I’m pretty sure LLMs have exactly reproduced copyrighted passages.

If I asked you to recite a popular poem, nursery rhyme, a song, or book passage there's a good chance you could. Everyone can recite things word for word.

It's the same with LLM's, if they're asked to generate, for example, an article written by the New York Post about a specific topic they really did write about, then it's similar to asking someone to recite a poem or song.

Like fuck it is. An LLM "learns" by memorization and by breaking down training data into their component tokens, then calculating the weight between these tokens.

But this is, at a very basic fundamental level, how biological brains learn. It's not the whole story, but it is a part of it.

there's no actual intelligence, just really, really fancy fuzzy math.

You mean sapience or consciousness. Or you could say "human-level intelligence". But LLM's by definition have real "actual" intelligence, just not a lot of it.

an LLM would learn "2+2 = 4" by ingesting tens or hundreds of thousands of instances of the string "2+2 = 4" and calculating a strong relationship between the tokens "2+2," "=," and "4,"

This isn't true. At all. There are math specific benchmarks made by experts to specifically test the problem solving and domain specific capabilities of LLM's. And you can be sure they aren't "what's 2 + 2?"

I'm not here to make any claims about the ethics or legality of the training. All I'm commenting on is the science behind LLM's.

Bad argument.

It would hold water if their solution was proprietary and closed source. But it isn't, and anyone else, literally anyone, can take Proton and use it in their project for profit.

Even if they closed shop tomorrow, or even just gave up work on Proton itself, we'd all still reap the benefits at no cost to us.

That is the point of E2EE. If anyone but the sender and receiver can see the messages then it's not E2EE. This is the part that politicians and governments don't understand (or just ignore). The idea that some designated authority can look at the messages when needed is entirely at odds with E2EE. It's as valid as true = false or 2 + 2 = cat.

Epic has exclusivity on release

Wait, really? It's officially off my list now. Screw those guys.

Find me another company that supports open source and Linux the way Valve does... I'll wait

No digital game store is worth your loyalty.

When that store is run by a company that contributes massively to open source and works harder and puts more money into enabling alternate platforms for gaming than all other companies combined; ya, they have my loyalty.

I would love to see reasonable competition to steam which would give consumers and developers better options

No one's going to compete with and outdo Steam with Linux support.

How do you moderate something you can't know about?

I have it on good authority that pedos and criminals drive cars and eat food too! We should do something to those facilitating that.

only take halfhearted measures

Like what exactly?

For now

This is what's known as a dark pattern and is the exact thing the US government is suing Adobe over.

Making service cancellation or opt-out deliberately difficult is exploitative and something that should be illegal. Any company that does it doesn't deserve a cent from you.

• Linux support

No, because it isn't 2015 anymore.

A child would have to eat something like 10 entire tubes of toothpaste for fluoride to become toxic. Kids are gonna be fine.

Then anyone running a Windows VM would just switch to a Server edition, which is almost exclusively run via a VM.

If you install each OS with it's own drive as the boot device, then you won't see this issue.

Unless you boot Windows via the grub boot menu. If you do that then Windows will see that drive as the boot device.

If you select the OS by using the BIOS boot selection then you won't see this issue.

I was bitten by Windows doing exactly this almost 15 years ago. Since that day if I ever had a need for dual-boot (even if running different distros) each OS will get it's own dedicated drive, and I select what I want to boot through the BBS (BIOS Boot Selection). It's usually invoked with F10 or F11 (but could be a different key combo.

While I generally agree with that, that's not what seems to be happening here. What seems to be happening is that anyone who boots Windows via grub is getting grub itself overwritten.

When you install Linux, boot loaders like grub generally are smart and try to be helpful by scanning all available OSes and provide a boot menu entry for those. This is generally to help new users who install a dual-boot system and help them not think that "Linux erased Windows" when they see the new grub boot loader.

When you boot Windows from grub, Windows treats the drive with grub (where it booted from) as the boot drive. But if you tell your BIOS to boot the Windows drive, then grub won't be invoked and Windows will boot seeing it's own drive as the boot drive.

This is mostly an assumption as this hasn't happened to me and details are still a bit scarce.