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Comment by TomGarden | Hacker News Reader

The larping as a grassroots/open source product is really off-putting. The only reason anyone would use this is that its "free" and comes with preloaded prompts for non-technical people.

No thanks.

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LARPing would imply pretending to do something, but not actually doing it. Here they appear to be actually doing it (open source product). Is there something Im missing?

A surplus of outrage and a willingness to share your unfiltered reactions to things, I guess.

celebrities and billionaires always catch more heat, can we not call out their bs?

You only addressed half of it. I'm with you that the code is open source, but it's an open source client for Meta's proprietary service. The one original piece of hardware on this "Open source hardware for your Muse" page, the Home Link, only works with an active subscription. And the "grassroots" part is clearly larpy: a "by hackers, for hackers" voice in a Meta incubator repo.

It does not say you have to keep an active subscription for continued operation. The page only says:

  Claim your Muse Home Link
  Free with an active Muse subscription

https://muse.ai/deviceterms "If your Muse subscription terminates or expires, your Muse Device will cease to function as described in these Device Terms and the device documentation. The device's capabilities will be unavailable until an active subscription is restored."

https://gadgets.muse.ai/home-link "Muse Home Link itself only runs official firmware and can’t be reflashed"

Clause 6 esp 6c makes this completely unfree and probably worse in the regard than an HP inkjet.

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