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@Mara@hachyderm.io An ex of mine worked at a laser shop at the time and made an art piece comprised of a rock etched with “art is ephemeral” and a leaf etched with “art is eternal” and I think about it a lot
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@lcamtuf@infosec.exchange actual answer: of course you do, it’s prima facie a derivative work, same as if you had rewritten the program by hand.
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@foone@digipres.club sharecropping our own brains we used to call it
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@ArneBab@rollenspiel.social @SnoopJ@hachyderm.io @bgalehouse@mathstodon.xyz @lcamtuf@infosec.exchange
And the spec would need to carefully elide certain details which would get it classed as a derivative work itself—much harder for an LLM to do than a team of humans
Guillotine, n.: A French chopping center.
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Ogden's Law: The sooner you fall behind, the more time you have to catch up.
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Complex system: One with real problems and imaginary profits.
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Death wish, n.: The only wish that always comes true, whether or not one wishes it to.
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Pascal Users: The Pascal system will be replaced next Tuesday by Cobol. Please modify your programs accordingly.
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COBOL: Completely Over and Beyond reason Or Logic.
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Marxist Law of Distribution of Wealth: Shortages will be divided equally among the peasants.
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@lcamtuf@infosec.exchange There are a number of tools online which purport to strip the copyright from images by running them through an image model, and they're just as obviously bullshit
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@dalias@hachyderm.io I wonder if it's related to the us-east-1 outages currently going on
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@Siph Can you pet the server dot com
IBM's original motto: Cogito ergo vendo; vendo ergo sum.
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Fog Lamps, n.: Excessively (often obnoxiously) bright lamps mounted on the fronts of automobiles; used on dry, clear nights to indicate that the driver's brain is in a fog. See also "Idiot Lights".
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love, v.: I'll let you play with my life if you'll let me play with yours.
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Patageometry, n.: The study of those mathematical properties that are invariant under brain transplants.
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Hoffer's Discovery: The grand act of a dying institution is to issue a newly revised, enlarged edition of the policies and procedures manual.
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Idiot, n.: A member of a large and powerful tribe whose influence in human affairs has always been dominant and controlling. -- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary"
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Murphy's Laws: (1) If anything can go wrong, it will. (2) Nothing is as easy as it looks. (3) Everything takes longer than you think it will.
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Experience, n.: Something you don't get until just after you need it. -- Olivier
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@danielkennedy74 And it’s a brand with a long history of using fearmongering about cybersecurity as part of its marketing in an industry with a long history of using fearmongering about cybersecurity (and everything else) as a big part of its marketing strategy
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@daisy People have started to ask me “hey Gemini told me X is that right” for something they could have just googled. So now I guess I have to google it for them and report back
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@hopeless@mas.to @lcamtuf@infosec.exchange no, you're just reading an educated asshole who happens to be right
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@ArneBab@rollenspiel.social @tbortels@infosec.exchange @lcamtuf@infosec.exchange @bgalehouse@mathstodon.xyz
Yeah the license applies whether you accept it or not. And whether your spec counts as a derivative work or not will depend greatly on the details of your spec