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For people who really care about open source, this is not.

If both google and apple pull out, who will be your monopolist? And what makes you think that they won't also get hammered with legislation?

And even if we assumed that this would be the case, maybe suffering under a "real monopoly" is _exactly_ what the EU needs to push them out of their local maxima. I hope they continue to hammer the ever living shit out of every company that abuses its position to exploit people and deny them their rights. Abusing copyright to prevent people from fixing their own property? Screw every single one of them.

Fair enough: You don't want to support our stuff? Then let us support it ourselves.

And I haven't bought anything from them since. May that company go bankrupt.

I hope so too. Maybe if apple and google finally pull out, the EU will be forced to innovate again. I'm sick of only having two shades of poo to pick from.

They include GPS location, location obtained from nearby cell towers, the issuing country of your SIM card, the region you set in settings, the country that nearby WiFi networks broadcast for regulatory purposes[1], and (indirectly, through the billing address) the issuing country of the credit or debit card that you use in the App Store.

GDPR applies if your an EU citizen even if _none_ of these is true. I hope the EU emends their markets law so that it grants every EU citizen the right to _easily_ install whatever he or she wants. That would put an end to this nonsense.

A collection of facts is not and can not be copyrightable, especially when it was mechanically derived/collected (no human creativity). So, no, it is absolutely not "Equifax's IP".

For me, it's like GP said: Absolutely no unauthorized network traffic unless strictly required for the purpose of the software (e.g. curl). No security updates, crash reporting, telemetry unless you prompt the user and show the user exactly what will be sent (similar to how syncthing does it).

Anything less is voyeurism.*

* extreme language I know, but it's precisely how I feel about these acts.

You don't get to pay other companies to keep out your competitors when you're as big as Google. It's as simple as that.

This. Mozilla is a giant dead tree in the middle of the forest depriving any saplings from the sunlight needed for them to take its place. If the corporation can't exist without Google funding, then it's effectively a department of Google and should be killed off so that other _independent_ orgs take its place.

This argument doesn't make sense to me unless you're talking about the training material. If that is not the case, then how does this argument relate to the license Meta attempts to force on downloaders of LLaMa weights?

We believe in something that we will now proceed to violate.

I will never take a statement given by a company that blatantly lies like this at face value going forward. What a bunch of clowns.

This is the real PVP of LLM for me. Compressing google search AND the internet into 8 GB and download is something unfathomable to me a two decades ago.

My hope now is that someone will figure out a way to separate intelligence from knowledge - i.e. train a model that knows how to interpret the wights of other models - so that training new intelligent models wouldn't require training them on a petabyte of data every run.

OpenAI ran it into the ground with whatever they’re doing to save on inference costs, otherwise scale, align it, or add dumb product features.

They googlified it. (Yandex isn't better at google because it improved. It's better because it stayed mostly the same.)

My recommendation to disrupting industry leaders now is becoming good enough and then simply wait until the leader self-implodes.

I don't understand. A bad actor can use a linux server to automatically run botnets and exploit new devices. How is that not a force multiplier?

Humanity is so fortunate this "guardrails" mentality didn't catch on when we started publishing books. While too close for comfort, we got twice lucky that computing wasn't hampered by this mentality either.

This time, humanity narrowly averted complete disaster thanks to the huge efforts and resources of a small number of people.

I wonder if we are witnessing humanity's the end of open knowledge and compute (at least until we pass through a neo dark ages and reach the next age of enlightenment).

Whether it'll be due to profit or control, it looks like humanity is posed to get fucked.

Anton Napolsky and Valeriia Ermakova have done humanity a great service and I sincerely thank them for it. They are true heroes. I hope they remain safe and out of reach from the deranged laws and the "justice" circuses that are US courts and their jesters.

For anyone wishing to engage in a public good that upsets a well-funded US industry (like sharing books, building emulators or compatibility software, fan games, etc), please consider hosting your project on Tor from the start.

If evil can flourish on Tor without prosecution, then so should the good.

The line to draw is 10 years to commercialize, and then release into public domain. Statute of Anne was 14 years (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Statute_of_Anne), but 10 is better for today's age.

I'd vote for politicians who push for laws like this. Sadly none do.

This will backfire against publishers so hard. Now everyone has to resort to piracy.

That's a blatant lie.

Regardless of what irrational hate you have towards cryptographic currency, it doesn't change the cold hard fact that it is the best countermeasure legal businesses have today. It exists. It's proven. It works.

Absolute nightmare fuel.

A lot of you here might not like the reality of this fact, but cryptographic currency was designed precisely to guard against abuse like this. It can't protect you if you give your traditional payment processor direct access to your traditional bank account, but it can absolutely allow customers to continue doing business with you in events like these.

If your customers genuinely want to continue using your online services and if your service is legal, then people will jump through the hopes to pay you in cryptographic currency if they have to. I certainly have.

Debian is by far my favorite linux distribution, but it's not without its faults.

Debian tends to soft- and hard-hijack package names. Normally, having a maintainer between upstream and users is a good thing. What's not a good thing is them misrepresenting modified upstream software to users. This can mislead users (See ffmpeg, keepassxc). Fortunately, the mozilla approach of using trademark law to stop others from misrepresenting software is effective here.

Debian also doesn't offer a clear lifecycle schedule like ubuntu and other enterprisy distros. This makes it hard to plan ahead long term and forces admins to manually check support status.

Can't you just remove your payment info and let it get canceled on its own?

Unless you've explicitly agreed to this, or operate in a litigation-happy country and don't have a budget for lawyers and the small risk of loosing, feel free to ignore this license and others like it. Weights are not currently copyrightable. We have a photo of a smiling monkey to prove it.

Ironically, Apple's monopolistic and predatory restrictions on spare parts will still allow this scumbag to make a profit, even after he has failed to access her phone. Had Apple allowed people to access parts, her phone would be absolutely worthless.

Apple's abuse of our laws is what's making iphone thefts still profitable. Ironic.

Don't forget them requiring an online Microsoft account to change the setting. Don't have internet or can't set up an account? Well, tough luck.

Tesseract's true value is being one apt-get command away (i.e. opensource). Does Debian host more modern OCR systems in their repos?

I'd personally recommend using something that doesn't block real people like there's no tomorrow.

I am only using android as a compromise because it can run the bare minimum software I need and I couldn't find a similar device that runs standard Linux.

Unfortunately, Google appears to be adding new limits to what software on Android is allowed to do with each update. I don't think android will continue to be a viable option for me for much longer. Standard linux support is likely going to be mandatory.

Whether it's from daylight, pine64, framework, or any of the other OEMs working in this space, I don't care. I'll gladly pay anything for a good tablet that does what I need it to do.

I want to end my collaboration with them too. What is the most open, repairable phone out there that would run my banking app?