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Big tech created windows, chrome, and ads. Big tech puts ads in everything, everywhere, all the time.
I'd say big tech going away is a good thing. We need more linixes, firefoxes, wnd Kagis.
Honestly, this comment inadvertently proves the need to quarantine US tech. Almost every product you listed is utter garbage, especially Windows.
There's nothing inherently better about Windows than Linux. Libre Office suit can become much better than MS Office if ot got enough suppoet - support that just goes away to M$ contracts.
Google search has become utter garbage.
Hetzner exists, and more Cloud companies would exist if it weren't for America's Big Tech having a competitive advantage due to their sheer size.
Adobe is a shit company with shit behavior. I'd welcome its implosion anytime. Again, if the billions siphoned away for their licenses was spent on FOSS alternatives, we'd end up with such healthier ecosystem.
Visa and Mastercard are leas innovation and more completely regulated duopoly at this point.
Also, with the exception of SpaceX, I'd gladly welcome the complete implosion of all companies you mentioned. I'd love to watch them burn to cinders, while the world finally breathes free.
The AI model complements the platform, and their platform is the money maker. They hold the belief that open sourcing their tools benefit their platform on the long run, which is why they're doing it. And in doing so, they aren't under the control of any competitors.
I would say it's more like a grocery store providing free parking, a bus stop, self-checkout, online menu, and free delivery.
He was clear in that one of their motivations is avoiding vendor lockin. He doesn't want Meta to be under the control of their competitors or other AI providers.
He also recognizes the value brought to his company by open sourcing products. Just look at React, PyTorch, and GraphQL. All industry standards, and all brought tremendous value to Facebook.
Training Code and dataset are analogous to the developer who wrote the script
Model and weights are end product that is then released
Inference Code is the runtime that could execute the code. That would be e.g. PyTorch, which can import the weights and run inference.
According to the article:
> the company is considering changing its governance structure to a for-profit business that the firm's nonprofit board doesn't control
Emphasis mine.
I find this response to be hilariously contradictory. How would becoming a for-profit help a non-profit mission.
It's worth noting that Anthropic is a public benefit company, which means it's not required to pursue profit at all costs.
> As of this writing, we could not find any existing tools to send a ZFS file system to S3 and download it from Cloud Storage, in real time. Most tools like z3 are used for backup purposes, but we needed to transfer filesystem chunks as quickly as possible.
So, they didn't rewrite anything.
I would even say it's only negatives.
But unfortunately, it will have to stay legal, otherwise people would still seek it through illegal means, possibly exposing themselves to much worse dangers.
It's the same problem with drugs (including Alcohol) and tobacco, they need to be legal in order to he regulated.
[0] clip about the Nvidia "incident" https://youtu.be/wvQ0N56pW74
I've tried the various hacks available for Firefox to achieve a similar result, but nothing comes close to Edge here. Closest I got to edge is Midori, though unfortunately that one is still pretty buggy.
Questioning things is how one truly reaches God. Your elders failed you.
Some people just hold beliefs because they were born with them, not because they necessarily believe in them. I know these types because I've lived my whole life around many of them. Thanks to them, I've come to despise the modern concept of organizated religions, though I still value religion itself.
This is why I tend to view modern religious leaders as parasites. They convince other people that they [the other people] can't understand religion on their own,that religion is mysterious and only those well versed may speak on the art.
By convincing people of such things, said people then outsource the job of thinking to those select few, and you're left with mindless brains who can't figure out the answers to a child's questions about God.
I ask myself questions, I always do, and I try to look for answers, for each question answered brings me one step closer to God, and by extension, brings me some measure of peace in life.
Aren't said locals literally tax payers? And they want their tax money to go to something actually useful for them.
The article even provides a link to a search result showing multiple commits from people who learned from the fix.
That commit message is a treasure trove of knowledge.
So yeah, we aren't suckers, and without us our civilization will collapse.
Very rare for one of those to stay alive around here. Has yo be because they provide good examples.