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fkdk··on Ah, the Codeberg Drama
Time will tell whether Codeberg's approach of Valetudo-like community-building will work out.
fkdk··on Ask HN: SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED WITHOUT WARRANTY – does this do anything?
Thats the question, right? And thats exactly the point.

It is about weighing the real cost of trillions of replicated license sections against some theoretical/imaginary risk of someone being successful in court with this.

fkdk··on Ask HN: SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED WITHOUT WARRANTY – does this do anything?
that make sense to me, but has this ever happened? has anyone ever downloaded some (in some way broken) software by an unpaid open source developer and then tried to sue that person?

it sounds mind-boggling to me that this would actually be possible, so I wonder if this was ever tried.

fkdk··on Show HN: Ex Situ – Open-source spatial index of displaced cultural artifacts
“To arrive at a just estimate of a renowned man’s character one must judge it by the standards of his time, not ours.”
fkdk··on Why it's so difficult to produce American-made medical gloves
Some of my early research (elementary school) suggested that certain glues can form a peelable, skin-like layer. Maybe that could be a promising way forward?
fkdk··on Can A.I. produce writing that we want to read?
Could be, i understood it differently
fkdk··on Can A.I. produce writing that we want to read?
Do you? Even if its a technical blog post and you learn incorrect things from it?
fkdk··on WH proposes rules giving political appointees final approval on research grants
Next up: Lawmakers put Indiana pi bill back on the table.
fkdk··on Richard Dawkins and the Claude Delusion
Dawkins takes a functionalist position, which is the dominant perspective in biological research.

The author makes it easy for himself by degrading the philosophical/scientific discussion into a political rant.

fkdk··on New laws to make it easier to cancel subscriptions and get refunds
You can't unsubscribe from this because it is not a normal service, but a racket. By definition: a service that creates its own demand.
fkdk··on Last Statements
I advise having a read through Sapolskys book "Determined" to get another perspective
fkdk··on Psychometric Jailbreaks Reveal Internal Conflict in Frontier Models
What would "abuse" of an LLM look like? Saying something mean to it? Shutting it off?
fkdk··on Founding is a snowball
Seeing a borderline hustle culture article illustrated with AI slop in the style of Bill Watterson, who famously opposed commercial exploitation of his work, is deeply saddening.
fkdk··on Show HN: Kolibri, a DIY music club in Sweden
Is this some sort of joke/reference I'm not getting?
fkdk··on US administration to require app, social media, possibly DNA for travelers
> im lucky i've made pro Trump comments

Once implemented, such regulation will stay even if trump leaves. When the democrats take over again, this will be used against you.

fkdk··on Repatriate the gold': German economists advise withdrawal from US vaults
I agree that they will never get the gold back, but is it really more likely that the US hands over that sum in cash?
fkdk··on Satya Nadella: "We need to find something useful for AI"
"Why d'you think the net was born? Porn, Porn, Porn"
fkdk··on Denmark's struggle to break up with Silicon Valley
"fuck you i got mine" a true american indeed
fkdk··on VW is bringing physical buttons back to the dashboard with the ID. Polo EV
Maybe not the answer you are looking for, but rumor has it that engineers at VW were well aware of points like those you raise. However the CEO at that time, Herbert Diess, outspoken admirer of Musk/Tesla, pushed for touch interfaces anyways.
fkdk··on Finland detains ship and its crew after critical undersea cable damaged
Interesting thought. In the end, this is an ethical question: How much pressure is justified to put on the general population for supporting their leaders?

My feeling is that your perspective, likely shared by people like Bomber Harris or Netanyahu, does not match most peoples intuition nowadays.

fkdk··on Kidnapped by Deutsche Bahn
historically german railway had a track record of treating people like cattle, but one would expect that not even institutional culture changes would take that long
fkdk··on History LLMs: Models trained exclusively on pre-1913 texts
Maybe the authors are overly careful. Maybe avoiding to publish aspects of their work gives an edge over academic competitors. Maybe both.

In my experience "data available upon request" doesn't always mean what you'd think it does.

fkdk··on Germany votes to bring in voluntary military service programme for 18-year-olds
Including women would have been a legal nonstarter.

The german constitution restricts drafting to men[0] and would have to be changed before such a law could even be considered.

Before you ask, yes, the constitution also says that men and women need to be treated equally[1]

[0] https://www.gesetze-im-internet.de/gg/art_12a.html

[1] https://www.gesetze-im-internet.de/gg/art_3.html

fkdk··on Why Fears of a Trillion-Dollar AI Bubble Are Growing
im not convinced that real estate will profit from the upcoming economic downturn. There's a reason people call it the "everything bubble"
fkdk··on Git 3.0 Defaults to "main" Branch Instead of "master
I have seen dozens of hours spent on debugging issues associated with this switch. One has to wonder how much manpower went into it globally.

Is there some quantitative evidence that this made the world a better place?