Right. Now it fabricates unjustified citations to real existing medical research so that you won't manage to catch it or disprove the references. We understand progress.

Thanks for the insight. I saw a couple of very obvious April's fools messages before going to bed and then ignored the day. Now I understand the somewhat depressing reason why.

Correct. Even if they can win the case for copyright, they would lose things like triple damages for wilful infringement. All a defendant would have to do is point to a different repo with no copyright identification and say that they copied from that without realizing it was the Anthropic code. As it is, there will be no such repo, except on dark web sites so that claim will be much harder to make.

Anthropic may well have trained their agents on some of their customer's code. I guarantee you that they have never trained it on their own core source code.

Look at the rust repo. They are 100% clear that they did exactly that. Each team consisted only of one agent (an advantage, since the agent can work much faster and with AI code advantages, but still clearly a compete software team). One team (agent) saw the code and wrote a spec. A different team (second agent) saw the spec and wrote Rust code to match it.

A) the copyright restrictions on the AGPLv3 make it illegal to distribute an altered AGPLv3 so that would make it invalid. As I read it, they have only added extra stuff at the end which would be aggregation not alteration so may well be okay as long as they don't add anything the AGPLv3 doesn't permit to be added.

B) The software clearly states that it is licensed under the AGPLv3, but with permitted restrictions. In which case, the actual AGPLv3 and not any altered version is what we care about anyway.

My understanding is that this isn't an attribution problem, it's about forcing the logo to appear in the final user visible product, which is going beyond mere attribution, so I think that EuroOffice is actually mostly right and will find an appropriate solution in the end, even if they aren't right in some details.

There are, in the world, multiple people with different, sometimes even contradictory opinions between them.

It's not as simple as just that. It's a monopoly that is fearful that it might lose the monopoly if it isn't seen to be doing a good job. If you just have a monopoly, as Microsoft did in operating systems, the tendency is to exploit your customers for gain. If you have a monopoly but you think someone with the power to do so is out looking for an excuse to take it away from you then you want to avoid giving them an excuse.

This is not just paranoia. Multiple of the involved politicians have already been asked "isn't this stupid because you can use a VPN to get around it" and have answered things to the effect of "we are at least doing something and we will try to get round to blocking VPNs in future". I expect that they will come up with exceptions for corporates or UK hosted VPNs, however the current legislation proves that the mere fact of it being insane will not stop them.

I was really talking about private / personal VPNs. I'm sure there will be supposed to be some government and corporate exception. I'm sure they will also set up the corporate exception in some horrible way that makes it fail anyway.

Well, in this case the funniest thing is that Trump is absolutely making the case for both solar and wind and the wierd ranting just brings more attention to that fact. China has been much more insulated from the New Gulf War than other nations because of their huge amount of renewable energy. China is rescuing Cuba by supplying them with solar panels.Other places are getting into trouble basically in inverse proportion to how much of their energy is renewable and so on.

Having energy supply systems that don't need fuel turns out to be a huge advantage in war or otherwise unstable times.

The standard Rust competitor is C++. That has a very different design choice - the standard library is huge, ancient and ever expanding and basically requires backwards compatibility. However, that also means that you know that your compiler vendor or specific standard library vendor has to provide those functions for certification and that there's some basic level of support and responsibility for the contents. Likely similar to or related to the level you get for the compiler.

With Rust's choice you get a very different set of trade offs, one we are much less experienced with. Perl is probably the most similar language which has become old and we can see real maintenance problems with the libraries, partly caused by standard bit rot, but mostly caused by a dysfunctional community which hasn't even allowed the language to increase it's version number properly. Since Rust is making the same kind of choices that Perl made for libraries, it might be legitimate to wonder whether there might come a time in future when similar problems happen to Rust crates as are happening to Perl libraries.

Given that the North American Enterprise Linux vendor is giving up their leadership of the Linux community and given that Linux is starting to use Rust seriously in the kernel as well as in user space, having an actual sensible distro vendor directly influencing how rust packages are maintained and how the Rust community prioritizes them may actually be pretty important and useful.

The failure is the point. They are trying to work up to getting VPNs blocked. I suspect they will have shrunk our economy by 60% before we manage to stop them. I only hope that, at that point, I will be able to get a legalized lynch mob up for them. The chances are reasonably good.

A) your credit card was probably stored in your phone anyway, so you can't buy a burner phone B) An unverified backup solution doesn't exist. If you had tried a disaster recovery exercise whilst at home, you would have already realized that you need to pre-install all your apps on your recovery phone.

And yes, the normal consumer now has to have corporate level IT to be able to survive in the world reliably. How they achieve that I have no idea.

I like an optimist.