It’s more efficient if the member states invest then when the funds get stuck in the bureaucracy of the EU Commission.

The European Commission’s proposed 60% increase in spending, Merz argued, was simply unaffordable and “impossible to justify at a time when virtually all member states are making enormous efforts to consolidate their public finances”.

I hate to agree with Merz, but what he really says is not that there should be cuts, but rather that the hugely increased new budget proposal is not in line with the current economic situation and should be revised to something more similar in size to the current budget.

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This is the end result of what I call the dark forest hypothesis of social networks or federated chat services that face similar issues.

Yes, you can frame it in a positive way, like the author does, but ultimately it is about hiding away from bad actors.

Personally, I think the lowest hanging fruit is open-registration servers, that like the article describes are a vector for abuse. That issue should really be solved first before discussing more closed off allow-list only networks.

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Looks like something is going wrong with the Lemmy media proxy.

That is not my understanding of the timeline. Yes, they asked their members to vote on it a month ago. But these votes take time, and once the vote was settled and the ToS adapted they immediatly put up the banner.

It is not my argument, but the official stance of the US copyright office and some other similar bodies around the world.

But yes, it poses some interesting philosophical questions, but those are not of very high relevance to copyright law.

Basically the transformative abilities of LLMs can make copyright obsolete.

That is wishful thinking. Copyright was originally designed to protect human creativity, and a lot of the laws and precedence cases involve human effort specifically to distinguish between plagiats and original works.

As long as courts don’t start to rule otherwise, LLM generated code is not considered to be copyrightable itself, thus it can not be original work as defined under copyright laws. This in turn lowers the threashold for such code to be considered a derivative regardless of if there is a clear pathway from one to the other. All it takes is someone to claim that it is derivative, and the burden of proof that it isn’t largly falls onto the person accused. And if the code is functionally identical and with no significant human involvement, that is very hard to proove.

IANAL of course.

Copyright can also apply to code rewritten in another programming language, if the overall structure and functionality is identical. Although tbh, that is a bit of a grey area, and in previous rulings there is some precedence that if the “translation” involves significant human effort then it can be considered to be sufficiently transformative. But promting an LLM to “rewrite this in Go” very likely doesn’t pass that relatively high bar.

The study you linked is interesting (and likely underestimates the issue*), but it also shows that it is possible to automate detection of copyright infringing code in LLM output, and even just 2% is more than enough to open a case for malicious litigation. Large companies can write that off as the cost of doing business, but for small individual open-source developers this is a significant risk.

‘*’ Because human programmers usually reuse existing licensed code as libraries, while LLMs are prone to rewrite them, and as explained above a rewrite is at an elevated risk of being considered copyright infringing.

Everyone is the hero in their story 🤷

Ok, so what does it depend on then? In the medium to long term these Refugees probably contribute to the economy, but in the short term it costs money to support them and build accomodations etc. and a country with a high GDP is definitly more capable of paying for that than one with a low GDP.

Na, da hat die Politik aber nicht VARTA beschützt, sondern die Autoindustrie und die Gaskonzerne (tragbare Elektronik ist alles kaputt gegangen oder verkauft worden). Jemand von VARTA würde vermutlich sogar behaupten das diese Marktverzerrung zu ihren Ungunsten als Batteriehersteller gewesen ist.

When it comes to questions like: is a country able to pay for accommodating refugees it is a good approximation. And that is what the person that started this discussion tried to deny.

Sorry but I can’t help you understand basic math like averages 🤷

Das mag ja für die Autoindustrie ein stückweit stimmen, aber die ausländische Konkurenz in der Batterieindustrie war schon lange auf dem deutschen Markt verfügbar.

You still don’t understand how averages work?

Germany by its size alone drags down the average towards countries like Malta.

The global comparisons are irrelevant when comparing EU countries. Next you will tell me that compared to North Korea, Germany is super democratic? Well, duh 🙄

Naja, ein wirklicher Anbieter von Batteriezellen die für erneuerbare Energien genutzt werden war Varta schon lange nicht mehr. Der Artikel schreibt was von Forschung an Natriumionenbatterien was natürlich nicht schlecht ist, aber ansonsten haben die eigentlich nur völlig veraltete Bleiakkus als Starterbatterien und Knopfzellen für Höhrgeräte usw. hergestellt. Daher wohl ehr ein Fall von Innovationen verschlafen wie so oft bei der deutschen Industrie.

Germany and France (which has similar inequality issues, but for somewhat different reasons i.e. strong centralisation toward the capital) together drive the average, so saying Germany is average in the EU is like saying water is wet.

My point is that if Germany was a functional state with a ruling elite interested in a healthy wealth distribution the gini coeficcient would be more similar to that of Belgium, the Netherlands, Finland etc. and not like the bottom barrle of bad governance in the EU, like Malta, Italy or (to some extend) France.

I named the source already, you just interpret it differently. Most western European countries with functional governance are closer to 25 than the >30 group that Germany finds itself in.

The same data source, but you seem to be cherry picking data from specific years and countries to make it fit your story that Germany is not at the lower end of the scale compared to other western-european countries.

Edit: and Finland had a gini of ~25 averaged over the last 5 years.