David Jones

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@reason @ReemAmirIbrahim There is another way.

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@adafruit Is this the guy who invented TimSort? If so, he was an absolute legend. RIP.

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@tomhacks Uses AI slop operating system.
Why it delete my stuff?

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@lecternleader Suck up rule #3 and watch Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves. Alan Rickman makes up for the presence of Kevin Costner by some margin. He's hilarious!

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@PatrickChristys I'm amazed the person doing this on stage turned out to be a sexual deviant. 🤷‍♂️

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@RetroTechChris The first backup software I used was Arcserve. It was affectionately known as Arseserve in our office.
Imagine my surprise to find the software is still available (albeit in monthly subscription form).

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@NixiePixel I first tried linux on my mates 486DLC. It was called Manchester Interim Linux I think. It came on just two floppy disks and we marvelled at running an entire Unix workstation in his flat. 🤣

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@LOVillaJavea All the Turkish barbers and vape shops seem to be managing just fine. 🤔

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@tommithetechie It was two computers talking very slowly over a serial connection. But there's no floppy controller in the C64 which made it much cheaper, especially for those who didn't splurge on the disk drive.

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@McLeanBen @Itsfoss The more I re-read that paragraph, the more I think this isn't aimed at Omarchy. But they get my nomination for Novembers vaguepost king anyway.

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@Wunkolo This is true, MIT requires attribution and a copyright notice. This is why changing license will not prevent 'people' who are allegedly using their code without attribution.
If a bad actor is willing to breach MIT, they will just as easily breach GPL.

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Well, yes and no.
Their complaint is that 'people' are taking their code and LLMing it to use without attribution. If that is indeed happening, changing the license will do nothing to stop it.
The other part of their complaint - that 'people' are "stealing code" from personal repositories before it's merged or something: the GPL does nothing to stop that. If you want a private repo you have to... not publish it.

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@NachoAMDG @Moehrenmann @Itsfoss Exactly. But Asahi have explicitly stated this as one of the reasons for their license change. Make it make sense!

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I'm having a real hard time with the phrase "steal unreleased code." (My quotes)
Did AI agents really hack into a private repository and steal source code? That would be one hell of a story - you should have run with that.
Or are we talking about publicly visible repos with permissively licensed code in them?

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@JulieHughes4 @VintageMrHobbes I get it. There's a lot more to a person's education than their exam results. But those results are going to open doors for them in the immediate future, so I understand why they focus on them.

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@Moehrenmann @Itsfoss I'm not sure Red Hat would agree that GPL stops anyone from making money, but you do you.

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@JulieHughes4 @VintageMrHobbes Thanks for the insight! Why do you think the curriculum is so disjointed given that it's all centrally determined?

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@JasBilyeu Like everything AI generated then. Looks okay from a distance but when you zoom in at the details...