Wait, you’re complaining that end users can change it?

Yes, there are ways the website could prevent that. I’m not sure why that goal serves any purpose, though. Defaults are going to get them the vast majority of the commissions they earn, and being simple and easy for users who really want to reward the creators more to do so is worth the negligible cost.

Getting commission on sales you make isn’t greed.

Not any more than any other tracking method. They control it all.

If anything, the fact that they give you a method to alter how your purchase is tracked so you can still give the creator 90% when you get to them through their store is pro-creator.

The parameters are how you get to the store.

If the creator is driving the traffic, Gumroad takes 10%. If Gumroad is driving the traffic, they take a commission of 30%

Completely, because without privacy you’d be functionally guaranteed a civil war.

Reality is nuanced; labels aren’t.

https://streamable.com/85e9b7

I fully acknowledge it’s not actually there yet, but it’s making real progress.

It kind of sounds like a 3 player rogue lite.

Thankfully, Cloudflare was quick to respond and to fix the issue. On top of that, the company was completely open and apologetic about how this happened. There was no hiding the ball at all. In fact, Cloudflare’s CEO Matthew Prince noted to me that this kind of thing might be worth writing about, given that it was a different kind of attack (though one he admitted the company never should have fallen for).

So how did this happen? According to Cloudflare, their trust & safety team were trying to go through a backlog of phishing reports and bulk processed them without realizing there was a bogus one (for Techdirt!) in the middle.

The inherent concerns of their pure scale aside, I love how they consistently respond to any issues transparently.

There is nothing about this game that resembles theft of anyone’s IP in any way, and in a just world an absurd suit like this anywhere on the planet would result in literally every piece of IP a company owns (piercing corporate bullshit) being released to the public domain in the entire world permanently.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vickrey_auction

There are numerous formats of auction. I don’t think a Vickrey auction is what they did, but it is an example of a sealed auction format that is well supported as legitimately and efficiently maximizing value for the seller.

Why don’t Americans…

My guess is that he’s a non-native speaker used to a different sentence structure and this is what he meant.

It’s for sure not a legitimate process.

DMCA doesn’t entitle you to force a service that complies with DMCA requests down.

I thought the way they intended to handle it was pretty reasonable, but the idea that there is an actual obligation to scan content is disgusting.

As everyone knows, executive orders overrule the constitution. 👍👍👍

The problem is that the actual use cases (which are still incredibly unreliable) don’t justify even 1% of the investment or energy usage the market is spending on them. (Also, as you mentioned, there are actual approaches that are useful that aren’t LLMs that are being starved by the stupid attempt at a magic bullet.)

It’s hard to be positive about a simple, moderately useful technology when every person making money from it is lying through their teeth.

It’s not.

But lying lets them defraud more investors.

There’s no way they could pay to give you unlimited audiobooks with any kind of library at all.

You can get a library included with an Audible subscription, but it’s pretty limited, mostly to their own stuff, or Everand has a limited library included with a subscription (but you only get the stuff you use their limited credit system on while you have an active subsctiption, so I cancelled once they switched models).

The only reasonable alternative to what Spotify has is not doing audiobooks.

Yes, it is?

Your rant doesn’t make sense. Asking for suggestions because you’re not OK with being spied on (especially when you’re perfectly willing to absorb the hosting costs yourself or pay for a service that isn’t hostile) is perfectly valid behavior.

TLDR: You set a donation amount, it uses your GitHub account and the projects you use and distributes it through their dependencies and the dependencies of dependencies. You can also customize to exclude or boost specific things.

Might be over-simplified, but that looks like the basic idea.

Actual researchers aren’t the ones lying about LLMs. It’s exclusively corporate people and people who have left research for corporate paychecks playing make believe that they resemble intelligence.

That said, the academic research space is also a giant mess and you should also take even peer reviewed papers with a grain of salt, because many can’t be replicated and there is a good deal of actual fraud.

I’m aware how fraud is defined.

(Spoiler: this isn’t fraud anywhere relevant.)