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> So not balking means being willing, right? In this case, willing to proceed with what he was planning to do, that is, moving from Windows to Linux against Microsoft's wishes. edi…

Per Merriam-Webster, 'to balk' means: 1: to refuse abruptly 2: to stop short and refuse to proceed Per Cambridge Dictionary, it means: to be unwilling to do something or to allow s…

Merriam-Webster has balk as to stop short and refuse to proceed . To understand the intended meaning, put the emphasis on the first part: If the mayor did not balk, he did not stop…

>> a public domain codebase with some GPL code > which would still be a GPL codebase If the GPL-licensed parts have become so insignificant that they can easily be replaced, it eff…

In the absence of more specific legislation or court decisions, the same rules that cover usage of any other public domain code would apply.

From the 2025 Report on Copyright and Artificial Intelligence [1]: > The Office concludes that, given current generally available technology, prompts alone do not provide sufficien…

You want to prevent the transition from a GPL codebase with some public domain code to a public domain codebase with some GPL code. One way to do so is to outright ban contribution…

> do you have references for such code being legally considered public? There's a human authorship requirement for copyright protections. In context of AI, cf Stephen Thaler v. Per…

Note that humans do come with different types of 'input streams': Hit my knee in the right spot, and I'll kick my leg, no choice about it. Scream at me to LIFT MY EFFING LEG (in a …

On the flip side, Coderberg does not owe anyone free infrastructure...

I'd argue there's a qualitative difference between using machine learning for specific data analysis tasks, and using a generic agentic AI system controlled by some corporate entit…

It's a matter of definitions, but I can at least understand someone wanting to make a distinction between reactive and non-reactive 'AI' (such as data filters). There's overlap and…

Shrugs . I have no issue with someone claiming that a company making drills used exclusively for oil drilling is in the 'oil business'. However, I would not call such a company an …

Are the majority of Adobe's and Autodesk's customers game studios? Because that was the basis of the argument that was being made. And just to clarify, personally, I would not desc…

Yes in some sense, no in others.

Depends on what you mean by the term: Some companies are in the business of supporting game studios without being game studios themselves (eg animation companies you outsource your…

Sure. Doesn't mean the statement itself was nonsense, as the post I replied to implied...

Phrased differently, they claimed that the entropy of the distribution of some quality metric tends to be higher on the domain of projects with vibecoded sites compared to the doma…

But you seem to be arguing that having users compile their software themselves doesn't increase their security? On the contrary! I gave examples where source files get generated. T…

Sure - but running build scripts on an end-user's machine requires the user to have all relevant tools installed, and isn't exactly reducing the attack surface... I still like the …

it's far from a given that the tools (e.g. browsers) used to read it are safe from malicious documentation files Generated HTML files are potentially easier to audit than the scrip…

Why can't you store a (possibly shallow) clone of the repository in the "package" registry? Yes, that would be an option. As to your question, you generally want to version control…

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