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Muse Glimmer doesn't redeem Meta, but it's a contribution to the commons and the Apache 2.0 licensing is an improvement from the restricted licenses attached to Llama. If even Meta…

Even with US sanctions, Chinese AI companies would continue to serve users in every other country in the world (including China itself), so I don't see why they would stop releasin…

Alibaba Cloud runs ModelScope, which is like Hugging Face but based in China: - https://modelscope.ai - Source code (ironically on GitHub): https://github.com/modelscope/modelscope…

The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy - Script: https://archive.org/stream/hitchhikers-guide-to-the-galaxy/H... - Film (with some differences): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=41Vli…

OpenAI is currently a PBC that metastasized out of the original nonprofit also called OpenAI which owns 26% of that PBC. But yes, it is ridiculous.

Unlike Claude Fable, once an open weights model is released, it's available forever (or at least until every copy is lost or deleted, which won't be soon). Open weights models are …

I have no reason to care about the interests of these companies. My interests are best served with a competitive selection of open weights models available for my use. OpenAI has t…

I agree with you on the distinction. Meta's models are not even open weights, and yet they are claiming that their models are open source.

Whenever Meta claims their models are open source, you have to double-check. SAM License ( https://github.com/facebookresearch/sam3/blob/main/LICENSE ): > iv. Your use of the SAM M…

European Commission press release: "Commission provides guidance to Google for AI interoperability on Android and sharing of Google Search data under the Digital Markets Act" https…

Thunderbird supports threading in the message list pane (which displays replies next to the email that was replied to), but a conversation mode for the message pane is still in dev…

"They" can always be used to casually refer to someone when their gender is irrelevant to the conversation.

While I appreciate that Krea made this model's weights available for download, it's not open source when the license ( https://huggingface.co/krea/Krea-2-Raw/blob/main/LICENSE.pdf …

Pay to remove bloatware? Brave is begging to be forked, LibreWolf-style.

See: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47581532

Not impressed to see the official Pebble app and app store be closed source once again. Looks like Pebble is taking the Google Play route by making it inconvenient to use the under…

No, the main ForgeFed repo is on Codeberg: https://codeberg.org/ForgeFed/ForgeFed The README in both repos links to the main Codeberg repo and says that the GitHub repo is a mirror…

Anubis has a commercial version called BotStopper that allows the mascot to be changed: https://anubis.techaro.lol/docs/admin/botstopper But, Anubis uses the plain MIT license, so …

> When I switched to KDE/Plasma 5 to get fractional scaling it was extremely unstable KDE Plasma 6 made major improvements and has excellent fractional scaling, the best I've seen …

From the class action complaint: > The Deception of the Challenged Representations and Unlawful Marketing & Sale of the Products. The Challenged Representations misled reasonable c…

From the specs: > Interfaces > Supports USB4 with DisplayPort output and USB-PD power input on the rear two slots > Supports USB 3.2 with DisplayPort output and USB-PD power input …

It's a shame that Framework hasn't managed to implement a pointing stick on its laptops. If they offered one, I would already be using their laptops. The Framework feature request …

You can't scroll with just your thumb, while you can scroll with a TrackPoint while holding down the middle mouse button. Using your thumb on a trackpad with your hand positioned a…