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There's something vastly superior over rsync still: "btrfs send" and "btrfs receive" (but require you to have btrfs on source and destination).

Thanks for the suggestion! I'm not very familiar with btrfs send and btrfs receive. Browsing the documentation, it looks cool, but maybe you could say more about the specific things that make it so much better for your use case? Could any of them be incorporated into a more general tool like syq? Also, it doesn't look like btrfs send helps transfers go fast by parallelizing them or has anything like syq's remote-remote transfer feature, which made me wonder if it would actually make sense to make syq able to work as an authenticated fast transport for a stream generated by btrfs send/receive.

'btrfs send' is more like diff/patch than it is like rsync. It requires both source and destination to agree about the source snapshot.

Did you read what they said? The question is now if OAI produced something new or just stole the researchers' good ideas.

You seem to be unfamiliar about how research works. It's common to make an incremental advancement while citing prior work. The vast majority of papers out there fall into this bucket. Did the AI make incremental progress? Yes. Did it cite prior art? After some nudging, yes.

It seems to me the academics are upset that AI scooped them. But scooping is a time-honored tradition between researchers. First to print and all that. In a nutshell, they are upset that they lost out on a publication.

I will also point out for those unaware that any mathematics that is produced is automatically part of the public domain and can be used freely in derivative works. It is not a protected intellectual class like other works of art.


Name one discovery ever that didn't depend on someone else's work.

Most discoveries did not happen by someone looking in someone else's notebooks without them knowing.

If you document it properly then this basically destroys any legal claim they can make about that checkbox.

Out of curiosity, how one is supposed to "document it properly"?

You can obtain a cryptographic proof by recording the tls exchange, including the keys

You need to use a tls intercepting proxy for that.

I couldn't find any ready-made tool unfortunately, there's tlsnotary.org but it seems far from simple.


So basically I record what the browser sends to the server when I click the toggle and the server response?

I wonder how I can attach a timestamp that cannot be faked.


They simply find some problems more interesting to solve than others.

Just like the rest of us.


(Perhaps it shows that Apple engineers are pushed to grind at the boring problems more; therefore maybe it is better to work at Microsoft)

Early in my career, I have read a blog post from someone senior about boring/entertaining work. In short it stated to following:

    Even if you work on exciting things, the project will always have boring parts.
    You'll need to develop these parts as well, so be prepared and show the same respect to all parts.
So, I'd personally rather work on all parts equally well rather than winging boring parts and create something subpar.

Maybe. By the way, I chose Apple as an example but their software is just about as bad, only slightly better.

Wait if the speed of light were different, wouldn't atoms be a different size? And so the entire world would be a different size?

I suspect all the relative proportions would remain the same. And that we come to the conclusion that our definition of speed is rather arbitrary.

I once read that zebras have stripes to keep mosquitos away.

I'm not even buying. If governments think my data is worthless and e.g. don't kill the businessmodel behind data brokers, then why should I respect their copyright laws?

These streaming services don't even support 4k hdr on linux, leaving people with no choice.

Well they do have a choice, and that's to switch to windows.

I run linux too but I'm not going to pretend like my choice to run a niche setup means I'm entitled to pirate content because they don't 100% support it


I don't see why you'd be any less "entitled" than you would be to go outside and play in the dirt or watch birds. What difference does it make to them? They've told you they don't want you as a customer anyway, and you're not using their resources since you'd be downloading it from someone else, so your decision has literally no impact on them, and carries no moral weight at all.

Surely we are all entitled to do anything that does not affect others by default?


Linux is hardly a niche. There are a lot of consumer products that contain Linux in some form or another. Just nobody wants to support it properly.

We aren't talking about a choice between running a mainstream setup or a niche setup though. There is much more to this choice—I'm sure you understand what I mean. I don't want to dive into this discussion, I just want to highlight that it isn't as simple as you suggested.

They forgot to mention SaaS, and that everything is a subscription now.

Also, automatic updates that are forced on the user.

And of course that the internet is breaking down our democracies.


Yeah but just one automatic update away from becoming a horror show.

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