Tux Machines
Posted by Roy Schestowitz on Jun 14, 2023
=> /n/2023/06/14/Games_Leftovers.gmi Games Leftovers
=> /n/2023/06/14/Fedora_Election_Results_Fedora_Engineering_Steering_Committee_S.gmi Fedora Election Results: Fedora Engineering Steering Committee (Stephen Gallagher, Neal Gompa, Major Hayden, and Tom Stellard), Fedora Council (Sumantro Mukherjee), and Mindshare Committee (David Duncan)
=> https://www.osnews.com/story/136235/google-further-guts-the-android-open-source-project-by-deprecating-the-dialer-and-messaging-apps/ ↺ Google further guts the Android Open Source Project by deprecating the dialer and messaging apps – OSnews
=> https://www.theregister.com/2023/06/13/office_open_xml_signatures/ ↺ Office Open XML signatures are 'practically worthless' • The Register
=> https://medevel.com/10-os-qa-and-reddit-alternatives/ ↺ 10+ Free and Open-source Self-hosted Questions and Answers Solutions Similar to Reddit and Stackoverflow
Build your own self-hosted and private Reddit clone for your community, team, school, company, and customers with these 10 open-source alternatives
=> https://rubenerd.com/reddit-llms-apis-tlas/ ↺ Reddit, LLMs, APIs, TLAs
If I were a YouTube essayist, I’d say this is a story about power, language, and Digg… ing one’s grave. Wait, damn it.
Beleaguered link aggregator site Reddit recently followed in Twitter’s well-received footsteps in imposing steep costs to access their API, attributed to large-language models training against their corpus of material without their permission, and for free. Hey, you and I know how that feels! It’s coached less in terms of defending individual writers from plagiarism, and more with words like “value” (don’t forget who owns your material when you post to a commercial site), but I’ll take it.
Given how generative AIs and LLMs are now dickishly disseminating dull derivative dystopian detritus at scale across the web, knock-on effects are hardly surprising. Dickishly. It also raises what people like me have been saying for months: AIs depend on training data made by people who aren’t attributed or compensated. Tech pundits don’t care, though their lack of social responsibility is hardly new. I’ve been running an experiment about this, which I hope to post soon.
=> https://www.nytimes.com/2023/06/12/business/media/reddit-subreddit-blackout-protest.html ↺ Reddit Communities Go Dark to Protest New App Policy
Volunteer moderators closed off access to numerous subreddits and denounced the platform’s pricing plan for developers of popular outside apps used to navigate the site.
=> https://qz.com/thousands-of-subreddits-are-going-dark-for-at-least-two-1850528484 ↺ Thousands of subreddits are going dark for at least two days
Thousands of communities on the platform will become inaccessible today (June 12), and stay that way for at least two days.
=> https://heathermeeker.com/2023/06/12/open-atom-foundation-and-my-book-in-chinese/ ↺ Open Atom Foundation, and My Book in Chinese
=> http://techrights.org/2023/06/09/fossda-open-weights/ ↺ Shill for corporations, rewriting history
I am excited to announce that my book Open Source for Business is now available for free download in Chinese. Many thanks to Open Atom Foundation, China’s first open source foundation, for preparing the translation and making it available.