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snickerdoodle12··on Making Postgres slower
Excellent. Now do 42,000x faster please.
snickerdoodle12··on I hacked my washing machine
Seriously, me too. I also want to know how they transport the laundry to/from the machine. I'm hoping for a conveyor belt of sorts.
snickerdoodle12··on Allianz Life says 'majority' of customers' personal data stolen in cyberattack
Jail the executives.
snickerdoodle12··on I wasted weeks hand optimizing assembly because I benchmarked on random data
> but I also think a lot of it comes down to all non-primitive types being boxed Objects

They're working on it: https://openjdk.org/projects/valhalla/

snickerdoodle12··on Vet is a safety net for the curl | bash pattern
apt and yum/dnf are pretty great
snickerdoodle12··on AI overviews cause massive drop in search clicks
Bullying their paying customers is such an insane choice
snickerdoodle12··on AMD CEO sees chips from TSMC's US plant costing 5%-20% more
https://archive.is/HS9Gi
snickerdoodle12··on Complete silence is always hallucinated as "ترجمة نانسي قنقر" in Arabic
OpenSubtitles is almost exclusively used with pirated media. Official copies come with official subtitles. OpenSubtitles itself is legal, but that's not the point at all.
snickerdoodle12··on More than you wanted to know about how Game Boy cartridges work
any good resources for PCB design?
snickerdoodle12··on Complete silence is always hallucinated as "ترجمة نانسي قنقر" in Arabic
Now do every other jurisdiction
snickerdoodle12··on Complete silence is always hallucinated as "ترجمة نانسي قنقر" in Arabic
https://www.rvo.nl/onderwerpen/octrooien-ofwel-patenten/vorm...

I'll leave all other jurisdictions up to you.

snickerdoodle12··on Complete silence is always hallucinated as "ترجمة نانسي قنقر" in Arabic
CFAA bans accessing a protected computer without authorization. Hitting URLs denied by robots.txt has been argued to be just that.
snickerdoodle12··on Complete silence is always hallucinated as "ترجمة نانسي قنقر" in Arabic
Pretty funny that your argument boils down to: It's okay to break the law if you do it as a company.

Copyright laws target everyone. SEC laws don't.

snickerdoodle12··on Complete silence is always hallucinated as "ترجمة نانسي قنقر" in Arabic
> If you're caught with AV gear in a movie theater once, you'd likely be ejected and banned from the establishment/chain, not have the FBI/MPAA go after you for piracy

Good example, because this is exactly what websites are doing with LLM companies, who are doing their damnest to evade the blocks. Which brings us back around to "trespassing" or the CFAA or whatever.

snickerdoodle12··on Complete silence is always hallucinated as "ترجمة نانسي قنقر" in Arabic
> Besides, if it really bothered you, then we might not see this weird tone-switch from one sentence to the next, where you seem to think that piracy is shocking and "something should be done" and then "it's not good tht someone should spend time in jail for it". What gives?

What a weirdly condescending way to interpret my post. My point boils down to: Either prosecute copyright infringement or don't. The current status quo of individuals getting their lives ruined while companies get to make billions is disgusting.

snickerdoodle12··on Complete silence is always hallucinated as "ترجمة نانسي قنقر" in Arabic
Who's to say why I downloaded and am now watching a movie? Is it for my enjoyment? Is it because I'm training my brain? How is me training my brain any different from companies training their LLMs?

Same goes for recording: I'm just training my skills of recording. Or maybe I'm just recording it so I can rewatch it later, for training purposes, of course.

snickerdoodle12··on Complete silence is always hallucinated as "ترجمة نانسي قنقر" in Arabic
It's just "training"
snickerdoodle12··on Complete silence is always hallucinated as "ترجمة نانسي قنقر" in Arabic
They're not just training on pirated content, they've also scraped literally the entire internet and used that too.
snickerdoodle12··on Complete silence is always hallucinated as "ترجمة نانسي قنقر" in Arabic
They've done both, so my confusion is about why you are bringing this up?
snickerdoodle12··on Complete silence is always hallucinated as "ترجمة نانسي قنقر" in Arabic
The thread is centered around US companies, but not US jurisdiction.
snickerdoodle12··on Complete silence is always hallucinated as "ترجمة نانسي قنقر" in Arabic
So if I download copyrighted material like the new disney movie with fansubs and watch it for training purposes instead of enjoyment purposes it's fine? In that case I've just been training myself, your honor. No, no, I'm not enjoying these TV shows.

Because it's important to grasp the scale of these copyright violations:

* They downloaded, and admitted to using, Anna's Archive: Millions of books and papers, most of which are paywalled but they pirated it instead

* They acquired Movies and TV shows and used unofficial subtitles distributed by websites such as OpenSubtitles, which are typically used for pirated media. Official releases such as DVDs tend to have official subtitles that don't sign off with "For study/research purpose only. Please delete after 48 hours" or "Subtitles by %some_username%"

snickerdoodle12··on Complete silence is always hallucinated as "ترجمة نانسي قنقر" in Arabic
The CFAA is vague enough to punish unauthorized access to a computer system. I don't have an example case in mind, but people have gotten in trouble for scraping websites before while ignoring e.g. robots.txt
snickerdoodle12··on Complete silence is always hallucinated as "ترجمة نانسي قنقر" in Arabic
The exact same charges could apply to the AI scrapers illegitimately accessing random websites.
snickerdoodle12··on Complete silence is always hallucinated as "ترجمة نانسي قنقر" in Arabic
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aaron_Swartz

And the US is not the only jurisdiction

snickerdoodle12··on Complete silence is always hallucinated as "ترجمة نانسي قنقر" in Arabic
There is so much damning evidence that AI companies have committed absolutely shocking amounts of piracy, yet nothing is being done.

It only highlights how the world really works. If you have money you get to do whatever the fuck you want. If you're just a normal person you get to spend years in jail or worse.

Reminds me of https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8GptobqPsvg

snickerdoodle12··on The patterns of elites who conceal their assets offshore
I am saying straight faced that there are politicians with plans to implement this. Which is what I said before, and it's factually true.

Whether they'll succeed is another matter. I hope they don't.

snickerdoodle12··on ESP32-Faikin: ESP32 based module to control Daikin aircon units
I've done the same for an AC that wasn't supported by IRDB at the time. Just went through recording every possible combination, was a boring 30 minutes but it's worked perfectly ever since.
snickerdoodle12··on The patterns of elites who conceal their assets offshore
Do you not understand that politicians can change laws?
snickerdoodle12··on The patterns of elites who conceal their assets offshore
Buddy, I'm dutch. I am following local politics, and clearly, you're not.

> I describe the law of and linked to a government website of the Netherlands.

No shit? How is the current law relevant to plans to change it?

> What you did not say is that one party leader made an insane comment in a campaign cycle met with so much backlash it took less than a day to radically change to "with 0% under €500.000" and has still been unilaterally mocked by opinion makers, politicians, and media.

Yeah, so he's planning it. For now they seem to have changed their campaign surrounding the subject but there's no saying what they'll do if elected.

snickerdoodle12··on Marathon fusion claims to invent alchemy, making 5000 kgs gold per gigawatt
Third paragraph from the post, in bold:

> Using our approach, power plants can generate five thousand kilograms of gold per year, per gigawatt of electricity generation (~2.5 GWth), without any compromise to fuel self-sufficiency or power output.

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