Companies are not liable if they have proper ID of the person who submitted the content and can provide that to a plaintiff. If they have not made a good-faith effort to know who submitted this info (like taking ID, not just an email address) then they're taking responsibility for the submitted content.

Which means sites that have responsible moderation can still allow anonymous contributions.

The real problem is the inherent asymmetry of legal battles, where the wealthiest can fight forever with endless motions and have near-total impunity while a legal action would basically nuke a normal person's life. Not to mention the fact that an international border can often make this whole conversation moot.

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They just like branding their dev tools for whatever they're pushing at the time. In 2002 they named Visual Studio "Visual Studio .NET".

Like, it's a company that sells AI-slop powered regulatory compliance. How many laws do you think the "fake it ill you make it and you'll never make it" AI will break? But "regulatory compliance" is laws that startups hate, so breaking them is good.

Copyright and the copyleft licenses built upon it are the laws that support the software industry instead of just making sure innocent people aren't hurt by all this innovating and disrupting.

Alternately, you can say the same about informative variable names or informative function names. "If I change the function then the name is no longer accurate". You don't say that because function names and variable names are short and clear and are close to the problem at hand. Do the same with comments.

Which is why the copilot hyper-verbosity is harmful. Comments need to be terse so your eyes don't filter them out as noise.

Everybody else is dealing with AIgen is suffering the AI spitting out the end product. Like if we asked AI to generate the compiled binary instead of the source.

Artists can't get AIgen to make human-reviewed changes to a .psd file or an .svg, it poops out a fully formed .png. It usurps the entire process instead of collaborating with the artist. Same for musicians.

But since our work is done in text and there's a massive publicly accessible corpus of that text, it can collaborate with us on the design in a way that others don't get.

In software the "power of plain text" has given us a unique advantage over kinds of creative work. Which is good, because AIgen tends to be clumsy and needs guidance. Why give up that advantage?

This is a good goal. You should strive to make the code explain itself. To write code that does not need comments.

You will fail to reach that goal most of the time.

And when you fail to reach that goal, write the dang comments explaining why the code is the way that it is.

10W running 24/7 means about 7.3 kWh/month. In my area the average kW/h costs about $0.13 CAD

So a good rule of thumb is that every 10W 24/7 is about $1CAD/mo.

So assuming 30W for a laptop and 6W for a pi4, that means a difference of $29/yr. Which isn't a lot but isn't a rounding error either.

Like is the "free" laptop going to cost you more in the long-run then a nice little power-sipping ARM like a Pi5? Or do you need those extra operations-per-second that the more power-hungry x86 CPU gets you?

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/JroA0Ap7zGU

However, the more radical wing of Democrats still have some anti-globalism in them (eg Bernie). But still, imho: Unusual outcomes are on the table for Democratic party leadership at this point.

Because otherwise we just get things like the Hummer EV which is literally over 9000 lbs.

But the day of the PHEV has come and gone. The massive price gap between PHEV and BEV is now negligible, and the charging experience is so much better now.

> Israel and Iran are both destroying oil extraction and processing facilities in the gulf region

This isn't like Katrina where oil infrastructure was being temporarily evacuated, shut down, and taking some water and wind damage.

The oil infrastructure is being blown to smithereens. And not just pumps that are sucking oil out of a hole in the ground. Refineries. Big expensive factories that process oil. Stuff we don't even bother to build in progressive parts of the world because the combination of environmental regulations and concerns about climate change mean it's possible they'll never pay off their massive construction costs.