The entire academic board of the journal 'Neuroimage', including professors from Oxford University, King’s College London and Cardiff University resigned after Elsevier refused to reduce publication charges. Academics around the world have applauded what many hope is the start of a rebellion against the huge profit margins in...
Basically I want to have a computer to experiment with that is 100% free and open source and that doesn't break the bank. My current idea is to use a RISCV board like the mango pi and use FreeBSD on it. I only use terminal applications expect for the browser so I'm not too worried about performance. But also I have never done...
The EU is ready to agree that immediate open access to papers reporting publicly funded research should become the norm, without authors having to pay fees, and that the bloc should support non-profit scholarly publishing models.
"...The premise of the paper is that while OpenAI and Google continue to race to build the most powerful language models, their efforts are rapidly being eclipsed by the work happening in the open source community..."
I've seen many announced but I don't know which ones are actually free and public. For example there was a russian one called Gigachat and a chinese one by alibaba but I don't know where to find them. There is ChatSonic but it's limited so not the kind of option I'm looking for.
My blog post diving into traditional Unix permissions. The article explains how the permissions system works, explores some command line utilities to set and interact with permissions, and discusses how to use traditional permissions to harden your system's security....
Gentoo's Portage and NixOS' Nix are both interesting takes on package management. Both are powerful and open up a ton of flexbility to the user, but still do a lot of work for you....
Yes. What reader are you using? I like commafeed. I need to donate or host myself... so good. Feels bad mooching
Subreddits or multireddits, substacks, wordpress, almost every news site, invidious (youtube), nitter (twitter), mastodon, try googling site name and rss if it doesn't automatically detect it by putting the URL into subscribe
Calckey, a fork of Misskey, has been in development for almost a year but now it's ready for general use! it features groups, quote posts, a custom Markdown implementation, chat, emoji reactions, and a whole bunch of quality-of-life features!
A certain stage of development has ended - a prototype was created that allowed me to verify whether such a form makes sense in the #fediverse. Until now, it was a project that I developed in my free time. Now, thanks to the great people from Nlnet, I will be able to devote much more time to it. This time, we have already...
Masks Work. Distorting Science to Dispute the Evidence Doesn’t (www.scientificamerican.com)
‘Too greedy’: mass walkout at global science journal of publishing giant Elsevier over ‘unethical’ fees (www.theguardian.com)
The entire academic board of the journal 'Neuroimage', including professors from Oxford University, King’s College London and Cardiff University resigned after Elsevier refused to reduce publication charges. Academics around the world have applauded what many hope is the start of a rebellion against the huge profit margins in...
I want to create a fully free open source computer that is modular, modern and minimal?
Basically I want to have a computer to experiment with that is 100% free and open source and that doesn't break the bank. My current idea is to use a RISCV board like the mango pi and use FreeBSD on it. I only use terminal applications expect for the browser so I'm not too worried about performance. But also I have never done...
EU ready to back immediate open access without author fees (www.researchprofessionalnews.com)
The EU is ready to agree that immediate open access to papers reporting publicly funded research should become the norm, without authors having to pay fees, and that the bloc should support non-profit scholarly publishing models.
US regime hits Z-Library with new domain name seizures (torrentfreak.com)
Leaked Google document: “We Have No Moat, And Neither Does OpenAI” (simonwillison.net)
"...The premise of the paper is that while OpenAI and Google continue to race to build the most powerful language models, their efforts are rapidly being eclipsed by the work happening in the open source community..."
Based O'Brien (lemmy.ml)
What are the free and public LLMs available?
I've seen many announced but I don't know which ones are actually free and public. For example there was a russian one called Gigachat and a chinese one by alibaba but I don't know where to find them. There is ChatSonic but it's limited so not the kind of option I'm looking for.
Logged toff: Māori artist’s web plugin replaces king’s coronation with Indigenous news (www.theguardian.com)
5.7 terapixel mosaic image of Mars (murray-lab.caltech.edu)
Traditional Unix Permissions (cosmic.tarb.in)
My blog post diving into traditional Unix permissions. The article explains how the permissions system works, explores some command line utilities to set and interact with permissions, and discusses how to use traditional permissions to harden your system's security....
Dune: Part Two | Official Trailer (www.youtube.com)
Any interesting approaches to package management (Linux or not)? besides Portage and Nix.
Gentoo's Portage and NixOS' Nix are both interesting takes on package management. Both are powerful and open up a ton of flexbility to the user, but still do a lot of work for you....
RSS's outside the fediverse?
Hello, Is it possible to add RSS's from sources that are not in the fediverse?...
Introducing Calckey! (calckey.org)
Calckey, a fork of Misskey, has been in development for almost a year but now it's ready for general use! it features groups, quote posts, a custom Markdown implementation, chat, emoji reactions, and a whole bunch of quality-of-life features!
Blue Skies Over Mastodon (erinkissane.com)
Written by @kissane
Kbin Roadmap 2023
A certain stage of development has ended - a prototype was created that allowed me to verify whether such a form makes sense in the #fediverse. Until now, it was a project that I developed in my free time. Now, thanks to the great people from Nlnet, I will be able to devote much more time to it. This time, we have already...