Gosh I'm jelly though, I'm in the UK and tap water used to be drinkable, but now it's more hydrocarbon than hydrogen dioxide these days. Joy of privatised utilities eh?
Can't wait for US GOVCORP to just have a beef with the EFF and FOSS as a whole all of a sudden, especially considering DeepSeek is casus beli enough for Altrightman & co. already.
Time for devs to fork the GNU License to include an Ethics clause that explicitly prohibits any use whatsoever by specific (named) enemies of computing freedom.
War is war.
While practically unenforceable in the current US just as GPL is in many cases, this could give orgs and govts legal grounds in other countries and god-willing a potential future better united states.
Where V gets cured of the Relic by NUSA, especially if you just ignore V's stupidity in trying to go back to Night City for some reason even though if you're a nomad she would've only been there for like a few months total and actually imagine her being a semi-developed 23 year old adult who'd make the rational choice of just staying in DC in a cushy job away from the madness.
Meh, even so, do you really wanna be Saburo? Watching your back constantly, watching your kids vie for your seat waiting for you to croak, seeking eternal life through different bodies as some microchip construct knowing basically anyone would smash that shit to bits if they felt they could get away with it to gain power.
It doesn't sound that great to me either because I'm not sure even a normal, finite life in such a world isn't too much already.
If I had to be someone I'd prefer to be a nomad living out in the desert with my fam, somewhat isolated, rely on each other, far away from corporations and their wars.
Or maybe I'd be a celebrity living in North Oak like Kerry, but even then, there's a good chance some cyberpsycho guns you down while you're out on the town in your snazzy new Caliburn to buy a latte, at last some brief relief from that one fucking ad with the dude screaming.
Yeah but they could just like, Google why vuvuzuela has no iPhones and think about it for one minute instead of acting on trauma instincts like some animal the way you assume they do.
Maybe I'm taking it a bit personally because I'm a Russian immigrant to the UK, I don't support Putin, and I'm not a fan of the USSR, but I do support socialism because I'm not a moron and have at least some capacity for critical thinking so I can differentiate between different things.
But even with all that, if they think that Kamala Harris is in any way representing socialism then they're insane and believe cockamamie nonsense either way.
The only thing that's clear is that democracy is showing itself to be a failure right now, having wilfully ignorant and the mentally deranged dictate the course of society was an insane idea in retrospect, all just for the vague possibility of being able to vote them out if they ruin everything which won't happen with capitalist media who exist to protect the asset class at all costs.
Not dev but I'm in IT/Cybersec mostly as it's much easier to find jobs there and I use vim just about everywhere, usually with tmux and i3 with custom vim-like keybinds (super+j move focus right etc), I use vim even on my phone in termux, with gboard.
I don't use LSPs cause CBA but I only use Python and C and maybe occasionally bash for homelab stuff and I don't have large projects (😭).
If I'm doing any ML stuff from scratch (not refining or writing API for local llm model or integrating it with another API but just building classifiers etc) for fun I use Jupyter. Such a wildly different way of coding honestly ngl it's wild, but great when you need to document what you're doing.
At uni I used to use fucking Visual Studio with C# and Netbeans with Java, but I learned it pretty well. I don't think they ever even taught us how to run code outside those 😂
At work I use gedit and gnome terminal for navigation cuz it's company time unless I'm personally interested in what I'm doing.
The images however are technically under their own copyright, which in practice means each of the billions of images could or could not have a licence that implicitly or explicitly forbids AI training use or forbids it only for commercial use.
Whether such a license is legally binding is at present unknown though, since licenses primarily deal with reproductions, which the pro-AI folks argue isn't the case, and that training of NNs is more akin to viewing an image and memorising the patterns and relationships within, like a person viewing it.
That would make it non-infringing and therefore the model itself libre. In that case Mistral and LLaMa are also libre as long as the model itself is open source, which in this case really means "open weights", so not like GPT and anything by """OpenAI""".
Weights are the result of a model being trained essentially. They're they key bit that makes it or breaks it and how it works. Given that and knowing the structure of the model and framework used you can refine, modify and distribute it.
Those against AI will say that it's more akin to file compression and that in one form or another it's misuse. That would make the model an infringing derivative work and as such nor libre even if the model weights are open source.
In a way though you could argue that me vaguely memorising the imagery of a dude dressed in white holding a laser sword is just a lossy compressed copy of the copyrighted work of Star wars, and it'd be absurd to think that's a violation and that infringement only occurs if I reproduce a work of substantial similarity commercially from that memory.
If I use Krita and draw a beautiful landscape which has been informed and inspired by at least in part by a movie I saw, is that copyright infringement or not? What if I use AI?
Well, current laws don't say. We measure infringement in substantial similarity, provenance of information only comes in later (e.g. to prove against accidental similarity).
That's also my own personal stance on the legal side of things, so up to you how you see it.
Lolwut? Public good is self-entitlement? Go read a fucking book. Communists are not pro-copyright, especially not when it only benefits the giant corpos.
Another day, another entitled artoid larping as progressive blocked.
As a socialist I believe intellectual property is a falsehood and technological advancement should be for the public good. Open source LLMs are for the public good.
Given the options between having open source LLMs and the US Govt banning non-corpo non-proprietary LLMs and giving a free pass to people like Musk and Altman and Zucc to monopolize, I happily pick the former.
You're delusional if you think they will pay anyone, the only way zucc will pay is with a guillotine.
Corpos will make inter-platform deals that'll simply make all online data licensable for the right price and enrich each other so you can't avoid it while still actually being a career creative, but price out academic researchers and the public sector so that all fruits of it stay behind closed R&D doors and be free of ethics etc.
Continuing in your role as a useful idiot, you'll also most likely also foot the bill for it via subsidies from your taxes to "develop the AI sector" in some anti-China dick measuring contest by the US.
You will then be sold this data back via proprietary chat bots via a monthly subscription and you better pay up because once it gets really good, it will become mandatory to use for just about any job, leaving you with no choice.
Really the only service of such extreme convenience I can't help but use it is cloudflare tunnels for quickly selfhosting and their cheap asf domain registrar.
Still, I don't host anything via cloudflare per se even as a noobie.
Scammy in a sort of eastern european sleazy used car dealership way, I had to talk to their support once about a double charge and it felt like Roman from GTA IV was on the other side.
For example, in Maricopa County, Ariz., home to Phoenix, Harris got roughly 61,000 fewer votes than Biden in 2020. Trump, on the other hand, gained about 56,000, for a 117,000-vote shift in just one county.
In a broad sense, the poll, which surveyed a representative sample of 2,128 adults nationwide, found that Americans think the Republican Party is more in sync with the mood of the country. The issues that people said mattered most to Republicans were also, for the most part, the issues that mattered to them: immigration, the economy, inflation and taxes.
The problem is literally no one cares about Palestine. They should, but they don't.
You chose the worst fucking hill to die on. Some brown people getting exploded in a place most people can't find in a map on the other side of the world is nothing to an average working person compared to their rent, utility or grocery bills going up.
Majority of the population supports it. Anything else is pure cope.