It's been regulated since 2020 in Europe at least.

> As part of the EU’s REACH Regulation Annex XVII, a restriction banning Bisphenol A (BPA) content in thermal paper above 0.02% by weight came into effect on January 2, 2020. This prohibition was implemented due to health concerns associated with BPA exposure

bpa free thermal paper is pretty easy to source from anywhere now because of this.

From my understanding, BPA was just replaced either a similar chemicals https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S259018262...

If the law calls out BPA exclusively and not a more general description, it’s just a false sense of safety.

The ones I've been able to source easily are Phenol-Free, which used to be a pain to find before the eu ban, those are (I think) bpa and bps free at least. I'll need to double check to be certain though, I haven't considered them replacing BPA woth BPS, that definitely makes it a false sense of safety

Yes it specifically limits the sale and use of Bisphenol A. The obvious alternatives Bisphenol S and Bisphenol F are not mentioned.

https://reach-info.ineris.fr/sites/snar-reach/files/pdf/anne...

Unless you're in Europe.

> As part of the EU’s REACH Regulation Annex XVII, a restriction banning Bisphenol A (BPA) content in thermal paper above 0.02% by weight came into effect on January 2, 2020. This prohibition was implemented due to health concerns associated with BPA exposure

so unless you're buying old rolls, or from non reputable sources, it shouldn't be an issue in the EU at least.

I’m fairly certain that a large percentage of people who buy thermal printer for fun do so from China, which has no regulations on thermal paper.

I thought that it was just replaced with similar molecules such as BPS, which has been shown to have equally bad effects.

i think census generally is that it may well be worse, but ATLEAST as bad

a human can still be held accountable though, github copilot running amock less so

If you pay for Copilot Business/Enterprise, they actually offer IP indemnification and support in court, if needed, which is more accountability than you would get from human contributors.

https://resources.github.com/learn/pathways/copilot/essentia...

I think that they felt the need to offer such a service says everything, basically admitting that LLMs just plagiarize and violate licenses.

9 lines of code came close to costing Google $8.8 billion

how much use do you think these indemnification clauses will be if training ends up being ruled as not fair-use?

Are you concerned that this will bankrupt Microsoft?

I think they're afraid they will have to sue Microsoft to get them to abide by the promise to come to their defense in another suit.

That covers any random contribution claiming to be AI?

Their docs say:

> If any suggestion made by GitHub Copilot is challenged as infringing on third-party intellectual property (IP) rights, our contractual terms are designed to shield you.

I'm not actually aware of a situation where this was needed, but I assume that MS might have some tools to check whether a given suggestion was, or is likely to have been, generated by Copilot, rather than some other AI.

A lot of eu keyboard layouts use right alt as alt-gr for special characters. Because of that right control gets a lot of usage since you're using right alt constantly anyways.

Super neat! I made something similar with tldraw for presentations at my company, definitely not as clean as this! I'll be sure to give it a try for my next one

you're welcome

Checkout yt-dlp(1)

It's a continuation of yt-dl

(1) https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp

Nice, thank you! ..and I found this which details exactly what I would need to accomplish:

https://www.reddit.com/r/youtubedl/comments/15xqg3t/ytdlp_fo...

A framework to make presentations in svelte and markdown files, exports to a static website on GitHub, used it for roughly 12 presentations so far, a lot of them programming focused. I tried a bunch of different ones but none that made it painless enough.

Also a bunch of Obsidian plugins, to have nicer macros and templating.

I was messing around with friends on Discord around 4 years ago during lockdown, and it hit me you could write a minesweeper message using discord spoiler tags, so I whipped something up in an hour or two and hosting it on github pages, shared it on a couple of servers I was in, and it's still getting traffic regularly

https://igniuss.github.io/det-cord/

It was fun streaming the work to friends who aren't in the IT sphere, some are now studying to get in the industry