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1vuio0pswjnm7 commented on Anthropic settles Bartz et al. litigation after order re: list of pirated books [pdf] ia800101.us.archive.org/1... · Posted by u/1vuio0pswjnm7

1vuio0pswjnm7 · 3 hours ago

"The AI industry's demand for massive amounts of data warrants revisions to the way statutory damages are structured under copyright law, Eisgrau said. As "impressive" as Anthropic's valuation may be-it is soon to be valued at $170 billion-those numbers don't indicate "cash on hand" but "marketplace prognostication," he added."

Could Anthropic have paid the potential damages

https://news.bloomberglaw.com/class-action/anthropic-settles...

https://www.authorsalliance.org/2025/07/26/bartz-v-anthropic...

https://www.claimsjournal.com/news/national/2025/08/26/33264...

https://www.reuters.com/sustainability/boards-policy-regulat...

1vuio0pswjnm7 commented on Google will allow only apps from verified developers to be installed on Android 9to5google.com/2025/08/25... · Posted by u/kotaKat

arielcostas · 20 hours ago

Meaning to use your device you need to have a contractual relationship with a foreign (unless you are in the US) third party that decides what you can or cannot do with it. Plus using GrapheneOS is less of an option every day, since banks and other "regulated" sectors use Google Play Protect and similar DRMs to prevent you from connecting from whatever device you want. Client-side "trust" means the provider owning the device, not the user.

Android shouldn't be considered Open Source anymore, since source code is published in batches and only part of the system is open, with more and more apps going behind the Google ecosystem itself.

Maybe it's time for a third large phone OS, whether it comes from China getting fed up with the US and Google's shenanigans (Huawei has HarmonyOS but it's not open) or some "GNU/Linux" touch version that has a serious ecosystem. Especially when more and more apps and services are "mobile-first" or "mobile-only" like banking.

1vuio0pswjnm7 · 4 hours ago

Alas, no distinction is made between (a) a computer owner that wants to write software to run on their computer versus (b) an "app developer" who wants to write "mobile apps" and distribute them to others for financial gain

The computer owner in (a) is not creating "malware". Any arguments that "verification" is for the protection of users (not commercial benefit of Google) are inapplicable in (a). Unlike the software in (b) the software in (a) only runs on the computer owner's computer, not anyone else's computer. There is no need in the case of (a) for Google to know about what software is running on the computer owner's computer.^1 Surely Google would agree there is no need, i.e., no right, for a computer owner seeking "verification" to know what software is running on Google's computers or the identities of Google employees.

1. None that outweighs the owner's right to privacy. Microsoft, Apple and Google all use _default_ telemetry

https://gist.github.com/alirobe/7f3b34ad89a159e6daa1

https://github.com/cedws/apple-telemetry

https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/437068/eliminating...

https://therecord.media/google-collects-20-times-more-teleme...

1vuio0pswjnm7 commented on AI Is Wrecking Young Americans' Job Prospects wsj.com/economy/jobs/ai-e... · Posted by u/lucaspauker

1vuio0pswjnm7 · 9 hours ago

"While anecdotal evidence has emerged showing AI's effects on certain professions, such as software coding, there has been little harder evidence that the technology was significantly weighing on the labor market."

Anecdotal evidence accompanied by repeated wild speculation about _other_ occupations, including ones with educational and certification requirements

"The Stanford economists first looked at areas where AI can automate many of the tasks workers perform, and therefore potentially replace them. Those include jobs such as software developers, receptionists, translators and customer service representatives."

Generally, none of those require professional certification or even a college degree; they are "unregulated"

https://www.state.gov/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/Guidance-on...

"Head counts among customer service representatives a category that, unlike software development, generally doesn't require a college education followed a similar pattern."

The author assumes that software development requires a college degree

NB. Even if it is common to have one this is not the same as a legal requirement

https://www.nocsdegree.com/blog/companies-that-hire-programm...

1vuio0pswjnm7 commented on SSL certificate requirements are becoming obnoxious chrislockard.net/posts/ss... · Posted by u/unl0ckd

1vuio0pswjnm7 · 10 hours ago

"File-based domain validation was less secure; one dangling DNS record or webserver mis-configuration is all it takes to hijack a certificate.

The remaining domain control validation (DCV) methods for my organization have been reduced to two options: DNS TXT records and email-based validation.

DNS validation is a decent and secure option in an organization where DNS management access is tightly controlled.

A recent change aims to thwart BGP hijacking and DNS spoofing attacks.

Indeed, there are CA consulting services that will offer to "bring PKI and DNS together to validate domain ownership and issue certificates without manual DNS record updates"."

This CA-based, i.e., third-party-based, "Web PKI" appears to depend heavily on the ICANN DNS. But in ICANN DNS the authoritative nameservers are not required to accept encrypted queries or send encrypted responses

In this ICANN DNS upon which "Web PKI" depends, specifically the system of authoritative nameservers, there is no encryption, only authentication, and it is not mandatory for all nameservers. Even more, the setup and maintenance of this authentication system for the data^1 served by these nameservers (DNSSEC) is as difficult if not more than the CA-issued certificates system for networked computers that the blog post is complaining about^2

1. Nevermind the authentication of the computers serving the zone data

2. https://ianix.com/pub/dnssec-outages.html

1vuio0pswjnm7 commented on It is worth it to buy the fast CPU blog.howardjohn.info/post... · Posted by u/ingve

1vuio0pswjnm7 · a day ago

Blog post only mentions CPU whilst comments responding to it change subject to RAM and storage

1vuio0pswjnm7 commented on GNU cross-tools: musl-cross 313.3M github.com/cross-tools/mu... · Posted by u/1vuio0pswjnm7

1vuio0pswjnm7 · a day ago

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40282810

   (
   echo url=https://musl.cc 
   echo header=Accept: 
   echo header=User-Agent: 
   echo resolve=musl.cc:443:216.82.192.10
   )|curl -K/dev/stdin