They don’t have to be. They know what they asked the LLM to do. They know how much they adapted the output. You usually have to work to get the models to spit out significant chunks of memorised text.

No, that’s why the author asserts that with their signed-of-by. It’s what I do if I use any LLM content as the basis of my patches.

If the 2-10% is just boilerplate syscall number defines or trivial MIN/MAX macros then it’s just the common way to do things.

My Bravia experience improved markedly when I replaced Sony’s default home screen with the Projecivity Launcher.

My kids are growing up in this environment and they already have an eye for ai slop. I suspect it’s the same thing that led to OpenAI’s TikSlop “product” is getting canned. After society had gotten over the sugar rush excitement of new and shiny toys I suspect the interest will fade and people will crave the connection you get from real art made by real people.

At least I hope that is what will happen. We might have to do something to hold the tech companies accountable for their dopamine trigger machines though.

Where are you seeing the 2-10% figure?

In my experience code generation is most affected by the local context (i.e. the codebase you are working on). On top of that a lot of code is purely mechanical - code generally has to have a degree of novelty to be protected by copyright.

I was glad to see Niko publish his initial work and look forward to seeing how it’s gone.

They don’t, just like they don’t with human submitted stuff. The point of the Signed-off-by is the author attests they have the rights to submit the code.

No it depends on what the court ruled. Have you read the judgement?

The high court decision is being appealed by the government so they can continue until the final ruling.

So algorithms then?

LLMs have some interesting properties and certainly can do a good job sifting through large amounts of raw data. They are however a very brute force approach compared to say a network routing protocol. Sooner or later people will start to realise (again) that engineering is about trade offs and you need to work out what your constraints are and stop trying to solve every problem with massive amounts of multiplication.

I swear people have rose tinted glasses as to the state of the init system before the current generation of system management daemons.

If you really want to have Debian without systemd there is always Duvean but the Debian architects are free to choose the technologies that solve the very real system orchestration problems that exist.

I thought the whole “virgin” thing was an interpretation of the original Greek or Aramaic for “maid”, as in a young women of child rearing age.

Is that really the case? I work for a multi national FLOSS organisation but every additional country you want to hire from requires additional compliance overhead so in practice we generally hire from countries where we already have the legal setup to employee people.

How big an org is Signal?

Vampire Survivors is still my go-to as I only get a little time here and there and the 30min cap on a run fits nicely.

It’s not surprising. If I were looking for a cheap but capable microcontroller that is well documented and already supported by a bunch of frameworks and rtos implementations I would certainly consider the rp2050. I guess the esp32 is the only thing close and that has WiFi built in.

The amount of drama bait this caused over the last week was something to behold.

I like to think I’m reasonably technical and I do put network and some devices restrictions on their accounts. However stuff still gets through and I don’t really want to play a cat and mouse IT admin game with my kids. If I as the root user could set the field on their PC’s and that would allow them to access age appropriate services without having to hand over personal data to some age verification service then i’d consider that a useful feature.

When they get the keys to root they can set it to whatever they please.

Who are the community employing? Why do they need consulting before code changes are made?

What a pointless drama article this is. FLOSS software does stuff for legal compliance more often than you’d think. The whole point is people can contribute fly by patches and the maintainers make the decision to merge. It seems like being an optional field but potentially providing useful functionality is enough for systemd. If you don’t like it I’m sure there are forks you could join or even use a different init system. No one’s freedom is being oppressed here.

The western nations had a similar problem with debathification in Iraq. When a system invades and takes over a state how do you keep things running while ripping it’s influence out?

There’s a scene at the end of Band of Brothers where the guy from Easy company is taking to a German who’s recollecting the countries he’s visited while at war. It’s a reminder that not everyone in Germany was a Nazi but it was hard to sit it out in a nation committed to Total War. It might be easy to say you’d never sign up to the party but if the choice was between staying in the civil service or being shipped off into the meat grinder? Where else could you go?

We never really have the luxury of tearing down whole societies and rebuilding from scratch in a more prefect form. Generally the countries that have gone through such radical changes have paid for it with a lot of suffering.