kedislav

open-weight models are still not open training; that you can run the weights doesn't mean you know what training went into them

> If writing, maintaining, and deploying software stops being the hard part, all three of those gaps start closing. The freedoms we value become accessible to a much wider range of people, and they will be able to use them on a wider range of otherwise “waste” devices.

It is incorrect to speak about "freedom" and "ownership" when you have willingly traded in your agency to an AI to "do the legwork" for you. You may own the files the AI has created and can run them, but you do not truly own the underlying capability to create or modify them independently (so free software principles kinda stop applying)

For all software, you have a conditional freedom entirely dependent on an external service. Should the service change, disappear, or become inaccessible, you suddenly ran out of "freedom"; you cannot understand or fix the code, or adapt (not create) solutions to novel problems without the AI's mediation.

All you have is the illusion of freedom wrapped in dependence.

it may be a terrible ad for starlink I am afraid

> But Substack is for sharing my bad ideas, not my good ones, so I’m not going to disclose the central theme of my whole ass PhD for free online.

stingy

> If you are among the unfortunate ones who have their master branch named as "main" this option is not for you and you should check Fossil's documentation if you want to rename it.

oh great, another weirdo

stop curl-ing into sh

please stop piping into bash or sh. force people to use the editor, read the install script, and tell them how to run it

Website seems to be down or dead, consider using the archived link [1]. Also, since these are slides, it'd sure be nice to have the presentation on video form since a lot of context is missing from the slides. It does not seem to be available (well, it is from October 2006).

From the archived site's abstract [2]:

>"bash (and scripting languages in general) act as the glue that hold other system components together. This presentation will focus on the under utilized features of bash that are critical to building production quality scripts. Demos will show you how and why to turn these features on."

EDIT: seems the website being down is a me issue (?), but still, having the archives doesn't hurt. ---

[1]: https://web.archive.org/web/20241212102046/https://uniforumc...

[2]: https://web.archive.org/web/20240719092417/http://uniforumch...

Woah, and even I was excited for their TBA Blade Runner game [1]. Guessing that's not going to happen.

[1] https://annapurnainteractive.com/en/games/blade-runner-2033-...