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As a lawyer and 20+ year participant in the world of open-source software, I agree with those who consider Copilot to be primarily an engine for violating open-source licenses. "I'm learning to fly around the clouds. But what goes up, must come down"
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Quote: This is the code I would expect from a talented 12-year-old who learned about JavaScript yesterday and prime numbers today. Does it work? Uh—maybe? Notably, Microsoft doesn’t claim that any of the code Copilot produces is correct. That’s still your problem. Thus, Copilot essentially tasks you with correcting a 12-year-old’s homework, over and over.
Maybe we point the "Urgenz Cod Plez" people to Copilot?
I’ve given up trying to be calm. However, I am open to feeling slightly less agitated.
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Quote: In the law, this concept is critical, and known as chain of custody: the idea that the reliability of certain material depends on verifying where it came from. For instance, without recording the chain of custody, you could never introduce documents into evidence at trial, because you’d have no way of confirming that the documents were authentic and trustworthy.
“But that’s not how AI models work—there’s no way of preserving license information.” I don’t assume that the limitations of today’s systems will necessarily persist.
Even without that sort of breakthrough in how NN's work there's a solution. Build multiple models with publicly available training sets. If you're generating code with an AI trained on only MIT licensed code, anything it regurgitates back at you will be MIT licensed as well. And by making the training datasets public the professional MS bashers and professional license violation hunters can work together to make sure the training data is what it claims to be.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, weighing all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
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Something like this...
function doWorkYouCannotDidIt( ...lot_of_vars ) {
lot_of_vars__each.do_all( { specs: lot_of_vars__each_another, flag: true } );
return true;
}
function useJohnDoeCode_andHeGotPlaceInOurHearts() {
doWorkYouCannotDidIt();
}
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Router-stalking ZuoRAT is likely the work of a sophisticated nation-state, researchers say. Change that default password!
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Scammers are using deepfakes to apply for remote technology roles that provide access to corporate IT networks. I wondered why that last applicant looked just like Boris Johnson
Of course, he might be looking for work these days.
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Kent Sharkey wrote: he might be looking for work these days.
Rumor has it that he was rejected for any position in Sales & Marketing - too dishonest.
But then an honest politician is an oxymoron.
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
modified 29-Jun-22 12:53pm.
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Quote: The FBI also noted that visual indicators such as distortions and inconsistencies in images and video may give away synthetic content. Visual inconsistencies typically presented in synthetic video include head and torso movements and syncing issues between face and lip movements, and associated audio.
So, more like DERPfakes.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, weighing all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
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Arm is announcing its new flagship Immortalis GPU today, its first to include hardware-based ray tracing on mobile. Your next phone may double as a space heater
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External battery sold separately, but required. To make it universally available, it is interchangeable with Honda Accords.
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Ray tracing on a phone, for the 5 minutes the phone battery is going to last.
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An approachable introduction to assembly. In case you want to see what everyone is JMPing about
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This is the first of three scheduled launches from Australia, in which NASA will attempt to study habitable conditions around distant stars. Did they have to mount the rocket upside-down?
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MITRE shared this year's top 25 most common and dangerous weaknesses impacting software throughout the previous two calendar years. Collect the full set!
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I bet that some of the new incoming students will reach the mark...
M.D.V.
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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They're missing "Pure Dumbassery"
(Especially the code where you return from lunch and wonder what heck you were thinking.)
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TPU found that the MsMpEng exe file, which is the anti-malware service process for Microsoft Defender, eats up Intel CPU cycles, thus affecting the performance. Defending your system from excessive performance
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I run a fleet of Intel based systems, all running Defender. I have yet to see this issue on an SSD based system. I have seen it on spinning rust boot drives. I think the real issue is Defender assumes SSD boot devices and starts thrashing on spinning rust.
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Richard Carter wrote a book of poetry using a version of Lincos, a language invented in the 1960s by a mathematician to communicate with aliens. There once was a visitor from Eridani: his head was a mass of antennae. He flew a rocket powered by fission as he went on his mission. Just don't let him near your fanny.
For the American version of that last word.
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As long as the poetry is not found by the vogons.... they could think on starting a contest...
M.D.V.
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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VOGONS, COME BACK! ALL IS FORGIVEN!
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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A few dominant tech companies have become gatekeepers of the internet, boosting their own products and undermining smaller competitors. And as you all know: software engineers are always correct
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No fvck, Sherlock...
This is so obvious that even a blind would see it.
M.D.V.
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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Nelek wrote: This is so obvious that even a blind would see it. Unless they are a politician.
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This story strikes me as:
One huge group of lying cheaters telling us that...
...another huge group of liars are lying and cheating.
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