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perfmode · a month ago

Matthew Prince’s framing of Italy’s action as a “free speech assault by a shadowy cabal” is rhetorically exaggerated, but his underlying concerns about due process have legitimate basis—confirmed by EU Commission criticism of the same system.

The reality is more nuanced than either party presents: Italy is enforcing an aggressive copyright protection regime with documented implementation flaws, while Prince is strategically reframing an anti-piracy dispute as a censorship issue and overstating US administration support for his position.

register · a month ago

Exactly this.

register commented on Cloudflare CEO on the Italy fines twitter.com/eastdakota/st... · Posted by u/sidcool

Moldoteck · a month ago

so CF is clear - if the law is not changed they'll leave italian market. That's fair

register · a month ago

And he is more than welcome to do so. The services provided by Cloudflare can easily be replaced by more local providers that have no problem complying with Italian laws. The takedown might not happen within 30 minutes, but there would still be action and a response to a report from the authorities. Italy and Europe do not need the arrogance of those who believe they are above the law by virtue of a freedom that is used only as an ideological shield. As if Trump were really the champion of freedom, right?

register commented on Cloudflare CEO on the Italy fines twitter.com/eastdakota/st... · Posted by u/sidcool

register · a month ago

This follows 23—again, 23—violations reported to Cloudflare. There is nothing more to add. Given how slowly Italian law typically moves, Cloudflare had more than enough time to take corrective action. The tone would likely have been far more accommodating had Cloudflare attempted to contact the authorities and negotiate its position. Instead, it appears that, in all likelihood, nothing was done after 23 violations. What exactly was the CEO expecting?

register commented on Reflections on AI at the End of 2025 antirez.com/news/157... · Posted by u/danielfalbo

register · 2 months ago

Where to understand more about how chain of thoughs really affects LLMs performance? I read the seminal paper but all it says is that it's basically another prompt engineering tecnique that improves accuracy.

register commented on DeepSeek-v3.2: Pushing the frontier of open large language models [pdf] huggingface.co/deepseek-a... · Posted by u/pretext

raw_anon_1111 · 2 months ago

I can’t think of a single company I’ve worked with as a consultant that I could convince to use DeepSeek because of its ties with China even if I explained that it was hosted on AWS and none of the information would go to China.

Even when the technical people understood that, it would be too much of a political quagmire within their company when it became known to the higher ups. It just isn’t worth the political capital.

They would feel the same way about using xAI or maybe even Facebook models.

register · 2 months ago

That might be the perspective of a US based company. But there is also Europe and basically it's a choice between Trump and China.

register commented on PixiEditor 2.0 – A FOSS universal 2D graphics editor pixieditor.net/blog/2025/... · Posted by u/ksymph

reactordev · 6 months ago

Bones. Add 2D skeletal animation and I’ll gladly pay money for this.

register · 6 months ago

I am working on Pixel Editor for retro graphics. What do you believe that ASE is missing? At the moment I am targetting the Zx Spectrum Next that I have recently backed. However if I get some compelling ideas I migth deviate from my original objective.

register commented on Ethersync: Peer-to-peer collaborative editing of local text files github.com/ethersync/ethe... · Posted by u/blinry

kruffalon · 6 months ago

It warms my old heart when projects use the AGPL (or GPL) licence.

It's a "small" thing to do that tells me that you're not just waiting for VC but actually really care about your work and the world.

(I'm not saying that MIT or other similar licences are used exclusively by people that don't care, I understand that sometimes you just don't have the bandwidth)

register · 6 months ago

I don't understand. What would prevent the authors from guaranteeing the VCs re-licensing under a different model?