The object of a system of authority is order, not justice. Justice matters only after injustice sufficiently compromises order.

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Cake day: August 8th, 2023

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  • Foldable flip phones are an overly complicated solution to a nonexistent problem.

    They solve the same problems as the original folding phones. They allow you to keep you phone in your slacks or skirt pocket without destroying the look of your outfit or the screen of your phone.

    Slab phones are a disaster for pocket-ability. Yes you can shove it in your back pocket where it looks like ass, breaks your ass when you sit down, and breaks the screen or the phone itself if you sit down in the wrong way or on the wrong thing.

    Folding phones solve those problems.




  • This is a fast path to open source irrelevancy, since the US copyright office has deemed LLM outputs to be uncopyrightable.

    This is a misunderstanding of US Copyright. Here’s a link to the compendium so you can verify for yourself.

    Section 313 says “Although uncopyrightable material, by definition, is not eligible for copyright protection, the Office may register a work that contains uncopyrightable material, provided that the work as a whole contains other material that qualifies as an original work of authorship…”

    This means that LLM created code that’s embedded in a larger work may be registered.

    Section 313.2 says “Similarly, the Office will not register works produced by a machine or mere mechanical process that operates randomly or automatically without any creative input or intervention from a human author.”

    Meaning that LLM created code CAN be registered as long as an author has some creative input or intervention in the process. I’d posit that herding an LLM system to create the code definitely qualifies as “creative input or intervention”. If someone feels it isn’t then all they need to do is change something, literally anything, and suddenly it becomes a derivative work of an uncopyrighted source and the derivative can then be registered (to a human) and be subject to copyright.

    In short, it’s fine. Take a breath.