I made my own Quake skin for my clan!

This was a great talk and it’s a fascinating history.

The next video is the second half of the talk which is about his participation in the Human Brain Project for which they built a supercomputer out of ARM CPUs, which is quite interesting so long as you’re not bored stiff with more discussion of AI.

Just get them to hitch a ride on Disaster Area’s stunt ship.

Here is the full interview: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tWx769t1JKg

Deserter, eh? Well given that his message is that Russia is fully ready for nuclear conflict I would say that he’s doing a suspiciously good job of spreading propaganda that benefits the Russian war strategy.

Ask yourself: how many Russian deserters with top security clearances would go to the BBC to tell them Russian state secrets?

When I visit the official site (thegameawards.com) it seems to peg my CPU at 100% and make my browser stop responding.

wtf is it doing? crypto-mining?

I tried on my other PC and it actually hung the whole system. I had to power-off manually.

This is an SEO blog and it doesn’t really contain any information that’s useful outside of that context.

There are also parts of the post that read suspiciously like they were AI generated.

This is just an ad for proprietary software. Where is the source? The github repo just has some small utility but not the source for the whole platform.

Dark matter is not something that we really know anything about. It’s just the name given to a series of discrepancies between our cosmological models and our observations.

“dark matter is not a theory” - Angela Collier

I’m referring to discovery, not search for end-users.

Most countries have regulations for companies to retain all internal communications for discovery purposes in the event that they are involved in a lawsuit.

How do you handle retention for discovery purposes if every email is encrypted?

You forgot to link the article.

I could have sworn this joke used to be funny…

My first Linux PC was a Pentium 75MHz with 32Mb RAM.

Technically “data” is plural. The single is datum.

Your datum is under attack.

Not a single mention that Mozilla acquired an ad company, tried to put user-profiling functionality in the browser for ad networks to use, changed their ToS to remove the part that says they don’t sell your data and partnered with a sketchy “data protection” service that it turned out was owned by the same person as some people-finder data-brokers.

Maybe if we want an open source project to be the bastion of private AI that respects your data and doesn’t surveil you, as Anil suggests, perhaps it should be a company that we still trust?

what licence can we use to force any entity using a library to make their project open-source

GPL requires this, since linking with a library is considered a derivative work even if the library is dynamically loaded.

This is why the LGPL exists, which makes the library copyleft but does not extend the derivative work classification to programs linking with the library.

Interesting, but ultimately a roundabout justification for why the author chose a non-FOSS license for their startup Slack-clone built on ATProto.

They talk about “pro-labor licensing” but what they mean is pro- their -labor, not pro- anyone else’s -labor.

GPL is already the most pro-labor licensing since it respects the work of anyone who contributes in equal measure, and does not hold the “original” founding author in higher regard.

It’s really quite something to rail so unequivocally against the “fascistic mega-corps” and “autocratic corpostates” in your licensing justification blog post and then build your commercial product on top of Bluesky .

The GPL doesn’t place any restrictions on selling or profiting from GPL licensed works. It only requires that anyone distributing the work provides the recipients with the same rights under the GPL, ie. the right to view, modify and redistribute the source code.

This means that a company cannot take a GPL licensed work and turn it into a proprietary product.