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ffsm8··on Roblox downloaded 145GB models from us (including adult content) without asking
Just to make sure I understand you right: the argument is that

Acteur a has a no permissive copyright

Acteur b has a non-commercial copyright on a model that infringes on a's non permissive copyright

Acteur c now can freely use it commercially, because b's copyright notice is invalid as it was never in a position to grant a permissive license

The stuff you learn on HN is truly breathtaking.

Thanks for clearing that up, that opens up a lot of avenues for future developments

ffsm8··on Roblox downloaded 145GB models from us (including adult content) without asking
Til you can download something without copying said something.

Wouldve been great to know for people that have been found guilty after downloading illegal and unlicensed content.

Fyi, the nation you mentioned (Germany) adheres to a much stricter concept called Urheberrecht. Under this regulation, you're actually in even more legal trouble. Though Roblox ain't German, so kinda irrelevant, admittedly

ffsm8··on Roblox downloaded 145GB models from us (including adult content) without asking
i see. as long as i can download Software that is made available for free for students its completely legal to do so and use them commercially as a non-student, after all its freely downloadable.

good thing you explained how copyright works legally, almost spend my money unnecessarily.

ffsm8··on Roblox downloaded 145GB models from us (including adult content) without asking
Were they used in a commercial context when a commercial entity downloaded it?

If yes, they were in violation of the license. Fyi, that's explicitly stated in the article we're commenting on.

ffsm8··on Roblox downloaded 145GB models from us (including adult content) without asking
They ignored the licenses, so kinda moot point you're making.
ffsm8··on UK to charge universities $1,200 per international student
> Germany provides free university education even for foreigners, for instance)

Fwiw, Germany is also taking a big chunk ontop.

If you add taxes taken from your wage and VAT, forced social security payments etc all up, you'll end with a rough taxation of ~50% in UK. Of you do the same in Germany you end up over 60%, often nearing 70% unless you're a single income household with kids (they lower the tax burden a lot through deductions. Obviously still expensive, but your social contributions go down a lot.)

ffsm8··on Anthropic S-1
piagent vs Claude code are completely different target audiences...

If you drew a venn diagram of their prospective users, the overlap ain't gonna be big. I get that they're both harnesses, but claude is clearly trying to optimize for the agentic development loop, while piagent is more about hand holding - unless you add the agentic features yourself (which is pretty easy, but again completely different target audience to cc).

ffsm8··on Serbia's Vucic concedes election defeat in historic win for student movement
https://polymarket.com/event/next-prime-minister-of-serbia-2...

Seems true. Was at 70% before

ffsm8··on IBM CEO says open weight models are now good and cheap on-prem
If you compare to API prices the value difference is not as big.

The anthropic sub is likely still subventioned with VC money. So this may not even be available in 2 years.

But yeah, with current sub prices/budget... It's hard to go with anyone else unless you're rich.

ffsm8··on IBM CEO says open weight models are now good and cheap on-prem
If you compare to API prices the value difference is not as big.

The anthropic sub is likely still subventioned with VC money. So this may not even be available in 2 years.

But yeah, with current sub prices/budget... It'd stick with it too

ffsm8··on Hacker leaks 281 GB of data from Germany's far-right AfD party
Great, you found a poll made by a extreme left "journalist" tabloids asking their readers wherever AFD should be banned.

That's precisely the reason why it's so hard to interface with people like you seem to be. You've completely lost touch with reality.

The next time you're interacting with someone on the lower income percentage ask them if they think it should be banned.

You probably know the answer, just aren't willing to admit to it.

The AFD Party members don't even believe the BS they're talking about themselves. They just say whatever they think their voters want to hear. Just look at what weidel etc is doing vs what she's preaching.

So if you spend any amount of time thinking about that fact you should be able to realize that what the AFD is running on is something a big chunk of the population desires. And alienating those by removing whom theyre voting for will end in a complete disaster.

Claiming the opposite is just putting your head into the sand because you cannot face reality, like so many on the left continue to do...

ffsm8··on Hacker leaks 281 GB of data from Germany's far-right AfD party
The majority of Germans do not support a ban. It's the completely brainrotten and extreme left that supports it.

The reality is that something between 20-40% voted for them. While there are problematic elements in the AFD, and they're lying populists, they're ultimately just morally bankrupt profiteers. Basically the same as linke and greens, just targeting different demographics. You're probably just the target demographic of those parties, hence your frankly insane view that banning the most popular single party would be a good idea. It would not. It would massively exaggerate the issue and further alienate even bigger chunks of the population.

The issues the AFD are raising need to be resolved. That's the only way to calm things down, but the established parties seem to inept to deliver on that, hence the increasingly problematic situation.

ffsm8··on Swedish government offices to ban ChatGPT and Claude
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CLOUD_Act

You say that but that's not reflected in the law, and historically the us government has repeatedly created such sweeping surveillance systems. It's highly unlikely they only made it legal, and aren't using it sweepingly considering theyre on record doing so before it was legalized through the act before too...

And as that's international law... It's always kinda a coin toss whenever anyone actually pays it any attention. No real recourse if violated after all.

ffsm8··on OpenShell – A safe, private runtime for fleets of autonomous AI agents
Don't worry, is gonna be soon. After all, fleets are way too small scale. Next week we'll be orchestrating ... What was the military term for a group of fleets again? Cohorts? Armada? Legions?

After that we can segment then into civilizations! The [?] processing unit is the limit!

ffsm8··on EA is shutting down BioWare
hmm, i can only say that i disagree with that sentiment. Storyline wise ME1 is the only one that hardly progressed anything, but that itself is by design of the lore. Also I dont think that a sequel was actually planned for ME1 (hence the very light touch for an actual overarching storyline)

ME1 the Reapers are unknown, they fight via subterfuge while utilizing the Geth and Indoctrination. Only one Reaper is in the Milky Way, and only for oversight. The game ends with the DLC in which the protagonist annihilates the main Relay which the Reapers wouldve used for their invasion.

ME2 starts with the overseeing Reaper killing the protagonist. Who is the nrebuild by a clandestine human supremacist organization. Its central theme is trying to rally a defense against the upcoming invasion. It ends with the "Suicide mission" against the overseeing Reapers base to forestall the creation of a Human Reaper. That was actually the first part where I got completely stumped back then: why does a human reaper matter?. It was a very good scene, but lore wise it was very confusing to me.

ME3 starts with the arrival of the Reapers and tells the story of their loosing battles, until the final attempt building on the previous cycles survivors magnus opus.

You could've split ME3 into two parts for sure, former being the loosing battle lines and the third one the final conclusion via the Ansible (i think thats what it was called?) - but I feel that last installment wouldve been too little content, if attempted. It wouldve been a good choice as a seperate DLC however, so that the main game ended with the discovery of the schematics and the DLC being about the final desperate struggle to get the resources before all is lost in the inevitable defeat.

ffsm8··on EA is shutting down BioWare
Yeah I just replayed ME through the LE and it was just how I remembered from my original playthroughs back when the games were released:

ME1 nailing the story building but being pretty slow overall. Combat feeling very dated. (8/10 overall) ME2 nailing the combat, streamlining the overall game but sacrificing some of the exploration spirit - but very well done from a lore perspective because the urgency of the crisis builds over the game - leaving the protag less time for exploration. (10/10 overall) Then ME3... A pale imitation of ME2. From a player perspective it feels like the general storyline was still from the same author of the ME2 game, because you can see the urgency picking up more and more until the final conclusion. But the execution is really really lacklustre. (Maybe 6-7/10)

It was a decent enough conclusion, but overall pretty mid . Most definitely this was the first time you could feel the cultural shift in the production and it's impact in the product.

Political correctness kept sneaking in. The objectively horrible things you could do in both previous installments were toned down a lot. You're no longer deciding to decimate populations, shoving people out of windows etc. Still some questionable things, but clearly with a lot less ... Edge.

And I'm seriously surprised this thread considers DA:I good.

I gave it multiple attempts, and never even got further then maybe 5h before dropping it. Honestly, DA2 was already such a massive step down in vibes, clearly aimed at what's today being called "modern audiences", there were still some quiet extreme scenes in it, but it felt completely artificial to me compared to the ruthlessness in DA:O I also hated how the gameplay went from pretty down to earth to complete implausibility.

Like in DA:O people were still limited by their physical bodies. In DA2 you get rogues jumping gigantic distances etc. it felt like it took too much inspiration from MMOs at the time, sacrificing it's wonderful world it built up. But a more cynical view is probably that they just hired people that previously worked on other fantasy games, consequently importing the same fantasy settings of their previous projects.

And inquisition... Again I was unable to finish it to date because I just cannot get myself to keep playing... It's just no spirit to it at all. It'd say it's work by a amateur that's trying their best to imitate a previous work, and failing.

ffsm8··on AfD Leak: What 421,179 Hacked Emails Show about the German Far Right
You're looking at it from a perspective that's not shared by the population.

The AFD is not extreme right. Not even right wing. The party program itself doesn't even have a single real action plan. They didn't plan to do anything because they know they can just say $whatever and never actually need to deliver on anything because of the stupidity of the established parties.

Consequently, every issue we've had to date can be utilized to prove that they're the only party trying to help the population and only get sabotaged by the establishment that doesn't try to address any of the real issues that people both see and feel in their daily life.

The only thing this stupid dump will tell prospective voters is that there are actual Nazis in the AFD, which doesn't make them unique at all. There are some on CDU and SPD too. However, most of those message which the AFD will now use themselves over the next weeks is to show how there were taken out of context, and surely bad taste but just sarcasm/humor that was phrased for internal communication.

I feel like I'm explaining the basics of the basics here, do you unironically think this is going to be a hit for the AFDs popularity?

If so I can only tell you that you're so politically captured to have left your common sense behind. Precisely the issue the green/linke also have.

I say this but have voted for Piraten in 2013 Greens 2017 and 2021.

I just couldn't keep voting for them because just how inept they've proven themselves.

Now I'm literally angry, because who can I even vote for at this point? People that have proven themselves both incapable of their jobs and unironically put the CumEx specialist in the highest position in the government? The FDP which is so inept they don't even realize they're sabotaging themselves with their betrayal of the coalition? CDU, the most corrupt party that has ever existed? Seriously, nobody's is left. And again they don't even comprehend that their Brandmauer is literally an advertisment for AFD. Im just completely estranged.

ffsm8··on Linux 7.3
You explicitly stated as such, I just want to emphasize it again: it only breaks dynamically linked libraries, which - from a stability point of view - is an antipattern anyway.

Almost always youre better off producing a bundle which has everything (excluding the runtime) included... Or just use better languages which categorically don't even have this scenario, eg golang, Java, rust, etc pp

ffsm8··on Websites are closing their doors to AI agents
Okay real quick, how do I configure a reverse proxy to my application with TikTok or Instagram?
ffsm8··on How employment is changing at Anthropic
> Ever increasing agent activity can only move to the point where it's literally impossible for humans to have a collective awareness of how the systems that support our lives actually work.

fwiw, i think literally all largish corporations have been like that pre AI too? i can gurantee you that nobody understands how the whole system works at all of my last workplaces either...

people just know their small part and hope for the best - so from a devils advocate pov, its already been proved that its sustasinable. now wherever its _worth it_ is another question. large employers are - on average - incredibly wasteful with their resources. not to anthropics degree, but still.

if youre boostrapping, and VC token subventions go away... i suspect it'd be not worth it to develop like that. But i guess we will find out in a few month to 1-2 years

ffsm8··on Apple routed a graphite pipe through the iPhone Duo's hinge to dissipate heat
thats a very different narrative though.

but this discussion always has the tendency to go completely off teh rails because there are so many people unable to talk rationally about apple products.

innovation basically never happens in a vacuum, and especially apple products have historically "come second" into a product category -- and just nail the implementation so well that they just felt great to use. (and yes, smartphones were well established by the time the iphone was released. thats what i'd call the product category there. dialing in to ever narrower definitions to make it into a "new" category is exactly the reason why this can never be settled - because you can call _every_ product a new product category like that)

So now we got endless discussions about "who was first" even though its completely meaningless to ask this question -- because that "previous product" also took inspiration from other products, and if you squinted enough, could also be called "just an iteration" vs a "innovation".

ffsm8··on What I self-host
I'm not using seerr, I've used overseer and jellyseer for a while years ago, but as I'm the only person interacting with radarr/sonarr... The value wasn't there for me.

I suspect it's would still work, but haven't tried it out

Sonarr/radarr has the ability to configure multiple library roots. Those are available in a drop-down when adding a new series through the (son|rad)arr interface

This is eg /media/(anime-series|series) for me. Then I defined a rule for those paths to add an anime|lifeaction Tag.

This then controls the tracker and quality profiles, as well as language preferences etc

ffsm8··on What I self-host
You can configure quality profile via the tags too (I do have separate profiles for anime vs liveaction). I didn't even set the tag, as I don't intermingle them in the same directory, and automatic tagging by sub path is possible too

So I'm also surprised why someone would configure a second instance for that

ffsm8··on AI is mass decompiling games. That's both awesome and scary
> games and software from big companies being hosted server-side

At least as far as games are impacted, that wouldn't matter to me whatsoever.

I mean triple a productions have been complete dumbsterfires for over 10 years now. I don't recall a single high budget game since 2015 that was just good, and while gta6 will break records, it's still almost certainly gonna be a mid game overall.

And saas in software has already been the default for way over 10 years, so not sure what you man by that.

ffsm8··on Redesigning source control at Anthropic
What do you think it uses to search to web?
ffsm8··on Threat of AI share crash puts world financial stability at risk, says IMF
but none of those are data points which actually meaningfully tell what we were discussing? They're not even data points, theyre merely observations from the outside, not at all objective.

Anthropic can be profitable and massively overvalued, AND deeply into debt from running too fast and loose with their money in previous years.

That situation would have them behave exactly the same: hurrying to get the IPO done while the stocks are still skyhigh to get over the debt burden and then buckle up for the profitability to weather them through coming correction...

ffsm8··on Threat of AI share crash puts world financial stability at risk, says IMF
> The actual data at hand suggests otherwise,

What data? To my knowledge the only data point that exists is a 2025 document, which is completely irrelevant considering how massively they hiked the API token price.

To my knowledge, the subscriptions are the only part that may still be profiting from vc subventions. And if not, then their API margins are gigantic

ffsm8··on Attack of the Vibe Coded Photoshop Clones
> Why can't you cancel the credit card used for the subscription?

ianal - but I never understood that mindset. You're surely aware that a subscription is a contract, and terminating the payment method does not legally terminate it unless the company doesn't bother proceeding further?

Which may be the case for Adobe, but you're definitely in a legal gray zone in which I'm sure (again ianal) they can sue for damages if they want.

ffsm8··on An open-source, clean-room reimplementation of Microsoft Word in pure Rust
"begun", none of those are done. Most are pre alpha state of you try them out.

Because nobody did before they published it. And they don't work.

Some work better then others though, eg my super basic usecases in photocraft mostly worked.

ffsm8··on Total Annihilation, rebuilt for modern computers
That game always felt more like supreme commander then TA to me... Personally I preferred the foss games spawned out of the spring engine like eg zero-k and the previously mentioned beyond all reason over it
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