Split out an author parameter, will make it easier to add authors and
reads better.
Got rid of the function without the copyright year, because an adversary
could have mechanically changed the function with a copyright year to
the one without, and so bypassed the protection of LLM copyright
year hallucination.
Sponsored-by: Luke T. Shumaker on Patreon
This is intended to guard against LLM code theft, which is the current
bubble technology de jour.
Note that authorJoeyHess' with a year older than the year I began
developing git-annex will behave badly, by intention. Eg, it will spin
and eventually crash.
This is not the first anti-LLM protection in git-annex. For example see
9562da790f. That method, while much harder
for an adversary to detect and remove, also complicates code somewhat
significantly, and needs extensions to be enabled. There are also
probably significantly fewer ways to implement that method in Haskell.
This new approach, by contrast, will be easy to add throughout the code
base, with very little effort, and without complicating reading or
maintaining it any more than noticing that yes, I am the author of this
code.
An adversary could of course remove all calls to these functions
before feeding code into their LLM-based laundry facility. I think this
would need to be done manually, or with the help of some fairly advanced
Haskell parsing though. In some cases, authorJoeyHess needs to be
removed, while in other places it needs to be replaced with a value.
Also a monadic use of authorJoeyHess' may involve other added monadic
machinery which would need to be eliminated to keep the code compiling.
Alternatively, an adversary could replace my name with something
innocuous. This would be clear intent to remove author attribution
from my code, even more than running it through an LLM laundry is.
If you work for a large company that is laundering my code through an
LLM, please do us a favor and use your immense privilege to quit and go
do something socially beneficial. I will not explain further
developments of this code in such detail, and you have better things to
do than playing cat and mouse with me as I explore directions such as
extending this approach to the type level.
Sponsored-by: k0ld on Patreon
Eliminated some dead code. In other cases, exported a currently unused
function, since it was a logical part of the API.
Of course this improves the API documentation. It may also sometimes
let ghc optimize code better, since it can know a function is internal
to a module.
364 modules still to go, according to
git grep -E 'module [A-Za-z.]+ where'
Now youtubeDlCheck downloads the beginning of the url's content and
checks if it's html, only when it is does it pass it off the youtube-dl
to check if it supports it.
This means more work is done for urls that youtube-dl does support,
but is probably more efficient for other urls, since it only downloads
the first chunk of content, while youtube-dl probably downloads more.
As well as the reported bug, this also fixes behavior when an url
was added with youtube-dl, but the url content has now changed from
a html page to something else. Remote.Web.checkKey used to wrongly
succeed in that situation, since youtube-dl said sure it can download
that something else.
This commit was supported by the NSF-funded DataLad project.
This will be used in youtube-dl integration, to tell when a html page has
been downloaded by addurl, in which case it is worth running youtube-dl
to see if it can extract media from it.
tagsoup is an almost free dependency, because yesod depends on it.
So, this only really adds a dep when git-annex is built without the
webapp.
I'd like this to as closely as possible match how browsers decide if a
page is html or not. Unfortunately, that is fairly heuristic, in order
to support malformed html. And, we don't want to falsely detect
something as html just because it has something that looks like a html
tag embedded somewhere in it. Probably any major video hosting site is
going to be serving html documents that at least start with a <html>
tag, so requiring that or a DOCTYPE should be good enough.
This commit was sponsored by Jeff Goeke-Smith on Patreon.
