@muvlon@hachyderm.io

· 9mo ago

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@rachel@transitory.social @TheZeldaZone@mastodon.social Next year, we at Mozilla are once again cutting funding for Firefox core development in order to focus on what really matters: Begging Big Tech for a larger hammer to hit our dick with

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Wanja @muvlon@hachyderm.io

· 2mo ago

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@ludicity@mastodon.sprawl.club The most mean-spirited I could find on HN is this one: "I read the entire post, and I think this company has no expertise at all."

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Wanja @muvlon@hachyderm.io

· 1mo ago

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@molly0xfff@hachyderm.io I think as silly as the naming dispute is, Google and Apple bending the knee (again) is a pretty important and worrying signal. "Keep making them do stupid stuff so they'll have learned not to say no when you ask them to do evil stuff." as the saying goes.

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Wanja @muvlon@hachyderm.io

· 3mo ago

Replying to

@skade@hachyderm.io Nix is an industry leader in bash templating engines, outclassing competitors such as ansible, autotools and GitHub actions.

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Wanja @muvlon@hachyderm.io

· 4mo ago

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@allpurposemat@mastodon.gamedev.place If you're talking about the Thaler v. Perlmutter case, the interpretation that they ruled AI output as "public domain" is a serious misunderstanding, widely reported by sensationalist media.

All the courts did was decline to register copyright in the name of an AI "author". However:

Copyright registration is optional, copyright itself is enforceable without registration.
They didn't say anything about the status of the works in question, and definitely not that they're public domain.
It's my reading that this was thrown out on a technicality, because Thaler tried to have the AI be the legal copyright holder, which the law does not permit (it must be a human). It's very possible that the slop would have been copyright-registered had Thaler put himself as the author.

In my view, the jury is still very much out on this, and I would caution against using LLM-created code as if it were public domain.

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Wanja @muvlon@hachyderm.io

· 38mo ago

shitpost, electricity

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Wanja @muvlon@hachyderm.io

· 4mo ago

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@allpurposemat@mastodon.gamedev.place Oh yes, EU is different still and I don't know of any ruling in any particular direction there yet. All I wanted to say was that even in the US, it's not clear yet. I think it should also be noted that in the Thaler case, there was no LLM or other modern "genAI" involved. He initially submitted his request in 2019, years before GPT-3 was released and started the current AI craze. Thaler just developed a generative algorithm that outputs art, AFAICT it doesn't even use a transformer architecture or massive amounts of stolen training data. In my layperson opinion, this is pretty squarely classic "computer aided art", not slop, and thus copyrightable. He just messed up by trying to attribute it to the algorithm instead of himself.

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Wanja @muvlon@hachyderm.io

· 3mo ago

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@pixelambacht@typo.social Nice, now do algebraic notation. Doubly disambiguated moves and all!

With how powerful fonts are these days it's actually possible, but it would be misery.

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Wanja @muvlon@hachyderm.io

· 5mo ago

Replying to

@regehr I love this dish! I'm half Macedonian and have many fond memories of it. The recipe looks legit too, roux and all. If you get it right, you will have both very soft and very crispy beans, as well as everything inbetween.

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Wanja @muvlon@hachyderm.io

· 6mo ago

Replying to

@pixx I think semgrep might fit the bill (but have no firsthand experience with it).

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Wanja @muvlon@hachyderm.io

· 6mo ago

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@wilfredh This is sometimes called "scaffolding" and there's a bunch of tools that do this, especially in the web space. Yeoman is one example. Nix flakes also have support for this.

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Wanja @muvlon@hachyderm.io

· 4mo ago

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@yoasif@mastodon.social @allpurposemat@mastodon.gamedev.place I was talking about the SC judgment that was widely misreported as ruling LLM output "public domain", I actually wasn't aware of this document by the copyright office, thanks for adding it! This does say that what the AI produces is not itself copyrightable, but that's still different from saying that any output is in the public domain. In particular, they also state that the resulting work is still subject to any copyright of works that were in the training set and that are "recognizable" in the output (probably super tricky to prove in practice, but still). So also according to this, LLMs are not legally able to copyright launder anything you want into the public domain, and any projects that want to incorporate LLM-generated code need to be aware of the legal risks.

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Wanja @muvlon@hachyderm.io

· 30mo ago

Replying to

@ipg @boxy I'm laying unshielded untwisted Cat 0. This shit ain't nothing to me LAN

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Wanja @muvlon@hachyderm.io

· 7mo ago

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@whitequark@social.treehouse.systems I mean there is genuinely interesting technical infos in there too but it's tarnished by this annoying fluff. Companies should be brave enough to let their engineers rawdog writing the tech blogs in broken english

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Wanja @muvlon@hachyderm.io

· 7mo ago

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@whitequark@social.treehouse.systems Damn, I dropped it years ago because routing was so slow. Maybe I need to give it another try! Especially since the alternative I picked (Organic Maps) has faster routing but is worse in most other regards.

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Wanja @muvlon@hachyderm.io

· 10mo ago

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@esoterra@hachyderm.io @michalfita@mastodon.social There's a second way to read the joke: All comparisons involving NaN are simply defined by IEEE754, so two NaN values are always unequal no matter the bitpattern.

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Wanja @muvlon@hachyderm.io

· 8mo ago

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@eoaiuastwg@borg.social Yeah but sadly some people just can't let it die and move on

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Wanja @muvlon@hachyderm.io

· 8mo ago

Replying to

@noratrieb This meme but they put the boobs in Garfield's LLVM build directory instead

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Wanja @muvlon@hachyderm.io

· 9mo ago

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@Ashedryden@xoxo.zone @parismarx@mastodon.online Yeah, and next round will in all likelihood have Bezos vs. Larry Elison, this bracket is way too stacked

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Wanja @muvlon@hachyderm.io

· 11mo ago

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@rk@mastodon.well.com I am Object(). You are Object(). We are not the same.

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Wanja @muvlon@hachyderm.io

· 30mo ago

Replying to

@giggls@karlsruhe-social.de @zerforschung@chaos.social Hey das ist jetzt nicht ganz fair, es gibt schließlich noch

SQL injection
Stored XSS
Alle Daten sind auf einem öffentlichen S3 bucket

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Wanja @muvlon@hachyderm.io

· 32mo ago

Replying to

@photon @spacefinner No way, that's that scary physicist type of math. Kiki math is way easier for my CS brain

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Wanja @muvlon@hachyderm.io

· 16mo ago

Replying to

@xgranade@wandering.shop I realized this early on into my degree, so I got pretty good at making plausible-sounding bullshit. That made my university life a ton easier. These days I find not a lot of use in LLMs because I can already do the main thing they do and am well aware that that can only take you so far.

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Wanja @muvlon@hachyderm.io

· 33mo ago

Replying to

@tyalie Ah warte das ist die Modern Solution Affäre. Das ist ja noch dümmer als ich es in Erinnerung hatte.

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Wanja @muvlon@hachyderm.io

· 37mo ago

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@pkce @sunfish Confusingly, what you call "concurrency" is what a bunch of people call "concurrency control": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Concurrency_control That is, concurrency represents uncertainty about ordering of operations and concurrency control is how you keep it in check and ensure safety. Under that view, not every parallel program is concurrent. SIMD for example is parallelism but it does not involve uncertainty and therefore needs no concurrency control.

en.wikipedia.org

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Wanja @muvlon@hachyderm.io

· 26mo ago

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@foone@digipres.club @cyrus@wetdry.world That sounds like about the marginal cost of spot-welding the battery in there. WTF!

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Wanja @muvlon@hachyderm.io

· 10mo ago

Replying to

@hailey@hails.org We can go deeper! The G in GIRepository stands for GObject.

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Wanja @muvlon@hachyderm.io

· 7mo ago

Replying to

@jomo I learned an entire shitty functional programming language just so I don't have to write kubernetes YAML. We all pay a price.

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Wanja @muvlon@hachyderm.io

· 7mo ago

Replying to

@whitequark@social.treehouse.systems Why is the blog post giving AI though

OsmAnd's HH-Routing is more than just an algorithm; it's a testament to innovative problem-solving.

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Wanja @muvlon@hachyderm.io

· 8mo ago

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@dangillmor@mastodon.social I submitted my answers, but it feels somewhat futile. Watch Mozilla spin these answers like "We see that the most important topic for you is improving user privacy. That's why we'll be partnering with [insert shady AI company] who are leveraging agentic AI workflows for enhancing privacy!"

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Wanja @muvlon@hachyderm.io

· 10mo ago

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@hailey@hails.org The GNU's not Unix Network Object Model Environment Image Manipulation Program Tool Kit Library Object Introspection Repository

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Wanja @muvlon@hachyderm.io

· 5mo ago

Replying to

@haematophage berkeley adjective signifying exemplary deeds

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Wanja @muvlon@hachyderm.io

· 5mo ago

@lcamtuf@infosec.exchange Idk, I could actually see them nerf their old models as they release new ones, to make the comparison more favorable. Apple does the same to older iPhones via firmware updates.

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Wanja @muvlon@hachyderm.io

· 4mo ago

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@yoasif@mastodon.social @allpurposemat@mastodon.gamedev.place This part from the executive summary: "Human authors are entitled to copyright in their works of authorship that are perceptible in AI-generated outputs" And I don't think it's a distinction without difference. If all LLM output were automatically public domain, it would mean you could vibecode to your heart's content without ever worrying about contaminating your project with e.g GPL licensed or proprietary code. But you can't, because it's not public domain, it might be copyright encumbered.

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Wanja @muvlon@hachyderm.io

· 33mo ago

Replying to

@tyalie und Erklärung?

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Wanja @muvlon@hachyderm.io

· 5mo ago

Replying to

@jhpratt@mastodon.social Do they stretch all syllables? Or just part? Trying to imagine this in my head.

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