Viewing profile — eschaton

At a certain point you have to take people at their word; I’m reporting what the contributor said they did (used the documentation to generate the code).

A couple of things: The “AI industry” is nowhere near as large as it pretends to be, most of its valuation is in the form of IOUs being traded back and forth. However, the bubble p…

Not quite the precedent that it may sound like. A district court judge ruled that using copyrighted materials for the training itself was not infringement, but that the materials m…

If someone were to train a coding-oriented LLM on only GPL code, I would assert that any code it outputs is covered by GPL because an LLM is fundamentally storing and reproducing i…

The starting point of GNU was that Stallman was pissed he got in trouble when he got caught copying code from the Symbolics sources to the MIT and LMI sources, which was against th…

I have personally seen this happen: Someone tried to contribute “vibe-coded” device support to a project I’m involved with, they said they did it all based on the device documentat…

Not really, no. There have been many settlements of lawsuits, which means they are very explicitly not precedents. The LLM companies likely prefer to settle because of the existent…

It was a strategic invention that has only ever applied to the plebs, the plutocrats have always been exempt from it.

If someone wants me to spend my time reading something, they need to be willing to spend their time writing it.

Oh no. The horror. How terrible.

It’s incredible to me the lengths these people will go to just to avoid using the standard tools.

Because it would cost Apple a substantial amount of money to make it possible to build your code for iOS on other platforms in any sort of supported fashion. So all the stuff they …

It’s not really that onerous for a platform to require that, to develop for it, you need to actually take part in it. For Apple platforms that means becoming a Mac user. For IBM i …

Xcode’s a lot more than a wrapper for UNIX utilities. For example, it has an entire build system. It doesn’t just invoke xcodebuild under the hood—and even if it did, xcodebuild us…

Sounds almost like allowing web pages to run scripts was a mistake.

What you’re calling a “high horse” is having morals and ethics. Your employer said not to do what you’re doing, so you either convince them to change their mind without doing somet…

Why can’t upstream just take their drivers? Isn’t that the point of requiring those drivers to be GPL?

You literally said as much, and I am not calling you names, I am accurately describing your behavior in a way you yourself appear to recognize: > So yes, call me sociopath if you l…

You should have been fired for cause, because the way you chose to work exposed your employer to substantial liability due to the “copyright laundering” nature of LLMs. But you pri…

You block them from using AI by making sure they know your project doesn’t want contributions from people using AI. Either they’re a decent human being and they’ll comply with the …

How do they enforce that contributions aren’t copied and pasted from AGPLv3 or proprietary codebases? The honor system and intuition and occasionally flat out asking people. Do you…

A lot of people will disagree with you on that. A lot of people might also have coherent reasons to think that analogy applies equally to the US House of Representatives and the US…

I’m not even disagreeing, I’m saying that there are different (and somewhat opposed) ways in which someone could find an image offensive, so it’s worthwhile to provide further cont…

Would you treat an image of the US House of Representatives the same way? The United States has caused an enormous amount of suffering in the world and has in the past had an expli…

Nope. I just evidently know people with more varied opinions on the USSR than you do. (Including people who grew up there.)