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This sounded familiar, so I checked my inbox and I did indeed receive a similar email from sanchitmonga@runanywheresdk.com earlier this month: > I came across your GitHub profile and thought you might be interested in what my team and I are building. We're developing an open source SDK that runs LLMs directly on-device. What's even more interesting is that both buildrunanywhere.org and runanywheresdk.com show a stock…
Maybe a dumb question, but isn't this trivially solved with this .gitconfig? [user] name = lordgrenville email = +lordgrenville@users.noreply.github.com
And they are using a different domain for the emails so the spam markers don’t hit their primary domain.
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How would that even be legal? (Although I can't find such a startup with any kind of search engine)
Why would it be illegal?
but areas i am familiar with can consider a negative reference to be defamation, thus anyone providing a negative reference should only do so if they are able to defend it (i.e. prove their statement is substantially true, or prove that the statement was honestly believed to be true and published with no malice or reckless disregard).
seems risky, at least, to build a whole business around negative references that could potentially cross the line into defamation. but that type of thinking is probably why i am not rich.
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Why would it be illegal?
i am not sure of anywhere it is illegal . but areas i am familiar with can consider a negative reference to be defamation, thus anyone providing a negative reference should only do so if they are able to defend it (i.e. prove their statement is substantially true, or prove that the statement was honestly believed to be true and published with no malice or reckless disregard). seems risky, at least, to build a whole b…
Martin from GitHub here. This type of behaviour is explicitly against the GitHub terms of service, when we catch the accounts doing this we can (and do) take action against those accounts including banning the accounts. It's a game of whack-a-mole for sure, and it's not just start-ups that take part in this sketchy behaviour to be honest. I've been plenty of examples in my time across the board. The fundamental natur…
Nice, thank you Martin. How do you punish the fraudsters? Do you send them to prison over CFAA violation terms of service?
From: henry@joincactuscompute.com
Hey,
I hope all is well with you, just reaching out as you seem to be interested in on-device speech models.
Cactus is a low-latency AI engine for consumer devices like phones, Macs, wearables, Raspberry Pis, etc.
We support transcription models like Whisper & Parakeet, benchmarks available in the attached GitHub repo.
GitHub: https://github.com/cactus-compute/cactus
We are keen to get your feedback, and star if feeling generous.
Thanks a million
I usually check the "Received" header and report to the email service provider. Once in a while I receive a response saying the case is properly handled. These providers are the only ones that care about their reputation and thus may take some action. Investors? Nope.
in this example, the email came from buildrunanywhere.org, which is just a parked domain. the real domain is runanywhere.ai, which they arent using for spam.
so, once buildrunanywhere.org has their reputation burned from reports, they will simply register buildrunanywheres.org and start spamming again.
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Why would it be illegal?
i am not sure of anywhere it is illegal . but areas i am familiar with can consider a negative reference to be defamation, thus anyone providing a negative reference should only do so if they are able to defend it (i.e. prove their statement is substantially true, or prove that the statement was honestly believed to be true and published with no malice or reckless disregard). seems risky, at least, to build a whole b…
A blacklist seems dubious. I’d advise the founders to get counsel on their obligations under the FCRA, which they may be construed to be regulated by.
That said, I believe "Bad News" is an AI hallucination. The most similar company I can find historical news is "Peeple"[0], which was not funded by YC. YCombinator's only known association with a blacklist that I can find was a blacklist of VC's that were accused of harassing female founders[1].