RDW’s online response, after the minister of transport had been questioned in parlement about the matter

Translated section

Each year, the RDW issues approximately 50,000 type approvals for entire vehicles or vehicle components. Driver assistance systems are also vehicle components that we assess. You can find more information about this in our dossier on Type Approvals.

Manufacturers share market-sensitive information with us as part of the type approval process. For this reason, we are not always able to provide substantive information. We understand the interest in this application and maintain the most transparent approach possible within the legal framework of type approval.

Kennedy (US health secretary) implied autism was caused by Tylenol

Network effect / discoverability and free CI time

True, I understand why this is better than all those companies scraping it individually (for both ability to opt out and site load), but the way they handled opt out is still quite silly.

Humans are apes not monkeys but aside from that yes

They also scraped some of my assembly code of which I’m pretty sure the latest version has a major bug. Let’s hope they don’t use these models to program my new PC’s bios.

The right move is to private all repositories you are uncertain of that you want them to be preserved forever in an AI training set.

I just followed the opt out link and they’re making you open a public issue with a Markdown list with all your repositories you want removed.

Surely there has to be a better way to do this (probably the point).

Also why are they storing 4.71 TB in a Git repo? How are they going to deal with removal requests?

EDIT: It seems like they’re manually responding to the issues, wtf? There’s a perfectly fine GitHub auth system that they could use to verify everyone’s GitHub account / repository ownership

EDIT 2: This is apperently a collaboration between Hugging Face and ServiceNow, why is my companies IT ticketing system scraping all of GitHub?

Roko’s basilisk

My list includes GPL licensed repo’s

It doesn’t seem that way. My list contains several repositories that don’t have licenses, even some with GPL.

No, it seems to only be a subset of public repo’s.
I have like 65 repo’s and only 13 were scraped. I don’t get why they specifically scraped those though. They don’t have the most stars, they aren’t the oldest or newest, not the ones with the most forks, nor do I see a pattern based on programming language.

Too many people gloss over the fact how insane it is that some people genuinely believe non-believers burn forever in a magic post death torture world. Like how can someone think that while talking with someone, and be like, aw sucks for them, glad I submit to this ancient chain email creepypasta.

It still baffles me when I realize someone thinks like that.

I don’t think the cost of hosting the repositories itself is the issue, more the legal problems and the fact that real projects get drowned out by the noise

I looked into using homebox myself, but ended up using Grist instead

Also nice to see another nushell user

For anyone interested in how they host it for $0.01/day, it’s https://www.nearlyfreespeech.net/

I’ve also lost my Free-Tier resources, I was barely using it too so I can’t imagine it cost much.

It’s interesting how certain companies and organizations have such large ranges, 16m IP’s each for both that old printer company and a farmaceutical company is a lot. It really shows the history of the internet and how seemingly certain companies that adopted it first ended up with huge chunks of the available IPv4 space.

Better than that

Haven’t used Claude code myself, so I wouldn’t know, but a commit to delete only a comment is indeed pretty weird, also most of the commit messages are the GitHub default like “Update gui.h” which is also a bit odd.