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6 months ago
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on: Anthropic agrees to pay $1.5B to settle lawsuit with book authors
But there is a difference between “illegal to regurgitate it” and “illegal to remember it”. IIRC in this case that settled the judge had ruled on “remember” (fair use) but not on the other.
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10 months ago
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on: Apple violated antitrust ruling, judge finds
As described in the ruling, Apple hired a consulting group to estimate how much value developers get from the iphone platform, which found that
(1) Apple’s platform technology is worth up to 30% of a developer’s revenue.
(2) Apple’s developer tools and services are worth approximately 3%–16%.
(3) Apple’s distribution services are worth approximately 4%–14%.
(4) Apple’s discovery services are worth approximately 5%–14%.
Then Apple claimed this study was how they came up with the 27%, but the Judge basically said nah you guys came up with that number before the study, and you even know it would be a non-starter for almost all developers.
elpool2
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10 months ago
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on: A judge just blew up Apple's control of the App Store
"To hide the truth, Vice-President of Finance, Alex Roman, outright lied
under oath"
Yikes. I really thought Apple was going to get away with all their crazy restrictions they came up with after the previous ruling (and maybe they still will, who knows) but this looks pretty bad for them.
elpool2
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10 months ago
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on: Google is illegally monopolizing online advertising tech, judge rules
It would make sense if Apple decided to still have Google be their default, even without the payment. Not sure how likely that is though.
elpool2
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1 year ago
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on: Zuckerberg claims regret on caving to White House pressure on content
Sure, it’s ok for them to decide what kind of content they want on their own platform.
Edit: not ok for govt to coerce them into it though
elpool2
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1 year ago
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on: Stack Overflow simply bans folks who don't want their advice used to train AI
The right to forget is about removing personal information from a site, or removing articles about you from search results. An answer to a Stackoverflow question isn't really personal info.
elpool2
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1 year ago
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on: Blue Ball Machine
I was responsible for drawing 1/25th of this gif back in the day. There was actually way more tiles created but this is one version that went viral. Crazy to see it still pop up like this every couple of years.
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2 years ago
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on: Supreme Court Sets Rules for Blocking Citizens from Officials' Accounts
It's fairly accurate though. The preliminary injunction in that case blocked government agencies from even talking to social media companies (though some of that got reversed by the 5th circuit).
elpool2
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2 years ago
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on: Apple terminates Epic Games developer account, calling it a 'threat' to iOS
Do you have a link to the tweet from Sweeney saying he would breach the contract?
elpool2
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2 years ago
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on: Bluesky announces data federation for self hosters
I think everything you said was fair, but you also mentioned Twitter being a conservative cesspool, and a lot these features like federation and composable moderation are designed to help prevent the whole "rich guy buys the company and turns it into something you don't like" scenario.
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2 years ago
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on: US Supreme Court declines to hear appeals in Apple-Epic Games legal battle
Thanks and wow, they’re really doing everything imaginable to make it difficult to include such a link. And their rules say the link cannot contain any additional parameters so it rules out the possibility of just linking directly to a payment form. You would have to log in first, then pay.
elpool2
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2 years ago
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on: US Supreme Court declines to hear appeals in Apple-Epic Games legal battle
It will be interesting to see how far the anti-steering ruling actually goes. Will Apple still be able to block links to a alternative payment options? Or what if the link contains a token that logs you in automatically and goes straight to a payment form that’s almost indistinguishable from an in-app form?
elpool2
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2 years ago
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on: You Should Be Concerned About the Bill to Remove Section 230 Protections from AI
What is there to enforce? There are no duties, obligations, or punishments in the law, it just provides an affirmative defense for lawsuits.
elpool2
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2 years ago
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on: You Should Be Concerned About the Bill to Remove Section 230 Protections from AI
The issue is that the way this is written the AI doesn't have to be responsible for the liable content, it just has to be involved. If I post something defamatory on HN, and HN helpfully checks my grammar, then HN is no longer protected by section 230. The language isn't precise enough. Maybe a court would interpret "involved" to mean "materially contributed to the illegal nature of the content", but maybe not?
elpool2
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2 years ago
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on: ‘Blue lights’ flash in sky moments before Morocco earthquake
Yeah but this video is clearly just transformers blowing. A block of street lights goes out the exact same time as one of the flashes.
elpool2
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2 years ago
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on: When tech says ‘no’
They have to pay for showing links, and those links do send traffic to news sites. That is indisputable.
You’re phrasing is just incorrect, honestly. Linking to a website is not at all taking the site’s “content”. And monetizing search results doesn’t do anything “at the newspaper’s expense”, what expense has a news site incurred by someone sharing a link to their site?
elpool2
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2 years ago
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on: When tech says ‘no’
The part you quoted and called bullshit is factually correct though. CAN has told Meta and Google that if they show links to news sites (which do drive business to those sites) then they have to pay those news sites. It’s not a characterization, it’s what has actually happened. How can you deny that?
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2 years ago
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on: When tech says ‘no’
There are different degrees of “secure”, right? Maybe you could give a key to the FBI without China getting ahold of it, maybe it’s still “secure enough”. But you can’t say it’s “just as secure” as not giving it to them. And that’s what law enforcement often asks for: Give us access without making it any less secure.
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2 years ago
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on: Zoom CEO says employees can't be as innovative or get to know each other on Zoom
My company has been fully remote since 2020, I agree that collaboration is still easy. The sort of meetings where we used to sit in a conference room and brainstorm on a whiteboard just now happen over Teams with screen sharing.
I do think it's much easier when everyone is remote though. It sucks when half the people in a meeting are in a conference room and the rest are remote. You end up dealing with dumb technical difficulties and its too easy to exclude virtual folks from the conversation.
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2 years ago
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on: Meta blocking news links in Canada
Because one of the things the negotiating framework covers is how much money google and meta must pay to news providers when news content is “made available” to canadians, and “made available” specifically includes when “access to the news content, or any portion of it, is facilitated by any means, including an index, aggregation or ranking of news content”. So if the negotiated value is anything over $0 then, yeah, it’s a “link tax”.
