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d_k_f commented on Theft is not fair use jskfellows.stanford.edu/t... · Posted by u/bgwalter

socalgal2 · 21 days ago

not sure I get your point. So because a movie producer didn't sign a contract with a pirate it's okay for the pirate to copy the movie without compensation and that's the only difference?

To me, in both cases someone did some work that someone else wants. In both cases they should pay for that work. If they are not willing to pay the price the person who did the work is asking, then they should go get work from someone else. At no point should they just say "well, I never contracted with you so therefore making a copy of the work you did is totally cool"

d_k_f · 19 days ago

I was talking about the definition of theft and whether what you did in your example constituted it.

If I did your taxes (as in: did all the calculations) and you took a picture of my results, copied the values, etc. no theft happened. If I filled out your tax return and you took that without paying then obviously theft happened, but I assumed you didn't mean that since then your example would have no connection to TFA.

What did happen, though, is exactly what you described: you asked someone to do work for you ("contracting"/"work for hire") and they did just that. Then you decided not to pay them, which is a simple civil law case of contract fulfillment.

EDIT: depending on the "creativity" of my tax calculations, copying them might be considered IP theft and I could come after you using the DMCA, but I guess creative accounting only goes so far ;)

d_k_f commented on Theft is not fair use jskfellows.stanford.edu/t... · Posted by u/bgwalter

socalgal2 · 22 days ago

Hopefully I can get you to do my taxes. when you’re done I’ll just make a copy and then not pay you because I’ll have not stolen anything and so I don’t owe you any money

d_k_f · 22 days ago

In terms of property theft: exactly. Which is why your tax advisor would insist on a contract with you that outlines compensation for services rendered, time and material, etc.

d_k_f commented on Sid Meier's Pirates – In-depth (2017) shot97retro.blogspot.com/... · Posted by u/benbreen

Sesse__ · 3 months ago

I played a bunch of Civ 1, but the newer ones are just too complicated for me. Like, at some point I tried Civ V (with the expansion pack) and there's just so much _stuff_. World Congress? Civics? Great Missionaries? How am I supposed to fit all of this together into a coherent strategy? I ended up mostly doing random stuff with many of the mechanics, which made the thing eventually not much fun, and I don't think I ended up completing a single game.

d_k_f · 3 months ago

Give them a try without any of the expansions/DLC, if you want a "simpler"/leaner experience. One of the big complaints you'll see for every new iteration of Civ is how parts from the previous one are missing, which is usually fixed through DLCs later on. So this might be right up your alley (or at least closer to it).

d_k_f commented on My quest to make motorcycle riding that tad bit safer gill.net.in/posts/my-ques... · Posted by u/mygnu

illiac786 · 4 months ago

Ok, the threshold should be correctly set, but recuperation doesn’t change the threshold, it just makes it very visible when the threshold is too low…

d_k_f · 4 months ago

As I understood it, it's less of a real problem and more of a perceived annoyance. People accelerate, let go of the pedal, realize that a deceleration sets in, accelerate again, etc. so their brake lights are flashing all the time (instead of just using their cruise control to have this happen much more smoothly and ideally below the relevant thresholds).

d_k_f commented on My quest to make motorcycle riding that tad bit safer gill.net.in/posts/my-ques... · Posted by u/mygnu

Arch-TK · 4 months ago

Brake lights should be activated whenever the vehicle is significantly slowing down regardless of whether the brakes are being used or not. And this should be standard across _all_ vehicles, not just motorcycles. I would say brakes should also override any automated method too, just in case of malfunction.

This is just (I am not trying to trivialise the incredible amount of effort required to take a hardware project, even a simple one, to market) an LIS3DH wired to some brake lights. Every single road-vehicle could easily have this technology.

d_k_f · 4 months ago

I'm with you, and at least here in Germany this is already the law, though it is only required if your deceleration rate is greater or equal to 1.3m/s² (it is allowed starting at a rate of 0.7 m/s²).

There are already voices against this, as the recuperation functionality of electric vehicles can repeatedly trigger this feature if the driver lets go of the gas pedal for a short time.

d_k_f commented on Windows Is Free for Business (2008) davegutteridge.com/window... · Posted by u/walterbell

pjmlp · 6 months ago

During the 8 and 16 bit home computing days, buying legit software in Portugal was almost impossible, even the boxes being sold at some stores were actually illegal copies, and it used to be common in the late 1990's that photocopy places near universities had catalogs with software to get copies from.

Eventually there was some crackdown from SPA in cooperation with the police forces, and most businesses nowadays run legit, however I will gladly bet than there are still plenty of business that do not, especially in small towns.

Also that we aren't the only country where it goes like that.

d_k_f · 6 months ago

This article about software piracy in Italy in the 80s and 90s was linked here some time ago: https://genesistemple.com/a-swashbuckling-tale-of-italian-so... – seems to be very similar to your story in Portugal.

I don't think it was that extreme here in Germany, but I do recall my father coming home various times throughout the years with cases containing ~20-50 3.5" floppy disks for our Atari STs that were either completely unlabeled or with hand-written or home-printed labels. Always interesting finding out how to start each game and looking at the colourful intros.

d_k_f commented on Investigating an “evil” RJ45 dongle lcamtuf.substack.com/p/in... · Posted by u/zdw

Tijdreiziger · 8 months ago

Could you elaborate on why the USB ones are worse?

Per Wikipedia, USB 3.0 (from 2008) can reach 5 Gbit/s, so (naively?) one would expect them to reach 2.5 GbE line rate easily, right?

d_k_f · 8 months ago

I've only got superficial knowledge in this regard, so please take it with a grain of salt, but: the way I understand it is that PCIE has full direct memory access, so devices connected through it can use zero copy and similar techniques to access and process data much faster, especially with lower latencies than over regular USB. Using USB might/will require copying the data to transfer/read from and to different buffers, between user/kernel space, etc.

d_k_f commented on Show HN: Tramway SDK – An unholy union between Half-Life and Morrowind engines racenis.github.io/tram-sd... · Posted by u/racenis

999900000999 · 8 months ago

License?

You've obviously put a lot of effort into this, but I'm always lost at how people publish something open source and forget to actually put a license on there. Since now it's technically closed source, hypothetically if you become a monk in the woods next week no one else can fork your code

d_k_f · 8 months ago

An MIT license file was added (or edited) a minute ago in the repo :)

d_k_f commented on SmolLM2 simonwillison.net/2024/No... · Posted by u/edward

ksri · 10 months ago

Is there a way to run this in the browser as yet? Transformers js doesn't seem to support this. Is there another way to run this in the browser?

d_k_f · 10 months ago

They linked two examples in another blog post, only the smaller models, though:

[135M] https://huggingface.co/spaces/HuggingFaceTB/SmolLM-135M-Inst...

[360M] https://huggingface.co/spaces/HuggingFaceTB/SmolLM-360M-Inst...

d_k_f commented on Understanding Round Robin DNS blog.hyperknot.com/p/unde... · Posted by u/hyperknot

encoderer · 10 months ago

We accomplish this on Route53 by having it pull servers out of the dns response if they are not healthy, and serving all responses with a very low ttl. A few clients out there ignore ttl but it’s pretty rare.

d_k_f · 10 months ago

Honest question to somebody who seems to have a bit of knowledge about this in the real world: several (German, if relevant) providers default to a TTL of ~4 hours. Lovely if everything is more or less finally set up, but usually our first step is to decrease pretty much everything down to 60 seconds so we can change things around in emergencies.

On average, does this really matter/make sense?