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bsmedbergon We're releasing the weights of Mistral Large 4

How is this enforceable? Models are not copyrightable are they? There’s no legal mechanism to prevent anyone from doing whatever they want with it.

bsmedbergon When it comes to Git history, less is more

In theory you can plug any three-way merge tool into git. I’d love to see merge tools that are syntax aware and can merge asts more than line text.

bsmedbergon “We will stop updating and distributing the Flash Player at the end of 2020”

Shumway was a followup to this. Flash -> Gordon -> Shumway ;-)

But they're all dormant/dead. Compatibility is really hard.

bsmedbergon “We will stop updating and distributing the Flash Player at the end of 2020”

Shumway is not under active development. The actionscript runtime itself is pretty good, but getting compatibility with the Flash API surface turned out to be practically unachievable.

bsmedbergon “We will stop updating and distributing the Flash Player at the end of 2020”

All of the browsers have published roadmap updates. Basically Flash will be disabled by default in mid-2019:

Firefox: https://blog.mozilla.org/futurereleases/2017/07/25/firefox-r... and https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Plugins/Roadmap Google: https://www.blog.google/products/chrome/saying-goodbye-flash... and https://sites.google.com/a/chromium.org/dev/flash-roadmap Microsoft (Edge+IE): https://blogs.windows.com/msedgedev/2017/07/25/flash-on-wind...

bsmedbergon Reconciling Mozilla’s Mission and the W3C EME

The major DRM platform out there is Netflix on Silverlight, and it's not particularly locked-down at all.

Of course there are others, but they hardly matter at all in terms of marketshare.