Atemu

Atemu , 1 year ago to asklemmy in What is an item below 100 bucks that everyone should own?

I’m no earplug connoisseur

7 paragraphs about earplugs

Atemu , 1 year ago to asklemmy in How do 'register your credit card with us, and earn cashback' schemes work, or make money themselves?

I don’t know how it works in this case but if a commercial for-profit service is gratis, the general rule of thumb is that you are not the customer but the product.

Atemu OP , 1 year ago to linux_gaming in Unsung

Providing insight into how the teams at Valve work on Linux gaming things I presume.

I found it to be an interesting and entertaining read.

Atemu , 1 year ago to linux_gaming in SteamController - Solution for Mouse cursor on Wayland

You should probably edit the title to reflect that this is about the Steam controller.

Atemu , 1 year ago to asklemmy in What's your favorite programming language and what about it do you like?

You’ll be damned if you ever need to know what exactly you made it do 20 years ago though as Perl is a write-only language ;p

Atemu , 1 year ago to fosai in Licenses for LLM models

IANAL. TINLA.

The machine producing the derivative work is a thing which means it cannot have a copyright on anything. If it did anything original somehow, that work would be in the public domain.

The weights of the model would likely be considered a derivative work of the training data however because it was directly created using the training data. Thus, the copyright of the weights belongs to whoever owns the copyright to the training data.

The training data is created from thousands/millions/billions of individually copyrighted works. This would also constitute a derivative work too but there’s an escape hatch: Fair use. If the use of the original works is transformative enough, the creator of the derivative work retains their copyright.
Collecting the data on which the weights are created is (somewhat) manual work done by humans. You could make good argument for this being fair use.

It all hinges on whether or not this is true. If it is, ML companies will continue as they did. If it isn’t, the people creating the datasets would need to have to license the individual works they used for the training data from the respective copyright holders.

In practice, nothing is black and white and this is still a hotly debated topic for which no clear answer exists. None of this is court-tested to my knowledge.

OTOH: There’s another legal question here: Is creating weights from training data fair use or a derivative work? If it’s fair use, that’d mean whoever creates the weights gets the copyright which, in this case, is a machine; meaning nearly all ML models would be public domain.

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Opinion and wild speculation:

Creating weights out of training data being fair use would be …interesting but I doubt that will happen. It’s sometimes even fairly obvious that some weights are a derivative work of their training data because you can make the weights reproduce training data very closely in some cases.

I am fairly certain that model weights will be considered a derivative work of the training data; copyright of the weights belongs to whoever owns the copyright to the training data.

What I suspect will happen on the training data front is that the collection and tagging will (at some point) be considered a transformative action, making it fair use.

I think this way because artists do not have a lobby, so even if the judiciary decided that collecting training data wasn’t fair use, the rich tech companies will get their way because they can wooo the legislative using their “”“AI”“”; creating new copyright exceptions such that aristocrat pockets can continue to be filled with peasant money.
Far more convincing is the contraposition: If collecting training data wasn’t fair use, that would be to the benefit of the peasants; ML companies would have to license works from individual artists and pay them license fees. We can’t have aristocrat money going into peasant pockets.

Atemu , 1 year ago to asklemmy in Workation - nice or stupid?

I agree but it’s supposed to be the other way around: Have a bit of vacation while you work. You still get your actual PTO in addition to that which you can use on an actual vacation.

Atemu , 1 year ago to android in Navigation bar or gesture controls?

Gestures because on-screen buttons just suck for full screen apps. Buttons only work if they’re always in the same place and always available. Why the hell would I want them to be hidden? Give me my hardware buttons back please.

Gestures are only half-way usable because I patch the android framework to ignore apps’ requests to change orientation (fuck that) and the pill to be much smaller but even then landscape is pretty meh with it taking way too much movement to change apps and the pill requiring quite a lot of vertical space that is already very limited.

Atemu , 1 year ago to linux in Ubuntu Shifting To A "4/2" Week Cycle For Shipping Stable Kernel Updates

They had monthly kernel releases? Yikes.

Bi-weekly is better but still…

Atemu , 1 year ago to linux in I switched from Nixos to void Linux. Here's my experience so far.

Yes.

Atemu , 1 year ago to linux in I switched from Nixos to void Linux. Here's my experience so far.

It is not. Alpine is independant and uses a ports-like packaging system.

Atemu , 1 year ago to fediverse in PeerTube has a federation problem

I don’t see how cellphones or CGNAT play into this. If you can send real-time voice data in a web call P2P in your browser (webrtc), you can send semi-real-time video data P2P aswell.

Atemu , 1 year ago to linux in Systemd 254 - now with soft-reboot

• Support for System V service scripts is now deprecated and will be removed in a future release. Please make sure to update your software now to include a native systemd unit file instead of a legacy System V script to retain compatibility with future systemd releases.

Why is this being removed?

I wouldn’t use it but it certainly seems handy for a quick hack and also for people who are used to the old ways.

Atemu , 1 year ago to linux in Alpine Linux does not make the news

It has a steep learning curve in the beginning but so does every mildly complex thing.

If there’s anything you’re stuck with, make sure you seek help in the appropriate channels such as !nixos!nixos.

Atemu , 1 year ago to technology in Amazon faces potential break-up as FTC finalizes antitrust lawsuit | The FTC is getting ready for the big one

I don’t think you’re the target customer of Amazon. It seems to all be set up for brand-less dayfly companies/scammers reselling shit from AliExpress, not actual long-standing brands.