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It doesn't sound to me like any GPUs will be bough for this? The comments about having fewer resources and being at a financial disadvantage implies to me like they know there's no winning by trying to be the next OpenAI - none of the mentioned allied companies appear to be doing anything like that either.

Reading the article, I think at least to oppose centralised players that DoS the internet, congest our electricity infrastructure and pollute the environment, and try to bypass democracy through regulatory capture. That captures quite a few of the dark sides of the current AI hype that I'm unhappy about, so let's hope that works out.

The thread shows just regular pushes, which is even more on the nose.

En we noemen het: Logius.

In general, it's good to be aware that the defaults in Firefox are often chosen to find a balance between breakage and privacy protection, and projects like arkenfox consciously accept more breakage in exchange for more privacy. (Although sometimes not even that, e.g. when you enable most, but not all, fingerprinting protection, thereby creating a new fingerprint.)

My hot take is that at the same time, our "institutional dysfunction" has been what has protected us from going all the way down the path to fascism. Strong leaders that get things done quickly usually aren't great for democracy.

Haha, don't worry, I get that perspective. I was actually trying to do the opposite - I feel like the perspective you outline is the default one people will usually take, so I wanted to change that :P I think this article does a good job of that too: just because they're not perfect, doesn't mean someone actively doing some good deserves negative attention, when we don't give that same treatment to others who do less good.

That said, I'm not arguing that we should "be treating FUTO as a beacon of OSS support". I do actually agree with all of this:

What we should be doing is acknowledging that they did give a small one time donation to various projects, but also recognising that it was for self-serving reasons. I’m sure theres individuals who have given more than 1000 in single payments to these projects, or less but more consistently (monthly, every 6 months, every year, etc). What makes FUTO more of a supporter than those individuals?

If it wasn't for this article, I wouldn't actually be talking about FUTO. (Except in the context of Immich, where they actually are the main reason the project's doing well.) So I don't feel like we need to start negatively discussing them just because they're not perfect.

And don't worry about the downvotes, I don't actually care about them.

It's just so much more sensible than 50 km/h.

Yeah I read the article. Still, musl libc received $1000, the advertising didn't sell anything, and it got corrected after it got pointed out. One of the founders maybe did associate themselves with someone whose views I might not like, but I feel like if their main goal was to promote that person, there would've been more efficient ways to use that money to do so that would not resolve in musl libc receiving $1000, or in a project like Immich being viable.

I don't think that comparison is entirely fair, but I do think that homeless person having 1 euro is still better than that person not having 1 euro. Especially if instead of 1 euro, they actually gave the homeless donation equivalent of keeping a project like Immich viable.

I'd also keep in mind that there are other rich person not giving 1 euro to a homeless person, and so while I have my reservations about rich people in general, I wouldn't necessarily single out the one that gave the euro.

Vaak als een wetenschappelijke doorbraak in het nieuws komt "omdat het Nederlands is", is het eigenlijk niet zo bijzonder, maar dit lijkt me toch wel een erg mooie stap. Hopen dat de tests succesvol zijn!

I mean, they do still give money to good open source projects.