsville Alabama. The only good thing to come out of Alabama is... nothing. They take taxpayer money and deliver inbred southern "charm."

But hey, science for science's sake can yield benefits. Like if it weren't for Biosphee 2 we'd never have known about concrete curing and oxygen consumption. That may help a Mars mission, but since there won't be one I guess it's not much help.

Best takeaway - the government is determined to waste our taxpayer money on bullcrap but pretend DOGGIE is saving us trillions of dollars. Meanwhile they divert fiber builds to Elon's Starlink, and attack major cities because "Big Balls" got beat up for being a bully in DC.

Where's the doorway to the alternate timeline?