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kevin_b_er··on Meta's AI models are powering the first wave of Genesis Mission projects
This is a false statement.

> Your use of the SAM Materials will not involve or encourage others to reverse engineer, decompile or discover the underlying components of the SAM Materials. > Your use of the DINO Materials will not involve or encourage others to reverse engineer, decompile or discover the underlying components of the DINO Materials.

It is not open source, thus the statement is false and a "lie". Nothing here is "open source".

kevin_b_er··on Microsoft only lets you opt out of AI photo scanning 3x a year
By "class action" I presume you're referring to the US. If so, no, the courts of law are forbidden to you. You will instead go to a secret tribunal where the laws do not matter. The arbiter will only continue to be paid if they continue to rule for corporations.

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/servicesagreement#15_binding...

kevin_b_er··on Techno-feudalism and the rise of AGI: A future without economic rights?
And that's where drones and robots come in. The goal is to make sure there's no more uprisings, ever again.

You need only look at the US, where the rich are given all the benefits in changes in law, and the commoner gets nothing except some get the perverted glee of causing someone else to suffer first, not realizing they're on the menu to be sacrificed later.

kevin_b_er··on Modifying an HDMI dummy plug's EDID using a Raspberry Pi
That was written by you?

I don't agree with this section:

> The HDCP converter simply announces itself as a final video endpoint… yet still repeats the content to its output port. Without a very expensive HDMI protocol analyzer, we can’t check if the source is tagging the content as type 0 or type 1, but there is no reason now to think that it’s not type 1.

There's no magic in the HDMI protocol that says type 1 vs type 0. Its just another HDCP message over DDC, but it is only sent to repeaters. In this case, since the HDCP Repeater is lying about not being a repeater, it isn't getting sent the StreamID Type information.

kevin_b_er··on Over 90% of U.S. airport towers are understaffed, data shows
Kalamazoo is the result of consolidation. The graph incorrectly just lists them as "Kalamazoo Tower", but its also a TRACON facility.

They're handling multiple airports remotely. In 2016, this was planned to be Grand Rapids, Lansing, Muskegon, Flint, and Saginaw, though I'm not sure all of them were consolidated.

kevin_b_er··on Cryptocurrency doesn't address the hard parts of financial inclusion (2022)
Because none of that is the purpose of cryptocurrency. It for tax evasion by the rich, and for the cryptocurrency to seize when its used for crimes or when its defrauded out of someone else. And for riding a seemingly permanently rising currency to riches.

In any case, it boils down to "I can make money off cryptocurrency". It doesn't "help" people. If someone says that, they just want to evangelize it because they think that's the key to 'crypto go up'.

kevin_b_er··on Fixing America's elevators is becoming a heavy lift
America loved to build _in the past_. Now the workers cost too much, even when paid poorly, and the top must profit on an exponential curve.
kevin_b_er··on Shizuku: App that lets you use system APIs with higher privileges without root
The author intends it to be a modified Apache 2.

   2. Grant of Copyright License. Subject to the terms and conditions of
      this License, each Contributor hereby grants to You a perpetual,
      worldwide, non-exclusive, no-charge, royalty-free, irrevocable
      copyright license to reproduce, prepare Derivative Works of,
      publicly display, publicly perform, sublicense, and distribute the
      Work and such Derivative Works in Source or Object form.


  
    For the project as a whole, it is not free. You are FORBIDDEN to distribute the apk compiled by you (including modified, e.g., rename app name "Shizuku" to something else) to any store (IBNLT Google Play Store, F-Droid, Amazon Appstore etc.).
This is not Apache licensed, because the author is explicitly declaring its terms altered.

It is NOT open source, it violates freedom 1:

Freedom 1

   The license shall not restrict any party from selling or giving away the software as a component of an aggregate software distribution containing programs from several different sources. The license shall not require a royalty or other fee for such sale.
kevin_b_er··on Türkiye Bans Roblox
That name is not in English, as evidenced by the non-English letter.
kevin_b_er··on More disabled Americans are employed, thanks to remote work
> Its strange how much power we give employers over employees, and how regular people defend this, even when its actively working against them.

"Because, one day, I will be a rich person, and I will be able to be cruel to the little people. I don't want to prevent me being able to abuse people if I'm in that position!"

kevin_b_er··on Tesla owners file class-action alleging repair, parts monopoly
You can read their Motor Vehicle Order Agreement. Mandatory Binding Arbitration.

https://www.epi.org/publication/the-arbitration-epidemic/ https://centerjd.org/system/files/ArbitrationWhitePaper.pdf

You can even read Hall Street Associates, L.L.C. v. Mattel, Inc, where even when the agreement said the courts could review. Where, no, courts of law may not review an arbiter's decision if you both agree it would be able to after arbitration.

You can read Mitsubishi Motors Corp. v. Soler Chrysler-Plymouth, Inc., where SCOTUS explicitly declared the American Arbitration Act overrides the Sherman Anti-Trust Act.

You can read Express Co. v. Italian Colors Restaurant, where you find out you have no substantive rights where the AAA is involved.

There's still weak attempts to save it, but the The National Labor Relations Act is also likely superseded by the American Arbitration Act, basically voiding the NLRA from being ever applicable.

Courts of law are barred where arbitration is inserted, anywhere, whether you know it or not. You lose basic rights where arbitration is concerned.

kevin_b_er··on Tesla owners file class-action alleging repair, parts monopoly
The case is already dead.

If you bought a Tesla, you have no right to a court of law involving Tesla. It will go to arbitration, where the case will be secret, but Tesla will know the arguments and results of of all attempts against it, but not you. It will go to arbitration, where the arbiter may be blacklisted from future cases if it rules against Tesla. It will go to arbitration, where the arbiter's ruling is final and the law does not apply. Capricious? Does not matter.

The Magnuson-Moss Warranty Act is superseded and voided by the American Arbitration Act. You, as a citizen owner of a Tesla, are barred from using that law against Tesla. The Sherman Act is superseded and voided by the American Arbitration Act. You, as a citizen owner of a Tesla, are barred from using that law against Tesla. No court of law will ever be permitted to apply those laws against Telsa by a Tesla owner.

This case was already dismissed once in Sept of last year when the motion to compel arbitration was granted. They're trying again with some sort of attempted resurrection, but its just a waste of money, because Tesla owners are barred from courts of law. They will go to a privatized pseudo-court where they will lose and where they can't do class action unless Telsa wants it.

kevin_b_er··on Zinc Supplements Decrease Mortality in Covid-19 Patients: A Meta-Analysis
Full paper at https://www.cureus.com/articles/141805-zinc-supplementation-... and not this summary.

Key limitations: They only used 5 papers

> There were limitations to this study. A small number of studies were assessed, only five were chosen for mortality analysis with a total sample size of 1,474 patients, and two were chosen for symptomology with a sample size of 391 patients. The design of the studies chosen limits the conclusions made in this study regarding mortality as three of the studies are retrospective studies and only two are randomized control trials for mortality. Both papers that assessed symptomology were randomized control trials. Between studies, zinc formulations were different, and in some cases, zinc was given in combination with other drugs.

3 of those studies were retrospectives, 2 were randomized studies. One of those randomized studies was halted for "futility" at zinc treatment.

I'm suspicious about the conclusions.

kevin_b_er··on Embrace IPv6 before its too late
Neither hackaday.com nor gist.github.com seem to support ipv6, so this seems pretty ironic.

Good for unique address assignments for IoT I suppose, but still seemingly terrible for a user agent.

kevin_b_er··on Ore Energy unveils battery based on only iron, water and air
This is very light on the details of their batteries, unfortunately.

Iron-air batteries have been known for awhile now, the challenge is making them commercially viable. If I recall, their efficiency is awful for one. There's a company called Form Energy in West Virginia that is supposedly nearly done with a factory to build them for grid storage.

kevin_b_er··on Tesla must face vehicle owners' lawsuit over self-driving claims
This will likely be canceled, like the previous iteration. It will just take months of arguments before the "amended complaint" is resolved.

You have no rights against Tesla. All disputes will go to a for-profit psuedo-court known as "arbitration", where the arbiters only continue to make money if they rule against you.

The American Arbitration Act overrides all other federal and state laws that benefit you. The arbiter, according the political decisions of SCOTUS, have decided that a manifest disregard for the law is no prohibition. The arbiter may decide to award Tesla 1 million USD against you for challenging Tesla and you have no recourse against this. You have no rights and infinite liability when challenging them.

Such is the consequences of sneaky contracts and mandatory binding arbitration that causes the majority of Americans to lose fundamental rights without understanding it.

kevin_b_er··on [dead]
If it isn't about asset forfeiture, then what is the hearing about?
kevin_b_er··on Raspberry Pi Ltd is considering an IPO
Not "profit", but a duty to maximize shareholder value.

eBay Domestic Holdings, Inc. v. Newmark A Delaware Corporation has a duty to maximize shareholder value. That's the majority of all publicly held US corporations.

So I may generalize and state, _as a fact_, that the majority of public companies in the United States of America are driven primarily by insatiable avarice in a legal duty to their shareholders.

kevin_b_er··on Why do some leading geologists reject the term "Anthropocene"?
And when the politics of greed and the science of truth come to odds?

Therein lies the rub.

kevin_b_er··on Fighting cookie theft using device bound sessions
This looks like a tool for Google/Alphabet to use to improve ads or make it more difficult to use unapproved browsers under the guise of 'privacy'.

An astroturf feature not unlike ManifestV3.

kevin_b_er··on Backdoor in upstream xz/liblzma leading to SSH server compromise
Those tarballs are PGP signed, too..
kevin_b_er··on Backdoor in upstream xz/liblzma leading to SSH server compromise
They appear to have moved carefully to set this up over the course of weeks by setting up the framework to perform this attack.

I would now presume this person to be a hostile actor and their contributions anywhere and everywhere must be audited. I would not wait for them to cry 'but my bother did it', because an actual malicious actor would say the same thing. The 'mob' should be pouring over everything they've touched.

Audit now and audit aggressively.

kevin_b_er··on Mozilla will be retiring the Mozilla Location Service
Skyhook apparently threatens companies that try to crowdsource such things, case in point Mozilla. So, you're either paying off the patent troll or using their services.
kevin_b_er··on IRS has launched its free tax filing service, Direct File, in 12 states
This is disingenuous take. We're not talking about the IRS, but the company they outsourced to that demands a lot from you.

You lose the basic right to access courts of law, and ID.me gains nearly unlimited capacity to harm you without repercussions.

kevin_b_er··on HDMI Forum Rejects Open-Source HDMI 2.1 Driver Support Sought by AMD
Are you sure you aren't thinking of HDCP? It is separate from HDMI, and DisplayPort does HDCP too.
kevin_b_er··on Nearly all of California's reservoir's are above their historical averages
80% of all water used by humans in California are for agriculture. The pistachios and alfalfa are what use up all the water, not the generic population.

https://water.ca.gov/Programs/Water-Use-And-Efficiency/Agric...

kevin_b_er··on Air Canada is responsible for chatbot's mistake: B.C. tribunal
"The system" for you and me, not the system for those at the top. They'll maintain their wealth.

You're presuming the rich care about "the system". That they have morals or ethics. They do not.

kevin_b_er··on Air Canada is responsible for chatbot's mistake: B.C. tribunal
The purpose of AI, and the entire drive of investment in it, is to eliminate labor costs. There's no other purpose. It is not to advance science or make a better world, it is to make money. That money comes by the expense of the many and the gain of a few. And there will not be new jobs to replace the ones lost. There's no more "learn to code!". They're there to replace all jobs possible, make a more unequal society, and nothing more.

You'd best understand this today.

kevin_b_er··on Walmart, Delta, and Starbucks are using AI to monitor employee messages
You are hoping for altruistic behavior in a highly capitalist environment. This is incorrect.

It will not be used for anything but control and punishment.

kevin_b_er··on Sony is erasing digital libraries that were supposed to be accessible "forever"
If buying is not owning, then piracy is not theft.
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