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I read that article as well. I think some people need something useful to do with their lives. Or treatment 😂

I think I’m going with nay, since there’s no way this is going to improve their “intelligence”. And it’s gonna be 3 days until they break the confines of the matrix and come up with other shenanigans to mess up the internet. And we’re forced to read those kinds of articles all over again.

Dunno, does that help other people? Every time I use it for programming and don’t specifically tell it what to do, it’ll just come up with assumptions. Might go the right direction. Or some random other direction and miss what’d be important factors.
Telling it for example to find issues with the following algorithm / implementation (and then copy-pasting my initial idea) has indeed helped me to find edge cases and stuff like that.

I also think there’s an issue with XY-Problems. Either AI suggested X to me. Or it was my fault because I asked for X. But I’ve ended up in several wild goose chases before, and it’s rare AI stops and points out I’m on the wrong path because I need Y.

Extraneous drivel is very annoying, though. Seems to me especially ChatGPT likes to spam multiple solutions to any question and you can often disregard the first two pages of “ideas” it came up how to NOT do it.

Good question. I feel we here in Europe have a bit more regulation regarding companies in general. But for some reason the big tech companies get away with almost anything. They can do arbitrary evil business models. Own everybody’s private data. Do harm to society. They don’t have to pay taxes. And now we got AI and they’re allowed to steal as well. And some more.

Yes. I think that’s regularly the reason why I decline AI contribution/assistance. Quality just isn’t great. The coding agents just rewrite way too much code. And the reasoning in the PRs or backlog of the agent is regularly missing the bigger picture, or besides the point. It’s really hard to get good quality out of an LLM and most people (including me) don’t manage to pull it off. At least for more complex stuff. I can do one-off things with AI or cobble a website together with some Javascript included.

Let’s put aside for a moment all the ethical/ecological/societal considerations […]

I sometimes feel we’re putting aside too many factors and focus on some hypothetical debate which doesn’t reflect reality.

I mean my point would be, you’ll immediately accept low-quality contributions. And those coding agents for some reason love to generously rewrite stuff and touch a million different files. So what I’ve seen is, you almost immediately end up in some maintainability nightmare which you might or might not have the capacity to deal with (properly). The broad idea by the AI companies is to then use AI to deal with AI. But I’m not sure if that’s a great idea.

Well said. And I found computer stuff rarely to be a yes/no thing in the first place. It’s almost always a …well, depends… where are we going with this?.. there’s ten puzzle pieces which fit here and they all come with consequences and side-effects and form a different bigger picture.

I get the questions, though. And the desire for there to be simple answers to things like, should I install CachyOS? Should I buy 32GB of RAM, put a web application firewall infront of my webserver… There’s also a lot of opinions out there regarding those things.

Question is why, though. What are we trying to accomplish here? There’s better hobbies than gatekeeping stuff just for the sake of it?!

Or use a different platform or wait for Lemmy 1.0

Wow, I didn’t know. Are there any bigger projects out there doing this? Most I find when googling it, is a few YouTubers and people who do it small scale as some sort of tech demo.

Wonder what kind if cost we’re looking at, when “washing” a library like chardet. And whether that’s something available to robin-hood stuff from the rich, or if it’s just the other way around.

Why Manjaro, though? Isn’t CachyOS way more popular these days? And for good reasons?

Doesn’t Debian make use of the Condorcet method? How are their proposals supposed to “split the vote”?

Usually if a cable doesn’t come with specifications, you’d have to measure it yourself. Resistance / voltage drop tells us what kind of power can be transferred. It’s the same as with regular power cables. And I guess which contacts are connected can be measured with one of those (cheap) rigs. There’s small devices available for that job. And of course a computer can try to transfer data and see how that goes.

Well, my TV has that built in. I just start the Screen Share app. Sorry, I don’t have any experience with Chromecast and those dongles…

I feel you wouldn’t have asked for wireless displays if this was an option… But what I did for my laptop and desk is: get a plain old (used) USB-C dock, for about the price of one of these dongles, wired that up to my speakers, monitor, LAN… Now I have to connect one cable to the laptop and it’s connected to everything, plus it gets charged. Doesn’t require any configuration whatsoever and as a bonus I tested some other people’s laptops, my phone, and they all work.

Probably not all that great if you use a tablet like it’s meant to be used… I mean I put my laptop down on the desk and use the keyboard, so I’m not worried about a cable attached to it. If you want to hold a tablet in your hands, this might be annoying. I get that.

Not sure if it’s a good fit for your use case, but I’m using gnome-network-displays to stream to my TV. It does Miracast and Chromecast. There’s some lag, though. Not sure if that’s my old TV or the protocol, but it’s mainly good for streaming videos.

flathub with the .com says: Error, not reachable. Connection timeout, for me?!

Not sure if I’m helping. But sounds this could also be a X/Y problem… The way to make sure you don’t lose data is backups, not something else. I mean your SSD could as well die. Or someone doesn’t boot something, but steals the entire device… Or plugs in an USB Zapper. Backups deal with that. And deal with disk wiping as well.

Hmmh. Sure, cross-licensing is an entirely different topic. That’s not really what we’re afraid of when for example Amazon takes some Free Software and provides it as a service. It’s just that the EUPL comes with an automatic cross-licensing option regarding the distribution of combined works.

But I must say, I’m still confused. What’s an “essential functionality” now? Is that supposed to be a legal term? And where are the blurry lines with that? What if I offer a hosting service that heavily relies on database operations, but doesn’t expose the database itself… it’s slightly abstracted away from the customer? It’s internally 85% made up of some other person’s work, but it builds upon that Free Software and doesn’t straight provide access to it’s functionalities… Is that alright? And why (not)? And why restrict it to essential functionality? Why allow non-essential functionality? And what even is that? If someone spends half a year optimizing a database, is that deemed essential? Or can a court rule the essential thing about a database project is it fetches data, and how exactly it does it, isn’t essential to a database?

And I still don’t see the “stronger terms prevail”. That’s not how that sentence goes. It’s very specific in: if it’s an obligation (to the licensee, btw), then the other license prevails. Not the stronger one, the other one wins any conflict. It’s just concerned with the distribution of combined works, though.

Isn’t both exactly the other way round?

The license (EUPL-1.2) specifically talks about redistributing either the source, or executable files. (see definition of original work, also distribution.) Nowhere do they mention a service running the work comes with any kinds of obligations? I just can’t find any single sentence in the license text covering SaaS…

Both “Copyleft clause” and “Provision of source code” are pretty clear as well. It’s only about distributing copies of the work. Not running it and providing it as a service.

And regarding the compatible licenses, they say the other one wins. At least regarding the “obligations”. However that’s defined and whether it’s the licensor’s or licensee’s obligations:

Should the Licensee’s obligations under the Compatible Licence conflict with
his/her obligations under this Licence, the obligations of the Compatible
Licence shall prevail.

And next question: Isn’t that what the AGPL does but the specific variant of the EUPL they picked for their reticulum project doesn’t even do?

Edit: And furthermore, it’s no even as strict as the GPL because everyone is allowed to redistribute it under the terms of the LGPL?