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The @nlnet GenAI policy is the only one I've come across so far actually making a clear statement on the incompatibility of LLM outputs with open source: nlnet.nl/foundation/policies/g

Have any of the big license organisations (thinking OSI, FSF, Creative Commons) said anything like this (either pro or anti)? Can LLM-derived code be released under the GPL if you don't know where it really came from?

Or would org funders (I'm thinking of Google, MS, etc here) disapprove of such statements?

@corbet Very tough.

But such content mills can be reported in some places - e.g., blog.kagi.com/slopstop

How realistic it is to keep up with the slop? Unclear.

But validated "small web" sites (which is another layer Kagi supports) might be a way. Back to curated Internet site lists as if it's the 90s again!

The only Minority Destroying this country are the billionaires

toot.yosh.is/@yosh/11580926144
When people say: "billionaires shouldn't exist" that isn't a call to violence. "Being a billionaire" isn't some inherent property in the way that say, skin color is.

Wealth taxation is a perfectly acceptable way of eliminating all billionaires. That doesn't mean billionaires stop being people, they just stop being billionaires.

@mjg59 Reading this and thinking about LuaJIT-FFI's approach, which is that instead of parsing C header files it defines a easily-parseable subset of C and parses that. You wind up editing your header files into long strings and passing them into Lua.

Maybe this "parseable header C" should be a cross-language standard.

@mjg59 We could trigger even more people by stating that using whatever the fuck the rust people cook up will probably be worse than what we have now.

@donaldball It's still a death dealing fascism machine, I'm not going to set the world on fire just so I can code faster, and I look with a lot of askance at the men who think this is okay.

if you happen to have #GooglePlay on some device, please give #ArcaneChat a review so it gets more visibility in the main stream, your sacrifice getting your hands dirty with Google will not be in vain 🎖️

play.google.com/store/apps/det

#boostswelcome #pleaseBoost #boost
#foss #openSource #privacy #encryption #messenger

yeah, the mobile landscape is a horrible mess, with so many interlocked dependencies ensuring the soldier's boots remain on our faces forever 😞 operating system duopoly, locked down hardware, exclusive shops, tons of proprietary apps mandated by governments and businesses, antisocial walled gardens... it's very hard to devise a way out of this mess.

I still think 0G and GNU could provide us with a way out if people were to use their dissatisfaction with the growing pile of enshittified stuff to migrate en masse to an alternative that enabled them to run the stuff they want on hardware that's not locked-down and that doesn't track their every move; make and install and run and share apps of their choice like we did on PCs back in the day. it's the only way out AFAICT, but (i) we don't really have that kind of hardware available and affordable all over, and (ii) I see no evidence that people would even get to know about such an escape route. now, crossing subthreads, I don't think pursuing it is hubris either 😉

we can't count on websites remaining available. banking in Brazil has moved on, for one, and government is doing so. lots of "mandatory" communication platforms (WhatsApp, I'm looking at you, but thinking of Signal as well) are also (at least in part) locked to mobile devices. we're surrounded, and they know it.
@admitsWrongIfProven@qoto.org @chestycougth@mastodon.social

"I am injust"

You are eons ahead of many other humans in understanding human nature. Most people spend their entire lives weaving an illusion around their own character.

I still remember trying to sell people on Erlang back at an old job and it went something like “think of it as concurrent functional lisp” and they were like “Lisp’s syntax is terrible” and I was like “then good news because this is Prolog syntax” and that wasn’t better.

#erlang #programming

@cliffle @b0rk A bit of advice I was given long ago when someone proposes doing something apparently dumb and which has been tried before is never to say "that doesn't work" or "we've tried" but to always say "This is what we couldn't figure out last time"

They now know where you came unstuck and can see if they have answers, they know what to think about if they've not got that far, and you've not stopped them if they actually do have the answer.

When I discover that AI can produce this type of OCaml code github.com/mtelvers/ocaml-smtpd, which probably comes from what I have been writing for several years, and that investigators ultimately do not take the time to look at what the community can produce... This heralds a bright future for open source where people no longer form a community. I hate AI.

@pluralistic tell them they can call it e13n if they want to be cool about it

@garius That reason why? One Rich Asshole Called Larry Ellison

there are two kinds of people in human society: grifting parasites and people who mistakenly tried to do something else (which will now be coopted by grifting parasites.)
> we're on codeberg
great. another fucking account :comfyglare:
something ironic about posting about adding AI coding tool agents to your workflow at the same time you evacuate github to codeberg. slightly schizophrenic tbh
something funny about radicle being decentralized github yet they use zulip to organize it :cat_sad:

zulip is a fine choice but its neither federated nor distributed.

@Distante #DeltaChat, it is decentralized, doesn't require phone numbers or any private data, onboarding is smooth much easier than in signal, similar UI (it is a signal fork) it has much better multi-device and multi-profile support, secure in-chat mini-apps like notepads, to-do lists, shopping lists, etc

there are alternatives, but they will not gain momentum if you don't promote them and stop misinforming people selling a centralized silo running on amazon as #sovereign
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