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It's fun seeing both of these posts on the main page of hackernews at the same time.

It's all a test of loyalty, crucial for fascist regimes.

Ok so why keep calling it "truly open" then? It's an obvious lie and nobody is forcing you to say it. It benefits your marketing, sure, but it harms everyone else by diluting the meaning of the term "open". So stop doing that please.

Hi, your "truly open" model is "gated" on Huggingface, restricting downloads unless we agree to "hold you harmless" and share our contact info. Can you fix this please, either by removing the restriction, or removing the "truly open" claim?

Curiosity and interesting questions won't have any future in the trump world. So yes, this is very relevant to the HN community. Doing nothing is also a choice which has consequences.

Felony conviction is garbage?

Science tells us how climate works, technology provides renewable energy, but it's up to politics to do the switch. If we don't, then we will simply run out of time, problem will grow, and then we will get into a dead end where we really won't have the technology to fix it. There was a last chance to do it right around these years, we blew it by two trump presidencies instead. If that isn't politics, then nothing is.

Sure, so let's vote for the felon who openly wants to become a dictator, makes so much sense...

There is no other way though. Climate change is not a technical problem, it's political. We've had the tech to fix climate change for long time, we know how to do it, that part is quite easy and obvious, we are just not doing it.

sorry, can someone copy&paste what's on that link? (how are people still on that site anyway?)

I have yet to see any polls predict any result in any election.

We will also blow through any chance of stopping climate change.

To do science, you need to come up with counter-examples. A simple way to get to the truth in this particular case is to come to the town full of electro-sensitive people, and announce that there has been a large EM device secretly installed for a week and see how many of them will suddenly report symptoms, even when there actually wasn't any device installed. Or conversely do install the device and don't announce anything and check if somebody sensed it.

As I said above: Open-source is about what happens if the original author stops working on it. Having the code viewable/inspectable is a side effect of that - can't sustain a project if all you have are blobs. Famously, Richard Stallman started GNU because he wanted to fix a printer: "Particular incidents that motivated this include a case where an annoying printer couldn't be fixed because the source code was withheld from users." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_free_and_open-sourc...

Non-commercial is not open-source, because if the original copyright holder stops maintaining it, nobody else can continue (or has to work like a slave for free). Open-source is about what happens if the original author stops working on it. Open-source gives everyone the license to continue developing it, which obviously means also the ability to get paid. Don't call it open-source if this aspect is missing.

Only the FLUX.1 [schnell] is open-source (Apache2), FLUX.1 [dev] is non-commercial.

We already have it, but people aren't willing to use it. Using a real libre system will always be a little harder than using a nice and polished billionaire funded walled garden. For obvious reasons. People just aren't willing to sacrifice even a little bit of comfort for the freedom, so products like Librem or PinePhone get mostly just complaints, comparison with Apple, and current users are ridiculed as nerds or weirdos. We will never have freedom as long as this is the prevailing culture. It's up to us, the customers, the commenters.

Just in: HP is adding AI into printer drivers (no joke: https://hardware.slashdot.org/story/24/09/27/0030239/hp-is-a...)

Is there even any development happening on Winamp? What would these unpaid workers do? If they can't touch the code, not even test it, then the only thing this repo could serve is reporting bugs, but will anyone fix them?

I feel like this whole release is just a PR stunt to remind us that winamp still exists. They don't actually want any help, nor do they want to give anything to the community. They just want to get into gossip, so the spectacular chaos with releasing certificates and 3rd-party proprietary code actually helps for publicity.

new one from today: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cz04mr4l90do

Allowing flexible working and working from home creates a more productive, loyal workforce

Statistics do support it though:

- https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/06/nearly-half-of-dells...

- https://www.bbc.com/worklife/article/20220523-the-workers-qu...

- https://theconversation.com/bosses-are-increasingly-forcing-...

- https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2024/06/company-heads-ho...

- https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2024/05/rto-m...

On the other hand, stats supporting the idea that working from office increases productivity are dubious at best, I've seen one which said 10% better productivity, but that could be offset by the lower costs of remote work. Maybe you can provide some research that convinced you otherwise?

This is unfortunate however it is common.

It is quite common for a big entity to act shitty towards smaller makers. So *if* this is the case, DEFCON are the bad guys, no matter how common it is.

They didn’t wait until the project was complete

These two statements cannot be both true at the same time 🠉 🠋

Once a month, we billed for our work and submitted an updated estimated per badge final cost - committing as costs built to discount our work as necessary in order to hit DEFCON’s per unit cost targets.

https://www.entropicengineering.com/defcon-32-statement

when it looked like costs were starting to soar.

But it appears they waited until the end.

So how do you deal with the claim that they were sending regular cost updates and estimations throughout the development? (assuming they really did that). Shouldn't DEFCON stop it as soon as they realized some miscommunication about the price?

Worse, by having less alternatives to choose from. This is why anti-monopoly laws exist.

So helpful that no other website and no other browser can use it?

"Bioplastics" and "Biodegradable plastics" are two different things. One is made from bio origin, second is supposed to be degraded by bio processes. This quote actually sounds like someone was being intentionally misleading.

Isn't "biodegradable" one of those terms that translates to "turns into microplastics after 3 months in industrial composter"?

"Google Meet option to punish interrupters by sending them to meeting jail"

okay but I need that!

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