Posts by Old 555

To pay or not to pay for AI's creative 'borrowing' – that is the question

Microsoft, Meta, Google, ..., all need to make like the US Publishing giants

The US, historically, like present day Iran, Eritrea, ... , once limited Copyright to works produced by its own citizens, on its own territory, and limited protection to 14 years, form publication. Many a large US publishing house, and media group, being founded on selling bootlegged copies of works by non-US Citizens, or the Works of US Citizens initially published overseas, without any compensation for the creator (Google 'Dickens US copyright").

If the tech giants were to equip a fleet of ships as data centres, reflag them, or park them in the territorial waters of a nation that doesn't hold with the ever more prohibitive copyright treaties, and still uses a bootlegged copy of the US's own 1790 copyright law, they could legally digest, by Starlink or similar, the entire Inter-web, let their models transform an author, or genre, into a simple set of mathematical weights, discard the now redundant, un-transformed copies, and transfer the notes (weight set) back to their parent company, via some space magic, to copyright, and sell the use of, in a LLM. No copyright laws being violated in the attempt.

RISC OS: 35-year-old original Arm operating system is alive and well

Check / Remove the CMOS battery

If you're going to leave it in the loft, make sure you remove the VARTA V280* cell, as those shipped in the: A3000, A3010, A3020, A4000, A5000, A7000, A4, and RiscPC, have an annoying habit of leaking, after 30+ years of loft non-living. The earlier A300 / A400 / R500 series use a pair of AA batteries, that will also leak, but in a separate battery holder, behind the cases power supply, so less likely to destroy several PCB tracks, to leave you with a pile of e-waste, or at best collection of parts to be eBayed, when the house is cleared.

Ditto if you have an old Commodore Amiga, remove the battery if you plan to abandon your old toy for a decade.

We sat through Apple's product launch disguised as a dev event so you don't have to

The 2013 MacbookAir was the last good one :(

Can't we turn back the clock, the 2013, 13", 8GB, i5, 512GB MacbookAir, wot offered a user upgradable / replaceable SSD and battery, and came with both a displayport, and SD card reader, not to mention the M2's big selling point, a Magsafe connector. Oh, and there's a native version of R-Studio, for the Bootcamp'able, into full far Microsoft land, geriatric beast.

RISC-V CEO seeks 'world domination' by winning over the likes of Intel

a RISC-Y buisness

Being a Swiss based enterprise, the major USP of the ISA is it's outside US, EU, and UK sanction regimes, with ever more sanctioned entities, signing on as premier voting members, to obtain seats on the board. A point made by many, back in 2019.