I think you should do more then just add a disclaimer. You should add a proper license. It protects you and allows others to build upon your work in a predictable way.

That and licenses are legally battle hardened and proven. A self written disclaimer is not.

I would recommend licensing your scripts under the GPL. This lets other people use it with the understanding that if they improve it they have to let others use the improvements too.

That and it protects you like you want. Particularly section 15 and 16.

15. Disclaimer of Warranty.

THERE IS NO WARRANTY FOR THE PROGRAM, TO THE EXTENT PERMITTED BY APPLICABLE LAW. EXCEPT WHEN OTHERWISE STATED IN WRITING THE COPYRIGHT HOLDERS AND/OR OTHER PARTIES PROVIDE THE PROGRAM “AS IS” WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EITHER EXPRESSED OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. THE ENTIRE RISK AS TO THE QUALITY AND PERFORMANCE OF THE PROGRAM IS WITH YOU. SHOULD THE PROGRAM PROVE DEFECTIVE, YOU ASSUME THE COST OF ALL NECESSARY SERVICING, REPAIR OR CORRECTION.

16. Limitation of Liability.

IN NO EVENT UNLESS REQUIRED BY APPLICABLE LAW OR AGREED TO IN WRITING WILL ANY COPYRIGHT HOLDER, OR ANY OTHER PARTY WHO MODIFIES AND/OR CONVEYS THE PROGRAM AS PERMITTED ABOVE, BE LIABLE TO YOU FOR DAMAGES, INCLUDING ANY GENERAL, SPECIAL, INCIDENTAL OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES ARISING OUT OF THE USE OR INABILITY TO USE THE PROGRAM (INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO LOSS OF DATA OR DATA BEING RENDERED INACCURATE OR LOSSES SUSTAINED BY YOU OR THIRD PARTIES OR A FAILURE OF THE PROGRAM TO OPERATE WITH ANY OTHER PROGRAMS), EVEN IF SUCH HOLDER OR OTHER PARTY HAS BEEN ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGES.

Alternatively you could use the MIT or BSD licenses, but they don’t have the “share alike” clause, so I tend not to recommend them.

https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-3.0.en.html

That’s terrible. I noticed that there is a certain type of programmer. Normally they went to Uni in the late 90s or early 2000s and their entire education was focused around Java.

They went out to get a job writing “Enterprise” Java for 10 years.

This programmer then tries to learn another language, but because all they know is Java everything ends up looking like and structured as Java.

I’ve seen this developer over and over again. It’s possible for them to overcome Java Brain but it’s rare.

I bet one of these types of programmers is or was the technical lead of that project.

I noticed something similar when I worked on a Scala project in the past. Yes I know we’re on the JVM, but we don’t need a data deconstructor factory when flatmap is right there.

This is literally better in every way.

This being said, better in every way does not mean good. It’s just hard to be worse than a crypto bro run, literal ad company, who’s browser is a reskin of chrome.

Hot off the presses, in addition to the CEO being queer-phobic, he literally is now ranting about how George Soros, and leftists are treating him unfairly.

https://lemmy.world/post/26379948

Probably not. Anthropic is a direct competitor.

That would be interesting.

Have you considered using LUA or perhaps scheme?

I know helix is likely to use scheme as its future scripting language. It’s quite robust and there is an excellent library to embed it.

I only mention LUA because it’s like the goto embedded scripting language in my book.

https://github.com/mattwparas/steel

Good for you!

I will agree that rust is a very satisfying language to write in. Lol.

For me it’s either go full rust aiming for correctness and robustness, or go full python aiming for duck typing and flexibility.

This all being said Gleam and Scala are also quite beautiful to me at least.

I mean if you are already ok with using a Chrome reskin from a crypto ad company your standards are already set too low.

People who use Firefox are concerned that Firefox is slowly shifting into what Brave is now. Aka an ad company.

I swear to god Brave browser is a cult. People who are into it a really into pushing it. No, I don’t want your crypto-bro, ad company run, chrome reskin.

Helix + the appropriate set of LSPs.

It’s like neo vim without the need the manage plugins. That and it uses select -> action instead of vim style action -> select, which makes more sense to me.

It’s a hard problem in the fediverse. It makes for a ticking time bomb of an issue. Imagine I am on a “everything is your own, we don’t sell your stuff” instance while another instance just copy pasted metas ToS. By posting a response to my instance, which then in turn is federated to the meta style instance I create something hard to solve. I can foresee other issues too.

I see your point. I just think it’s a difficult problem.

I don’t think the ToS approach would be invalidated here via your Safe Harbor fork theory.

The ToS could state something like “you give us a worldwide perpetual right to use your content in any way we want including granting this right to whom we designate”

You still own your content but by having an account you agree to the ToS that lets them do what they want.

They just host it and are safe.

I don’t think it’s equivalent to sovereign citizens. OP is the author of their comment and therefore has the copyrights. As the author one can license their work as all rights reserved or other permissive licenses.

OP chooses to license their work as Creative Commons.

They’re not forcing you to accept the license, it’s your local government that enforces copyright.

The reason why this might work on Lemmy but not on corporate Social media is that corporate social media often have terms of service that require you to give them ownership/rights/etc. Lemmy has no such ToC.

It’s government reporting data. If you find a better source I say go for it. But I used that data for salary negotiations in the past successfully.

I’m not talking about take home. I’m talking about total annual compensation including things like RSU payouts etc.

Even if we throw out the ones you doubt there are many 300k to 400k entries with the AI researcher title. If we add annualized RSU payouts we easily hit over €500k.

At this point t though you are free to doubt me.

Maybe not with just if statements. But with a heuristic system I bet any site that runs a tar pit will be caught out very quickly.

When I worked in the U.S. I was well above $160k.

When you look at leaks you can see $500k or more for principal engineers. Look at valves lawsuit information. https://www.theverge.com/2024/7/13/24197477/valve-employs-few-hundred-people-payroll-redacted

Meta is paying $400k BASE for AI Reserch engineers with stock options on top which in my experience is an additional 300% - 600%. Vesting over 2 to 4 years. This is to H1B workers who traditionally are paid less.

Once you get to principal and staff level engineering positions compensation opens up a lot.

https://h1bdata.info/index.php?em=meta+platforms+inc&job=&city=&year=all+years

ROI does not matter when companies are telling investors that they might be first to AGI. Investors go crazy over this. At least they will until the AI bubble pops.

I support people resisting if they want by setting up tar pits. But it’s a hobby and isn’t really doing much.

The sheer amount of resources going into this is beyond what people think.

That and a competent engineer can probably write something on the BEAM VM that can handle a crap ton of parallel connections. 6 figure maybe? Being slow walked means low CPU use which means more green threads.

I see your point but like I think you underestimate the skill of coders. You make sure your timeout is inclusive of JavaScript run times. Maybe set a memory limit too. Like imagine you wanted to scrape the internet. You could solve all these tarpits. Any capable coder could. Now imagine a team of 20 of the best coders money can buy each paid 500.000€. They can certainly do the same.

Like I see the appeal of running a tar pit. But like I don’t see how they can “trap” anyone but script kiddies.

That’s crazy. Where do you live roughly? In Germany, and in the U.S. I don’t see any WEP stuff.

And like I can’t even imagine 802.11b/g even being considered to “work” with the modern internet. Like one mid bitrate 1080p stream would overwhelm it.

Fair. But I haven’t seen any anti-ai-scraper tarpits that do that. The ones I’ve seen mostly just pipe 10MB of /dev/urandom out there.

Also I assume that the programmers working at ai companies are not literally mentally deficient. They certainly would add .timeout(10) or whatever to their scrapers. They probably have something more dynamic than that.

I see what you mean. But beyond modern encryption, nothing else really adds security there. A script kiddie is exactly the type that can change their MAC address or run aircrack-ng to get the hidden ssid.

I guess it’s like modern encryption is like running from a bear by flying in a high speed aircraft. The rest is like trying to add speed by blowing air out a back window through a straw. It might feel like you’re adding speed but functionality nothing is added.

Also I haven’t seen WEP encrypted networks is like 10 years. Do you see them often?

+1 for Toki Pona!

It’s a very small language (< 200 words) that forces you to think about how you think. It’s not hard to learn and quite wholesome. The name means “The Language of Good”

Also there is an amazing art scene around the language. Being able to listen to the music keeps me going.

https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLqCH2JzaHCjZ84qxUQXrwAjpKQEowGsn9&si=7eqbIW4vm0hlQPLj

They want to reduce the bandwidth usage. Not increase it!