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Given the US Supreme Court's decision to leave a lower court ruling in place, it seems that the Copyright Office's guidelines (humans must be involved or it's not eligible for copy…

having worked in a government agency that ditched IBM, let me offer a view of what that looks like from the customer side: IBM bought a company whose product we'd been using for a …

Until passkeys can pass the test of "my non-technical friends and family don't call me for help about them", passkeys aren't ready. Vendors keep making assumptions about how users …

It's funny, I started with rPis for the same reason, but I'm about to replace them. I bought 20 rPi 4Bs for my homelab, and I just couldn't get them to do what I needed. I was look…

Yeaaaahhhh...NLM is/was a special beast inside NIH. At the time I was there they had a budget to die for, and Pubmed was in the top 300 websites in the world (both are probably sti…

I'm going to regret this, I bet, but here we go: Many years ago I was the manager of the team inside NIH/CIT that ran both the border firewalls and the DNS servers in question (to …

> It was reasonable to expect that most of them didn't have the technical capacity to accomplish that in the available timeframe. So what? Just because the owner can't respond in a…

That can have downstream effects, though. When I talked to them about doing it to my more recent Subaru, they told me I'd lose the front speakers and the in-car microphone as well,…

The title is a bit misleading. The point of the article isn't that their ethics board resigned - that happened a while ago (right after the Uvalde shooting). The point of this arti…

> the gold standard should be that anything generated by ai is public domain That's close to what the Copyright office is laying out as their actual policy for AI-generated work: i…

Interesting. This could be a bracketing error, because I read > it includes analysis of many older accounts that haven’t sent tweets in the last 90 days and thus, likely don’t fit …

As a third party? Probably not. Which is why it's going to be very hard to disprove Twitter's assertion unless Twitter chooses to share their data. That's part of why I find articl…

Except the question isn't about the pure number of spam/bot accounts, it's about the ratio of spam/bots to "authentic" users. If you leave out the lurkers, that ratio gets skewed t…

Oh, do I have notes on their methodology. 1) They talk about "active" accounts (meaning have tweeted in the last 9 weeks), and do a bunch of filtering against that. That seems like…

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To build on that, allow me to offer a real-world example: a General Contractor I worked with set up as his standard contract as a triplicate form, so you'd sign once and you'd keep…

It sounds to me like this whole thing is based on Paul Eggert trying to preemptively avoid the political question of "what is a country?". He says in one of the threads [1]: There …

I could, but with the same effort to set that up, I could have a full k8s setup...it doesn't actually save me any time to do it the "simple" way.

I'll bite. One thing I found in running my home lab was that I kept having to burn it to the ground & rebuild it regularly anyway. For example, dist-upgrade never really works: eve…

If I can piggyback on this, as someone who's learning Rust right now: One of my first trial programs in any language is a tcptraceroute, since it's a good mix of super-beginner tas…

Upper management is not omniscient. They may want you to achieve their design in an unrealistic timeframe or with unrealistic resources. Their design may not be technically possibl…

As a lot of other commenters are pointing out: there's an adversarial and a non-adversarial way to do this. When I'm interviewing someone I will often preface groups of questions w…