hendrik

But that’s just not true. I think you’re confusing this with some source-available licenses or these silly amendmends to licenses that make it defacto proprietary. But this isn’t the case here. This statement in the CLA doesn’t take away any rights. It gives additional ones. And it’s in addition to the AGPL. All of the AGPL applies in addition to the CLA. Every single freedom, just as if the CLA weren’t there. You can use it, modify it, copy it, etc…

The “around a decade” of course applies. And none of that has to do with the signing away copyright per CLA. You also don’t know if Linus Torvalds is around in 5 years and keeps maintaining the kernel to your liking. You also don’t know if any of the big open source projects of today get bought by some shady investors and the next updates won’t be free software anymore… These things happen. And it has little to do with a CLA (like this one). Happens to plain standard licenses without extras, too. And it does to ones with this kind of licensing. But this really isn’t the distinguishing factor.

I think what you mean is modified licenses. Or similar additions that render something not open source anymore. I agree, you should avoid those projects at all costs. But that’s a different story and not what this project is doing.

My point is a different one: While focusing on some small details of a hypothetical case that I think you got partly wrong… Have you checked for any big elephants in the room? Because I don’t see anyone talking about the database / search index and whether that’s available. The website is just a very small part and just the frontend to query the database. I’d say it’s almost pointless to discuss what we’re arguing about. I can code a search frontend website in a week, that’s not the point. And completely irrelevant if it’s open source… What about the data that powers the search engine? I think that’d be the correct question to ask. Not whether the frontend is 99% or 110% open source.

Let’s hope this means the resulting oversaturation/-production will then make laptops half the price for us Europeans.

That “either” means, it doesn’t matter which path you took, from now on the following text applies to both… So you don’t need to care.

I’m not sure if you people are paying attention to the right thing. It’s fairly common to do this. And it doesn’t mean they can take away anything. Everything will still be AGPL and still available. Someone is then going to fork it and maintain it as it happened with lots of other projects. This just means they’re also able to also sell it under different conditions, including your patches and contributions.

I think what you should pay attention to is, whether the search index is open or closed. That’s something with significant impact. Not if they’re able to monetize your small bugfix without paying you. I mean that’d be nice, too. But not a super big thing unless you contribute a substancial amount of code. I mean you get a whole open source search engine in return for signing away your copyright. And it doesn’t change anything for the people using the software. For them it’s still AGPL. And the maintainer could stop developing the software at any point, anyways. Could (and does) also happen to projects without a CLA.

And learning from the dataset is kinda the whole point of LLMs, right? I see some fundamental problems there. If you ask it where Alpacas are from, or which symptoms make some medical conditions, you want it to return what it memorized earlier. It kind of doesn’t help if it makes something else up to “preserve privacy”.

Do they address that? I see lots of flowery words like

Integrating privacy-preserving techniques often entails trade-offs, such as reduced accuracy or increased computational demands, […]

But I mean that’s just silly.

Btw: With the regular Linux software mdraid, you can also swap drives without powering down. That all works fine while running. Unless your motherbard SATA controller craps out. But the mdraid itself will handle it just fine.

What does “Until Morale Improves” mean? I read the rest of the article but can’t find what this is about.

Some of the German IT news sites I read seem to add a note if they change something of substance. I don’t think they do that for minor things or if they fix the spelling… I can’t find any example but I’m pretty sure I’ve read some articles on heise.de that ended in a paragraph ~we’ve corrected xyz which was stated incorrectly in an earlier version of the article~ They don’t do Git or anything like that, though.

Certain people in another large country are currently proposing tariffs.

We currently habe arbitrary numbers to choose from:
https://www.cio.com/article/3540579/devs-gaining-little-if-anything-from-ai-coding-assistants.html

I’ve read exactly the opposite article a few days ago:

https://www.cio.com/article/3540579/devs-gaining-little-if-anything-from-ai-coding-assistants.html

All is well that ends well? cough

Uh, nice. Seems fucking over their users and moderators turned out well for them. I wish there was some hidden sarcasm, but I don’t think there is.

Wow, that lasted a long time. I remember reading the original article a few days ago😆

Did they cover their asses and write down beforhand, it was just an experiment? Otherwise this is just some lame excuse and classic backpedaling.

I got the same warning for Mull. Is the patching so extensive? I always thought they have a patchset for some of the shortcomings and just apply that onto the newest Firefox version… Or do they do a full code review on all of the changes?

It’s some crypto blockchain stuff. You can store information (and computer code) in them, not just money transactions. I doubt it’s a huge thing in general. Could be a huge step forward for that specific project, though. We’ve been doing blockchains for quite some time now. And additionally we have peer to peer networks and other decentralized internet projects like IPFS an a buch of others without blockchains, and some other like Ethereum and this one with web3 technology, smart contracts and all the other buzzwords. All of that has been around for some time now. Decentralized networks exist for decades already.

I’m not sure what this is about. Could be something legit or just some hype by some person. The hello world page doesn’t impress me much.

Exactly. I don’t get why the author goes on and on speculating about other things, compensating for age and income levels… This would be quite an obvious reason… More simple minded people can easier be fooled. Both by what Americans call the conservative party, and by the ad companies…

The correct term is mass surveillance. I guess authors just have to put AI into every other headline for clickbait.

That’s a stupd headline. First of all it’s not necessarily causal, could be a correlation. So it can “predict …” not “affect …”. And does grammar even allow to use “your politics” like that?

No support for any of the free social media platforms like Lemmy…