2022-11-22
what i would give to be a fly on the wall as elon “reviews” code. like a toddler holding a newspaper and talking out loud about how the business has gone up https://twitter.com/...
The Verge
Sources: at an all-hands, Elon Musk said Twitter is done with layoffs and actively recruiting for roles in engineering and sales; Twitter has 2,700+ employees
After purging nearly two-thirds of Twitter's 7,500-person workforce in three weeks, Elon Musk is hiring again.
2022-08-19
no one has spelled this out, so: it's not about polygons or whatever. it's the avatar that has less emotional range than miis, the landscape that is vaguely hi-res but consists of two props and some overlapping spheres on a flat plane https://twitter.com/...
Forbes
After Mark Zuckerberg shared a screenshot from Horizon Worlds for an announcement, people criticize the graphics and Meta's $10B investment in the metaverse
Paul Tassi / Forbes :
2022-05-11
completely wild to watch cryptocurrency folks discuss various tokens like they were the stock of national companies and not a thing some guy made on his computer by cloning a github repo and changing “bitcoin” to “jamescoin”
The Block
LUNA and the UST stablecoin continue to plummet; LUNA dropped as low as $1, a ~97% slide in 24 hours, while UST dropped as low as $0.27, a ~60% fall in 24 hours
Quick Take — The price of Luna has dropped 82% in the last 24 hours. — Its related stablecoin UST has retreated …
2022-03-12
what laws, tim. what impact will they have on our vulnerable youth, tim. what are you going to do besides tweet, tim https://twitter.com/...
Axios
Apple, Google, Meta, PayPal, and others urge Texas governor to abandon an EO that equates gender-affirming healthcare for transgender children with child abuse
2022-02-21
um, stolen? what do you mean? they changed hands via a legitimate transaction. it's all recorded on the blockchain, which is 100% secure and immutable and trustless. where did “stolen” come into it? hundreds of people simply decided to transfer their tokens simultaneously https://twitter.com/...
CoinDesk
OpenSea says 32 users had NFTs stolen as part of a targeted phishing campaign that scammed them into signing malicious smart contracts
Emails purporting to be from the NFT marketplace about a planned smart contract migration may have been a phishing attack. Source: @dfinzer , @opensea , and @xanderatallah .
2022-01-29
yeah, macos may be removing python in a minor release, but i once bricked an arch upgrade by effectively deleting libc, so, computers are a circus
MacRumors
Apple deprecates Python 2.7 in macOS 12.3 and points developers to alternative languages like Python 3; Python ended support for version 2 on January 1, 2020
they were using it for something. Now they're not. Goodbye. A portent.
2021-11-23
Shocked. Shocked! that a huge chunk of the money ends up in the hands of financial middlemen and ETH miners (who are just more expensive financial middlemen) Well, not that shocked https://twitter.com/...
VICE
ConstitutionDAO faces existential questions as a “core team” makes key decisions; high transaction fees mean ~50% of “investors” may lose the money they put in
ConstitutionDAO tried to buy the Constitution. Now it has a $40 million mess on its hands and entire refunds are being wiped out by high fees.
2021-11-16
it is completely wild to me how many people on here are making 100% confident statements about what is made possible by web3, a thing that does not seem to actually exist and right at the same time as facebook releases an AMV about “the metaverse” and pretends it's a product
Financial Times
Coinbase co-founder Fred Ehrsam and ex-Sequoia partner Matt Huang announce Paradigm One, a $2.5B fund focused on crypto and Web3
Miles Kruppa / Financial Times : Source: Paradigm .
2021-07-06
i'm really tired of the tech industry treating neural networks like magic black boxes that spit out something completely novel, and taking free software for granted while paying out $150k salaries for writing ad delivery systems. the two have finally fused and it sucks
Julia Reda
GitHub Copilot's use of GPL code for training is not infringement; adopting a maximalist copyright stance will ultimately hurt the Free Software community
Julia Reda :
github copilot has, by their own admission, been trained on mountains of gpl code, so i'm unclear on how it's not a form of laundering open source code into commercial works. the handwave of “it usually doesn't reproduce exact chunks” is not very satisfying https://twitter.com/...
Julia Reda
GitHub Copilot's use of GPL code for training is not infringement; adopting a maximalist copyright stance will ultimately hurt the Free Software community
Julia Reda :
copyright does not only cover copying and pasting; it covers derivative works. github copilot was trained on open source code and the sum total of everything it knows was drawn from that code. there is no possible interpretation of “derivative” that does not include this
Julia Reda
GitHub Copilot's use of GPL code for training is not infringement; adopting a maximalist copyright stance will ultimately hurt the Free Software community
Julia Reda :
2021-07-05
i'm really tired of the tech industry treating neural networks like magic black boxes that spit out something completely novel, and taking free software for granted while paying out $150k salaries for writing ad delivery systems. the two have finally fused and it sucks
Julia Reda
GitHub Copilot is not infringing copyright; the free software community should not adopt a maximalist copyright stance as it will only hurt in the long run
This is a slightly modified version of my original German-language article first published on heise.de under a CC-by 4.0 license.
copyright does not only cover copying and pasting; it covers derivative works. github copilot was trained on open source code and the sum total of everything it knows was drawn from that code. there is no possible interpretation of “derivative” that does not include this
Julia Reda
GitHub Copilot is not infringing copyright; the free software community should not adopt a maximalist copyright stance as it will only hurt in the long run
This is a slightly modified version of my original German-language article first published on heise.de under a CC-by 4.0 license.
github copilot has, by their own admission, been trained on mountains of gpl code, so i'm unclear on how it's not a form of laundering open source code into commercial works. the handwave of “it usually doesn't reproduce exact chunks” is not very satisfying https://twitter.com/...
Julia Reda
GitHub Copilot is not infringing copyright; the free software community should not adopt a maximalist copyright stance as it will only hurt in the long run
This is a slightly modified version of my original German-language article first published on heise.de under a CC-by 4.0 license.
2021-04-06
thhhhank god. not only does google win, but rather than just declaring apis uncopyrightable, scotus seems to have put a foot in the door for a more expansive view of fair use in general https://twitter.com/...
CNBC
Supreme Court rules 6-2 in Google's favor in copyright dispute with Oracle over Java APIs, overturning Oracle's win
- The Supreme Court on Monday sided with Google against Oracle in a long-running copyright dispute over the software used in Android. — The court's decision was 6-2.
2020-05-20
amazing. incredible. i, someone who was born 24 hours ago, cannot imagine how microsoft reimplementing a popular open source thing could possibly in any way be bad https://twitter.com/...
VentureBeat
Microsoft announces Project Reunion, its latest attempt to unify the Windows developer platform by reducing fragmentation between Win32 and UWP APIs
At Build 2020 today, Microsoft unveiled Project Reunion, its latest attempt to unify the Windows developer platform by reducing fragmentation …
amazing. incredible. i, someone who was born 24 hours ago, cannot imagine how microsoft reimplementing a popular open source thing could possibly in any way be bad https://twitter.com/...
The Verge
Microsoft says it is improving its Windows Subsystem for Linux, including adding GUI app support, as its Terminal command line tool reaches version 1.0
Tom Warren / The Verge :
2020-04-08
ah ars did an even better breakdown, showing new games per year split into how well they did in the first two weeks https://arstechnica.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Ars Technica
Valve releases data showing rise in games making $10K during first two weeks after release but analysis suggests ~80% of games earn under $5K during same period
Valve offers a peek behind the sales curtain, telling an incomplete and mixed story. — It has been roughly two years …
hm, steam just posted that “more new steam releases than ever are finding success”, showing (first pic) an increase in the number of games earning at least $10k in the first two weeks i was curious how this looked as a percentage of releases (second pic) https://steamcommunity.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Ars Technica
Valve releases data showing rise in games making $10K during first two weeks after release but analysis suggests ~80% of games earn under $5K during same period
Valve offers a peek behind the sales curtain, telling an incomplete and mixed story. — It has been roughly two years …