I’ve never thought about it this way, but it’s almost certain that my nonchalant default position about “does LLM training violate a social contract about credit in open source” is related to the baseline fact that I’ve devoted my entire life to open source and appear in (to a rounding error) zero CREDITS or AUTHORS files. My contributions have been stripped, but it wasn’t by AI.
@yoasif@mastodon.social @mcepl@en.osm.town both Matej and I have spent the overwhelming majority of our adult lives supporting open source in non-credited non-coding roles.
What’s totally conscious: that I’ve been explaining to lawyers, engineers, and students for 15 years that every device they own has an attribution file and to a rounding error no one, even the developers, ever reads them. Their original, noble, purpose has morphed into a box-checking exercise performed by multi-billion dollar corporations for their lawyers, not for developers. And that long predates Copilot.
To be clear, that’s super-problematic! But it’s not problematic because LLM; it’s problematic because the mechanism we invented in the 1970s and 80s to create human relationships didn’t survive the transition to modern, mega-complex, mostly-open systems. LLMs are at worst the moment where we had to collectively acknowledge that the emperor is clothed in unread READMEs.
If the purposes of a system is what it does, the AUTHORS/CREDITS are not a benefit for the people listed but rather a social function: an outsourced (poor) substitute for a functioning register of copyrights which would *limit* the universe of potential #copyright claims (and eventually be instrumental in a restoration of the "limited Times" in the Progress Clause).
@nemobis A bit of a tangent, but I have for years wanted someone to build better human-focused editor recognition for Wikipedia. Ironically (given this conversation) maybe I can finally build a mockup with Claude Code ;)
We sure need more experimentation there! What I liked the most about WikiTrust back in the day was that it would surface the authors of a passage in an article that caught your attention.
ich glaube, einer sehr wichtige Folge um zu erkennen, wieso es wichtig ist, das man Freiheit auch verteidigen muss.
Lage der Nation - der Politik-Podcast aus Berlin: LdN458 Neue US-Sicherheitsstrategie, Wehrdienst oder doch "verpissen"?, Altersgrenze für Social Media, Korrektur: Hebammen, Feedback: Klimaclub, Verbrauchertip für den Abschied vom Gas, Wie resilient ist die deutsche Justiz?
“It seems the public prefers a political leader with compassion and the courage to say so. Not a gaggle of them who are all barking up the same racist tree. What a surprise.”
Mit dem ICE ohne Umstieg von #Halle nach #Paris. Oder eine Antwort auf die Frage, was die Europäische Union für die Menschen möglich macht. #bahn #eu #europe #icetrip #ice
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Il produttore a Castagnole Monferrato: “Siamo partiti da un garage. La vecchia casa della mia bisnonna oggi è il Museo dedicato a questo straordinario vitigno,…
Titel: The Beast In Me Inhalt: Aggie Wiggs (Claire Danes) ist eine gefeierte Autorin, die schon einige Bestseller veröffentlicht hat. Doch seit dem tragischen Tod ihres Sohnes hat sie sich aus der …
Milano festeggia la gara numero 200 contro la Virtus Bologna con una vittoria per 74-63. L’EA7, nonostante le numerose assenze, si affida a un grande Armoni Brooks (23 punti) e a una difesa solida nei momenti chiave.
Overnight, Russia launched 153 UAVs (Shahed, Herber and others) from multiple directions. Ukraine’s air defenses shot down or suppressed 133 of them across the north, south and east. 17 UAVs struck 10 locations. The attack is ongoing with several drones still in the air.
Look, I know I like to present myself as a serious #photographer, but on New Year's Eve this gorgeous boy will become the new member of the family, so buckle up for a lot of #puppy pictures.
The title of the poem is in normal orientation at the top of the image. The poem itself is typed in lines at a slight angle to vertical - each letter of a word below the previous letter, and each line to the right of the previous line. The lines aren't precisely straight or parallel. The shape of the poem suggests rain.
Sorry, my French is good enough to read the poem, but not good enough to add this description.
Below is a detailed, production-ready guide for How to Deploy Django 6 on Ubuntu VPS. What is Django? Django is a high-level, open-source web framework for #Python that enables developers to build secure, scalable, database-driven websites and APIs quickly. It follows the Model–View–Template (MVT) architectural pattern and emphasizes rapid development, ... Continued 👉 blog.radwebhosting.com/deploy-… #letsencrypt #selfhosted #opensource #selfhosting
It's now, as the first pre-release of #Linux 6.19 is out – which leaves plenty of time to find, report, debug, and fix any problems that those distros otherwise will encounter when they switch to 6.19.y in about eight to ten weeks. And testing is not even hard, as easy-to-install packages with pre-built mainline kernels exist for all three distros[2].
In case you want to play it a bit safer, delay testing by one week till -rc2 is out – bugs that lead to data loss introduced before -rc1 are extremely rare but will almost certainly have been found and fixed by then.
Anything up to 6.19-rc6 (five weeks from now) is still okayish, but less ideal.
The sixth -rc is your last good chance to test. Linus by then wants all regressions that have become known since the beginning of the 6.19 cycle fixed – but in case some were missed or not reported yet, there is still enough time to report, debug, and fix them before they reach those distros.
Testing any later is often too late: most bugs then can't be fixed anymore before those distros will switch to the 6.19.y series, which will happen within one or two weeks (in the case of Arch and Tumbleweed) or three to four (Fedora) after 6.19 is released.
[1] "best" as in "best tradeoff between risk and impact"
#Python folks, let's say I want to configure a CI build (perhaps a Github action) that uses the *MINIMUM* version of Python and dependencies specified in a pyproject.toml file for the test. I.E. to ensure that features not present in those versions aren't used in new code added to a library.
Scarsa frequenza, affidabilità e sicurezza sono i problemi che l'utenza italiana riscontra quando usa il trasporto pubblico locale. Ve n'eravate accorti?
Thank Goodness! My favorites list on the grocery store website has pictures of the items again, instead of all of them just having a picture of a bag of frozen mixed vegetables
I microrganismi nei calzini non solo sono fonte di cattivi odori, ma in alcuni casi possono influenzare anche la nostra salute, spiega una microbiologa
La Alpine A390 GT porta l’elettrico fuori dal suo comfort: niente silenzi contemplativi, solo precisione, personalità e un torque vectoring che assomiglia a un superpotere
I was one of the other authors whose free games were used as a basis for this (by permission, under contract).
Read the split thread for details; I agree with every word Alan has written (both the positives about the game, and the negatives about Jonathan Blow).
So, “Order of the Sinking Star” by Thekla was just announced, which takes several small free games (two of which are mine) and gives them a major graphical upgrade and mashes up their rulesets. I haven’t been very involved but it’s a great concept and looks cool.
@NOELreports: SitRep - 14/12/25 - US-Ukraine talks in Berlin An overview of the daily events in Russia's invasion of Ukraine. In Berlin, Zelensky and his team, welcomed by Merz, spoke with the US delegation of Witko...…
LS (e Mastodon) è un social network. E in un social network se si posta qualcosa con visibilità pubblica, si da per scontato che tutti possano vederlo e possano interagire. Non trovo proprio opportuno criticare qualcuno di "sconosciuto" (su un social, duh!) per il semplice fatto interagisce con noi. Non vogliamo che il nostro post arrivi a tutti? Ci sono le relative opzioni. Non vogliamo risposte? Chiamiamo Piersilvio e chiediamogli uno spazio pomeridiano su Canale 5.
ma infatti, facciamo il contrario: vende la juve per 1 miliardo di euro e investe una frazione sul giornale ed entra nella storia come editore innovativo, visionario, quello che vuole lui.
This survey question is rich. This is from one of the BigMoneySF groups trying to make it harder for the rest of us to put stuff on the ballot.
But they will never ban paid signature gathering, the one thing that would most effectively keep crap off the ballot. They just want to raise the signature threshold for the rest of us. It would still be easy for billionaires to abuse the system and qualify any ballot measure they like, just hard for anyone else. #sfpol
Fuck Larsen (Ripple) Gaza (flock) drones over SF and Benioff Mr ICE talent recruiting agency.
More and more of those godforsaken flock devices are showing up in my neck of the woods. Combined with their collaboration for pervasive surveillance through ring devices, which can now track people from device to device I’m beginning to think living out in the woods is ever more appealing
I dont think i have #adhd but maybe have object permanence. After i deleted Instagram and facebook from my phone i haven't remembered to open them once.
So, “Order of the Sinking Star” by Thekla was just announced, which takes several small free games (two of which are mine) and gives them a major graphical upgrade and mashes up their rulesets. I haven’t been very involved but it’s a great concept and looks cool.
The original games at the core of Order of the Sinking Star are: * The Heroes of Sokoban series: by Jonah Ostroff * The Promesst series: by Sean Barrett * Mirror Isles: by me * Skipping Stones to Lonely Homes: by me
Want to use the Adobe Fonts service but don’t want to pay $70/month for Creative Cloud? You can subscribe to InCopy for $5/month (which includes Adobe Fonts): adobe.com/plans/creativecloud.…
Anyone tried it yet? New or interesting or unique features? Any real challenge to Adobe? I still trot along with Scribus, Inkscape and LibreOffice, but I’m itching for more variable font support.https://www.canva.
Luis Villa
in reply to Luis Villa • • •That’s (until today) been somewhat subconscious.
What’s totally conscious: that I’ve been explaining to lawyers, engineers, and students for 15 years that every device they own has an attribution file and to a rounding error no one, even the developers, ever reads them. Their original, noble, purpose has morphed into a box-checking exercise performed by multi-billion dollar corporations for their lawyers, not for developers. And that long predates Copilot.
Luis Villa
in reply to Luis Villa • • •Nemo_bis 🌈
in reply to Luis Villa • • •Good point about human relationships.
If the purposes of a system is what it does, the AUTHORS/CREDITS are not a benefit for the people listed but rather a social function: an outsourced (poor) substitute for a functioning register of copyrights which would *limit* the universe of potential #copyright claims (and eventually be instrumental in a restoration of the "limited Times" in the Progress Clause).
Luis Villa
in reply to Nemo_bis 🌈 • • •Nemo_bis 🌈
in reply to Luis Villa • • •