"Tesla accused of using sneaky tactic to dodge car repairs"
They manipulate the odometer readings based on vibes so that they can deny the warranty, pretend the cars have a longer range, dodge lemon laws, and more.
So, despite all our problems in the OSS community, I understand why people put code on forges (github, etc) and have been doing so for years. I understand the collaborative nature of development and the varied array of motivations one might have to create software either in public, or collaboratively with the public.
I … cannot figure out why anyone is doing this with "AI" models. Why do people upload weights to Ollama or Huggingface? What is (are) the incentive structure(s) there?
My guess is they're just externalizing storage and bandwidth costs onto someone whose funding hasn't run out yet, as with free web hosting during the 90s dotcom bubble.
Perhaps there's a little more to it. The Ollama CLI and the Huggingface transformer library both pull from their respective repos. I have no idea what Ollama's reasons are for providing that free hosting, or even what kind of entity is behind Ollama.
@matt sure, but… why would they want me to have their model at all?
with software, the threshold is like… one person donating their time, even if it costs, in some sense, "a lot of money" to build software, it fits within a sensibly discretionary budget to create the seed of a new project, but models don't seem to work like that? they require huge capital outlay just for the compute time, even totally ignoring the human labor required
@matt but with software there's the possibility of other contributors cooperating with you to contribute back patches. if you're building the software for an operational need of your own rather than to sell, those contributions back to you are incredibly valuable, much more valuable than any money you might make by selling your project, particularly if it's an SDK or whatever. there are lots of alternative ways to monetize your effort, and many projects are small enough to be hobbies
Bluesky didn't reach a federated stage where you could choose a service provider in a free country before they started to censor people based on authoritarian demands.
Do I understand it correctly, that Adebar uses the command 'adb backup' as its main engine? I thought that this command doesn't make reliable backups anymore and more and more apps disable the ability for them.
@MichaelZ You do understand correctly. Unfortunately, the `adb backup` command was pretty much castrated from around Android 10 onward, and no replacement provided. So reliable backups cannot be done with that anymore.
If your device is rooted, Adebar provides replacements for backup/restore, too – otherwise, you can still use it for device documentation. Sorry, not much that can be done about that (apart from using a companion app, which I cannot provide).
Judge Boasberg is laying out a careful plan to have members of the Trump regime fined or imprisoned for contempt. He is not kidding around. Here's what's going to happen next, from page 44: (1/4)
In the event that Defendants do not choose to purge their contempt [comply now with his order], the Court will proceed to identify the individual(s) responsible for the contumacious conduct by determining whose “specific act or omission” caused the noncompliance. At the suggestion of the Government in the last hearing, the Court will begin by requiring declarations. (2/4)
Should those be unsatisfactory, the Court will proceed either to hearings with live witness testimony under oath or to depositions conducted by Plaintiffs. The next step would be for the Court, pursuant to the Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure, to “request that the contempt be prosecuted by an attorney for the government.” If the Government “declines” [!!] or “the interest of justice requires,” the Court will “appoint another attorney to prosecute the contempt.” (3/4)
Speaking as someone who isn't all that familiar with how these things usually go, is there anything the admin can do to stop or slow this down in any way? I really hope not, because I have a feeling that if some of them go to jail, these insane abuses of power will end. Thanks for providing info on this.
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I love the composition at least. The key/mode also is to my taste as I rarely like any track. As always, my obsession is with the dorian and mixolydian modes. :)
I'm a cis woman, and *I* don't know if I'd neatly fit some bigot essentialist's 'biological woman' category. I've never had an ultrasound other than on my eyes, or had my chromosomes or particular hormone levels identified, and my body doesn't fully operate as advertised on the box for one reason or another. Just let people live their lives, fgs.
I'm a bit concerned. I went to work today and everybody kept asking me if I had a job interview lined up. Seems I had a nice dressy shirt on and I just recently had a haircut. Now I'm wondering if the polo shirts I love so much look really grubby. Oh well, who cares... because I'm on vacation!
Before recycling glass jars and bottles, I don't just wash them out - I also polish them until they glisten and shine. I like to imagine the lads down at the recycling plant examining my glass and saying "brilliant polishing, Matt, you fucking legend". They probably don't though.
Newfound world 2M1510 (AB) b appears to orbit not one but two stars...and they are actually failed stars, known as brown dwarfs...and the planet orbits sideways, in a unique up-and-down polar orbit.
Astronomers have found a planet that orbits at an angle of 90 degrees around a rare pair of peculiar stars. This is the first time we have strong evidence for one of these ‘polar planets’ orbiting a stellar pair.
Started writing a reply to a topic on Discourse, and deleted it three times, until I just went: you know what? Fuck off, I don't need the aggravation in my life
Ich bin seit über 20 Jahren bei #DomainFactory - waren früher super, hatten nach Übernahme von #GoDaddy teilweise Probleme mit Datenlecks/Erreichbarkeit, insgesamt aber alles soweit gelaufen. Früher war Support auch sehr gut. - Aktuell Zwangsmigration zu Microsoft mit preislich enormer Erhöhung. Support sehr schlecht.
Honestly, the open standards internet is still there, beneath the surface. 😁 I've got my user generated content here on the #fediverse, my spoken word content in #Castamatic powered by open #RSS feeds and #Podcasting20, I read my articles in @NetNewsWire, again from regular ole RSS, and I can chat on #IRC or @matrix. It may not be the mainstream any more unfortunately, but it's still alive and going, protect it.
I am currently winding down the Mastodon bots I used to post sunrise and sunset times. The precipitating event is that the admin of the instance hosting the associated accounts demanded they be made nigh-undiscoverable, but the underlying cause is th…
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I've said this before but it's worth repeating: take a look at your federated timeline from time to time. Its usefulness depends on your instance and what servers it chatters with, but in amongst the kayoss, you can often find people you're actually interested in following. Do a bit of feed curation and pruning from time to time and the fediverse can be a really nice place. 😁
Also, it's so obvious when you say it, but if you're looking for more content of a specific topic, do some digging, find the main hashtags for it, follow them, and follow people who have posted with those tags recently. Feed curation can be quite a rewarding experience!
My university taught a lot of its programming classes in Haskell. I still to this day subconsciously translate for- and while loops in terms of map, filter and fold for better understanding. It's such a powerful trio of abstraction.
Haha! Well, theres also a frustration in seeing and thinking in terms of FP but having to map back into the imperative world when writing or talking about code with co-workers who has no FP experience at all.
So in short I have some mixed feelings about the impact Haskell had on my formative years as a programmer and I can in that sense actually relate to the picture as is. :)
For those who are interested in free-threaded Python (peps.python.org/pep-0703/), a few of us working on it, and more importantly porting libraries to work with it, have set up a new Discord server, for folks to ask questions a bit more interactively. (Lurking is also welcome! It's amazing how much you learn by osmosis.)
CPython’s global interpreter lock (“GIL”) prevents multiple threads from executing Python code at the same time. The GIL is an obstacle to using multi-core CPUs from Python efficiently.
Before you plug in your new Timex/Sinclair 1000, please take a moment to think about this exciting new adventure. We want to assure you that:
1. You will enjoy computing.
2. You will find it easy as well as enjoyable.
3. You shouldn’t be afraid of the computer. You are smarter than it is. So is your parakeet, for that matter.
4. You will make mistakes as you learn. The computer will not laugh at you.
5. Your mistakes will not do any harm to the computer. You can’t break it by pushing the “wrong” button.
6. You are about to take a giant step into the future. Everyone will soon be using computers in every part of their daily lives, and you will have a head start.
-- Steve Vickers, Timex/Sinclair 1000 Instruction Manual (aka the US ZX81 manual)
1/2 - TrueFans now allows you to export your podcast activity in the W3C ActivityStreams 2.0 format.
We use the AS2.0 structure - Actor, Verb, Object format. e.g Sam (Actor), Plays (Verb), Podnews Weekly (Object). plus attributes Listen Time, Percent Completed, Value Paid.
We enable users to auto publish their activity to X, ActivityPub, BlueSky, Threads and Linkedin.
Folks having a rough day today, please enjoy this pic I got yesterday of my neighbor’s dog, Hazel, who is tiny and adorable and squeaks and weighs approximately 1.2 puffles (a unit of Floof Metrics), and loses every last scrap of her composure when she sees me coming, which is honestly the best reason to make friends with dogs, I tell you.
While we are waiting for the recordings from #fossnorth to show up, you can browse the slides from my talk "What comes after world domination?" that I did Monday morning.
What these slides don't show, is how my laptop died in the middle of my presentation so I had to reboot to get back into the game and continue... maybe not my greatest moment.
@ascherbaum no clue really, but it was sloppy of me to run it without the power plug inserted to begin with. It has actually done that kind of abrupt unexpected switch-off before - but I don't know why they happen. They only happen when running on battery. It's a rather old laptop by now too.
@ascherbaum Perhaps that's a reason, then? I dunno, but had some similar problems with my old workhorse of a laptop, that went away after I refreshed the battery...
Welcome to your transformation journey. Losing 10 kilos in 30 days is an ambitious yet achievable goal, especially if you're committed to taking massive action and adopting a disciplined approach.
i know people hate to be told they're using software for something it wasn't designed to do but seriously, people who do a lot of long social media "threads" or widely shared announcements/media and want them to be accessible on the same site forever or else at least easily migrated somewhere else…
this happened to me (only part of it). i was being discharged from being involuntarily committed in a psych ward. they immediately asked me for my billing information, beginning to yell at me how they cant discharge me. i called my mom crying scared and confused
this is the same place that didnt properly administer my medication, giving me a mix of anti psychotics like abilify (a medication that made my bio dad almost have a stroke, his face drooped and it was bad) instead of my normal night medication. i was also not allowed physical contact with my family, only zoom and only for 5-10 minutes.
Pretty funny that people are losing it over the icons in iOS 19 becoming circles.
Honestly, bring us back to iOS 4 and skeuomorphism. I want YouTube to be a woodgrain TV and who remembers Newsstand that was literally a wooden bookcase?
sometimes I search GitHub and realize that I am the very first person to attempt to use an API in a certain way, and then I feel so lonely, oh so lonely!
Hacking Accessible Pedestrian Signals is Not a Joke: It’s a Civil Rights Violation Audible signals are a critical safety tool for Blind pedestrians and advocacy is why we have them lflegal.com/2025/04/aps-hack/
On April 12, 2025 the top story on the Palo Alto (California) online news site was "Silicon Valley Crosswalk Buttons Apparently Hacked to Imitate Musk, Zuckerberg Voices" It told the story, covered by other media too, of how someone hacked into audi…
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