AI is a tool, just like other tools we use.
Nope, Linus.
The Beatles: Were just a band.
Led Zepplin: Just a band.
The Beach Boys: Just a band.
The Sex Pistols: Just a band.
The Clash: Just a band.
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AI : Not just a tool.
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I miss forums.
@neil
I actually miss forums too. I used to be in a couple which were really joyful places to hang out in my mid teens.
@Sicofante @filippodb @sicurezza Esattamente come Meta non evita le truffe perché gli fruttano una bella percentuale di fatturato. Io dubito che una qualunque azienda non lavori per guadagnare, il problema è il COME lo si fa. E ultimamente anche il discorso norme, viene spinto dal profitto cioè paghi i giudici affinché interpretino la legge a favore tuo. Accade a Trumpio, accade a Muskio, accadrà anche a Zucchino.
@elettrona @Sicofante @sicurezza credo che lo smartphone prima e gli elettrodomestici poi abbiano aperto le porte a tutto, orologi e occhiali completano il cerchio della sorveglianza totale 24/7
Wim🧮
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I feel that both Free Software and Open Source have a massive issue. They are ideologies that have more in common with libertarianism that's based on individual freedoms, rather than community freedoms based on Human Rights.
Yes Freedom of Speech (code) is covered. Freedom of Association in Safety? The right for everyone to have a habitable ecosystem?
Nah, it's "fuck you, this tool is useful."
Reshaping Research Assessment: Monitoring and Rewarding Openness - University of Southern Denmark https://portal.findresearcher.sdu.dk/en/publications/reshaping-research-assessment-monitoring-and-rewarding-openness/
T.C. Vilabier
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thank god the dunkin’ donuts app implements a screenshot shield
Nicolas Fressengeas
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AI in scientific publishing: Slower, worse, and more expensive | Science www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
AI in scientific publishing: S...
If only you had bought $1000 worth of stock in SpaceX on June 16, you would now have $602 left.
Then again, not believing in Elon's fantasy company means you have $1000 left.
@randahl Maybe the stock will disintegrate in the same way, as the starship will do in a few hours.
What Training My Chaotic Dog Taught Me About Power, Control — and Human Beings. “As any parent of a toddler knows, being morally liable for something that is incapable of moral liability is a fraught and stressful business.” https://www.theguardian.com/news/ng-interactive/2026/jun/25/what-training-my-chaotic-dog-taught-me-about-power-control-and-human-beings
@kottke cats, that way training isn't required, just reciprocal love
AI is a tool, just like other tools we use.
Nope, Linus.
The Free Software movement never escaped from its origins: the early ‘80s MIT AI Lab. Two things were true in this environment:
- Back when most computers had tens of KiBs of RAM and 1 MiB was a huge amount, programs were simple. Very few programs were so complex that one person could not completely understand them.
- The AI Lab was full of some of the most talented programmers in the world.
This meant that the only obstacles for these people being able to fix bugs and add features to any program were access to the source code and the legal rights to modify it. Once you have those, any program was understandable by that group and they could modify it however they wished.
For the next 40 years, the FSF focused on these two things. The world around them changed. These two prerequisites were never enough for most people (what do 90% of computer users do if you give them even a modest 10,000 line C codebase and tell them they can change it however they like?) and now they aren’t enough even for competent programmers.
When Linus says ‘fork it’ to folks who don’t want LLM-extruded code in their kernel, he knows full well that it is almost impossible to fork a 40 MLoC C (and Rust now) codebase that averages more than one CVE per day and have something useful.
The Free Software movement is struggling now because it obsessed over licenses, which was never a path that would succeed, and ignored the hard problems:
- How do you design environments that enable end users to modify their software?
- How do you engineer software so that it is cheap and easy for a random user to maintain a fork that meets their specific needs?
- How do you foster communities where people want to share improvements, so forks don’t proliferate even when it’s easy?
- How do you create an environment where everyone sees the benefits of user-modifiable code to such a degree that trying to sell anything that doesn’t come with these rights is commercially impossible?
Instead of tackling any of these problems, they created more complex and restrictive GPL variants. And well-paid lawyers found loopholes in them that allowed corporations to keep doing what they wanted (and even pick licenses like AGPLv3 to control ecosystems, because they give the copyright owners so many more rights than everyone else that it’s hard for anyone else to compete). They said ‘don’t worry about the complexity of the licenses, you only need to understand the legal details if you’re creating and distributing derived works’ while completely forgetting that making it possible for anyone to create and distribute modified versions of the programs was the entire point of the Free Software movement.
"She's gone, sir. They've all gone. And we're BACK."
@hotdogsladies The one with the vicar is my favourite : D
bhaugen
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The best defence Canada 🇨🇦 has against Trump and for our sovereignty is to open an Epstein file investigation. All 5 eyes countries are entitled to an undeacted copy of the files. Now ask yourselves why opposition parties in #Canada have not requested an investigation, and the government has not opened one?
Rob Whittaker :thoughtbot:
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RE: https://masto.ai/@transworld/116929445859848335
Screaming: "We told you! We fucking told you!" As I'm dragged down the hall and thrown in a cell.
happyborg
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Looks like the UK has the best activism campaign against Meta Glasses. I love this.
Wim 🅾→Ⓣ
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Me in my 20s: Why do 40-somethings always share goofy little lighthearted things?
[20 years later]
Oh, crap. I get it. Fuck. Shit.
Qualcunə sa dirmi cosa significa esattamente questo errore?
Contesto: sto abilitando lo #scrobbler da #StrawberryMusicPlayer (versione 1.2.23, su Linux Mint) a #ListenBrainz dopo che avevo resettato il token che va inserito per far comunicare il software con il sito – e lo avevo resettato perché aveva iniziato a darmi *esattamente questo errore* dopo uno degli ultimi aggiornamenti di Strawberry e pensavo che così avrei potuto risolvere.
Lo scrobbling da Youtube funziona.
@leodurruti non è il mio campo, ma da quello che ho trovato potrebbe essere un bug, hai già letto quello che dicono qui:
https://invent.kde.org/packaging/flatpak-kde-runtime/-/work_items/91
happyborg
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Honestly it’s real irritating to realize that some people just bridge their BlueSky to Mastodon and never interact over here. What is the point of me replying to you.
