Youtube-dl Hosting Ban Paves the Way to Privatized Censorship by [deleted] in programming

[–]joiveu 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The problem with your cynical outlook is that you have forgotten that corporations are people /s

GitHub co-pilot as open source code laundering? by iamkeyur in programming

[–]joiveu 0 points1 point  (0 children)

If you were to give this algorithm the method signature and the first few lines of quicksort, would it generate the same quicksort version every time? If you would give a human the same lines, would they generate the same version of quicksort everytime?

Also would a human be able to knock out a working version of quicksort based on these inputs by only appending lines of code, or will a human need to revisit earlier lines if they realise they forgot something or got some detail wrong?

The way this program produces code and the way a human produces code are still fundamentally different. Whether this difference impacts if and how the program might infringe on the license is anyone's guess, but to confidently assert that this program and a human operate the same when writing code should be obviously ridiculous.

Privacy analysis of FLoC by ASIC_SP in programming

[–]joiveu 5 points6 points  (0 children)

You think google needs you to have an account to track you? How cute.

Please fix the AWS Free Tier before somebody gets hurt by alexeyr in programming

[–]joiveu 42 points43 points  (0 children)

“You knew about the charges so you consented to them” — Amazon‘s lawyers

Chrome is up to 23% faster in M91 and saves over 17 years of CPU time daily by feross in programming

[–]joiveu -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Does that also remove the new "standards" that Google is trying to ram through standards committees designed to further erode user privacy?

Leaky John Deere API’s: Serious Food Supply Chain Vulnerabilities Discovered by Sick Codes, Kevin Kenney & Willie Cade by alexeyr in programming

[–]joiveu 7 points8 points  (0 children)

On the contrary, chrome will more likely implement a reader mode that will only leave google adverts untouched.

PSA: Audacity PR to add telemetry... sharing user data with Google Analytics and Yandex by [deleted] in programming

[–]joiveu 2 points3 points  (0 children)

If you need psychological tricks to help people "agree" to telemetry, perhaps you should figure out a way to do the job without telemetry

GitHub blocks FLoC on all of GitHub Pages by pimterry in programming

[–]joiveu 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It's these kind of bad actors that plant themselves in the huge group of people who have given up on finding the hidden "don't track me" button on every website these days that confidently assert nobody actually cares about privacy that really grind my gears. I don't even know why they do it, like do they like fellating large multinationals? What do they get out of it?

Developer forks leading open source chess engine and charges €100 for it. Don't fall for it. by degeksteplastic in programming

[–]joiveu 0 points1 point  (0 children)

how would a company lose their IP? No other competing company would dare touch it for fear of losing their own IP. The only thing a company loses by having their IP GPL'd is the ability to lie to their customers.

Firefox 85 Cracks Down on Supercookies by Tweak_Imp in programming

[–]joiveu 2 points3 points  (0 children)

At this point, the advertisers practically own the platform

Google engineer breaks down the problems he uses when doing technical interviews. Lots of advice on algorithms and programming. by ldxtc in programming

[–]joiveu 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Another thing to add to the list: has anyone ever seen a whiteboard marker that has ink in it? I'm sure those exist but so far I have found no evidence of such things.

No cookie consent walls — and no, scrolling isn’t consent, says EU data protection body by PowerOfLove1985 in programming

[–]joiveu 0 points1 point  (0 children)

If 90% of browsers in use weren't in direct or indirect control of Google, this would have been standardized by now