Just gonna uncritically repeat what the DRAM cartel says, eh Verge?

https://youtube.com/watch?v=jVzeHTlWIDY

Who can even say? The developer said he’s never seen the code.

Technically, nowhere. Every US dollar is spent into existence and taxed out of existence.

Science fiction’s superpower isn’t thinking up new technologies – it’s thinking up new social arrangements for technology. What the gadget does is nowhere near as important as who the gadget does it for and who it does it to. Your car can use a cutting-edge computer vision system to alert you when you’re drifting out of your lane – or it can use that same system to narc you out to your insurer so they can raise your premiums by $10 that month to punish you for inattentive driving. Same gadget, different social arrangement.

https://locusmag.com/feature/commentary-cory-doctorow-reverse-centaurs/

Most moral army

Well… There are problems with AI that will persist regardless of whether it’s deployed within an economic class system. But yes, the most urgent problems are due to capitalism.

Some people genuinely have a problem with it.

But I’m convinced that the majority of it is just: It’s embarrassing (and therefore costs social capital) to defend it.

So therefore: If you attach it to something else you want to attack, you just gave yourself a strategic advantage.

.git-blame-ignore-revs

When I was a teen or young adult, I had to get into a deeply philosophical mood before I would think to myself “Wow… what are we even doing? Why are we like this?”

Now, I just glance at headlines or business ideas and I’m quickly overcome with revulsion.

I’m not sure if I’ve gotten more critical, or if the world has just devolved so thoroughly.

Soooo, programming?

1. Full English so you understand and trust the output
2. Terse English to increase bandwidth <- you are here
3. A “native language” optimized for LLMs, similar to the language of the whispering earring

A lot of it probably isn’t legal, but who’s gonna prosecute them?

Wow, it sure would suck if someone used Github to copy all of your code with no regard for the licensing and use it to try to disconnect you from the people who use your projects. I can’t imagine what that would feel like.

inb4 clean-roomed FOSS Claude Code

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Lmao

I agree with Prime on most things, but I think he’s getting this one wrong.

There are more options than just “light-hearted satire” and “earnest business idea”.

The FOSDEM talk is silly, and reads like a skit, but it has a gravely serious undertone.

The security guy has posted on Twitter “I still can’t believe he hooked it up to Stripe lol”.

Meanwhile the LinkedIn of the other guy describes him as a “researcher of political economy of FOSS” at Rochester Institute of Technology, and he runs a non-profit about FOSS for humanitarian aid.

He’s also been very active replying to people talking about the conference talk or the Malus site, asking whether they think this should be legal and what we can do to protect the future of open source.

I think these are people who take this threat very seriously, and are willing to expose themselves to litigation in order to force the issue into courts.

Only took them six paragraphs to pivot to the good ol “imagine the US is like your household…” fallacy.

Yeah no shit

Surprised to see so many objections in that HN thread. Or are those Meta bots?

I avoid the potential presence of ads.

I recall seeing some research that suggested “ignoring” ads makes you more susceptible to their content. I couldn’t find it after a couple searches though.