heavyset_go (u/heavyset_go)

heavyset_go commented on We put a coding agent in a while loop github.com/repomirrorhq/r... · Posted by u/sfarshid

ghuntley · 7 hours ago

> - weird copyright / IP questions all around. This will be a minefield.

Yeah, we're in weird territory because you can drive an LLM as a Bitcoin mixer over intellectual property. That's the entire point/meaning behind https://ghuntley.com/z80.

You can take something that exists, distill it back to specs, and then you've got your own IP. Throw away the tainted IP, and then just run Ralph over a loop. You are able to clone things (not 100%, but it's better than hiring humans).

heavyset_go · 4 hours ago

> then you've got your own IP.

AI output isn't copyrighted in the US.

heavyset_go commented on From M1 MacBook to Arch Linux: A month-long experiment that became permanenent ssp.sh/blog/macbook-to-ar... · Posted by u/articsputnik

harshitaneja · 2 days ago

I have been on an M1 macbook pro since launch and while I love the hardware, easily my favourite device I have ever owned but MacOS has just always been the thing to be the faustian bargain coming from being a linux person. I spend a lot of time SSHed into more GPU capable linux machines for most of my work and thus get an escape but after driving a friend's linux machine I started looking for a way to daily drive a linux machine. I tried Asahi Linux and also tried to find some non apple machines including with Snapdragon X Elite ones but so far I haven't found anything with good battery life and a decent linux driver support. So far Asahi linux with the reduced battery life seems to be the best bet. I don't mind tinkering. I love tinkering. I am not looking for "just works" but something which I could get to work after putting in the hours. If someone has suggestions please share. Edit: Sorry to go somewhat off topic.

heavyset_go · 2 days ago

> If someone has suggestions please share.

Stay away from ARM laptops and SoCs, they aren't there yet when it comes to Linux. If you like to tinker, go for it, but expect hardware to just not work, or worse, you'll get stuck on a kernel fork that never gets updated.

If you want a good Linux machine, buy one from a vendor that explicitly sells and supports machines with Linux on them.

IMO you can tinker as much as you want without forcing hardware compatibility issues upon yourself in order to have something to tinker with.

heavyset_go commented on U.S. government takes 10% stake in Intel cnbc.com/2025/08/22/intel... · Posted by u/givemeethekeys

bilsbie · 2 days ago

This sounds bad. Can someone steelman this for me so I can understand the good?

heavyset_go · 2 days ago

Smart bomb supply chain secured.

heavyset_go commented on Why are anime catgirls blocking my access to the Linux kernel? lock.cmpxchg8b.com/anubis... · Posted by u/taviso

debugnik · 4 days ago

You already provided proof of a living legal identity when you got the ID, and it already expires to make you provide proof again every few years.

heavyset_go · 4 days ago

That's not not the kind of proof of life the government and companies want online. They want to make sure their video identification 1) is of a living person right now, and 2) that living person matches their government ID.

It's a solution to the "grandma died but we've been collecting her Social Security benefits anyway", or "my son stole my wallet with my ID & credit card", or (god forbid) "We incapacitated/killed this person to access their bank account using facial ID".

It's also a solution to the problem advertisers, investors and platforms face of 1) wanting huge piles of video training data for free and 2) determining that a user truly is a monetizable human being and not a freeloader bot using stolen/sold credentials.

heavyset_go commented on Why are anime catgirls blocking my access to the Linux kernel? lock.cmpxchg8b.com/anubis... · Posted by u/taviso

ranger_danger · 4 days ago

Criminal convictions in the US require a standard of proof that is "beyond a reasonable doubt" and I suspect cases like this would not pass the required mens rea test, as, in their minds at least (and probably a judge's), there was no ill intent to cause a denial of service... and trying to argue otherwise based on any technical reasoning (e.g. "most servers cannot handle this load and they somehow knew it") is IMO unlikely to sway the court... especially considering web scraping has already been ruled legal, and that a ToS clause against that cannot be legally enforced.

heavyset_go · 4 days ago

There's an angle where criminal intent doesn't matter when it comes to negligence and damages. They have to had known that their scrapers would cause denial of service, unauthorized access, increased costs for operators, etc.

heavyset_go commented on Why are anime catgirls blocking my access to the Linux kernel? lock.cmpxchg8b.com/anubis... · Posted by u/taviso

jimmaswell · 4 days ago

> copyright attribution

You can't copyright an idea, only a specific expression of an idea. An LLM works at the level of "ideas" (in essence - for example if you subtract the vector for "woman" from "man" and add the difference to "king" you get a point very close to "queen") and reproduces them in new contexts and makes its own connections to other ideas. It would be absurd for you to demand attribution and payment every time someone who read your Python blog said "Python is dynamically type-checked and garbage-collected". Thankfully that's not how the law works. Abusive traffic is a problem, but the world is a better place if humans can learn from these ideas with the help of ChatGPT et al. and to say they shouldn't be allowed to just because your ego demands credit for every idea someone learns from you is purely selfish.

heavyset_go · 4 days ago

LLMs quite literally work at the level of their source material, that's how training works, that's how RAG works, etc.

There is no proof that LLMs work at the level of "ideas", if you could prove that, you'e solve a whole lot of incredibly expensive problems that are current bottlenecks for training and inference.

It is a bit ironic that you'd call someone wanting to control and be paid for the thing they themselves created "selfish", while at the same time writing apologia on why it's okay for a trillion dollar private company to steal someone else's work for their own profit.

It isn't some moral imperative that OpenAI gets access to all of humanity's creations so they can turn a profit.

heavyset_go commented on Why are anime catgirls blocking my access to the Linux kernel? lock.cmpxchg8b.com/anubis... · Posted by u/taviso

codedokode · 4 days ago

If your headers are new every time then it is very difficult to figure out who is who.

heavyset_go · 4 days ago

It's very easy to train a model to identify anomalies like that.

heavyset_go commented on Why are anime catgirls blocking my access to the Linux kernel? lock.cmpxchg8b.com/anubis... · Posted by u/taviso

bhawks · 4 days ago

Can't wait to sign into my web browser with my driver's license.

heavyset_go · 4 days ago

"Luckily" you won't have to do only that, you'll need to provide live video to prove you're the person in the ID and that you're alive.

heavyset_go commented on Why are anime catgirls blocking my access to the Linux kernel? lock.cmpxchg8b.com/anubis... · Posted by u/taviso

chmod775 · 4 days ago

It doesn't need to. Thanks to asymmetric cryptography governments can in theory provide you with a way to prove you are a human (or of a certain age) without:

1. the government knowing who you are authenticating yourself to

2. or the recipient learning anything but the fact that you are a human

3. or the recipient being able to link you to a previous session if you authenticate yourself again later

The EU is trying to build such a scheme for online age verification (I'm not sure if their scheme also extends to point 3 though. Probably?).

heavyset_go · 4 days ago

There isn't a technical solution to this: governments and providers not only want proof of identity matching IDs, they want proof of life, too.

This will always end with live video of the person requesting to log in to provide proof of life at the very least, and if they're lazy/want more data, they'll tie in their ID verification process to their video pipeline.

heavyset_go commented on Why are anime catgirls blocking my access to the Linux kernel? lock.cmpxchg8b.com/anubis... · Posted by u/taviso

marcus_holmes · 4 days ago

How does this work, though?

We can't just have "send me a picture of your ID" because that is pointlessly easy to spoof - just copy someone else's ID.

So there must be some verification that you, the person at the keyboard, is the same person as that ID identifies. The UK is rapidly finding out that that is extremely difficult to do reliably. Video doesn't really work reliably on all cases, and still images are too easily spoofed. It's not really surprising, though, because identifying humans reliably is hard even for humans.

If we do it at the network level - like assigning a government-issued network connection to a specific individual, so the system knows that any traffic from a given IP address belongs to that specific individual. There are obvious problems with this model, not least that IP addresses were never designed for this, and spoofing an IP becomes identity theft.

We also do need bot access for things, so there must be some method of granting access to bots.

I think that to make this work, we'd need to re-architect the internet from the ground up. To get there, I don't think we can start from here.

heavyset_go · 4 days ago

Not good enough, providers and governments want proof of life and proof of identity that matches government IDs.

Without that, anyone can pretend to be their dead grandma/murder victim, or someone whose ID they stole.