He's a very naughty boy!

Interesting, thanks. Do your objections still stand after this?

Mozilla rewrites Firefox’s Terms of Use after user backlash

Can you elaborate?

I mean that I am not one of the followers of Lud, oddly prevalent here on Slashdot, who reflexively dismisses everything AI-related.

I didn't think it was appropriate to make a tail of a disclaimer wag the dog of a post but I guess these are the times we live in.

All kinds of stupid fads have blown through the software industry in the 45 or so years since I made my first buck in it. What's your point?

Yeah, this is boneheaded. But imagine the hallucinated products I can buy with imaginary dollars!

And I say this as a very pro-AI guy.

How can anyone take him seriously? RoR has been a shitshow since day 1, and so has the hipster fan club that sprang up around it.

Google's search results are crammed full of SEO spam. I switched to DuckDuckGo (Bing) years ago and haven't looked back.

Part of the probable benefit is a form of "security though obscurity" since I doubt many people go to the effort to game DDG/Bing's search rankings.

The future was better than it is.

Worse, too.

I swear, the future is weird as hell.

As usual, Gen X gets ignored.

Signed,
I Still Expect The National Anthem At Midnight

No, I clearly understand the subject better as it stands. Law, especially IP and constitutional law, has been a hobby of mine since the 90s--and I have been beating up on family law attorneys for the past 15 years with great success.

What neither of us know is how this will play out. I will repeat myself repeating myself:

While there is uncertainty, it seems pretty obvious in the current environment that if this goes all the way (which is probable given the stakes on all sides) then SCOTUS is not likely to be sympathetic to the likes of the NYT.

The EFF, whom I trust more than rando "law professors", is siding with Meta on this one:

https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fchatgptiseatingtheworld.com%2Fwp-content%2Fuploads%2F2025%2F04%2FEFF-Amicus-Brief-in-Opp-to-Kadrey-Motion-for-SJ-Apr-3-2025.pdf

If LLMs distributed verbatim copies, special prompting that goes against the TOS that elicits a few paragraphs notwithstanding, your analogy would be less bogus.

To repeat: the New York Times isn't losing any significant business because ten year old articles were used as a minuscule influence on a vast sea of vectors. I would love to see them prove damages even if they overcame the obvious fair use issues. Anything can happen in court, but given the way the wind is blowing, I wouldn't bet anything I cared about on their chances.

MS-DOS 5.0 was good. NT4 had its day but I was a FreeBSD guy during those years. Bill's TRS-80 Level II BASIC was fun in the late 70s.

I've had the misfortune to deal with Windows in server settings from NT3.51 through 2k12 plus SQL Server etc. ... I inherited that crap, who would do such a thing on purpose?

But hey, if you enjoy your Wintendo system then don't let me rain on your parade.