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The incompetence in the world that is likely the underlying cause for this, is a serious cancer that is ruining our society. We need to speak out even against what seems like lesser issues, because we normalize that behaviour until it perverts everything.

They are nerfing the models for most of us plebs and will indeed offer more services. We're already seeing the start of layered services where you don't get to even access the model directly, such as the various security scanning tools.

They don't want the main actually powerful model out in public, but they do want to tack on extra cost for the same queries while also limiting what everyone can actually use the true frontier (internal) models for.

We see the same happening with the math work-- this research is done with internal models, not something the general public has access to. More will follow.

They have been nerfing the models for us plebs for a while now. Anthropic does the same, and if the Chinese models aren't doing this already, they will eventually.

It's hard to prove, but I'm personally extremely convinced of this. The point of AI (from the perspective of these companies) is to solidify and centralize their control of the economy and the world.

Still waiting for the autonomous charging arm that you aren't supposed to bend down near.

They were (and are) a huge mistake. Not everyone knows that these Biscoff cookies contain cinnamon! A large number of people dislike cinnamon, and most sources of it contain heavy metals. There's also some early research to show that it causes cancer, although the quantities in one cookie are likely not going to hurt you as much as the radiation from the plane you're on.

Hope they get rid of these, it's always a hard pass for me, and I've seen so many others just skip or bin them after one bit.

Where's the source code?

If this had open source firmware, I think I know a lot of people who would be interested, but I can't seem to find out if that's true or not and where to buy one.

This is not about forges, it is about the repo I have in a folder on my computer. The sha1 hashes shouldn't go away. Yes the forges also need to support this.

Came to say something exactly like this... The old sha1 handle needs to be still available in the same way an HTTP 301 redirect would work.

> Submodules are a mistake.

Someone started this FUD a long time ago and it has worked. Instead of using an elegant mechanism, project have built inelegant wrappers on top of git like go.mod which are actual mistakes.

This means, if you migrate your repo, every single commit message that contains text like: "please see commit <sha1>" will now be broken.

This will be a train wreck. I hope they don't release before adding compatibility modes to keep the existing sha1's around in the database.

The age limit shows this is only about encouraging reproduction and is an FU to lonely people.

I would have been totally interested in the snapdragon if Linux support was good and the hardware wasn't old at this point. I'd like a 24h laptop!

Nah, I want serious all-day battery life.

I'd buy one because I want a Lenovo Thinkpad with an onboard ethernet port and really good battery life for Linux.

I've sent you some info! If it blows your mind, tell some friends here =D

I'd love to give someone at Verda a demo of https://github.com/purpleidea/mgmt/ to show them how they could actually do fast provisioning and automation. Seeing Ansible+Kubernetes+K* stuff in their jobs offering does not inspire confidence that they're innovating in building their core infra. You can't out-compete AWS or even the smaller clouds there.

If you want to see a different perspective, lmk.

My personal bet is there's an 80% chance this is caused by some internal bootstrapping problem that they've messed up. AIUI all the main cloud vendors are in trouble here. The automation project I work on is expressly designed to help folks solve this DR/bootstrapping problem. Soo many people get this wrong. Of course missiles don't help things, but I'd bet AWS is primarily to blame here. I'd love an actual technical report of why they can't recover things.

> "Federation freezes the technology" https://signal.org/blog/the-ecosystem-is-moving/

I didn't say it needed to be federated, I said the infra automation code needs to be opened.

> Non profit doesn't necessitate open sourcing their whole product. If you don't like that, don't donate. As long as they are transparent about their decisions that is the only obligation they have.

Actually you're mistaken. Under the 501(c)(3) tax code rules, they are required to act in the public good. Nobody has sued them to enforce this though, but I'd at least like them to acknowledge the game they're playing by ghosting us all on this.

Signal needs to release all the infra automation code behind their backend. How they setup and manage it all should not be secret. It also makes it easy to rebuild if for some reason they are compromised. They've ghosted multiple people about this question. There's no reason a 501(c)(3) shouldn't release it.

(I will try this as soon as there is a package in Fedora... That's my personal subjective bar to choosing a new EDITOR. But I definitely hope this succeeds, I'm a fan so far.)

> Motorola Mobility (Lenovo) isn't providing us with funding.

If you made a strong public commitment to making sure everything in GrapheneOS was strong copyleft, would they still partner with you?

(FWIW, I think it's great what you're doing with the project, but I want to see the work made indelible, and I personally believe copyleft would help with that, otherwise some big vendor can have their proprietary fork and us users lose out.)

> We have a list of formal sponsors at https://grapheneos.org/sponsors which are 4 server companies sponsoring dedicated servers, a GeoIP database company giving us sponsored access to the downloadable database and a VPN company sponsoring 2 DataPacket servers. We could list Cape too but they started donating to us on their own.

Where are the details about any arrangements with the Motorola partnership?

> Software doesn't need any protection. People want protection.

Correct, people want protection for the hard labour they put into doing something good (writing software) for the world, and to not have it co-opted for individual profit over communal profit.

> people complained about my choice of MPLv2, eventually someone started a competing library with a permissive licence and everybody jumped on it

Just because you choose copyleft (even weak copyleft like MPLv2) doesn't mean your project will succeed or be more popular. A lot of people (and especially a lot of companies) do prefer permissive over copyleft, and that's because they can built something proprietary on top, without being forced to give back. That's why they're ultra billionaire rich, and in comparison you're poor.

Software often wins because it's better. Copyleft favours the collective good, permissive favours the individual greed. In any case, all of these things require copyright law.

You're conflating what "Free Software" means and what Copyleft means. In any case, they both need protection from people like you who want to take it and benefit for free, without having to give anything back. Copyleft was designed specifically to prevent against people with your mindset. Permissively licensed software needs copyright to protect authorship rules, although the requirements are lessened.

My personal website: https://purpleidea.com/ has been DMCA'ed by some scammer and I still haven't gotten it back out. Google ignores the counter notices, and who knows where else the scammer (masquerading as a legitimate takedown company) has sent notices. Bing and DDG (same basically) have all delisted it.

Don't fall for this trap! GrapheneOS leadership is very against Copyleft, probably to cater to it's corporate sponsors, and copyright is really the only thing that protects Free Software at all. Proprietary software can be kept secret, and only shared as a binary, but the only thing that protects Free Software (open source) is copyright law.

It's not perfect, and the terms are far too long, but we do want to keep it. Reduce it to 20 years and we'd be golden.

I was reading through it and figured it had to be AI generated... But ... it's not? This email from billg is unhinged! Hilarious though.