Mastodawn

@bkuhn @ossguy @richardfontana So let me summarize:

- Without knowing the legal status of accepting LLM contributions, we're potentially polluting our codebases with stuff that we are going to have a HELL of a time cleaning up later
- The idea of a copyleft-only LLM is a joke and we should not rely on it
- We really only have two realistic scenarios: either FOSS projects cannot accept LLM based contributions legally from an international perspective, or everything is effectively in the public domain as outputted from these machines, but at least in the latter scenario we get to weaken copyright for everyone.

That's leaving out a lot of other considerations about LLMs and the ethics of using them, which I think most of the other replies were focused on, I largely focused on the copyright implications aspects in this subthread. Because yes, I agree, it can be important to focus a conversation.

But we can't ignore this right now.

We're putting FOSS codebases at risk.

Alskens Utøj 1d ago

404 Media 2d ago

Signal already has a setting that blocks message content from displaying in push notifications; the case highlights why such a feature might be important for some users to turn on. https://www.404media.co/fbi-extracts-suspects-deleted-signal-messages-saved-in-iphone-notification-database-2/

FBI Extracts Suspect’s Deleted Signal Messages Saved in iPhone Notification Database

The case was the first time authorities charged people for alleged “Antifa” activities after President Trump designated the umbrella term a terrorist organization.

404 Media

Alskens Utøj 3d ago

RE: https://sydfyn.social/@tak/116419783194501067

Se hvad mit tech-kooperativ har gang i!

Hjælp os meget gerne med at sprede ordet.

Alskens Utøj 3d ago

Teknologisk Arbejderkooperativ 3d ago

Vi kan nu endelig tilbyde Nextcloud til folket: KONTOR, TAK! er en fuldt udstyret office- og samarbejdsløsning baseret på Nextcloud, drevet af Teknologisk Arbejderkooperativ.

(Nextcloud er en god erstatning for Micro$soft Office 365/Team$/OndeDrive/Goofgle Drive/Docs)

Den er tilgængelig for privatpersoner, såvel som større grupper, foreninger, organiseringer og virksomheder.

Det er teknologi i menneskelig skala - bragt til jer af jeres lokale sydfynske tech-kooperativ, som hjælper og understøtter hele vejen. Vi holder fx workshops i Nextcloud.

TAK er jo stadig en ny lille størrelse og vi kan godt bruge jeres hjælp til at sprede ordet. Så hvis I har nogen i jeres netværk der trænger til noget uafhængig lokal kontor-infrastruktur, så send dem endeligt vores vej 🖤 Det kan både være private, men også meget gerne vores hjerteblod: civilsamfundets foreninger og organiseringer.

https://teknologisk.coop/kontor

KONTOR, TAK!

Alskens Utøj 3d ago

Yes hello friday!

Gotta love @pluralistic formulating things so clearly:

"Because there's a sense in which Bengio and I are worried about exactly the same thing. I'm terrified that our planet has been colonized by artificial lifeforms that we constructed, but which have slipped our control. I'm terrified that these lifeforms corrupt our knowledge-creation process, making it impossible for us to know what's true and what isn't. I'm terrified that these lifeforms have conquered our apparatus of state – our legislatures, agencies and courts – and so that these public bodies work against the public and for our colonizing alien overlords.

The difference is, the artificial lifeforms that worry me aren't hypothetical – they're here today, amongst us, endangering the very survival of our species. These artificial lifeforms are called "limited liability corporations" and they are a concrete, imminent risk to the human race."

Pluralistic: A Pascal's Wager for AI Doomers (16 Apr 2026) | https://pluralistic.net/2026/04/16/pascals-wager/

Pluralistic: A Pascal’s Wager for AI Doomers (16 Apr 2026) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow

Alskens Utøj 3d ago

Miguel Afonso Caetano 4d ago

"In Guyang-ri, a farming village of 70 households about 90 minutes south-east of Seoul, people gather for communal free lunches six days a week. The meals are funded by the village’s one-megawatt solar installation, which generates roughly 10m won ($6,800) in net profit each month.

“Residents eat lunch together every day, so we see each other’s faces, talk together,” says Jeon Joo-young, the village chief. “Bonds and solidarity between residents become much stronger. Life becomes more enjoyable.”

The shift has been dramatic. Before the solar project launched in 2022, the village of about 130 people had no restaurant, no easy way to move around, and little communal infrastructure. Now solar revenue pays for meals, a village “happiness bus” for elderly people, a table-tennis facility and cultural activities.

The village deliberately chose to spend solar income on welfare rather than individual dividends, a decision Jeon says residents made themselves rather than being persuaded."

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/apr/16/south-korea-solar-power-renewables-revolution

#SouthKorea #SolarEnergy #Renewables #Solar #SolarPower

How South Korea plans to use the Iran crisis to spur a renewables revolution

Energy crisis unfolding in Middle East has added political urgency, and more funding, to transform South Korea’s solar industry

The Guardian

Alskens Utøj 3d ago

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Steve Gisselbrecht 4d ago

@Nickiquote

Philip K. Dick wrote all his sci-fi on deadline and on spec. He would agonize over the early parts and then as the deadline approached he would bang out some kind of deus ex machina ending in the grip of amphetamine psychosis. Once you know this, you can pretty clearly see exactly when he stopped sleeping in each one.

Alskens Utøj 4d ago

Hehehe
https://lemmy.ml/post/46017111