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I really think AI development should move to creating small and single-purpose models that can easily be trained with public domain data of your choice, so they can be ran locally and spend far less energy than models like Gippity.

Clearly they can’t be trusted with the quality assurance of their training data.

Archive link: https://archive.ph/FS3qX

Archive ph link

https://archive.ph/USqb3

For people like me who were faced with the paywall after reading one too many Reuters articles.

If anyone can share what caused the downvotes, I’d be very happy if you could let me know. Thanks.

CTT claims that Bluesky is great, but I’m just not into that type of social media so while I’m on Mastodon, I don’t actually use it.

Right, so that was his plan all along?

Keep on promising a full self driving experience, which even now won’t really happen,

and then promising an affordable Tesla,

which he can then backtrack on?

Overpromise and underdeliver.

That’s the Musk motto.

Can’t wait to see him fail to bring humanity to Mars, and end up trying to credit himself when NASA do it.

They’ll do it in 3-4 years, claiming it’s revolutionary, while they’re just catching up to the competition.

He says he “dreads” the day when he has to “give” it back. So to me, this reads like he was given it for testing so Ford can learn what Chinese manufacturers are doing right, and take some of those ideas to Ford’s own vehicles.

I GOT A JAR OF DIIIIRT!!!

All I want is a performant and modern Emacs that has the same speed and startup time as neovim while not requiring the daemon, which also has the stability and capabilities of neovim (things like super easy language integration and lsp are a godsend)

New slop just dropped

And I’m interested because you wouldn’t make an article if it wasn’t interesting slop, right? Right? (Insert Star wars meme here)

from OpenAI

Oh, nevermind then. Don’t care.

So what? Is the US Government going to prohibit Nvidia and AMD from using TSMC’s chips to make money for Big Tech so they can keep on their corruption lobbying over the US Gov? I highly doubt it. It’s just smoke and mirrors, as usual.

AI can fix it if we make it a politician, seeing as it agrees we should’ve started acting on climate change 10 times harder, and 10-20 years earlier than we did.

Operation: Eat the Rich is a go! I repeat: Operation Eat the Rich is a go!

I tried Zen again after this article and it’s improved a lot since 2 months ago.

I’m still missing some keybinds (some keybinds I used on Vivaldi are not available, and some keybinds that are available (workspace switching) don’t seem to work),

also missing my custom theme from Vivaldi (I might just fork a Zen theme and make it that way) ,

and I still have some issues regarding the ability to remove the top bar (namely, when getting the URL bar with Ctrl-L, it calls the entire top bar instead of just the URL bar, and I can’t seem to make that disappear with just ESC. Sometimes it just hangs there no matter what I do, just for the sake of being annoying. Also, it’s not even disabled, just hidden and if you accidentally hover over the top of the window, it’s back! Absolutely infuriating!)

but other than that, it’s pretty great!

It’s actually quite impressive for Alpha software. What’s with 2024 and super stable Alphas of projects that make power user capabilities accessible and easy to use for everyone? First, COSMIC DE and now Zen Browser!

Edit: Update on these issues:

Missing Keybinds: They are all already reported as Github issues.

Workspaces keybinds issue: Caused by an already-reported issue that websites seem to take priority and grab every keybind before the browser, meaning I had to use one of the worst key combinations I’ve ever used (Win+Alt+{num}), for workspace switching. UPDATE: Trying Ctrl+{num}, we’ll see if that works.

Custom Theme: I tried to remake it using Mozilla’s tools and getting it up on the addons store but Mozilla removed it cuz it was too similar to another theme? Even though I literally created it? Weird. I couldn’t be bothered to deal with their bullshit so I forked a Zen theme that someone else had made and based it on that, with custom firefox css.

The top bar issue is still there, not sure what I can do about it.

Yeah, but something like that would be super easy to find and fix without going through lawsuits. And I’d argue the dataset creators would be far less likely to add copyrighted material to the training data when it’s all out in the open and they can be immediately made to remove and retrain the AI without that data.

Not necessarily. A lot of the harms disappear when everything goes open, which is what this person stands for, and what OpenAI was supposed to stand for.

Open LLM + Open Training Data = Open AI

Copyright and IP concerns disappear with an open dataset.

Open models are inherently more trustworthy because of an obvious reduction in vendor lock-in.

I’m actually on this man’s side.

The idea-stealing he talks about is not unheard of, and multiple people or groups coming up with similar ideas at the same time by looking at market trends is actually quite common.

If you also look at the fact that he has evidence for pretty much all his claims,

AND

He has gotten the domain and has evidence for the ideas and ownership of “Open AI” before Altman’s “OpenAI” was formed

AND

He says a lot of his ideas never came to fruition because he couldn’t get funding but the one thing he didn’t need crazy funding for, investing in Bitcoin when it was $10 per coin, is something he ends up doing and leaves him well-off.

All that to me is enough evidence that this man is one hell of an unlucky individual.

And as such, I believe him.

So, it’s cool, but not worrying. Title is a bit clickbait-y.

It was just about time for this to be made public. It was like an open secret for everyone in the know.

You can also add the fact that Apple blocks all ads and trackers… except their own.

They have to kill it. Otherwise, some “cheapskate” might decide they don’t need to pay for MS Word, or get spied on by having all their data in the cloud using MS Office Online.

Or they just think there’s no reason to keep it around.

Tech Self sufficiency? On the hardware level, it will take a while. In the software level, I don’t think it will ever happen. Yes, the desktop and software suite they use, and the distro they’re packaged in are Chinese, But…

the Linux Kernel, the GNU stuff, the systemd stuff, the Freedesktop specifications, Xorg if they still use it, wayland protocols and wlroots, are all developed by people from The West, so if they really want independence, I want to see them replicating all that work from millions of people across the last 30-40 years.

I need to send an email to Mozilla soon. The fact that I’m highly convinced that these three Linux youtubers would do a better job than the current management should tell you a lot about what’s happening at Mozilla (yes, it’s that bad).

Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DcndYHPkE14

There is a morally good and morally bad way to do this. Proton did it the right way. OpenAI is doing it the bad way.

The first paragraph on: https://proton.me/foundation

Proton was created to serve the world, and the non-profit Proton Foundation ensures that this can never change. As Proton’s primary shareholder, the foundation exercises its control to ensure that Proton does not deviate from our mission to build a better internet that serves the interests of all of society. Our legally binding purpose is to further the advancement of privacy, freedom, and democracy around the world.

In contrast, OpenAI seems to be leaving the nonprofit with a minority stake so watch it all collapse under corporate greed, or simply become worse, or squeezed dry after infinite growth investors get their hands on it.

No, why? It’s not like it would hurt them that much. FINE THEM HARDER!!!

It’s scary how our corporate overlords watch all the distopian films and are like: Let’s turn that into a reality!

I feel bad for not hearing about it until now. This looks and sounds amazing. Too bad it was killed by stripe and tight budgets.

Employees are getting so expensive, they’re replaced with robot mushrooms? Didn’t see that on my 2024 bingo card.

But it will happen, or at least be attempted if the technology gets there. You just wait for it.

I don’t remember this one, but it gives me strong “Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy” vibes. Am I right?

TLDR: HMD, the company behind modern Nokia phones, is making repairable devices, but software support is only 3 years, so if you buy it 1 year later on sale, and the phone screen breaks in a year or so, it will have less than a year left of security updates. The issue is that the bootloader can’t be easily unlocked either, so no Custom ROMs for you. You’re stuck with 3 years of support.

Fairphone do it right cuz they do software support properly as well.

Somewhat misleading title. What’s actually happening is an ad company that worked with Big Tech had tried to pitch the idea to their Big Tech partners (claiming devices are already listening so why not use it for ads), at which point the Big companies tried to distance themselves from the ads people (in theory). In practice,

Google removed CMG from the Partners Program after a review.

With no mention of whether the removal was related to the evil practices described above.

Second O replaced by LD?

Ummm… last I checked your job as an org was to do XYZ with the aim of helping humanity improve, so… fuck you Altman and fuck your bullshit generator(s).

proceeds to quit the cesspool

Wow, they make money posting reaction videos! I refer you to the dude that’s been doing it for nearly a decade and was likely in the top 10 most subscribed Youtube channelsat some point, Tal Fishman, aka Reaction Time.

And to the surprise of nobody at all, it’s related to SecureBoot, Microsoft said it won’t affect Linux distros and it did, and Microsoft has, of course, not yet commented on why distros like Ubuntu 24.04, arguably one of the most popular and common distros in the world, was not tested for this, even though M$ said that, 1. Linux Dual boots will not have the update applied, and 2. It warned that devices running older versions of Linux might experience problems

This is a pile of shit, not matter how you cut it. It’s Microcrap’s shitpile, and I hope I never have to interact with that thing again (a fool’s hope, but a hope nonetheless).

Something ironic here:

Pixel Pass was a program that allowed users to pay a monthly charge for their Pixel phone and upgrade immediately after two years. It was almost 2 years old.

Also some cool stuff here like Youtube Originals, Google Domains, etc.

Correct me if I’m wrong, but I don’t think Angular is dead? Or at least this release announcement from 3 months ago seems to suggest alive-ness: https://blog.angular.dev/angular-v18-is-now-available-e79d5ac0affe

At this point, it seems the only safe projects at Google are Search, Youtube, Gmail, Android, Google Maps, maybe Pixel phones, and Google Cloud.

I’m as shocked as you are. I mean, I knew it will happen eventually but seeing people casually recommending Chromecast here and there, as recently as a few weeks ago, made me think it still had at least a few yeats of life ahead of him.