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Cake day: July 1st, 2023

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  • Well, it’s a bit better than that, simply because you can train AI with solar power. Probably nobody does that currently, as it’s easier, faster-to-market and probably (for whatever corrupt reason) cheaper for business to let it run on burning fossils/nuclear. Currently there’s an insane amount of waste, often 1000s of models are trained and only the best performing one is deployed - and then it’s just a fancy autocomplete. The better use is for prediction of material failure, new medicine and protein folding, generally improved processes.

    With asbestos you get some convenience, but it’ll be for eternity a pain to find a waste management facility that will accept it.







  • Yeah, but the astroturfing botfarms are only activated to foment “oohh aahh yeah gotta be responsible with our children’s debt” opinions when it’s the other way around. And of course all big “news” entertainment papers and shows are in on it because of access and money. I mean, they’re all doing what they’re paid for and the general public can’t be arsed to be smart about it, call bullshit and cut off the value extraction because of perceived inconveniences (data harvesting = ability to manipulate/steer public opinion = value to sell to those seeking power & control). the populace is the commodity being sold here.

    We are all cooked





  • Fuck that other site

    the GPL’s sweeping liability exclusions might not be enforceable in some EU jurisdictions.1

    Interfaces, protocols, and APIs are not always covered by copyright under EU law, depending on their functional nature.

    As for MIT licence: its brevity doesn’t reduce applicable laws—it merely omits explicit handling of them, which can create legal uncertainty in civil law jurisdictions.

    Especially hard is working in a community where everyone accepts a commiter’s agreement (contributers license agreement, I guess: CLA), and to handling all author metadata GDPR applies to anyone who handles the source code in a DVCS for non-private purpose. Having a brief licence when the CLA is typically 1 through 3 pages of A4 text is not that much of an upside.

    Disclaimer: IANAL.

    Footnotes:

    The rights holders (authors and/or licensors) shall be liable without limitation in the event of wilful intent, fraud, gross negligence, damage to life, limb or health and if liability cannot be limited or excluded by law. In case of a negligent breach of an obligation that is material for the execution of this osc license agreement (material duty), the rights holders (authors and/or licensors) shall be liable up to the amount of damage that is typically foreseeable at the time this osc license agreement is concluded.

    Any further liability is excluded.

    Writing this down has nearly no effect, since you implicitly have these responsibilities anyway