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C is good

Yup. But, they're all good in their own way. They're just a means to an end. If the end result is good, reliable, maintainable: whatever you use is good.

RHEL specifically makes it really annoying to see the source. You get a web view.


This violates the GPL, which explicitly states that recipients are entitled to the source tree in a form suitable for modification -- which a web view is not.


The source trees in a form suitable for modification (and pull requests) are here:

https://gitlab.com/redhat/centos-stream/rpms


it's not the only way they offer the sauce through


Don't forget RH is owned by IBM.


Honestly just hearing this makes me want to get all their binaries, request the code, scrape it with OCR and upload it somewhere


But that would be silly, because all of the code and binaries is already available via CentOS Stream. There's nothing in RHEL that isn't already public at some point via CentOS Stream.

There's nothing special or proprietary about the RHEL code. Access to the code isn't an issue, it's reconstructing an exact replica of RHEL from all of the different package versions that are available to you, which is a huge temporal superset of what is specifically in RHEL.


JFC bug bounty money is pathetic now. This would have destroyed this company's reputation, downstream effects for customer reputations and data.


This happens pretty frequently in music.


It's not always just white people now, at least. Rich kids of all races can take over a genre


Copyright unencumbered... For their own characters?? Why would they need clearance to generate things trained on their data.


Because the tool can generate output faster than human employees alone can (and they control the "legitimate" gate by which other people can use those characters in the tool).

The consequence being that for everyone complaining that AI is disrupting artists right now: these will, in hindsight, be the halcyon years. Even if we assume the copyright arguments hold water in court and AIs trained on other people's copyrighted material are ruled poison-fruit machines, the end result isn't the end of synthesizing-AIs... It's synthesizing-AIs only being owned by people with a big enough data portfolio to train them. Techno-anarchy replaced with techno-corporatocracy, and the smaller-volume artists still lose on being unable to out-produce their competition in an art market.


Art isn't a volume business though.


Andy Warhol disagreed. But in general: it's not a bulk or commodity business like, say, toilet paper, but an artist that creates five thousand works a year can definitely out-sell an artist that creates five.

To the extent that art intersects capitalism, that matters (even if the second artist is charging thousands per work; when your price is too high, people can't buy, so the artist charging dozens or hundreds per work but making 5,000 a year can sell to all the people who can't afford five-works-a-year).


Disney shareholders, feel free to make images of Iger, Mickey, and Br'er Rabbit lighting piles on money on fire.


The original depiction of Mickey Mouse is legally public domain anyway

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Works_based_on_a_copyright-fre...


Not a shareholder, but on first try, it won't do it because it recognizes Iger's name. And clearly the deal is fresh because it balked at Mickey Mouse too. But it has no trouble with just, "mouse": https://sora.chatgpt.com/p/s_693ae0d25bbc819188f6758fce3f90c...


Ask it to do Steamboat Willy? Now in the public domain


I'm not a shareholder but buying equity in OpenAI seems to be a much better deal (for Disney) than making OpenAI just pay royalties, no? Seems like everyone wins, unless you think OpenAI will never amount to anything and it's all a bubble.


If you destroy your brand value in the process? This is an entertainment company... The entire value of this company is the characters and the right to make new stories with them.


Cash from royalties doesn't disappear like equity value would, in the event of a bubble pop.

Bird in the hand is worth two in the bush and all that.


Royalty payments from a company that can't pay them aren't useful either.


What does a bubble pop look like to people?

Does anyone envision a scenario where OpenAI or Anthropic (or google) disappears?

I can understand the investment bubble in new infra. But even that, I’m not so sure. Right now, demand is so far outstripping supply, which is why we’re having so many conversations about energy or chips.

But yes that’s the bubble people keep talking about.


where does the royalty cash come from when the bubble pops?


It stops, but you still have what you got before that point. You're "cashing out" on an ongoing basis.


How do you think these modern AI-guided drones use their AI? What part of the drone uses it?


Sensor input evaluation using subsystem produced confidence values?


Eerily similar to 'the surge' in the US for the Iraq and Afghanistan wars. The US and Russia are so weirdly similar.


outside of the recovery community, this is known as 'fraud'


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