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kibiz0r ,

Pirating Windows for your own personal, private use, which will never directly make you a single dollar: HIGHLY ILLEGAL

Scraping your creative works so they can make billions by selling automated processes that compete against your work: Perfectly fine and normal!

kibiz0r ,

It’s not even piracy though. I never saw anyone torrent Windows_XP_Home_Cracked.iso and go “Hey guys, check out this operating system I made!”

kibiz0r , (edited )

Comments here: “Yeah right, I’ll believe it when they explain how.”

Article: literally has a section explaining how

Edit:

Replies: "Yeah, but that's just a summary. I'll believe it when they explain in full detail."

Article: literally has a link to the detailed explanation

kibiz0r ,

For some reason people in art believe they don't have to compete like every other individual creating a business

If you think art is about selling a product, what’s the point of being alive?

kibiz0r ,

Interacting with people whose tone doesn’t match their words may induce anxiety as well.

Have they actually proven this is a good idea, or is this a “so preoccupied with whether or not they could” scenario?

kibiz0r ,

“Nobody uses hard drives anymore. Have the intern replace all mentions of hard drives with solid state drives.”

kibiz0r ,

Dude gave up his entire life to send a warning to as many people as possible. You think he’s gonna not post further warnings on Twitter?

Top EU Court Says There’s No Right To Online Anonymity, Because Copyright Is More Important (www.techdirt.com)

The key problem is that copyright infringement by a private individual is regarded by the court as something so serious that it negates the right to privacy. It’s a sign of the twisted values that copyright has succeeded on imposing on many legal systems. It equates the mere copying of a digital file with serious crimes that...

kibiz0r ,

It doesn’t seem like the ruling says copyright concerns justify overriding a right to anonymity under GDPR, but that the right to anonymity doesn’t exist in the first place.

I think that’s probably a better place to be, because it means they can legislate a right to anonymity.

'LLM-free' is the new '100% organic' - Creators Are Fighting AI Anxiety With an ‘LLM-Free’ Movement (www.theatlantic.com)

As soon as Apple announced its plans to inject generative AI into the iPhone, it was as good as official: The technology is now all but unavoidable. Large language models will soon lurk on most of the world’s smartphones, generating images and text in messaging and email apps. AI has already colonized web search, appearing in...

kibiz0r ,

So, literally the story of the actual Luddites. Or what they attempted to do before capitalists poured a few hundred bullets into them.

Some company heads hoped return-to-office mandates would make people quit, survey says (arstechnica.com)

Nearly two in five (37 percent) managers, directors, and executives believe their organization enacted layoffs in the last year because fewer employees than they expected quit during their RTO. And their beliefs are well-founded: One in four (25 percent) VP and C-suite executives and one in five (18 percent) HR pros admit they...

kibiz0r ,

As a contractor, your client isn’t allowed to dictate your work methods. It’s one of the things the IRS looks at when identifying misclassified employees.

kibiz0r ,

Article says it’s likely an OpenAI partnership.

kibiz0r ,

“”Why are there so many extra quotes?””

kibiz0r ,

As a developer, my default definition of “slow” is whether it’s slow on my machine. Not ideal, but chimp brain do chimp brain things. My eyes see my own screen all day, not yours.

kibiz0r ,

JOOOOOOOSH

JOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOSH

kibiz0r ,

I use Linux because Hackintosh is a dying platform and it only takes about 800 hours to get it almost as good.

kibiz0r ,

Copyright law is broken. But I don't think that means we have no obligations to each other as human beings when we build on each other's work.

We had the same argument during the crypto craze. The financial system is broken, but 10 years later I think we all agree that crypto is pretty clearly not the answer.

kibiz0r ,

This is why I said anything built on public work, should be public goods as well.

What if I don't want certain people to build on my work, or to constrain the ways in which the build on it? (Non-commercial, share-alike, attribution, etc. clauses) Should I be able to?

That’s not a good comparison. Crypto was a (bad) solution looking for a problem. GenAI already has use-cases.

I didn't mean to compare the technology -- though there are some similar scam vectors, but that's a different conversation.

I meant that there was a strong contingent of crypto fans back then who were saying -- correctly -- that "the mainstream system is corrupt and wields legislation as a weapon against consumers". But their proposed alternative was a system that removed all regulation, including consumer protections.

I worry that there's a trend in tech circles today that echoes that sentiment when it comes to AI.

I'm also rather disappointed that a substantial group of people who I used to assume I was aligned with -- pirates and open-sourcerers -- turned out to only be there for the free shit and not for the ethos.

An ethos which, to me, is something like: everyone has a right to participate in culture and be a part of the conversation, and everyone has a duty to acknowledge the work that enabled their own and do their best to be a good custodian of the upstream works.

kibiz0r ,

I started on MacVim, so I could just use cmd+q. And by the time I used vim on the terminal I knew all about :commands

kibiz0r ,

Visual Studio: 😳

kibiz0r ,

How do you send 200x as much data?

You don’t. The external system needs to run an approximation of the internal system, which the internal system will also run and only transmit differences.

There you go. Solved it. (By delegating to a new problem.)

kibiz0r ,

Only way to get it in 3D

kibiz0r ,

Personal use of business assets is generally frowned upon by the IRS.

kibiz0r ,

Energy and water.

kibiz0r ,

Can I super-mega-ultra upvote this?

It's the same playbook as ever. Doubt can only be explained by ignorance, failure can only be explained by under-committing,

The only way to have a "valid" opinion is to have already bought-in and be actively selling other people on it. It's the same mentality as a cult or a pyramid scheme.

kibiz0r ,

Least toxic Linux thread

kibiz0r , (edited )

That’s pretty much the whole point.

Making use of other people’s work and likeness in a way that removes any obligations you would normally have to those people.

Just clearly define “copyright violation” for them, and they’ll craft a method that technically eludes your definition.

kibiz0r ,

CIA’s Simple Sabotage Field Manual

kibiz0r ,

Technically, nobody survives their future.

kibiz0r ,

But LoSavio had opted out of the arbitration agreement and was given the option of filing an amended complaint.

This is why it’s important to opt out of arbitration!

Also notice the potential for fuckery in the statute of limitations here:

the relevant statutes of limitations range from two to four years, and LoSavio sued over five years after buying the car. Under the delayed discovery rule, the limitations period begins when "the plaintiff has, or should have, inquiry notice of the cause of action."

But when Tesla declined to update his car's cameras in April 2022, "LoSavio allegedly discovered that he had been misled by Tesla's claim that his car had all the hardware needed for full automation."

Without that specific moment to point to, to reset the clock through delayed discovery, Tesla could just say “Yeah, we lied, but you bought the lie for 5 years, so now we’re in the clear!”

kibiz0r ,

Use netboot.xyz and let us know how it goes. I’ve always been curious.

kibiz0r ,

Democracy Now is pretty great too

kibiz0r ,

Cherry pie

kibiz0r ,

Yall ever notice that professions that specialize in logic also tend to produce the dumbest motherfuckers on the planet?

kibiz0r ,

Only too true.

the study finds that people who are otherwise very good at math may totally flunk a problem that they would otherwise probably be able to solve, simply because giving the right answer goes against their political beliefs.

...

it turns out that highly numerate liberals and conservatives were even more—not less—susceptible to letting politics skew their reasoning than were those with less mathematical ability.

kibiz0r ,

Aesex Rock

kibiz0r ,

If you haven’t checked out his new album (ITS), you should. Some certified bangers on that one. Even the stuff I didn’t like at first has grown on me.

kibiz0r , (edited )

Instantly makes ransomware [edit 2: my brain was being dumb, I didn't mean literally ransomware, I meant hackers blackmailing companies with the threat of releasing/selling stolen data] far more profitable.

Edit: And heavily discourages self-reporting. There’s a Schneier quote I like: “You can't defend. You can't prevent. The only thing you can do is detect and respond.”

kibiz0r ,

The ban is a dumb policy, but you’re daft if you think the security implications are at all similar.

TikTok was caught injecting a keylogger into their in-app browser and their response was “Well yeah, but we promise we’re not using it.”

kibiz0r ,

No. This is analogous to cross-frame scripting.

So imagine you go to tiktok.com and you click on a link to bestbuy.com/cool-product-i-want-to-buy. But instead of taking you directly to bestbuy.com/cool-product-i-want-to-buy, it keeps you on tiktok.com and just opens an iframe with a keylogger injected into it.

So then when you enter credit card info into the bestbuy.com UI, the tiktok.com JS can see what you typed.

(This scenario is largely impossible these days, due to modern browser security.)

The difference is that if you witnessed this kind of XFS in your desktop browser, you might notice it because the location bar still says tiktok.com, because you never actually left the site. But in a mobile in-app browser, you don't need an iframe. You can inject JS directly into the browser itself, making it invisible to the user. As far as you can tell, you're on regular ol' bestbuy.com, not a modified version of it.

kibiz0r ,

Absolutely. But the penalty does modify the cost-benefit analysis. If a hacker demands $5m or else they will release stolen data, you might be more inclined to YOLO the 5 mil on the 1% chance they're an honest hacker if the penalty for the breach is $50bn.

kibiz0r , (edited )

lmao, you asked.

I'm not a security expert, but my tech career has involved a lot of automated testing in weird scenarios, including iframe-based Facebook games and browser-based mobile apps. Automated tests face a lot of the same challenges that a malicious third-party would, so I know a little bit about how to get past them -- or rather, how to deliberately create vulnerabilities (in the dev build of your system) so that your tests can get past them.

Edit: I am curious why someone downvoted me on that one though. I can understand how my comment about the ban being dumb but TikTok also shipping a keylogger could anger people on one side or the other. But just explaining how in-app browsers revive a security problem that's been long-solved in standalone browsers?

kibiz0r ,

First, they sent the missionaries. They built communities, facilities for the common good, and spoke of collaboration and mutual prosperity. They got so many of us to buy into their belief system as a result.

Then, they sent the conquistadors. They took what we had built under their guidance, and claimed we "weren't using it" and it was rightfully theirs to begin with.

kibiz0r ,

The quality really doesn't matter.

If they manage to strip any concept of authenticity, ownership or obligation from the entirety of human output and stick it behind a paywall, that's pretty much the whole ball game.

If we decide later that this is actually a really bullshit deal -- that they get everything for free and then sell it back to us -- then they'll surely get some sort of grandfather clause because "Whoops, we already did it!"

kibiz0r ,

How do they measure despair?

kibiz0r ,

2/12 so far

kibiz0r ,

Could also be that the HTTP server lied about the content length.

kibiz0r ,

My Subaru has a similar setup, and there’s a feature for changing the max height of the tailgate. You might wanna see if the same thing exists for you.

kibiz0r ,

A frunking typo

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