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[–] stsquad@lemmy.ml 1 points 5 hours ago* (last edited 5 hours ago)

Free software licenses generally don't restrict what kind of study or what kind of changes you can make. A lot of licences explicitly say "for any purpose". There are licences that add additional restrictions, for example restricting the field of use to non-military, but they are not free software licenses.

ETA: the question of where liability lies for infringing terms of a source license occur should a LLM model launder for example GPL code into a propriety code base is something that will have to be decided by the courts.

[–] stsquad@lemmy.ml 6 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Freedom 1 of the four software freedoms is:

The freedom to study how the program works, and change it to make it do what you wish (freedom 1). Access to the source code is a precondition for this.

[–] stsquad@lemmy.ml 3 points 2 days ago

We already have those, for example in the UK the ASA is a self regulatory body which prohibits deceptive advertising. They can also refer cases to statutory authorities such as Ofcom or Trading Standards.

YMMV in other jurisdictions.

[–] stsquad@lemmy.ml 4 points 2 days ago
[–] stsquad@lemmy.ml 1 points 6 days ago

I don't think anyone will be shipping CHERI this year. However I suspect a lot of ideas from it will make it's way into Arm and RISCV architecture enhancements.

[–] stsquad@lemmy.ml 20 points 1 week ago (2 children)

I suspect the bandwidth and storage costs are considerably higher than your average instance as well.

[–] stsquad@lemmy.ml 0 points 1 week ago (5 children)

I know that but even the best EV is not helpful of your grid keeps shutting down.

[–] stsquad@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 week ago (8 children)

Isn't Cuba also dependant on oil for it's electricity generation?

[–] stsquad@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 week ago (9 children)

Was it explained? There was a comment that Klingons don't like to talk about it but no explanation I remember.

My personal head canon was something went wrong during the DISCO timeline and somehow the process that gave us Tyler ends up infecting the rest of the Klingons who spend the next 50 or so years as swarthy humans before eventually being restored by scientists to the TNG/TOS films ridges we all know and love.

[–] stsquad@lemmy.ml 4 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

When it comes to export controls and sanctioned entities it doesn't really matter what Red Hat would like to do - they have to comply with the law in the jurisdictions they work in. Even if it was purely a community project individual contributors face a similar liability if based in those jurisdictions.

When it comes to sanction lists there is a fair amount of commonalty between the US and Europe. This is really something to complain to government about.

[–] stsquad@lemmy.ml 12 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Imgur has been offline in the UK since the original investigation. Do they even want to be in the UK market?

[–] stsquad@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 weeks ago (4 children)

I guess to would have to look at the suicide rates in other populations coming out of COVID.

COVID and the associated turmoil certainly did have an effect on the mental health of the country.

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submitted 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) by stsquad@lemmy.ml to c/localllama@sh.itjust.works
 

Watching #emacsconf today I was introduced to this open source project to act as an agent between #llm's and editors.

Has anyone played with this? Any experience in how one would sandbox an agent so it doesn't do anything outside the project directory?

 

This is depressing. I have relatives who are adopters and it seems this sort of behaviour of social workers is endemic in the system. The support is not there and when things break down they attack the parents to bully them into continuing at risk to themselves and their other kids.

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submitted 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) by stsquad@lemmy.ml to c/videos@lemmy.world
 

A fairly deep dive about how you can cherry pick stats to push a narrative.

 

Perhaps the biggest libvirt related piece of work here has been to reworking of the QMP API docs to make them easier to navigate. QMP is how libvirt probes for functionality as well as handling things like introspection of the machines and dealing with things like hotplug.

 

Post Office paid £600m to continue using Horizon despite its broken state. Hopefully this should be a wake up call to government about how it goes about large software projects.

In my opinion anything written for government should come with a full license for the source code (preferably open source) so they have the ability to change suppliers if there are any issues.

 

For virtualization there are improvements for VirtIO, vfio and Loongarch CPU hotplug. On the emulation side additions for Arm, RiscV and even some speed ups for x86 string ops. On the documentation side a whole bunch of work has been done on QMP API to make it clearer and more navigable.

 

I was trying to add a Matter device from my phone but it kept saying I needed to install the companion app from the Play store even though I was in the companion app (from f-droid). I've installed the Bluetooth proxy app as well but it made note difference.

Does anyone know what's going on?

 

It always seemed to me that QAnon was some sort of online LARP on 4chan that got out of control and metastasized. It's left a trail of broken families and swept into the mainstream with branding and everything. After the predictions of Trump's return to power after Jan 6th it seems to have fizzled out. Did QAnon stop posting? Did their adherents just glom onto the next crazy theory? How many followers now disavow the theories of QAnon?

 

This is an interesting article of the fish shells journey of covering to rust which I found quite interesting. I'm especially interested because of projects I work with that are currently experimenting with rust.

 

The long awaited Cass report has been published looking at gender affirming care in the NHS.

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