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Do you work for apple?

> We fucked up economy pretty badly and still seeing the results of it,

Still? We've only just begun dealing with this fallout. It will be effecting us for a generation.

I'd rather there were no future victims.

It's true, I lost 15kg before r/fatpeoplehate was banned.

I'd rather see J&J go out of business entirely.

Nobody is writing SEO blogspam for your support problems.

Get a better filesystem?

Not a single mention of David Grusch. Disgusting journalism.

Copyright laws are red flag laws for publishers.

It has nothing to do with creators.

People are regularly paying creators directly to create through patreon, super chats, advertising, early access, subscriptions, etc.

The idea that you need copyright to protect you is just not based in reality.

Get rid of copyright, creators will find a way to monetize it if they want to make a living doing it.

It's not society's job to protect your ability to get paid for your hobby. There are no original ideas, just people that write them down. You don't own them, you extracted these ideas from society, the least you can do is give them back.

> otherwise you'll soon find we have far fewer great authors, artists, etc.

It's been long understood that this idea isn't based on any real evidence. Creators create because they like to create things. Adding money to the mix tends to ruin most creative endeavours. Look up beautification or note how Googles only good search results involve the keyword Reddit.

Most book sales are done within 5 years. It's drips after that.

On top of that, knowledge moves too fast these days for a 20 year right to be useful for society.

> OpenAI trained GPT3.5 and 4 to never do anything offensive, and that has a lot of negative side effects, well-documented in research.

I'm absolutely disgusted by OpenAI for this "do no offense" approach. How can people so smart be so damn uneducated?

Then again, this industry has disgusted me for a long time so it's not really a surprise.

Sure there is. Where's the NYT article on the grusch hearings? Journalism? Try establishment mouthpiece.

I think companies should stop using fixed navigation banners but we can't all get what we want now can we?

Like holy crap, I agree with you but your website is unreadable with that may as well be a banner ad of a navigation bar that keeps popping in and out of existence every time I scroll down.

Sure it is? WordPress updates itself and all plugins automatically. I've had Wordpress sites running for over a decade with zero security concerns ever popping up.

Maybe your point of view is outdated?

Back in the old days, activitypub was my Rss feed reader. Discoverability was driven by good old fashioned cross linking, comment discussions, and skimmable feeds from aggregators like the one we're on.

People love to reinvent the wheel and claim it's a whole new thing. No ideas on the web have really been innovative since the bubble popped. The innovation has all been on delivery and execution (not wanting to discount any of that).

Most of my job is figuring out why things were built the way they were. That's the only way I can know if I'm making the right changes without breaking something else in the process.

That is to say, sure most code is obvious. I don't work on most code. I work on the parts that need fixing.

Fences are boundaries. Code structure can be thought of as mostly a set of boundaries around knowledge domains.

Code tells me what you wanted to achieve. Comments tell me why you needed to.

The problem developers have is they assume it's obvious why things are needed. It's usually not obvious 6 months from now, even if you wrote it.

In the Australian case Facebook acted in retaliation.

The law was about news media, Facebook shutdown a bunch of unrelated govt services pages in retaliation.

Facebook definitely deserves a lot of blame. Likely in this case too. I'm pro capitalist as much as the next guy but laws are by the people, if a business wants to extract money from our community it needs to play by our rules.

Facebook cutting access is like a badly raised toddler throwing a tantrum.

How is this better than everyone having their own Wordpress or Drupal install?

Facebook cut off access to Australian fire brigade pages, among others.

> Compare to entirely random global ids, like UUIDv4, that generally suffer from poor database locality.

What does this mean in more words?

We're already at that point.

Ask chatgpt to generate the schema for an online business that sells sports equipment and see what happens.

Now ask it to write code accesses each table.

Another reason to use standard MySQL? ChatGPT is really good at writing, and modifying, SQL queries and the code that injects input into it.

You don't really have to write SQL anymore, you just tell chatgpt what you want changed and it works most the time. The times it doesn't, it gets you most of the way there.

Musk really living rent free eh?

Because NASA hasn't done anything useful at a reasonable cost in decades.

I'm not saying it does. I'm saying refusing to give me future versions if I share the first one is a restriction on the first one. That's a violation of the license.

I see your point and I'm not a lawyer so maybe I'm in the wrong here but to be honest this:

> The vendor can decide NOT to share the next version with you [because you shared the previous verison].

Sounds a lot like a new restriction on sharing. The threat of future action if you share something under GPL is a restriction on sharing.

If someone is prevented from sharing GPL code because of some kind of contract, license or TOS how is that not a new restriction being placed on the GPL?

That's a restriction on sharing...

It's a more restrictive license. Doesn't matter what the restriction is. It's a restriction.