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Adafruit receives demand letter from Fenwick legal counsel on behalf of Flux.ai

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Re: Adafruit receives demand letter from Fenwick legal counsel on behalf of Flux.ai

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Post by Lerc »

DrewADesign wrote: post #97
moron4hire wrote: post #76

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Gambling addicts make all kinds of post-hoc rationalizations for why they are actually up, if you think about it. "Well, if you consider my entertainment, I'm actually up." "Well, if you think of all the drinks I got comped, I'm actually up." Even worse are the ones who talk about runs, "I was up $10,000 at one point." Nevermind they gave it all back and another $20k chasing that first $10k. At the end of the day, if…

I am actually up all the drinks I got comped in Vegas. I sit down at the penny slots and bet one penny one row until I get offered a free drink. I tip the server $3, bet two more pennies for good measure, get up, and walk out with the drink in my hand. I just got like a $3.10 Manhattan for walking around the strip, including tip, courtesy of some business that was low-key trying to scam me and deserves to have less m…

The casino runs the probabilies on the customers too. You get the Manhattan because it, on average, gives them a return.

They probably aren't making a loss on the $3.10 Manhatten either.

Re: Adafruit receives demand letter from Fenwick legal counsel on behalf of Flux.ai

#102

Post by pavel_lishin »

> Adafruit accessed only information that Flux’s own systems made publicly available through a server misconfiguration

Does anyone have some more context about what happened here? An uncharitable analogy might be that I misconfigured my front door by not locking it, which doesn't give someone the right to walk in and look around - but I have no idea what Adafruit is specifically being accused of doing.

Re: Adafruit receives demand letter from Fenwick legal counsel on behalf of Flux.ai

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Post by moron4hire »

Lerc wrote: post #99
moron4hire wrote: post #76

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Gambling addicts make all kinds of post-hoc rationalizations for why they are actually up, if you think about it. "Well, if you consider my entertainment, I'm actually up." "Well, if you think of all the drinks I got comped, I'm actually up." Even worse are the ones who talk about runs, "I was up $10,000 at one point." Nevermind they gave it all back and another $20k chasing that first $10k. At the end of the day, if…

If they cannot mention it how do you know that they have not taken up the offer? I agree that people will rationalise being in a losing situation as a winning situation. That does not change the fact that winning situations can exist.

They can't talk about it during the code review. Basically, "no excuses." We talk about what we're doing otherwise.

Re: Adafruit receives demand letter from Fenwick legal counsel on behalf of Flux.ai

#105

Post by vablings »

neutronicus wrote: post #85
doubled112 wrote: post #53

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> mixed-technique approach I think my biggest annoyance with the way we rolled out AI is that nobody seemed to want to use it to augment already working solutions. Just throw everything out and have an LLM do it instead.

I've been frustrated with Copilot in this regard. I work on a large C++ codebase, with large files. Human developers jump around between files with the Visual Studio fuzzy search, set breakpoints to trace execution in the Debugger, use the IDE's refactoring tools. Microsoft's answer to this was to just ... expose none of this to their Agent Mode!? Replace the working semantic autocomplete with fucking lies!? Maybe it…

tool_call is just a fancy wrapper to a black box that executes console commands. Said commands are now the actual backbone of all agentic AI, It feels like the linux people are incredibly vindicated in the single responsibility principle

Re: Adafruit receives demand letter from Fenwick legal counsel on behalf of Flux.ai

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Post by baobabKoodaa »

antirez wrote: post #7

Note that this is not related to Black Forest Labs Flux, the image synthesis models builders, and is instead related to a PCB AI authoring product called Flux.ai.

There's a lesson in here about how to name your product, but I can't quite flux my finger on it

Re: Adafruit receives demand letter from Fenwick legal counsel on behalf of Flux.ai

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Post by taf2 »

I wanted to love flux.ai because i love codex... and if i could automate the creation of some PCB projects with as much success as I am with codex it would have been quiet fun in the shop... so i gave them a $100~ bucks and i got like nothing in return so I decided i'd wait and see... sounds like it has not improved.

Re: Adafruit receives demand letter from Fenwick legal counsel on behalf of Flux.ai

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Post by UqWBcuFx6NV4r »

pavel_lishin wrote: post #102

> Adafruit accessed only information that Flux’s own systems made publicly available through a server misconfiguration Does anyone have some more context about what happened here? An uncharitable analogy might be that I misconfigured my front door by not locking it, which doesn't give someone the right to walk in and look around - but I have no idea what Adafruit is specifically being accused of doing.

That isn’t legal in most jurisdictions either. You’re not a lawyer.

Re: Adafruit receives demand letter from Fenwick legal counsel on behalf of Flux.ai

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Post by kid64 »

xd1936 wrote: post #94
Trung0246 wrote: post #20

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Also not related to https://fluxkeyboard.com/

Nor f.lux, the warm light software that got Sherlocked by every major OS. https://justgetflux.com/

Nor the Flux Capacitor from Back to the Future.

Re: Adafruit receives demand letter from Fenwick legal counsel on behalf of Flux.ai

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Post by quuxplusone »

applfanboysbgon wrote: post #72
trollbridge wrote: post #70

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AI can’t really spell check without risking changing the meaning of sentences. Spell checking was a solved problem before this.

Spellchecking is absolutely not a solved problem. I immediately disable spellchecking on every avenue it tries to approach because managing a bunch of dictionaries on every browser/device/application that has its own spellchecker for some godforsaken reason to not have squigglies spammed over every piece of jargon, slang, and slightly atypical spelling is incredibly annoying. I don't know how effective LLMs are, but…

An interesting idea I saw long ago in some book (I thought it was K&P's "Software Tools," or my second guess was K&R1, but neither of those panned out — a strong Mandela effect) was the clever idea of a whole-document spellchecker that works purely probabilistically, by histograms: you feed it a document, it tallies the trigraphs, and any trigraph that appears only rarely is flagged as a likely typo. This approach lets through unknown-but-realistic words like "antithematory" while flagging unrealistic words like "prisencolinensinainciusol" (because of its unlikely "ciu" and "ius" clusters) and "antthemaory" (because of "ntt" and "aor").

To make this approach work better, feed it a bunch of English text (or whatever language your document is in) before the document you really want to "spellcheck."

Essentially this isn't a spell "checker" so much as a spell "linter" — it looks for antipatterns statistically associated with bugs, and reports the patterns for further investigation.

If anyone knows where this trigraph-based "spellchecker" was first presented, I'd love to find out again.

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