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Comment · 3 months ago
Time will tell whether Codeberg's approach of Valetudo-like community-building will work out.
Comment · 3 months ago
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.

Comment · 3 months ago
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.

Comment · 3 months ago
“To arrive at a just estimate of a renowned man’s character one must judge it by the standards of his time, not ours.”
Comment · 3 months ago
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?
Comment · 5 months ago
Could be, i understood it differently
Comment · 5 months ago
Do you? Even if its a technical blog post and you learn incorrect things from it?
Comment · 5 months ago
Next up: Lawmakers put Indiana pi bill back on the table.
Comment · 5 months ago
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.

Comment · 7 months ago
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.
Comment · 7 months ago
I advise having a read through Sapolskys book "Determined" to get another perspective
Comment · 8 months ago
What would "abuse" of an LLM look like? Saying something mean to it? Shutting it off?

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