RE: https://mastodon.social/@Karlitschek/116340639552226585
I'd wonder what percentage of Americans would say the same.
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abadideaextremely mad because my relative in American prison has let me know that from now on, instead of being charged once per book or per song and having the files added permanently to his account, he's going to ALSO be charged by the minute to read or listen to music on the tablets that are the only things they're allowed to use.
reminder that paying prisoners (vastly) less than minimum wage is legal in the US because they're defined as an exception to anti-slavery laws.
Me: "so WordPress is under a copyleft license"
Junior: "Copy... left?"
Me, in mock horror: "DO YOU NOT REMEMBER THE PRESENTATION ON OPEN SOURCE THAT I GAVE DURING YOUR APPRENTICESHIP?!"
Junior: "... that was a long time ago."
RE: https://mastodon.ar.al/@aral/116330105563818936
The entitlement of these scumbags is unmatched. They know this is a controversial topic and they know lots of codebases won't allow AI generated code but it just costs too much to maintain a fork themselves.
It's like if a project said they don't allow defense contractors to contribute and then Boeing employees started submitting under false identities.
Aral BalkanSo Anthropic employees are using Claude Code to contribute AI-generated code to open source repositories and hiding the fact using their own internal “undercover mode”.
Totally trustworthy people.
(Any open source project that at the very least requires disclosure of AI-authored contributions should immediately ban Anthropic employees on principle.)
Jenniferplusplusgiven what we now know about how claude functions, it seems extremely doable to assemble a clean, tailored, ethically sourced training set, and then build a single-purpose automated code generator.
I have no desire for such a thing, but for the people that do, you should really do it. Everyone's ethical and environmental objections would vanish.
So go. Do. Gather up your like-minded peers, donate a bunch of your own code, and docs, and blog posts. Work together to curate and label it. And understand that _not_ doing so—and continuing on with the industrial plagiarism machine—is a choice.
She said I could summarize the plot to her and she looked more baffled and amused at every single word.
I'm paired with a junior developer. She had a short career in the film industry so today I told her about the cinematic masterpiece that is "Antitrust".
"They made a movie about open source software! With big actors! And cameos with people from FOSS!"
She laughed hard but promised she'd watch it.
RE: https://mastodon.social/@indivisibleteam/116325031353377986
Setting aside the evil result, doesn't this imply that states are, more or less, entirely banned from regulating how therapists do their job? Step back from the specifics of conversion therapy for a second and think more generally: if a therapist's speech is protected from government regulation, then how can they ever punish abusive therapists who believe that they're doing the right thing?
If a therapist believes that calling a patient abusive names, manipulating them, gaslighting them and humiliating them is what is best, doesn't that mean the state is powerless to stop them?
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