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Firefox UI revamp sparks complaints, searches for alternatives (2014)

computerworld.com
2 points·by 1gn15·7 месяцев назад·0 comments

Passively capture, archive, and hoard your web browsing history

oxij.org
4 points·by 1gn15·9 месяцев назад·0 comments

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1gn15
·7 месяцев назад·discuss
Gee whiz, what an interesting way of thinking. https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/aaaah
1gn15
·7 месяцев назад·discuss
Very likely no license can restrict it, since learning is not covered under copyright. Even if you could restrict it, you couldn't add a "no LLMs" clause without violating the free software principles or the OSI definition, since you cannot discriminate in your license.
1gn15
·7 месяцев назад·discuss
In that case, the neo-Luddites are worse than the original Luddites, then? Since many are definitely not "totally fine with the machines", and definitely do not confine their attacks only on the manufacturers that go against worker rights, but they include the average person in their attacks. And the original Luddites already got a lot of hate for attempting to hold back progress.
1gn15
·7 месяцев назад·discuss
Are you sure? A survey by the YouTuber Games And AI found that the vast majority of indie game developers are either using, or considering using AI. Like around 90%.
1gn15
·7 месяцев назад·discuss
This article commits several common and disappointing fallacies:

1. Open weight models exist, guys.

2. It assumes that copyright is stripped when doing essentially Img2Img on code. That's not true. (Also, copyright != attribution.)

3. It assumes that AI is "just rearranging code". That's not true. Speaking about provenance in learning is as nonsensical as asking one to credit the creators of the English alphabet. There's a reason why literally every single copyright-based lawsuit against machine learning has failed so far, around the world.

4. It assumes that the reduction in posts on StackOverflow is due to people no longer wanting to contribute. That's likely not true. Its just that most questions were "homework questions" that didn't really warrant a volunteer's time.
1gn15
·7 месяцев назад·discuss
Just so everyone else knows, the complaining is by definition reactionary.

> In politics, a reactionary is a person who favors a return to a previous state of society which they believe possessed positive characteristics absent from contemporary society.

But I guess HackerNews is infamous for being conservative, so it's not too surprising.
1gn15
·7 месяцев назад·discuss
At least the blog author is self-aware about making accessibility worse? I just found it funny how reactionary and backfire-y this was.

(In politics, a reactionary is a person who favors a return to a previous state of society which they believe possessed positive characteristics absent from contemporary society.)
1gn15
·7 месяцев назад·discuss
I feel like this is useful for a high level understanding of the codebase. However, it isn't very useful for real world insights or precise questions.
1gn15
·7 месяцев назад·discuss
Does this filter out traditional SEO blogfarms?
1gn15
·8 месяцев назад·discuss
Not true. You can train on copyrighted material and post the resulting model on HuggingFace, and you won't get into trouble. Pinky promise.
1gn15
·8 месяцев назад·discuss
> And a human artist doesn't need to steal million pictures to learn to draw.

They... do? Not just pictures, but also real life data, which is a lot more data than an average modern ML system has. An average artist has probably seen- stolen millions of pictures from their social media feeds over their lifetime.

Also, claiming to be anti-capitalist while defending one of the most offensive types of private property there is. The whole point of anti-capitalism is being anti private property. And copyright is private property because it gives you power over others. You must be against copyright and be against the concept of "stealing pictures" if you are to be an anti-capitalist.
1gn15
·8 месяцев назад·discuss
Yes. There have been multiple court cases affirming fair use.
1gn15
·8 месяцев назад·discuss
out of pure spite for hypocritical "hackers"
1gn15
·8 месяцев назад·discuss
> It’s not. Julia is better, much better. But Julia came too late.

Sounds a lot like "worse is better". Python is the worse option, incomplete and inelegant, but is much more practical due to being there first and receiving the bulk of the attention.
1gn15
·8 месяцев назад·discuss
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1gn15
·8 месяцев назад·discuss
Are you volunteering to transcribe it?
1gn15
·8 месяцев назад·discuss
https://xcancel.com/RoguesPhilo/status/1937473433262260342
1gn15
·8 месяцев назад·discuss
Who cares?
1gn15
·8 месяцев назад·discuss
Staying true to free software principles. It's unethical to publish nonfree code or binaries.
1gn15
·8 месяцев назад·discuss
Feels like they'd make that illegal, and enforce it by checking the CCTV footage for the person who planted that mini computer, then arresting that person.