It’s space cuties! Arrrggghhh!

I don’t know, but given that forces involved are on the molecular level, I suspect those are driven by the kinetic energy of particles in a fluid (i.e. heat) and that there’s a very slight cooling going on.

Not the west. The global community.

…and should Israel be under sanctions? Absolutely.

personally i don’t agree with sanctioning foss communities.

Foss communities aren’t being sanctioned. Whole countries are. It’s the same limitation whatever enterprise you’re in.

If Olympians have to renounce their country to take part in global competition, why do you not think a software developer wouldn’t have to do the same to be involved in a global project?

Lol! Why should software get an exception over any other industry?

Web search was a solved problem before LLMs. All the providers lobotomized their tools as a sacrifice to the god of advertising. LLMs have then been applied and it made the situation worse as now you have hallucinations to contend with.

Can we please go back to straight search?

But it is absolutely horrible when it comes to privacy.

Reading OPs description, I did wonder.

I don’t upload my own images to public sites.

13 blocked users, 10 blocked communities, 2 blocked instances.

The blocked users are just trolls looking for arguments.

The blocked communities are mainly ones on my home instance that have no interest for me, but were appearing in “Local”. Nothing against them, just no interest.

The blocked instances were ones that brigaded sensitive topics with political fanaticism. I was finding myself trying to have discussions with people who weren’t open to it, but would fiercely respond to any criticism of a viewpoint.

FOSS does not mean:

• Community owned: Linux is owned by the Linux Foundation, a legal entity of the United States and subject to it’s laws.
• Obliged to accept all contributions: The owner is free to accept or reject contributions for any reason.

Nothing changed except some people are no longer responsible for maintaining parts of the source tree. Their delegated power to accept contributions was removed. They can still propose changes, but they will be reviewed by others who aren’t subject aren’t at risk of Russian state influence.

This isn’t saying they’ve done anything wrong, or that they are currently under state influence, but now that they no longer have maintainer privileges the chance of the FSB knocking on their door has probably dropped 90%.

Stupid or not, it is the state of the world. It’s not down to Linus to do anything but live and work within the situation constructed by the governments of nation states.

The cold war is reborn and this time it’s warmer. Do people not understand that before 30 years ago no communication occured with countries behind the iron curtain. Russia’s invasion of Ukraine put us on a path back to those kind of relations.

Omg. It’s the Beavles!

I don’t think anyone is saying it isn’t public money. More than Ukrain isn’t on the hook to repay the loan after the war like the UK was to the US after WW2.

Kodi isn’t commercialised. I’m not sure what you’re referring to. It’s open source and always has been.

I also have the *arrs running on that same box so new episodes appear automatically. They require a browser or other client, so I didn’t include it in my list. They just run in the background.

But you live in a world where there are few union jobs

I live in a country where ¼ to ⅕ of all workers are in a union, anybody can join a union and the current party in power receives major funding from the unions.

Maybe that gives me a different perspective.

The AI bubble is currently grinding my gears on this. “XXX is an open source model”. No, it’s not. Do I have access to all of the information necessary to recreate it? No, I don’t as nobody releases training data.

Training data is the source of these models. Without it, they are just free use.

It always got me that the maths I was doing in electrical engineering outclassed what my friend was doing for his astrophysics degree. He was probably at the better university too (Debatable for the subjects in question, but both really good).

Did I need that level of maths? No, but it was compulsory for the first 3 years so not much option.

Well you need a good handle on probability to understand transistors these days at least.

That explains why chesticles appear to change in size from one day to the next.