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I would not expect any software to share PII collected from my system in a public bug tracker.

That might be part of the data they share, but they also clearly said in the blog post I linked above that they also share some data with their ad partners.

Unless they're running ads for other companies without taking any money, they are indeed selling data:

https://blog.mozilla.org/en/products/firefox/update-on-terms...

> In order to make Firefox commercially viable, there are a number of places where we collect and share some data with our partners, including our optional ads on New Tab and providing sponsored suggestions in the search bar. We set all of this out in our Privacy Notice.

> You can see user collected data publicly

Where? I thought they were sharing this data with partners, not making it publicly available. See https://blog.mozilla.org/en/products/firefox/update-on-terms...:

> In order to make Firefox commercially viable, there are a number of places where we collect and share some data with our partners, including our optional ads on New Tab and providing sponsored suggestions in the search bar. We set all of this out in our Privacy Notice.

> OpenAI does the logical thing. Let's me enter my credit card and I'm good to go. I will stay with them.

When did you make your account? I could have sworn I had to verify with my phone number before payment.

> From indie devs to enterprise teams, our growing community is building faster with an open source backend built from the ground-up for developers.

From https://directus.io.

And the price is "Contact our sales team" [1] for self hosting for those with > $5 million revenue. Seems like not a good idea if you think you're ever going to reach that number.

They also considerably increased their cloud hosted pricing from $25/month unlimited to $500/month for 10 user + 250k rows + 1 million API requests.

Old pricing: https://web.archive.org/web/20220619075129/https://directus....

[1]: https://directus.io/pricing/self-hosted

Shakti (the latest K implementation by the author of K) claims [1] to load a 50gb csv in 1.6 seconds which according to them takes 265 seconds with Polars. Has anyone independently verified these claims? Is Polars really leaving 2 orders of magnitude performance on the table?

[1]: https://shakti.com/ -> Compare -> h2o.k

> there are ways to get similar or better blocking for free

How can you get better blocking for free?

The choices are driven by the extra revenue and will not change until mass enforcement. Some sites (mostly news) even have a "buy subscription" or "accept cookies" option which I thought was not allowed under GDPR.

> Based on proof-of-work mechanisms and advanced risk signals

> Friendly Captcha does not depend on tracking your users and exploiting personal data.

What "advanced risk signals" are these that do not involve tracking (or fingerprinting) users?

And what about EU headquartered cloud providers that have servers in the US like Hetzner?

What cloud services are there that operate exclusively in the EU? Hetzner has servers in US now so I guess they also won't be an alternative?

I hope they don't settle early and we finally get an answer to whether training AI on copyrighted content is fair use or not.

Does this affect open weights AI releases? Or is the ban only on the actual use for the listed cases? Because you can use open weights Mistral models to implement probably everything on that list.

Has anyone run this test on Ghostty?

From what I've read online, that would not be enough.

According to https://gdpr-info.eu/issues/consent/

> Consent must be freely given, specific, informed and unambiguous. In order to obtain freely given consent, it must be given on a voluntary basis. The element “free” implies a real choice by the data subject. Any element of inappropriate pressure or influence which could affect the outcome of that choice renders the consent invalid.

Declining terms of service will affect the outcome so it can't be considered "freely given consent".

If using Google Fonts without explicit informed consent is a GDPR violation then this surely is too?

What other way would you suggest to protect a free service from bots? Cloudflare is often the easiest to implement and has a generous limit on their free plan.

Is using SQLite without buying a license [1] really illegal in your jurisdiction?

[1]: https://www.sqlite.org/purchase/license

Does their ToS give them additional rights to the code uploaded to GitHub? There are several unofficial copies of projects like glibc [1] uploaded by people who definitely do not have the authority to grant any additional rights to the code.

[1]: https://github.com/bminor/glibc

> The writing is on the wall. You MUST host your own code on a stand-alone website.

How would self hosting your code prevent Microsoft/GitHub from using it in the Copilot training dataset? If using content from GitHub irrespective of their license to train Copilot is legal, so is training from code available on your website.

Is the bandwidth pricing also really so high after you hit the 1TB limit? It shows $20 for the first TB, then $55/100GB. That's a 27.5x increase while other cloud services reduce the prices on higher tiers.

> exact number of rows scanned etc

I'm reading MySQL docs [1] and I can't figure out which value in the example output corresponds to the "exact number of rows scanned".

> It’s a pity that not too many backend engineers know about it now a days.

I use EXPLAIN with PostgreSQL when needed but mostly focus on the execution time, not the number of rows scanned (reading a large row could be orders of magnitude slower than reading a row in a JOIN table of two integers in a row based storage engine).

[1] https://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/8.0/en/explain.html

Does MySQL (or PlanetScale) provide a way to input a query and get a lower/upper bound on the number of rows the query will "inspect" when run?

You can still rack up a huge bill if you run a public web service and don't monitor the alerts 24x7.

> I think we should get rid of domains all the way, I should be able to register any text and make it DNS resolve.

> Only answer for having squatters is to make any "domain" buyable so they can't get all the good ones.

How's that any different from the current domain name system? There will still be only one owner of the text "google" or "begin".

> Every single file in every single machine that ever ran VSCode would potentially be at anyone's grasp.

Even if they were scanning all the files, Copilot's terms [1] explicitly says they do not use the data to provide suggestions for other users.

> GitHub Copilot does not use these URLs, file paths, or snippets collected in your telemetry as suggestions for other users of GitHub Copilot. This information is treated as confidential information and accessed on a need-to-know basis.

[1] https://docs.github.com/en/github/copilot/github-copilot-tel...

> Have you told your client that you are making use of tools that upload the intellectual property they’ve shared with you / they’ve paid you to create for them, onto third-party servers?

Related: Have any of the big tech companies banned their employees from using Copilot yet?

> uploading the end result onto some sort of shared AI training set

Does Copilot use the data it collects for training their AI? From their terms [1]

> GitHub Copilot does not use these URLs, file paths, or snippets collected in your telemetry as suggestions for other users of GitHub Copilot. This information is treated as confidential information and accessed on a need-to-know basis.

[1] https://docs.github.com/en/github/copilot/github-copilot-tel...