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by rnd0 4y ago
If you can't change it and distribute your changes it's no longer open; pretty much by definition. Maybe you're thinking of "looky loo" software or something? But if you can't change it and if you're not a
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by rnd0 4y ago
>It makes it really hard for me to figure out what ChatGPT is actually capable of, because the unreasonable restrictions never even let me give it a shot. My understanding is that the end goal of ChatGPT is to perform corporate oriented
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by rnd0 4y ago
Honestly? I think the agenda is less specifically "woke" and more specifically trying to be bland and inoffensive for its' primary intended use (front-facing support bots, etc). They don't want another Erin Esurance on t
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by rnd0 4y ago
Well, color me shocked. I think this is something that's widely known (edit or heavily suspected), but the people who use TikTok as a rule don't care.
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by rnd0 4y ago
I'm not sure I understand the point of this -but rock on, you crazy VIMmers!
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by rnd0 4y ago
concurrency ranges from 23k to 45k or 49k at any given time. God only knows how many of those are bots/scripted agents though.
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by rnd0 4y ago
Well, one of the original founders (?) of SL went from their to FB but I'm not sure what his original role is. I doubt that there was a fork as we think of it. Everything I've heard (second hand or third hand) is that the old SL s
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by rnd0 4y ago
Primarily the problems with FB's metaverse are design (no legs? really?) and goals. I'm sure that on a purely technical level it's probably first rate. But as usually is the case, the biggest problem is people.
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by rnd0 4y ago
And they can be -that's why we have dictionaries. Terms DO have meanings whether contrarians and the argumentative want to acknowledge those meanings or not.
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by rnd0 4y ago
If you can't modify and distribute your modifications -it's not open source. Anyone who says different is simply incorrect.
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by rnd0 4y ago
There's like two or three forks out there. I'm not sure how active any of them are though.
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by rnd0 4y ago
The internal OS politics probably doesn't help so yeah -high drama is probably the killer right there.
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by rnd0 4y ago
While I love me some SL, it's a sad sad statement about the current state of tech world that SL is the best we can do...did we really peak in 2002?
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by rnd0 4y ago
That's how I read it too. I had the feeling that the experience convinced the OP that it's not valid except in some circumstances.
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by rnd0 4y ago
Were they convinced, or are you convinced that they were convinced? The Kubrick thing is an old joke (which usually ends by saying he insisted on filming "on location" for the sake of authenticity)
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by rnd0 4y ago
I don't either. Personally speaking, after watching the effects of disinformation campaigns over the last 7 or so years -particularly regarding Covid and vaccinations I am pretty much 1,000% unwilling to listen to any "skepticism&
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by rnd0 4y ago
Wiped out by Oracle's legal team (patents, whatever) in 4...3...2...
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by rnd0 4y ago
What does "open source" mean in this context?
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by rnd0 4y ago
>Makes me wonder if a coordinated multi-location strike is coming sometime in the future. Well...yes. Of course it is. If for no other reason than there are a lot of angry people who would love to spread misery around and they've no
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by rnd0 4y ago
Poe's law means it doesn't matter.
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by rnd0 4y ago
>History channel schlock ... fiction Distinction that doesn't make a difference IMO
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by rnd0 4y ago
> his raging against academia was exhausting enough to make it unwatchable after a point. For me, that point was somewhere in the first episode. Sorry, after watching Van Daniken (sp?) and the Ancient Aliens crew use misinformation and &
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by rnd0 4y ago
Though technically it's a alpha nerd joke with an emacs punchline.
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by rnd0 4y ago
Yes. https://xkcd.com/378/
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by rnd0 4y ago
Well...I mean yeah, sure. Why not? Hey, let's throw systemd in there while we're at it. Anything to procrastinate on adding a good editor to it, right?
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by rnd0 4y ago
idk but it probably involves paying adobe cash money that GIMP by definition doesn't have? /shrug
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by rnd0 4y ago
>So many gross comments in here. What is wrong with you people? :-P Hear here! The comments are pretty gross tbh, even taking into account some legit gripes; the majority seem just gross and nearly vindictive. Fine, fine you pay out the
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by rnd0 4y ago
By default, everything is all in one window instead of floating bars for the tools and images.
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by rnd0 4y ago
Shit, I missed the boat on that one. What's ironic is that I bought Affinity but still continue to use GIMP shrugs One of these days I'll sit down with Affinity. One of these days...
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by rnd0 4y ago
>Unless you are ideologically inclined, it would be a better use of your resources to just pay for photoshop. Naw, there's better answers than that: FOSS: Gimp, Krita; non foss: Affinity photo is a one-time purchase, at least for me

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