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by reedciccio 2y ago
The Open Source Definition is quite clear on its #2 requirement: `The source code must be the preferred form in which a programmer would modify the program. Deliberately obfuscated source code is not allowed.` https://opensourc
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by reedciccio 2y ago
There are more, like the work by Eleuther AI and LLM360.
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by reedciccio 2y ago
That's what the Open Source AI Definition states https://opensource.org/ai In any case, Deepseek like Llama fail much before hitting that new definition. Both have licenses containing restrictions on field of use and d
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by reedciccio 2y ago
https://www.google.com/search?q=us%20life%20expectancy%20&ie...
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by reedciccio 2y ago
> Either copyrights exist, and people can't copy creative works "owned" by somebody else, or copyrights don't exist and people can copy those at will. that's not how copyright works, it's not a binary thing.
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by reedciccio 2y ago
The only real sword in the stone is in Italy anyway, the nordic legends come years after the saint Galgano Who, according to the canonization process, planted his sword in the ground and it solidified https://it.m.wikipedia.org&
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by reedciccio 2y ago
Maybe you got used to bad email clients :) email has always been threaded, as far as I remember... Then Outlook broke email and Gmail finally killed it. Now everyone tries to reinvent mutt, pine and Thunderbird :)
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Open Source in Europe: Facing the regulatory challenge(opensource.net)
2 points by reedciccio 2y ago|1 comments
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by reedciccio 2y ago
My guess is that AC is off because keeping it on increases fuel consumption and that cuts into the driver's tiny profit margins.
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by reedciccio 2y ago
Do you mean that chin diapers don't work? https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=s8vwqRHr9a4
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by reedciccio 2y ago
What's the cost of research though, since so much of it is (at least partially) public funded? It's not an easy answer.
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The right way to contribute to open source(opensource.net)
4 points by reedciccio 3y ago|0 comments
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by reedciccio 3y ago
How do you middle-click?
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by reedciccio 3y ago
Tell that to Red Hat, WordPress, Canonical, MySQL and many more products built on pure Open Source. The issue is complex.
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by reedciccio 3y ago
Americans screwed up mobile phones since the beginning: they pay on both ends, to receive and to make calls and sms.
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Fixing a Gap in the SEP Regulation(blog.opensource.org)
1 points by reedciccio 3y ago|0 comments
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by reedciccio 3y ago
There is a difference between being able to inspect study and modify software for a car and installing modified versions on your or someone else's car. We already have regulations covering radio emissions, this could be the same: modif
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by reedciccio 3y ago
> Whose fault is that? Wild guess: the standard is encumbered by patents. MPEG-LA consortium is notorious for extracting rent from this sort of stuff.
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by reedciccio 3y ago
Try downloading pirated movies and see how long it takes for you to receive a letter from your ISP telling you to stop or else... It's automatic, that's why you don't hear about lawsuits anymore: not necessary, the law enforc
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by reedciccio 3y ago
> You do not receive a full chemical makeup, structure, and formulation of the medicine you are ingesting. ? Don't you get close enough by reading the relevant FDA approval documents, the list of patents of the active ingredients of
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A historic view of the practice to delay releasing Open Source software by OSI(blog.opensource.org)
5 points by reedciccio 3y ago|0 comments
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by reedciccio 3y ago
For some kinds of buildings it's impossible to create apartments because of access to natural light, stairs, elevators etc. Not every office building can be converted. Recent article that explains why: https://www.nytimes.co
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by reedciccio 3y ago
Indeed, valetudo is open source. The parent comment seems to prefer a different approach but valetudo project took a different path and is forcing the commenter to maintain their own fork (which is a feature of *all open source approved lic
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RISC-V: Big movement on the open hardware front(opensource.net)
3 points by reedciccio 3y ago|0 comments
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Generative AI is off to a rough start(infoworld.com)
2 points by reedciccio 3y ago|0 comments
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by reedciccio 3y ago
Not guts, billions of dollars he can afford to loose. And he's got a plan to screw the banks that loaned him the money to buy Twitter, I'm now convinced this is his tactic.
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Open Source can help fight election disinformation(opensource.net)
1 points by reedciccio 3y ago|0 comments
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by reedciccio 3y ago
In California the anti-compete clauses are not enforceable, afaik
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by reedciccio 3y ago
I mentioned apt, pip etc because Sentry, Elastic and everything is built by integrating hundreds of packages. Nobody builds 100% of the code they ship to users and customers. These non-open source licenses make things like pip impossible to
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by reedciccio 3y ago
Open Source is what allows developers to make their choices without having to ask for permissions. You can apt/pip/npm etc install and integrate pieces written by others in your own solution stack without having to call a lawyer.

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