Any time I see a grognard seriously suggest going back to bash for anything exceeding 10 lines of code it makes me very happy none of them are in control.

Around 800 Frenchies affected. Imagine the money both companies wasted on lawyers on this and how many of those 800 will be forced to pay now instead of finding another dns server…

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FOSS & crowdsourced

A massive breach on the scale that recall facilitates tends to change such things.

What if I don’t want certain people to build on my work, or to constrain the ways in which the build on it? (Non-commercial, share-alike, attribution, etc. clauses) Should I be able to?

No. The idea that someone should be allowed to control what others do with their expressions and ideas is a very new concept (~100 years) and it has not brought any benefit to society

Copyright/IP/patent law started as way to allow people to feed themselves off their labour

Check out what happened when copyrights were first enacted. It was another enclosures “gold rush” where scammers went around and copied traditional songs people were using and declated copyrights, then went around and sued those same people.

Copyright law is broken. But I don’t think that means we have no obligations to each other as human beings when we build on each other’s work.

Absolutely! This is why I said anything built on public work, should be public goods as well.

We had the same argument during the crypto craze. The financial system is broken, but 10 years later I think we all agree that crypto is pretty clearly not the answer.

That’s not a good comparison. Crypto was a (bad) solution looking for a problem. GenAI already has use-cases.

They won’t, of course. But they will use the pressure towards copyrights against AI to kill open source GenAI progress. But at least when advocating for Open models, you don’t hurt the people who are doing FOSS.

You cannot stop GenAI unless you stop sales of all gaming GPUs and recall all sold ones world wide. You just can’t. That cat’s out of the bag. You can try to restrict big corpos like OpenAI, but your politicians and bought already. Therefore adding your voice to trying to “stop GenAI” via copyright laws is just playing yourself. You can try to restrict GenAI via climate protections, but that will go as well as efforts to stop supporting genocides (or as well efforts have gone to protect the climate anyway).

This is exactly what people like me warned about. The push for copyright-protections against GenAI is not going to stop GenAI. It’s just going to create a future where only the big players can make AI models because they can pay for “licenses” with those strong enough to threaten them (while scraping everyone else anyway) and just kill open sourced models.

We’re seeing it play it exactly like that. Y’all can’t stop GenAI. You literally don’t have enough power where it counts. The only sane solution is to push that any GenAI model trained on public data must have open weights by default.

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It’s extraordinarily difficult to make a living in it unless you luck out and start a project that is extraordinary popular from the get go and even then you have to be more skilled than all the copycats. I’m running the only Foss ai api and I’m barely covering costs even though we have thousands of users 🤷

No other ai companies are profitable either. They just have deeper pockets and don’t enrich the commons,just themselves

It totally is. Not by your pet definition maybe but millions of wage workers and stock markets say otherwise

You call this calm? :D

But I know the feeling. I didn’t really want to run a lemmy but reddit made it intolerable not to and here we are. I should be working on my main project >_<

When working on lemmy is too relaxing so you need another project to keep you busy :D

It’s exactly the same for us. There are hundreds of open issues for Lemmy and we can’t work on all of them.

You misunderstand. For you, lemmy is your full-time job, so working on feature A instead of feature B, is still working on lemmy. For me being a lemmy admin is a side-thing to my main FOSS project, and on top of that I also have my day job.

By voting totals you mean the karma score? We intentionally decided not to show that because it has many negative effects. It was accidentally still exposed in the api so we removed that.

yes exactly. But this is something that you diverge from what other admins might want. So they cannot submit it as a feature even if they want to which is what I was alluding to earlier as to why you might not see the PRs

Maybe because we Linux users never look at our desktop? 😅Dunno but would be nice to have

Speaking or myself, it’s simply a matter of time. Even doing the fediverse stuff I’m already doing is stretching me beyond my limits.

About the prs, ye I don’t want to do the broken telephone here. The point is there’s clearly a sort of disconnect between how welcoming the lemmy developers believe they are and how they are perceived by some other people. It’s not an easy problem to solve tbh and requires some honest discussion in good faith with the affected parties.

About the open voting totals, I remember there was a conflict about this. Weren’t they are some point hidden on the api? As in if you request the overall voting total for a user you alway get 0?

Hear hear! I do think that the optics of the lemmy dev team could be improved but I nevertheless recognise they’re putting in a ton of work into the project. I’m also very happy with how nice the community has been towards me and my contributions. The positive vibes really help motivate people like me, which also means they can demotivate others when reversed.

I also think you’re one of the mvps of the project yourself, sunaurus. You support the last week was invaluable to me and the project would be in dire straits if you stopped.