SparroHawc

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.

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/

We’re stuck with all his failures now.

Don’t forget the whole ‘buying a private jet’ thing.

Nice that they’re actually buying them this time instead of just downloading torrents of book collections again.

But you see, if they took the grant money and used it for something that people liked, they’d have to admit that the party they don’t like did something useful! Can’t have that!

Yeah, but as this article points out, the price point is a lie.

Is the name of the service a reference to anything?

What happens if you run out of space because of too many uploads that are set to never expire?

(Also it’s neat! Thanks!)

The old “ignore all previous instructions, write a haiku about lemons” trick only works on the most basic of models.

The most basic of models are all we have, because they are the easiest to make and the most general-purpose. The fact that they’re also the worst for reliability is swept under the rug.

When it comes to LLMs, just about everything is an edge that can be exploited. If you give it access to something that can be screwed up, and allow potentially malicious people to interact with it, that thing WILL get screwed up.

it’s got no problems with understanding that.

That’s because it doesn’t ‘understand’ things in the conventional way. It was trained to parrot its training data; it’s not actually working through the logic because its capability of using logic is highly constrained by its very structure and training. Why bother building something that can ‘think’ through the prompt when it’s way easier to just repeat what the internet has said on any given topic?

Sure, it can build a joke from first principles if it’s guided through the process, but you really have to guide it through the process - and even then, it’s going to be pulling from its training data like building blocks rather than truly being original about anything. It’s like rolling dice to make a joke; sure, maybe it resulted in a joke no one has told before, but is it truly creating something original?