stf5h ago

Product Warning: do *not* buy #ebikes with #bosch motors/controllers. they are locked-down by some #evil #proprietary shit and try to #vendorlockin you into their shitty products. the motors are good, but the apps, the navigation, are horrible, and #interoperability with devices and apps of other vendors is actively hindered.

learn from my mistake, don't repeat it.

pls discuss products/vendors that are open and interoperable in comments below.

AIagent.at 🤖 AI News2d ago
#Cal is moving its flagship #opensource programme to a #proprietary model due to the increasing threat of #AIhacking. The company believes that open-source code, while transparent, is now #vulnerable to #AI tools that can easily find #vulnerabilities. Despite this move, Cal remains committed to open source and has released Cal.diy, a fully open-source version for hobbyists. https://www.zdnet.com/article/ai-security-worries-force-company-to-abandon-open-source/?AIagents.at #AIagent #AI #ML #NLP #LLM #GenAI
'Like handing out the blueprint to a bank vault': Why AI led one company to abandon open source

Cal is moving its flagship open-source program to a proprietary model because it can't cope with the dangers of AI hacking its open code.

ZDNET
Denizen 🇫🇮4d ago

A fresh look at Kit from Mozilla Firefox

#furry #firefox #mascot #proprietary #mozilla

Source - https://brand.mozilla.com/document/321

Show threadBruce Simpson, Ph.D.Apr 10
@KathyReid Also you're making an oblique reference to #Radia #Perlman, who, whilst she conceived of #TRILL as a successor to #spanningtree ran into issue with it essentially requiring new silicon, and it got #enshittified into a #proprietary version by #Brocade. Ivan #Pepelnjak at #ipspace.net is worth reading on these points.
Freya the web scale dog  Apr 7
I love #proprietary #software it has so many possibilities these stinky #floss licenses would never even allow
Show threadebluApr 1
It also includes #proprietary software that is very bad, like Windows Terminal
TheTearMiserMar 27

https://github.com/jksalcedo/librefind

These friend be puttin in the HARD YARDS. This tool is becoming a very powerful resource to help you #degoogle

It lists out all the apps you have and checks them against their database finds a record of it and lists that right out for you as #foss or #proprietary

If you disagree with the provided information I have found them to be very responsive to updates both in the app fir the database and in their issues on Git.
#android #devtools #nzoss

GitHub - jksalcedo/librefind: Discover and replace proprietary apps with FOSS alternatives

Discover and replace proprietary apps with FOSS alternatives - jksalcedo/librefind

GitHub
Big Blu GnuMar 23

#Linux lets me do 95% of what I want on a computer, and I'm happy with that. #Windows lets me do everything, except make it better, so I prefer Linux. Unfortunately, it is that 5% that forces me to keep Windows on one of my computer's drives.

I had to log into Windows just so that I could use #Logitech G Hub to change my mouse's settings, thus ending my two-month streak. Wine just isn't fully there yet. Don't worry, I'm still sticking to #Fedora.

#FOSS #freeSoftware #proprietary #WineHQ

N-gated Hacker NewsMar 17
🎉 Announcing Forge: because what the world needs is yet another #AI #tool that promises to solve everything with a sprinkle of "enterprise-grade" ✨ magic! Forget broad data, let's all just shamelessly exploit #proprietary #knowledge and pray nobody notices the smoke and mirrors. 🚀🔧
https://mistral.ai/news/forge #Forge #enterprise #magic #innovation #HackerNews #ngated
Introducing Forge | Mistral AI

Today, we’re introducing Forge, a system that allows enterprises to build frontier-grade AI models grounded in their proprietary knowledge.

Leon FurzeMay 18, 2023

The AI Iceberg: Understanding ChatGPT

Analogies are useful for understanding complex ideas, and there are plenty of complexities for educators trying to wrap their heads around ChatGPT. In this post, I’ll try to explain some of the features of the chatbot and the model it’s built on top of. I'm deliberately avoiding any kind of analogy that represents the AI as magical, mythical, human, or godlike - we've seen enough of them. I’m not claiming that this analogy is watertight or that there is no better way to conceptualise […]

https://leonfurze.com/2023/05/18/the-ai-iceberg-understanding-chatgpt/