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Comment Re: Five Alarm Fire (Score 1) 86

The removal from maintainers file was not based on russian nationality but on being employed by a company in a list of sanctioned companies https://lore.kernel.org/all/7e... Also this is the offending Linus post https://lore.kernel.org/all/CA.... While he did clearly side polically against Russia, but I don't see him referring to the Russians, and moving against a population is a key ingredient in racism.

Comment Re: Their legal intervention (Score 1) 63

Copyright does not work that way, you are confusing it with trademarks or patents. Anything creative anyone produces is protected by copyright automatically without needing any kind of registration. Requiring registration would be worse, because then only corporations would have time and resources to get copyright protection. Of course if a copyright case goes to court you have to prove you are the owner of that work, but not by registration.

Comment Re: Uhm... (Score 1) 50

According to what he wrote in the github issue, there was no email exchange. He got the review, and went straight to pulling the extension from AMO without even trying to reach out to the reviewers. I do not know if he has an history of issues with the review process, but in the github issue he does not say anything about previous incidents. Also, he says he discontinued the Firefox version entirely, the next version will be the last.

Comment Unexpectedly to the journalist (Score 1) 53

As usual, this is clickbait. Nowhere in the original blog post it's said it was unexpected. You run some code, and it breaks because you passed a timeout? the more braindead way to fix that is by extending the timeout, of course the LLM did that. It's not like the LLM was given constraints on what it could edit.

Comment Re: Can't? (Score 1) 70

actually, you are breaking privacy laws just by storing content without having your users sign a privacy policy; if you are allowing read requests as well you are responsible for the content those users upload to your bucket (e.g. copyright infringment). If you publish any of that, you are again violating privacy laws and possibly copyright (if you get a copyrighted work without a license, there might be some things you are allowed to do by law; redistributing is most certainly not one of them)

Comment Re: Does anybody still care about RMS? (Score 1) 112

> he said that Minsky would have had no reason to believe that she was being coerced Except he didn't say that. From your own link, he just said that nobody presented *evidence* of him knowing the girl was being coerced. It's a subtle difference, but I think he was mainly upset with the technical fact that journalist used the word assault when even the victim didn't claim Minsky assaulted her, but that instead someone else directed her.

Comment Re: So Musk can also buy at a discount? (Score 1) 249

You have to accept that those are not US social media, they are global social media. Most of their user base and therefore their profit is outside of the US, even if they were founded in the US. Also, I think all or most of social media company (or any big enough corporation for that matter) are traded in public stock markets where anyone in the world can buy shares of ownership at any time. US created globalization, now you have to live with it.

Comment Re: It is impressive for what it is (Score 1) 121

The point here is not who can do better with less core. The point is we have a 6000â budget. Do I get a faster build with a Threadripper, an Intel Alder Lake, or an M1 Ultra? Well, at multithreaded workloads, we all know the answer to that, even without waiting for Zen 3 Threadrippers to come to market. Intel probably wins at single core performance, and when you add a 3090 or 3080 to both systems Apple ends up possibly winning at power consumption, except they are marketing it as a performance champion.

Comment What about Threadrippers? (Score 1) 121

With that pricing and number of cores, I think a system mounting an AMD Threadripper would be a fairer adversary on the CPU benchmarks. With a 6000â budget you should be able to pair the one with 24 cores with a 3080 and lots of RAM and see what's what. That Alienware Aurora is half the price, FFS...

Comment Re: Blame (Score 1) 52

It's not even that. Even if you paid for it (and some people do) this is the kind of mistake it's unreasonable to protect people from. Github does scan from some kind of secrets connected to APIs widely used by developers, giving warnings to them. It makes sense, because it makes sense for those files to be in the repository directory and forgetting to gitignore them can be an honest mistake. Committing your whole home directory to git is a bad idea already, as there are better tools for that kind of task. Not understanding the difference between a public and private repository is even worse.

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