Waldo JaquithYes perfect I was just wondering this
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SuffolkLITLabTL;DR: The Ninth Circuit ruled that software updates designed for interoperability are not automatically considered derivative works under copyright law, protecting developers from undue legal claims by major corporations. This decision is a victory for innovation and competition in the tech industry. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2024/12/ninth-circuit-gets-it-interoperability-isnt-automatic-first-step-liability #law #tech #legaltech ⚖️ 🤖 #autosum
Ninth Circuit Gets It: Interoperability Isn’t an Automatic First Step to Liability
A federal appeals court just gave software developers, and users, an early holiday present, holding that software updates aren’t necessarily “derivative,” for purposes of copyright law, just because they are designed to interoperate the software they update. This sounds kind of obscure, so let’s...
The SHARE IT Act, requiring that federal agencies open the source to much of their custom software, has passed the House. There's a companion Senate bill that’s passed HSGAC but hasn't progressed in months. I assume this can't go anywhere within this congress, but maybe next year? https://www.nextgov.com/digital-government/2024/12/house-passes-share-it-act-aimed-custom-code-government/401541/
I've watched Elf so many times, but I just had the thought that Buddy could have used Santa's bathroom instead of elf bathrooms.
David ColarussoReading through student journals, and one of them while referencing something I wrote remarked that it sounded like something their parents might say. The thing? "Google Reader was peak internet."¹
Yes, I have old person opinions about the Internet!
AI Magic + Algorithmically-Driven News Feeds Minus the Surveillance Capitalism: Using AI to build open-source tools that work for their users, not their builders
As many internet users of a certain age will tell you, Google Reader was peak Internet. I wanted to bring back some of that magic with a 21st century spin. So, I created My RSS Algo an open source client-side algorithmically-driven RSS reader. It lets users customize their algorithm and timeline behavior while keeping all that training data local, living on the user's computer. There's no login, and the site doesn't even collect analytics (no cookies). Users can manage their feeds, hide/group similar articles, set ratings cutoffs, and use regular expressions to promote or mute certain articles! All without needing to feed someone else's algo. Back when Twitter stopped being Twitter, I moved to Mastodon, and though I enjoy the community I've found there, I really missed that Twitter feed. Algorithmic feeds are really good for content discovery. They're like a news editor choosing what to put on the front page of the paper. The trick is valuing their contribution without mistaking them for the whole conversation. With My RSS Algo the algorithm works for me. It's everything I've ever wanted in a RSS reader, and if you read last Tuesday's post, you know I coded it with the aid of a large language model (LLM). So, today's post, in which I give the reader LLM-super powers just made sense.
"Why do you have a geiger counter, Waldo?"
They're, like, fifty bucks! How can I *not* have one, at that price point‽
I almost raised my hand to ask the question of whether the raffle at school was registered with the gaming control board but am glad I didn't because the administration put a swift end to it anyway. Rifle raffle, how little we knew ye.
Thanksgiving weekend streaming service housekeeping: switching all my plans to black Friday pricing for another year.
For Peacock, you do have to cancel and then immediately sign up again. For Hulu, Disney, and a Max they all bundle for less this weekend but you have to cancel existing plans in order to bundle as well.
Doing my part this morning reminding someone that they can't retire yet because they need money for the new X-Men Lego Mansion.