On the hypocrisy of Copyright law and its functionality (social.coop)
This person has nailed the hypocricy:...
Why Blog? | Irreal (irreal.org)
Writing is a skill and like any other skill the only way to get good at it is to practice. Blogging is ideal for this. Blogging is hardly ever long-form writing so writing posts is a good way to practice in bite-sized chunks. A side benefit of writing is that it’s a necessary component to being a good thinker and writing, as...
Thread Concerning How Fediverse's Decentralised Forms Means That 'There Is No Daddy' (social.coop)
What you're missing is the comforting certainty that there's Somebody In Charge. And that this Somebody cares about you, cares about the money they can make off of you, and certainly cares about the 'content' you're producing for them so that they can both mine you and others for precious, precious moneybucks and sell you to...
On The Risks of Permissive Licensing (socialhub.activitypub.rocks)
Also, the AGPL isn’t something that commercial operations are afraid of. There are plenty of examples of industry using AGPL software....
Toward ActivityPub 2.0 (socialhub.activitypub.rocks)
We are going to need an Activity Pub 2.0 which fixes the major pain points in the eco system. It must be backward compatible with 1.x, but will introduce new, more scalable, extensible, interoperable ways of doing things for a larger federation and ecosystem. Systems using 1.x can signal it, and those using 2.0 should accept 1.x...
Fedizine: An anarchist introduction to federated social media (distro.f-91w.club)
Moderation Strike: Stack Overflow, Inc. cannot consistently ignore, mistreat, and malign its volunteers (meta.stackexchange.com)
To reference Stack Overflow moderator Machavity, AI chatbots are like parrots. ChatGPT, for example, doesn’t understand the responses it gives you; it simply associates a given prompt with information it has access to and regurgitates plausible-sounding sentences. It has no way to verify that the responses it’s providing you...
Discovering Nice Servers On Mastodon and The Fediverse (fedi.garden)
This is a small curated list of servers to help new users joining Mastodon and the wider Fediverse. All the servers listed have public sign-ups open, have promised to obey certain standards of reliability and responsible moderation, and have opted in to being listed here....
Leaked Internal Google Document Claims Open Source AI Will Outcompete Google and OpenAI (www.semianalysis.com)
In many ways, this shouldn’t be a surprise to anyone. The current renaissance in open source LLMs comes hot on the heels of a renaissance in image generation. The similarities are not lost on the community, with many calling this the “Stable Diffusion moment” for LLMs....
