Aspie96

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by Aspie96 7mo ago
Article: > Digg isn't going away. Post: > Digg is gone again.
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by Aspie96 9mo ago
Japan changed its flag for Christmas…
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by Aspie96 2y ago
> utterly unnecessary Is your alternative another versioning software or just a massive pile of folders?
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by Aspie96 3y ago
I wonder if this includes pure donations. As far as I know (INAL, yada yada), you don't need to pay taxes on pure donations in Italy. Would it be illegal for me to place a Monero address on my blog to receive small (anonymous) tips?
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by Aspie96 3y ago
What's a "free speech person"? Is it one that support effective access to the actual exercise of fundamental human rights?
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by Aspie96 3y ago
Yes, the original tweet with a magnet link seems like a good source.
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by Aspie96 3y ago
I don't think it's hyper-individualistic. In fact, it's the opposite of that. It groups people by random characteristics and then it describes "identity" as the collection of these characteristics, rather than somet
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by Aspie96 3y ago
Indeed there is not, but there is such single thing as "United States" (even though thee are multiple states) and certain forms of "activism" are specific to the US, or at most the anglosphere. What Europe has is that it
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by Aspie96 3y ago
> Over here in Europe, people have a much more relaxed approach to AI safety. And to most things, to be honest. Politics in Europe (I'm Italian) is nuts. But it doesn't even remotely approach the nut-level of the USA. > Outs
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by Aspie96 3y ago
Yet is's LLMs that people are loosing it about, not search engines.
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by Aspie96 3y ago
Personally: 1) I do think that was Minstral did is based. 2) I do advocate for uncensored LLMs. 3) Mistral actually does refuse to answer certain queries. I wish it didn't, but it does: https://twitter.com/Aspie96/
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by Aspie96 3y ago
> From what I gather the big thing is that he's basically very misogynistic. > And I've seen very little that can disclaim that. Hang on, no. It's those that claim that someone is misogynistic (let alone very misogyni
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by Aspie96 3y ago
> Even people who are obviously anti-racist like Justin Trudeau used to believe black face was acceptable until very recently, for example. To the extent to which "black face" just means for a white person to play a black chara
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by Aspie96 3y ago
The word "cancelled" is often used by plenty of people who "cancel" people, by happily claiming that someone is "cancelled". The issue isn't just being "called out for being a jerk". It's on
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by Aspie96 3y ago
While I agree with most of your comment (and upvoted it), I'm not sure about this: > While the Free part of FOSS is being substituted by “(just) open source” and “source available”, Free software and open source are the same categor
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by Aspie96 3y ago
I have many disagreements with Richard Stallman. And I think he has many flaws. But I think the world is better with him than without him and that he's worked hard to further his mission. Not everyone should be like him, but it's
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by Aspie96 3y ago
Great! It would be nice to have a Pythia online demo too. What is the policy when it comes to chat data? Is it used or seen by other humans if one doesn't upvote or downvote?
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by Aspie96 4y ago
I mean, the policy is kind of shit too, given that they used to have the mission of being open. But yes, the name is not what it should be, given their current ideas.
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by Aspie96 4y ago
We all know the real reason. They used to be a non-profit with a mission, now they are a for-profit with the only mission of money.
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by Aspie96 4y ago
The model is no longer available for public access on Hugging Face. They require registration and may add more restrictions. I have cloned the model repository on Hugging Face (which isn't the same as the source code) on GitHub: https
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by Aspie96 5y ago
I'm saying malware isn't the same as a license change. If we consider malware to be simply a form of licensing, than all malware is allowed, in every place. If malware hits you, it means you shouldn't have been using the soft
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by Aspie96 5y ago
What? That malware was directed to anyone with a Russian IP. The license was an open source license.
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by Aspie96 5y ago
Technically it was obfuscated, so not open source by definition.
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by Aspie96 5y ago
They are not. And there would be absolutely nothing wrong with them no longer maintaining the package, deleting it, or with the package not working. The issue here is spreading actual malware. A developer doesn't owe anything to anyone
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by Aspie96 5y ago
> Not a chance. Why not? Is every action legitimate as long as it uses "human rights" as an excuse? Something doesn't become more ethical just because it's described as an act of protest.
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by Aspie96 5y ago
There is a very very very big difference between low quality and straight up malware, though. I would never get angry because of a package which doesn't work properly. I didn't pay for it and I treat it as essentially a social med
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by Aspie96 5y ago
> but when things are this completely broken I think anything goes Why? If something doesn't help in any way, it shouldn't "go". Putin's invasion of Urkaine doesn't justify doing other bad things, just becau
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by Aspie96 5y ago
The issue is also described in the National Vulnerability Database: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2022-23812
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by Aspie96 5y ago
To know what's actually going on here, one must open the revision history of the top comment, and view the last version from the OP (since it was then edited by the maintainer). See: https://web.archive.org/web/202
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by Aspie96 5y ago
As someone who does live in a democratic country (Italy), I confirm. Only because of the recent events I've actually realized how bad the situation is, when it comes to freedom of expression, in Russia (it also got worse). Having enoug

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