CameronDev
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- Comment on Tell me what to do today, and I will report back. 1 hour ago:
Maybe we shouldn’t encourage OP to self harm? :D
- Comment on Are there any llms made from 100% public domain / permissively licensed training data? 1 day ago:
Deep pockets in that their investors seem happy to pour money into a pit…
- Comment on Are there any llms made from 100% public domain / permissively licensed training data? 1 day ago:
Oracle v Google went back and forth for the better part of a decade, with rulings on both sides. This is much the same, time will tell.
- Comment on Are there any llms made from 100% public domain / permissively licensed training data? 1 day ago:
Anthropic has deep pockets, still got fined. Deep pockets also makes you are target.
- Comment on Are there any llms made from 100% public domain / permissively licensed training data? 1 day ago:
The regional case isnt interesting because its regional. Regional courts get it wrong all the time, only for it to be overturned by higher courts. There is also the possibility that this court was known to be pro-authors or anti-big tech, and the case was brought there for that specific reason.
If it gets held up on appeal then that is much more interesting, but for now, its basically one judges opinion.
- Comment on Are there any llms made from 100% public domain / permissively licensed training data? 1 day ago:
Ive never tried them tbh, have you? Do they work for code?
- Comment on Are there any llms made from 100% public domain / permissively licensed training data? 1 day ago:
It could always be higher, but what percentage would you actually be happy with? Most civil fines are well under a percent, they are definitely a penalty.
The way I look at it, nvidias nemotron division isnt bring in anything close to $1.5B by itself. If they get hit with $1.5B fine for copyright infringement, the nemotron division takes a huge loss, which the rest of the company has to pick up the tab for. That isn’t going to make investors happy, and they would be out for blood. It would impact earns and may cause actual damage to their valuation. (Whether its enough is unknown, the market makes no fucking sense at the best of times). If I lost 1% of my companies profit I’d lose my job. Its enough of a deterrent that the people involved should be paying attention.
On the other hand, Anthropic is playing with magical funny money, so $1.5B really doesnt matter at all to them. And they don’t answer to investors, because they think they’re build god…
- Comment on Are there any llms made from 100% public domain / permissively licensed training data? 1 day ago:
True, but as per the anthropic settlement linked in another comment, the penalties are pretty significant. 1.5B is a pretty reasonable fine against a 59B profit. Copyright still has some pretty significant teeth.
Its not like its antitrust /j
- Comment on Are there any llms made from 100% public domain / permissively licensed training data? 1 day ago:
There is no need to call me a sweet summer child.
I’m not terribly swayed by a Munich regional case, especially as its still under appeal.
The anthropic settlement definitely is a bit more meaningful though, although it does contradict the Munich one:
We reached this settlement in 2025, after the court’s landmark ruling that training AI on books is fair use under copyright law
The basically settled because they stole the copies of books they used to train on. If they had just paid for a copy of the books they possibly would have been fine.
- Comment on Are there any llms made from 100% public domain / permissively licensed training data? 1 day ago:
If that dataset has copyrighted material, nvidia committed a clear copyright violation by publishing it publically. I’m happy to trust that nvidias lawyers have vetted it properly.
- Comment on Are there any llms made from 100% public domain / permissively licensed training data? 1 day ago:
Nvidia Nemotron has a published dataset, so if they had copyright data in it it would be very easy to determine.
- Comment on Anthropic asks users to stop being mean to Claude 1 week ago:
Some models will actually respond better to abuse anyway. Plus it makes you feel better :)
- Comment on Anthropic asks users to stop being mean to Claude 1 week ago:
They are definitely using user prompts to train future models, and if everyone is a dick, their next model will be a dick. Which I’m okay with tbh. I’m gonna be more abusive whenever I have to interact with any of the hosted models.
- Comment on Are fluctuations in Earth's magnetic field during geomagnetic storms actually enough to cause stress on our cells and bodies, or am I encountering junk science? 1 week ago:
talking about it as if it’s common knowledge
This is basically saying to the viewer “only idiots don’t know this, your not an idiot are you?”, common sales/snake oil trick, makes you feel unsafe to push back
- Comment on Are fluctuations in Earth's magnetic field during geomagnetic storms actually enough to cause stress on our cells and bodies, or am I encountering junk science? 1 week ago:
Nah, sounds like nonsense. An MRI is 1.5-3 Tesla, and people sit inside those with no negative effects.
As for the ER thing, how do they know there is a geomagnetic storm going on if they don’t have the detectors already? And how would the detectors help, if they don’t provide advanced warning?
- Comment on Australia says platforms like Steam and Roblox have 'significant' child safety gaps 1 week ago:
Who is american…
- Comment on Reddit repost bots taking over entire communities 3 weeks ago:
Of course, but the problem is that new users come here, see a sea of repost bots, and then conclude that its a ghost town.
- Comment on Reddit repost bots taking over entire communities 3 weeks ago:
And then they get mirrored to fediverse via bots…
- Comment on What happened to NFTs and what where they in retro spec? 4 weeks ago:
At best, they were a money laundering/ponzi scheme. The value cratered, and now we don’t hear about them anymore.
The blockchain (think notepad, with non erasable sharpie) had an entry that would link that item to you. You could sell it to someone by writing their name below yours. It didnt tangibly transfer anything though, and the items were all very easy to duplicate, so ownership meant nothing.
- Comment on How come we still haven't engineered a solution to this?? 4 weeks ago:
We have, most toasters let you lift the lever higher to get it out.
- Comment on [deleted] 5 weeks ago:
And this isnt a shit post…
- Comment on That'll be $100k per credit hour, please. 5 weeks ago:
AI would write better, with no weird spelling errors, this is human slop.
- Comment on “Is anyone out There?” - HamRadio 5 weeks ago:
I am not really qualified to comment on the quality of the handhelds, but have a few baofengs (don’t know the model), a quangshen uv-k6 and a radtel rt-470x. All of them likely illegal, probably excessively spectrally noisy. But they are good for road trips.
- Comment on “Is anyone out There?” - HamRadio 5 weeks ago:
I agree thats how it should be, but the licencing here in Aus doesnt line up with that.
The knowledge involved in the actual licencing isnt actually that useful for actually operating the radio. It was mostly tailored to designing radios from the ground up, and it was basically late highschool electronics.
The knowledge you need to operate the radios properly is all available online.
In my case, I am using handheld radios on the CB bands. I have limited the power correctly, but because they are capable of more power than allowed, that makes them require a licence, even when used in normal CB bands. It doesnt make sense for me to waste multiple Sundays to get a licence I am not actually going to take advantage of.
So here in Aus, it is just beaurocratic bullshit. And like I said, if it were online, I’d do it in a heartbeat.
- Comment on On 9/11 what was the internet like after it happened? Did people quit being dicks or trolls and showed some decency? Or was it like we have today and nothing changed? 5 weeks ago:
I don’t count forums the same as modern social media. The are social places of course, but much more tight-knit, much less algorithmically ratfucked. Even 2003 Myspace and 2004 FB were much better places than what they have metastasized into.
- Comment on On 9/11 what was the internet like after it happened? Did people quit being dicks or trolls and showed some decency? Or was it like we have today and nothing changed? 5 weeks ago:
Maybe around, but I don’t think it was ubiquitous? Even then, ADSL was pretty bad, and I wouldn’t call it broadband by today’s standards. But that could just be Australia lagging the world :)
- Comment on On 9/11 what was the internet like after it happened? Did people quit being dicks or trolls and showed some decency? Or was it like we have today and nothing changed? 5 weeks ago:
I believe the internet was much smaller then. It existed, but most social hadn’t really begun yet.
9/11 was 2001, Facebook was 2004. So definitely a different place.
- Comment on “Is anyone out There?” - HamRadio 5 weeks ago:
I agree in general, but not every country has a simple and easy licencing system. And if your just acquiring radios for shit-hits-the-fan scenarios, rather than regular use, expending the effort for a licence doesnt make sense to me.
In Aus, its a multiday in person class, with exams at fixed times during the year. And I’ve seen the course work, its mindnumbingly easy, it should be an online multiple choice. I would do it in a heartbeat if it were online.
- Comment on “Is anyone out There?” - HamRadio 5 weeks ago:
Plenty of people do are still doing ham radio.
There isnt much risk being unlicenced, enforcement seems sporadic and unreliable. I own a bunch of handheld radios that ideally I should have a licence for, but for road trips it hardly matters.
But at the same time, getting licenced isnt expensive or difficult, so you may as well just do it. The only reason I haven’t is that I don’t want to waste a bunch of Sundays going to a class to listen to year 10 electronics.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
Most tax systems will tax on the dollar value of the compensation. It can lead to very awkward situations if the value of the compensation is variable.
Some people have been paid in stock, only for the stock to lose its value, yet the tax man only considers the original value. So I you get paid 1M in stock, and it craters, you still owe the tax man 300k (assuming 30% tax rate).