Eduardo Diaz Comellas

@ediazcomellas
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Tech companies believe in intellectual property, but not yours.

The Hypocrisy at the Heart of the AI Industry https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/2026/03/hypocrisy-ai-industry/686477/

The Hypocrisy at the Heart of the AI Industry

Tech companies believe in intellectual property, but not yours.

The Atlantic
@cuu508 just received a bunch of unrelated alerts. Is maintenance going on?

En OpenStreetMap @openstreetmap @osm_tech están preocupados: miles de bots de IA llevan una semana escrapeando de manera coordinada el proyecto. Lo hacen utilizando más de 100.000 IPs, y cada IP hace varias peticiones. Así les resulta imposible bloquearlos.

Esto lleva no solo a que tengan más gastos de hosting, sino a que uno o varios chatbots estén trincando información del proyecto a petición de sus usuarios, y todo esto pueda poner el proyecto en peligro.

https://www.heise.de/en/news/OpenStreetMap-is-concerned-thousands-of-AI-bots-are-collecting-data-11157359.html

OpenStreetMap is concerned: thousands of AI bots are collecting data

Bots are said to be harvesting OpenStreetMap data on a large scale. This costs money and endangers the project.

heise online

The EU is looking for feedback about the need for free (open) software ecosystem.

https://ec.europa.eu/info/law/better-regulation/have-your-say/initiatives/16213-European-Open-Digital-Ecosystems_en

What are you waiting for?

Atendendo a amábel solicitude de @andrewblasco, inicio un fío longo sobre as eclipses de Sol no cinema que irei completando co paso dos días. O fío ten que empezar pola eclipse canónica, a do BARRABÁS de Richard Fleischer. A total de Sol do 15 de febreiro de 1961 viuse en Italia e o produtor Dino de Laurentis decidiu que había que aproveitala, un desafío inesperado para o director de fotografía Aldo Tonti que tivo que inventar como filmar unha eclipse real para integrala nunha ficción de época.
Que alguien le explique a los gobiernos europeos que va a ser difícil que hagan nada de espaldas a EEUU si todos sus ordenadores tienen Windows, todos sus documentos los escriben en Word, todos sus e-mails se almacenan en un servidor de Google, todos sus ordenadores utilizan Chrome como navegador predeterminado todos sus diputados tienen iPhones, todas sus comunicaciones sociales las hacen en Facebook e instagram y en general todo lo que usan son SaaS que utilizan como plataforma principal Amazon Web Services. Todo lo que estén haciendo en cualquier servicio o dispositivo de una tecnológica estadounidense está ya copiado en un servidor estadounidense sujeto a lo que digan los tribunales yankis y con que un juez diga "se sacan los datos que los quiero yo ver" es más que suficiente. Quizá los mails del perro sí que estén seguros si no tiene un pegasus de esos metido. ¿Pero los de todos los funcionarios? JA.

Periodic reminder that any effective policy for light pollution control (not just 'mitigation') unavoidably requires limiting artificial light emissions.

https://arxiv.org/abs/2503.02724

Trust, but verify: Reducing artificial light emissions and monitoring compliance

In order to reduce light pollution we have to reduce the overall amount of artificial light emissions. This is a consequence of the basic rules governing the propagation of light in the terrestrial environment. In this work I revisit the physical laws causing that (i) "all" artificial light emitted outdoors is lost or pollutant, (ii) the negative effects of light pollution depend monotonically on the local concentration of photons of anthropogenic origin, and (iii) this concentration depends linearly on the total artificial light emissions, weighted by the light pollution propagation functions. Setting total emission limits becomes necessary in order to ensure that the negative effects of light pollution do not surpass red-lines of unacceptable degradation of the natural night. Once these red-lines are socially agreed, monitoring compliance becomes a relevant task. Several complementary methods for assessing total light emissions are being used nowadays, including public inventories of installed lights, direct radiance measurements from ground or low Earth orbit satellites, and scattered radiance measurements using ground based detectors (night sky brightness monitoring). While updated administrative inventories could in principle be trusted, independent verification is a must. The required measurements pose in turn significant challenges: we discuss here how the variability of the terrestrial atmosphere sets a lower limit on the minimum emission changes that can be reliably detected by measurements, and propose some ways to improve this performance.

arXiv.org

After committing one of the greatest thefts of all information known to mankind, ChatGPT started showing Ads to everyone while killing all independent websites,wikis, forums, journalism sites, artists' work, songs, and blogs. The circle of life is complete. All this talk of a "changing world" ends with selling your data to the highest bidder while destroying human creators and environments. What innovation.

https://openai.com/index/our-approach-to-advertising-and-expanding-access/

Our approach to advertising and expanding access to ChatGPT

OpenAI plans to test advertising in the U.S. for ChatGPT’s free and Go tiers to expand affordable access to AI worldwide, while protecting privacy, trust, and answer quality.