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New comment by reedciccio in "List of European organizations that have banned personal messaging apps at work"

reedciccio — Wed, 08 Jul 2026 11:53:31 +0000

Yes, they do but they require walking to their office and deal with paper or call them during ever shrinking office hours. Take your poison.

New comment by reedciccio in "Anthropic says Alibaba illicitly extracted Claude AI model capabilities"

reedciccio — Thu, 25 Jun 2026 10:06:39 +0000

No, there is a famous law case to prove that's allowed: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Authors_Guild,_Inc._v._Google,....

New comment by reedciccio in "Apertus – Open Foundation Model for Sovereign AI"

reedciccio — Tue, 23 Jun 2026 06:20:52 +0000

I think their business model is to work on specialized models rather than general purpose. See https://pleias.ai/blog/sillon-ratp and the focus on synthetic datasets for specific personas.

New comment by reedciccio in "Apertus – Open Foundation Model for Sovereign AI"

reedciccio — Mon, 22 Jun 2026 20:49:21 +0000

I don't know if it's ethically better to use LLMs trained on data licensed from X, Reddit, stackoverflow, Sony, CNN and all big content aggregators who will/have agreements with big tech. I'd prefer to focus on mechanisms to force reciprocating the donation: scrape and train at will, publish the models as open weights, at least. Anyway, the vegan LLMs exist, see the work of Pleias.ai.

New comment by reedciccio in "Apertus – Open Foundation Model for Sovereign AI"

reedciccio — Mon, 22 Jun 2026 12:25:40 +0000

You don't need a license to scrape the public web and analyze it, turn it into tokens and other transformations. Let's not expand copyright beyond the horrible monster it already is.

New comment by reedciccio in "Open source AI must win"

reedciccio — Sat, 13 Jun 2026 09:41:04 +0000

You don't need to have fully copyright-unencumbered datasets to build Open Source AI, as that (as you say) would be impossible. https://opensource.org/ai

New comment by reedciccio in "Ubuntu 26.04"

reedciccio — Sat, 25 Apr 2026 01:43:13 +0000

Unix workstations had mice with 3 buttons. The Mac had only one. Windows, Amiga, Atari had two. The Unix developers had choice that others didn't have. They came up with a use that existed forever. Now someone decided to remove the default for no apparent reason. It's like the Android product managers continuing to change the color, size and gesture to answer a phone call: every release, the first call is an exercise in managing frustration.

New comment by reedciccio in "Ubuntu 26.04"

reedciccio — Fri, 24 Apr 2026 10:51:32 +0000

What???? That's the most expected feature of any *nix user since the dawn of X Window!

New comment by reedciccio in "Mondrian Entered the Public Domain. The Estate Disagrees"

reedciccio — Mon, 02 Mar 2026 22:35:15 +0000

Mr. Martin was also paid to support the production of GoT, not just royalties. There is no reason to believe that he wouldn't be called to do the same sort of consulting work on the script, dialogues, visual, etc if the copyright expired.

New comment by reedciccio in "Firefox 148 Launches with AI Kill Switch Feature and More Enhancements"

reedciccio — Tue, 24 Feb 2026 11:59:51 +0000

Thunderbird has been re-added to the products steered by the Mozilla Foundation. https://blog.thunderbird.net/2023/11/the-untold-history-of-t...

New comment by reedciccio in "Voith Schneider Propeller"

reedciccio — Thu, 19 Feb 2026 13:58:45 +0000

Uhm... The article lacks quite a few citations.

New comment by reedciccio in "World's first fully Client-Side Webmail Client"

reedciccio — Wed, 11 Feb 2026 08:22:11 +0000

I love your innocence! :)

New comment by reedciccio in "BirdyChat becomes first European chat app that is interoperable with WhatsApp"

reedciccio — Sat, 24 Jan 2026 23:02:01 +0000

Doesn't Whatsapp already use an open source protocol? https://signal.org/blog/whatsapp-complete/

New comment by reedciccio in "BirdyChat becomes first European chat app that is interoperable with WhatsApp"

reedciccio — Sat, 24 Jan 2026 22:59:09 +0000

Yeah... Ask Schrems about the hefty fines and all that pretty things bright to Europeans by the GDPR. Come on! The GDPR is at best a pretty face to a rotten nothing-burger.

Virtual fireside chat with OllyGarden co-founder and CEO Juraci PaixãO Kröhling

reedciccio — Tue, 13 Jan 2026 15:50:13 +0000

Article URL: https://chinstrap.community/fireside-chats/juraci-krohling/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46602548

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New comment by reedciccio in "FFmpeg has issued a DMCA takedown on GitHub"

reedciccio — Sat, 27 Dec 2025 11:35:10 +0000

They don't violate licenses otherwise they would have been blown out of existence a long time ago, drown lawsuit after lawsuit.

New comment by reedciccio in "My insulin pump controller uses the Linux kernel. It also violates the GPL"

reedciccio — Sat, 27 Dec 2025 08:29:02 +0000

The theory is being tested that you don't need to be a copyright holder to file a lawsuit https://sfconservancy.org/copyleft-compliance/vizio.html

New comment by reedciccio in "MinIO is now in maintenance-mode"

reedciccio — Thu, 04 Dec 2025 13:14:18 +0000

The FSF can't pull the rug because of its bylaws

New comment by reedciccio in "Internet Archive's legal fights are over, but its founder mourns what was lost"

reedciccio — Thu, 06 Nov 2025 08:58:07 +0000

Same as today? Empirically demonstrated: The only ones getting richer and richer after the Napster wars are the publishers, like Apple Music, Spotify and the other mega corporations. :)

New comment by reedciccio in "Liquibase continues to advertise itself as "open source" despite license switch"

reedciccio — Fri, 17 Oct 2025 21:59:40 +0000

Delayed Open Source, and it's an old practice https://opensource.org/delayed-open-source-publication