AlexanderESmith

I’ll grant that PHP is set up to allow some super shitty code, but on fairness to the language; WordPress is a dumpster fire (compounded by endless awful plugins). That’s compounded by it’s ubiquity, so it’s a massive target.

I just set up mbin as a single-user instance, and other than a bug I found (that they fixed live with me, in chat, including PRs), it’s been awesome.

I hope your instance continues to work well for you 👍

There is /kbin which seems down all the time and its fork MBin which seems to have a good community but is written in PHP which I try to avoid.

Can you expand on the reasoning for avoiding PHP? I get avoiding Java; JRE it’s s disaster, and a resource hog.

“Best practice” isn’t a catch-all rebuttal. Best practices are contextual. I’m keen to see your justification for encryption beyond “all sites should encrypt everything always”.

My assertion is that this isn’t necessary in this case. Why do you think that it is necessary to encrypt open-source, freely available, non-controversial site content?

First, a chat bot is not an API. Second, they were talking about the the formatting and delivery method of the data, not the content.

Regarding the output of the model: Some repos are entirely READMEs by their nature. No code, just documentation and walkthroughs. Notwithstanding that; If I set a flag that’s says “don’t use my data” and they use it anyway, that’s theft, even if it’s only one file, even if the file is just a description of the code. That’s my work, not yours. You don’t get to use it however you want, unless I specifically note that it’s public domain (or you use it and follow the license, like attributing me, or linking to the repo, etc).

As to the difference between a bot and a human (re: stack overflow)? The former is a representative of a company (automation or not, whether it’s a bot or a page on their corporate site), the latter is a person relating experience and opinion. The legal difference is that one is using the data commercially, and the other is just a person in the world, answering another person’s question for no reason other than a desire to be helpful (and if they’re decent, attributing the source instead of claiming that they’re generating wisdom on their own).

That last parenthetical used to be called plagiarism, by the way.

There’s no need to encrypt this data. Any entity that is watching you knows how to see the domains you visit, and everything on this site is on the main page, or a click away from it.

An SSL here is nothing more than security theater, or marketing.

The first sentence directly addresses your comment “it’s not theft” with “the law says it is”.

The rest of the post attempts to explain why it is so and some of the moral or ethical discussions surrounding some examples.

“evidence suggests that you probably aren’t a creator” “As a result, I suggests that your opinions aren’t relevant”

Aside from the fact that these are not character attacks, I encourage you to refute my assumptions. Otherwise, my points will stand on their own.

I might have missed it, but it doesn’t look like their site accepts payment data, or has a login of any kind.

Why would the lack of SSL concern you?

I’m currently avoiding silicon until more apps are compiled to work on them. My last bad experience with this was trying to run virtualbox on the host and ununtu as a guest, and it ran slow as crap because some part of virtualbox wasn’t ready for silicon yet.

Disclaimer: I generally avoid Apple like the plague, my comment and experience are specific to a job that really wanted me to use a macbook in my role as a Linux systems admin. My specific complaint may well have been adressed literally years ago by now.

Agreed on all points, except my personal interpretation of “fair use” specific to the case of generative models.

You call out “doesn’t replace the original work”. Is that not how you see an LLM Q/A bot replacing a user going to a git repo for established examples, or a website for an article (generating page views, subscriptions, ad revenue), or similar? Why would anyone go to the source materials if they’re getting their answer from the bot?

This is practically the same as when Google started showing articles in AMP, and not bringing people to the original website, is it not?