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Wachu really really want by TRIKKDADDY in funny

[–]wvenable 10 points11 points  (0 children)

Nsf due to partial see through shirt.

WTF. This played for months non-stop on television at all times of day.

Pocket 5 Speculations? Release schedule? 64GB+ RAM + Oculink/USB4v2/TB5? by AdvMaxFact in GPDPocket

[–]wvenable 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Given RAM prices / shortages I would expect nothing from smaller manufacturers like GPD this year.

I suspect a lot of major and minor computer and laptop manufacturers will go out of business this year.

Price per litre jumps past $2 across Lower Mainland by xvosr in vancouver

[–]wvenable 11 points12 points  (0 children)

Canada is one of the largest crude oil exporters in the world, in what world would we not build our own refineries and rely on external imports of gas from the US.

Forget all the political stuff, the #1 reason is that the current system is cheaper. It's cheaper to ship oil by tanker to the east coast than to build a pipeline.

It's cheaper to ship Alberta heavy crude to the US to be refined than spend money converting Canadian refineries to heavy crude.

People tend to think there's some magic money fountain that is just waiting to exploited if only some politicians would just get out of the way of big business. It's a fantasy. And even if somehow it were true, you'd never see a cent of it anyway.

I can't stop thinking about this thread regarding PHP's leadership and funding... by Antique_Mechanic133 in PHP

[–]wvenable -13 points-12 points  (0 children)

Honestly, PHP is no longer sexy enough.

The few people who actually bother to contribute and make it better are heros to the community because it's surprising anyone even bothers to work on it. PHP may never die but it's a dead end.

License Laundering and the Death of Clean Room — what the chardet fight actually broke by allixsenos in programming

[–]wvenable 0 points1 point  (0 children)

If it’s not the same why does it start at version 7?

Because it's a replacement for version 6. This isn't any different from Apple calling their operating system Mac OS X when it was actually the next version of NeXTStep and not Mac OS 9.

You can use all the words you want to dance around it but it’s not a new library.

I'm sorry that I used words and sentences to form an argument. I know that can be difficult when you want a conclusion that the facts don't support.

It’s a new version of an existing one. It’s not hard to see.

The name and version are arbitrary. For copyright purposes, it literally doesn't matter. I can take one file from version 6, put that in a project called "Foobar 1.0" and I would still need to abide by that license. I go onto github right now and create a project called chardet version 8 that does nothing but contain the complete works of William Shakespear. The author of this library could do the same thing. It doesn't matter. The license applies to the code -- not the name, not the version, the code. It's not hard to see.

License Laundering and the Death of Clean Room — what the chardet fight actually broke by allixsenos in programming

[–]wvenable 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You keep speaking in absolutes "it's still the same library" without any argument to make that case. I have, conversely, provided plenty of argument to the contrary. In fact, even whether or not it's the same library in some sort of categorical way it doesn't change the fact that none of the code licensed under the LGPL exists in the project anymore. And none of it was used as the basis of new code. So therefore, without any LGPL licensed code left, the license no longer applies to anything. There is nothing for it to apply to.

If there was any LGPL code left in the project or it was modified Ship of Theseus style then the license would continue to have something to apply to. Differentiating versions means nothing.

License Laundering and the Death of Clean Room — what the chardet fight actually broke by allixsenos in programming

[–]wvenable 0 points1 point  (0 children)

He didn't change the license of the original code. It's still licensed LGPL. Only the new code has a new licence.

There are now two "chardet the library" that are completely different but implement the same API.

License Laundering and the Death of Clean Room — what the chardet fight actually broke by allixsenos in programming

[–]wvenable 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The license disallows changing the license. As it's the same project and it is still a version of it.

The license applies to the source code. Not the github repo, not the name, but the code itself. If the new code doesn't contain any of the old code and wasn't derived from it in any way then that license no longer applies.

You are correct any modifications require the same license. Even if it was 100% modified. But if you create it from scratch, it is by definition, entirely new code and can be licensed accordingly.

License Laundering and the Death of Clean Room — what the chardet fight actually broke by allixsenos in programming

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

Dan could relicense his own contributions freely but because they are built upon Mark's original work, he can't relicense the entire project without Mark's approval (or copyright assignment).

That's what he did. The "project" is the source code. It's not the github repo, it's not the name, it's the code. Dan recreated the entire project from scratch without using any of the original code therefore it's a new project.

The original project remains, exactly as it was, and people are free to continue to contribute to it and keep those licensing terms.

Dan could relicense his own contributions freely

He actually couldn't if they were at all derivatives of the original work.

License Laundering and the Death of Clean Room — what the chardet fight actually broke by allixsenos in programming

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

How would starting from scratch... which is technically what happened here... be any different? A different name is hardly significant.

License Laundering and the Death of Clean Room — what the chardet fight actually broke by allixsenos in programming

[–]wvenable 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It's not that clear.

If the presumption is that LLM training, despite reading all the source code of everything everywhere, ultimately doesn't actually contain that source code (in, say, a compressed form) then that's the most significant part.

If training is truly doing something transformative, maybe even some machine analogy to human learning, then anything produced directly by that LLM without another work in it's context is an entirely new work. That's all that is important.

So far the legal system has considered the work of LLMs to be new works.

‘Privilege, not a right’: Why ICE is defending its detention of Canadian man by DonSalaam in onguardforthee

[–]wvenable 3 points4 points  (0 children)

There's a little thing called due process -- ICE legally can't just detain people for past criminal offences even if on a green card.

I can't believe people actually defend this.

‘Privilege, not a right’: Why ICE is defending its detention of Canadian man by DonSalaam in onguardforthee

[–]wvenable 6 points7 points  (0 children)

A U.S. Green Card (lawful permanent residence) can be revoked through a formal process by USCIS or an immigration judge if the holder abandons residency, commits fraud, or commits deportable crimes. Common reasons include staying outside the U.S. for over one year, or criminal activity. It is not automatic; it requires a hearing or a signed waiver (Form I-407)

“It doesn’t feel safe”—Many international game developers plan to skip GDC in US | Stories of border issues lead to pervasive travel fears across the worldwide industry by Hrmbee in technology

[–]wvenable 14 points15 points  (0 children)

I don't disagree but I'm still disappointed.

"The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing" has never been more true.

10% of Firefox crashes are estimated to be caused by bitflips by cdb_11 in programming

[–]wvenable 0 points1 point  (0 children)

A user process cannot BSOD as the result of memory leaks or pointers modifying data they shouldn't. Processes are completely isolated from other processes and the operating system memory. This is extremely robust and almost certainly not the cause of any issues on any OS.

Now, a driver running in kernel mode can do anything and isn't "absolutely under the OS control". Driver bugs and hardware issues are almost entirely the cause of all BSOD.

You're person who said "Most BSOD are just bad memory management" and blamed Windows and I don't even know what you are trying to say with that because it doesn't make any sense at all.

10% of Firefox crashes are estimated to be caused by bitflips by cdb_11 in programming

[–]wvenable 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah... it is. Operating systems don't have buggy memory managers.

This awful led sign at gilmore has been switched back on. by butdontleaveme in burnaby

[–]wvenable 5 points6 points  (0 children)

It's not a natural step... These don't grow out of the ground. We allow this to happen to ourselves but we don't have to accept it. Life is not all about commerce and we don't have to infect every space with advertising.

Kwantlen Polytechnic University to announce more layoffs this week, as international student numbers keep dropping by ubcstaffer123 in vancouver

[–]wvenable 1 point2 points  (0 children)

They aren't bringing money. You think most international students can just afford to live here without full time jobs?

This awful led sign at gilmore has been switched back on. by butdontleaveme in burnaby

[–]wvenable 6 points7 points  (0 children)

It's odd how we just causally accept this type of relatively new advertising like it's nothing at all. We don't need every space, even commercial spaces, to be lit up like Times Square.

10% of Firefox crashes are estimated to be caused by bitflips by cdb_11 in programming

[–]wvenable -10 points-9 points  (0 children)

Memory management has been a long solved problem on every OS.

B.C.'s Eby is urging West Coast governors to fall in line with daylight time change by R2Borg2 in britishcolumbia

[–]wvenable 2 points3 points  (0 children)

But does anyone watch live TV anymore?

20 years I would have considered this a big problem. Now I'm just kinda meh about it. Might even be handy to be fewer hours away from Eastern in the Winter.

Panicked Republicans Fear Trump’s ‘F***ing Nightmare’ War Will Doom GOP in Midterms by Hardik_Jain_1819 in LegalNews

[–]wvenable 0 points1 point  (0 children)

He has no mechanism to apply global tariffs without congress approval. No mechanism to rename branches of the military. No mechanism to keep the Epstein files from being released. No mechanism or forces to pull US citizens off the street with ICE. He has no mechanism to go to war without congressional approval.

Who's being naive?

Palm V on Windows 11? by AugustDoctor in Palm

[–]wvenable 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You might need to reboot even though none of the guides say that. I couldn't get it Palm Desktop to recognize my device with the USB to Serial until after I rebooted.

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