TehPers

Banning 4chan for that reason would be valid if they had a law against that to enforce.

But in the same way you don’t go after someone for tax evasion in a country they’ve never been to or interacted with, you don’t fine 4chan because they won’t start collecting IDs from users when the company is not even in your jurisdiction.

Either way, I can’t imagine people there missing 4chan. They just need to give a valid reason to block it instead of BSing a fine.

In this case, it seems like a feature.

It does make me wonder why not use a bounded channel instead (assuming these tasks are shared between threads, maybe because it’s multi-consumer?) but a deque is more flexible if that flexibility is needed.

Personally, I can think of a use for this myself. I have a project where I’m queuing audio to play in the background, and using this kind of deque for the queue would work here as well (though I use a bounded channel currently).

There are also a lot of times when i’ve wanted a stack-only data structure to avoid allocations where these can theoretically come in.

The platform choices of the general public tend to be like this. Whether the platforms becoming large leads to them being shady, or whether the results of them being shady is what draws people to them, I have no idea.

Either way, a lot of people use TikTok, and there’s no changing that, at least easily.

I’ve had only positive experiences with mine. Also curious about what issues you ran into.

There is some irony in heapless::BinaryHeap.

Cool library though.

A pretty good way to get a code review is to post the code on GitHub and make a post advertising it as a tool everyone needs. People will be quick to review it.

As far as LLMs go, they tend to be too quick to please you. It might be better to ask it to generate code that does something similar to what you’re doing, then compare the two to see if you learn anything from it or if it does something in a better way than how your code does it.

I love code golf, but normally golfers measure code in bytes, not lines of code.

Either way, looking at the source, it’s super impressive! For (somewhat) golfed code, this is actually pretty readable.

The only person who can answer whether a tool will be useful to you is you. I understand that you tried and couldn’t use it. Was it useful to you then? Seems like no.

Broad generalizations of “X is good at Y” rarely can be accurately measured with a useful set of metrics, rarely are studied using sufficiently large sample sizes, and often discredit the edge cases where someone might find it useful or not useful despite the opposite being found generally true in the study.

And no, I haven’t tried it. It wouldn’t be good at what I need it to do: think for me.

That’s for deployed services that others are using.

Either way, “generally” was the important word there. Every license is different, some licenses and parts of licenses are invalid in some jurisdictions, and the interpretation of the license by the judge, licensor, and licensee can affect a judgement on whether something is infringing or fair use.

If you have questions about licensing for your specific situation and AGPL’s plain text doesn’t answer it for you (it’s not just legalese, it’s pretty readable), then talk to a lawyer who specializes in copyright for your jurisdiction.

This makes me less enthusiastic about local models. I mean, nothing on the internet is inherently secure and the patch came quickly, but local LLMs being hackable in the first place opens a new can of worms.

Everything downloaded from the internet is hackable. Web browsers are the most notorious for being attacked, and regularly need to mitigate exploitable vulnerabilities. What’s important is how they fix the vulnerability and how they prevent it from happening again in the future.

Personally, when I do run Ollama, it’s always from within a container. I mostly do this because I find it more convenient to run it this way, but it also adds a degree of separation between its running environment and my personal computer. Note that this is not a sandbox (especially since it still uses my GPU and executes code locally), just a small layer of protection.

Using an interface via something like HTTP is unlikely to be considered a derivative work or be bound by that server code’s licenses (though there may still be other license agreements for end users of that service, ToS, etc - very, very unlikely if you’re self hosting open source code), but if you’re linking to an AGPL client library that connects to that API, you may be bound by the terms of the AGPL license.

In all cases, copyright generally only applies to distribution. If you do not distribute any code or software, you are most likely fine.

(Overusing “likely” because 1. not a lawyer and 2. copyright law is really complicated and mostly up to both jurisdiction and the judge)

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Relevant is the question of if APIs can be copyrighted.

Not a lawyer, so I won’t answer otherwise.

banning the Bible for the sexual imagery in it

What I would give to see this happen.

To be clear, by no means do I want the bible banned. But I’d love to see it happen just once if they’re gonna start banning books and blocking websites.

Is the database public? It’d be interesting to see if I recognize any of the names.

This is also hilariously relevant with export-controlled GPUs in China. GamersNexus put out a great video on it recently, but basically in China there’s no laws preventing someone from buying or selling the GPUs (despite the US’s attempts to block it), so entire above-ground businesses operate on selling these GPUs, even providing their own warranties and support.

Websites have no way to know where a user is located. They can only use heuristics to predict a user’s location. Such a law would be unenforceable anyway because 4chan can just tell the UK to blow themselves and there’s nothing the UK can do in US territory except politely ask Trump to ship them to Europe.

On one hand, 4chan (miraculously) has a point. They do not have a presence in the UK. They just serve traffic to it. Fining them for not following UK law makes no sense, and 4chan should tell them to pound sand.

On the other hand, if this were merely “we’ll block you in our country unless you do X”, then I do think notifying them ahead of time would be common courtesy. If the “violating” website sends them back a picture of tubgirl or something, then that’s your answer.

This really comes down to national sovereignty. The UK can’t force US businesses with no presence in the UK to play by the UK’s rules, and the US can’t stop the UK from blocking external businesses from serving the UK for not complying with their rules (as dumb as the rules are).

Zuckerberg brought a good VR headset to the world.

Wait no, he bought the company and forced people to use Facebook accounts to access them. Nevermind, I got nothing.

It seems a big limitation that the users in the study were bots.

Seems like an accurate representation of social media to me.