Notices by see shy jo (joeyh@hachyderm.io), page 4

transit systems that refuse cash payment and require an app for payment are a tax on the poor (as well as an imposition on everyone's privacy) and should be illegal

One of the nicest thank-you for free software messages that I've ever received

Realizing the irony that `git-annex sync` only supports commit message via -m (but it's targeting people who mostly don't care about commit messages and makes one up when not provided)

@liw I tried as an experiment

echo "foo
bar
baz

And how to edit previous lines from down there did not seem obvious to me.

recently read a blog post that was arguing against using git commit -m and suggested that it might be worth learning the basics of nano or something in order to edit the commit message that way

Kind of flabbergasting, but is there a culture of only using -m in that is resulting in entirely oneline commit messages? See also commit messages that look like "feat: adding new feature to optimize apps" and "chore: add CI"

By the way, I'd love for someone to tell me I've gotten some or all of this wrong! I really want to not lose my respect for SWH.

(No interest in debating LLM-as-copyright laundring here or ever tho. Or with any apologists for any corporations.)

"The Stack is an open governance interface between the AI community and the open source community."

This is a seizure of power. It is not legitimate governance.

By facilitating a corporation that is attempting to set itself up as a governance over my community, how is Software Heritage not behaving in a way that runs counter to their mission statement of preserving software?

My immediate reaction is to consider removing my software from Software Heritage itself!

Asking to be removed from The Stack would implicitly legitimize this claim of governance over me.

(I should note that I've had considerable difficulty getting my software into Software Heritage in the first place, since I refuse to host it on Github. The irony.)

Yes, the terms of use of The Stack require updating your copy of the dataset when it's updated to remove software https://huggingface.co/datasets/bigcode/the-stack-v2

But they say nothing about stopping using models already trained on that data.

And "the most recent usable version" gives considerable leeway. Presumably if we all removed all our software from The Stack, it would no longer be usable.

Also, interesting how THEIR terms matter, but MY terms don't

The insufficiency is simple: When a LLM trained on software can output portions of copyrighted software, which they absolutely can and do, and when that gets used in proprietary software, all the provinance tracking of the dataset used to train it becomes irrelevant. At that point my license has been violated.

Software Heratige's statement's silence on this topic, in their list of principles, is deafening.

@georgetakei except for the part where you slip on the wet floor and stab yourself with the banana stem on the way down

I am disappointed in Software Heritage.

They made this statement on using their archive as an AI training dataset: https://www.softwareheritage.org/2023/10/19/swh-statement-on-llm-for-code/?ref=openml.fyi

These seem like good principles. But they are not actually sufficient to respect our work. And the third is too weak, and appears to be providing a figleaf for extractive behavior.

"3. Mechanisms should be established, where possible, for authors to exclude their archived code from the training inputs before model training begins. "

But in practice, they seem ok with this post-training removal process: https://huggingface.co/spaces/bigcode/in-the-stack

Watching "It's Quieter in the Twilight", a documentary about Voyager mission control. Shaping up to be a great #documentary

@brokenix No need for Y Combinator. Indeed.

@mhoye my shell history consists 99% of single-letter scripts. but also no

Package created entirely to try to reap #teaxyz crypto spam token.
https://www.npmjs.com/package/simple-swap-d

@craigmaloney presumably with sufficient typo fixes and AI driven refactorings^Wbug inserts being spammed first to try to justify it

@craigmaloney "I removed all your trailing whitespace! maint bit plz!?"