kajika91 · HackerTrans

> Check out the OLMo family from the Allen Institute for AI: https://allenai.org/blog/olmo3

Is this a joke of just blatant publicity for this Billionaire "philanthropist"? This olmo uses random data of totally infringing license database such a StackEdu (https://huggingface.co/datasets/HuggingFaceTB/stack-edu).

I took this first dataset from what olmo claim to use and check a random used data -> https://github.com/rodriguescarina/URI . Boom MIT licensed (where is the credit?), 0 opt-in for AI training as far as I see.

kajika91

5 days agodiscuss

Glad to see people trying to talk sense in this community but the AI chill here is very strong. Reminds me of the proud "we should go back to our military-industrial root".

Also funny how it's always about "the smartest guy I ever met" impliyng other dev aren't that smart. There are easily tens of thousands of devs who are way above anyone's here level but there are coding OS module, GNU tooling or other less shining stuff, or there are not American enough.

It's tiring to see the usual corp slop : github, twitter or blue sky, vibe coding, etc. Then see the complain years latter than the product was "enshitified", all was there from the beginning. Think about the real FOSS software (GNU tooling, ffmpeg, Godot, codeberg/forgejo) to see long term software than work and carry all this money-makimg mess.

As for chatto the dependency mountain is a red flag to me, this is asking for problem in my opinion, were talking primarily about sending text here.

kajika91

4 months agodiscuss

I am surprise there is no mention of Librewolf here. The differences of Librewolf and Waterfox is pretty hard to grasp, I am digging a little bit but so far I guess I would say using any of them is still way better than the main alternatives.

Librewolf is, to me, the way better alternative as this is really in the FOSS mindset : a tool for everyone to use and by anyone to contribute. Seeing their plateform alone (Lemmy/Matrix/Codeberg, they also have a reddit community it seems) you can already see this is an other world than Waterwolf's bluesky/reddit/github. To be fair I can understand the SNS part but the github is a big redflag to me.

As usual I can see people that are very probably sincere in their goals not realizing the way they are going will lead to the usual enshitification: company focus, brave dependency, etc.

I note that Waterfox seems to legally originate from UK and it is refreshing to have an ecosystem that is not centralized in 1 country : for the sake of everyone it is better not to rely to much on 1 legislator (see age verification for instance).

kajika91

6 months agodiscuss

Yes we should run URL-unaware manager, but nearly no one understand security, especially in browser. Let's see the permission asked for the #1 manager in firefox (Authenticator):

  Input data to the clipboard
  Access your data for sites in the dropboxapi.com domain
  Access your data for www.google.com
  Access your data for www.googleapis.com
  Access your data for accounts.google.com
  Access your data for graph.microsoft.com
  Access your data for login.microsoftonline.com

Yep! And #2 (2FAS Auth):

  Display notifications to you
  Access browser tabs
  Access browser activity during navigation
  Access your data for all websites

Even better, maybe at one point web browser can get their sh* together and build better permission system (and not just disable functions like manifest v3). For now the majority of people trust opaque organization shoving them unknown code their run with way too many permissions on their computers.

Talking about unknown code there is a lot of work to be done on reproducible build as anything touching web has nearly nothing about it.

kajika91

7 months agodiscuss

Following leader's GUI is not a choice, I feel like you never did such endeavor as building an alternative to a well-known software in it's way to enshitification : people will ask and complain if the alternative is too far from their comfort zone.

The good part is that if you have better solution you actually can suggest a PR and/or implement it for yourself.

The bot verification is not specific to Forgejo/Codeberg a lot of Foss project and organization use this method to avoid unnecessary bot traffic. I understand the issue you have with it but the problem is way larger than codeberg here.

Also about the login with GitHub button would be immensely annoying for the community : you came from GitHub and you might think that your experience is more important but as this is community driven and not a business the people actually creating and using the software don't need nor want to prioritize such button but leave the option for those who wants it, which is very nice of them. Eventually if the majority start thinking a GitHub login is preferred an issue can be created and a change made in that direction.

kajika91

8 months agodiscuss

I also have an older Odroid HC4, it's been years it is running smoothly and not only I cannot use 1000$ for a NAS as the current post implied but the power consumption seems crazy to me for a mere disk-over-network usage (using a 500W power supply).

I like the extensive benchmark from hardkernel, the only issue is that any ARM-based product is very tricky to boot and the only savior is armbian.

kajika91

8 months agodiscuss

This is a very good move, using more open technology benefits everyone in the long run.

Aside from the bitter words against Github (and I read comments here forgetting about the very real consequences with people lives like collaboration with ICE), using codeberg is using Forgejo : those technology are by us and for us. Unlike Github we can run our own if necessary and all the technology (actions and such) can be improved and be shared between us.

An other benefit of Forgejo/Codeberg is the absence of pushing for paying more, Github is not free and lives of users going to Azure/Gemini or other Mircrosoft services. There are many parts that are made/changed to nudge people into paying more and more and be vendor-locked.

I like my life to have the fewest dark patterns as possible and Coderberg is extremely helpful.

kajika91

8 months agodiscuss

I'll take the almonds any day.

kajika91

2 years agodiscuss

Greeted with a sword picture (ascii), glorifying Sparta (what is this "Established 650 BC"?), not utf-8 but only "us-ascii". This doesn't smell good vibes to me.

Sorry but pass.