SparroHawc

As in, if you ask, we are going to apply our knee to your nose.

I have been informed that Matrix actually serves pretty much all these needs now. I’m going to have to give it a try in the near future.

I’m not sure you could say that Mumble does text chat. What it has barely qualifies as text chat at all, much less fully-featured text chat. It exists as much to communicate system messages as anything else.

At this point, a lot of entities don’t need AD because their entire workflow runs in a web browser, and practically any SSO provider will work.

That said, accessing actual computer resources can be managed with groups and ACLs. Perhaps not as elegantly or as well-integrated as AD is, but that’s the price you pay.

What does it take to get voice/video chat working on Matrix? I see Element has their own server stack, but I can’t tell how open it is, and that’s kinda the big thing that’s keeping me away from trying to go harder on Matrix.

Mumble is also ONLY voice chat. The problem is that Discord is so many useful things at the same time - text chat, voice chat, video chat, and game streaming, all integrated together seamlessly - that it’s hard to move off of when you need a whole suite of applications to replace it.

Truly, a modern-day alchemist.

Sounds like you’re a shitty 3D printer, all told.

That’s a real big ‘if’. Someone who understands and shapes the code isn’t really vibe coding. I might still not agree with what they’re doing, but it’s not vibe coding if they can take responsibility for every line of code produced.

You’re thinking of patents, not copyright. You can’t copyright an idea, only the implementation of an idea. I could spend years perfecting a play, but when a troupe performs that play, I don’t own their performance.

And you underestimate the idiocy of self-proclaimed ‘vibe coders’. Go into practically any FOSS community and see what they have to say about vibe-coded pull requests. The people making them have no clue what the code is doing, they’re just chasing clout with minimal effort.

It also doesn’t really define ‘vibe code’ the way that it is generally understood by developers. Lots of devs use LLMs to do the busywork parts of development without actually vibe coding. It’s when you don’t understand what your code does that it becomes ‘vibe code’ - i.e. you’re relying on the vibes rather than understanding the code itself to determine if it’s good enough. Under that definition, where the prompt typically isn’t detailed enough to be considered a significant creative work and the person doing the prompting not only does not - but cannot - understand what it is doing, vibe code is NOT copyrightable, full stop.

If it gets included in a larger work that doesn’t fit that definition, then sure, the whole is copyrightable, but then it’s just chunks of vibe code, not a vibe coded product - and the contribution in the form of a pull request is not. It is public domain.

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If it’s vibe coded, the person who wrote the prompt had minimal impact on the output. They can’t, because they don’t understand how it works. Their contribution is primarily limited to 1. writing a spec, which is often laughably vague, 2. testing the output to see if it works, and 3. if it doesn’t work right, telling the AI to fix the problems.

This was also in response to the ‘trust me bro’ snide comment. I’m not going to go into detail for something that is practically sealioning.

Only works created by humans can be copyrighted. This was borne out when it was determined that a photo a … monkey? Ape? One of those, took of itself by accident could not have copyright because a person wasn’t involved in the creation of the image.

So far, the same has been ruled for works created by GenAI. See all the artworks out there that people were mad about not being able to get copyrighted.

edit: Also see this article. https://www.wordsbywes.ink/articles/tools/llm-generated-text-still-cant-be-copyrighted/

I will pay extra for devices that don’t spy on me. There’s a market for it, and I’m the target audience. If I don’t fork out for devices that respect my privacy, they won’t exist in the future, and I can kiss goodbye the chance of ever having a full suite of devices that aren’t constantly selling every moment of my life to advertisers and whoever else wants it.

My next phone will probably run GrapheneOS. My car is a 2016 hatchback that I removed the OnStar module from myself. I don’t have Alexa, I don’t have a smart home, I don’t have a Ring doorbell. My laptop is a Framework that I’m strongly considering installing Linux on as its primary OS. Every computer I use has Firefox as its browser with multiple privacy-focused plugins. Your argument is shit and you should feel bad for making it. More devices that respect privacy is better, and just throwing your hands up and saying ‘They all do it, give up!’ is both idiotic and counter-productive.

We’re stuck with all his failures now.

It’s like computer algorithms. Some take up more RAM, some require more CPU time, some require more hard drive storage, and you pick the right one for your scenario. If weight and volume aren’t an issue but prep time is, this is better for your use cases.

I’d say this should herald a surge in PC gaming, but … well, no one can afford PC hardware any more.

As the person who deployed the agent, you are responsible for what it does on your behalf. You stand to gain from its actions, you also stand to lose from its bad behavior.

Of course, if the company that provided you the agent knowingly misrepresented the product, you can seek damages for what the agent did - but that’s up to you (and good luck getting damages from trillion-dollar tech companies and their armies of lawyers).