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Atanas Georgiev
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code; video games; mountains; gym
In the midst of the LLM hype I feel like #GPL and other #opensource and #freesoftware licenses are no longer compatible with the core ideology of free software. https://www.atns.net/post/foss-needs-a-new-license
FOSS needs a new license
Most open source software is also free software. In everyday conversations people use the two terms interchangeably and so will I in this post.One of the most popular free software licenses is the GNU GPL. It is used by the Linux kernel, GNOME, KDE (LGPL) and countless other big and small projects. It’s a license that, in the past 37 years, has played an important role in shaping the open source landscape. The GPL was created to block many different vectors of abuse associated with software dist
nixCraft 🐧AI psychosis among the C-suite is really high now. I’m seeing it at work, where they validate everything using AI even though they know it screws up. For example, if I tell them a reboot isn't needed for a CVE because we aren’t running the app directly on the server, its in Docker, they will immediately fact check me with AI right while we talking. It’s just 1 example, but I’ve never seen such bizarre behavior. They treat AI like some divine truth. Has anyone noticed this?
Augie Ray
The modern software industry's obsession with "newness" is at the expense of core engineering principles. Knowledge is additive and, in this essay, I'm exploring the concept of the software as an upside-down pyramid where all we have today is supported by important but largely disregarded foundation.
The software pyramid and why you should learn programming from your grandparents
For us humans, education is the process of acquiring knowledge, and for some of us, the end goal of this process is to become an expert in a particular field. Education, regardless of the area, always follows the same pattern, which is always a gradient, and always goes from simple to complex. We first learn how to add 5 and 7, then how to multiply them, and eventually, over a decade later, we learn how to apply our prior knowledge to find the local minimum of a function. You cannot learn it bac
Why are software companies so exited about "AI" given that if it works, it will be the end of their business model? I wrote a blog post exploring an angle that hasn't been discussed much.
Why are the ice traders celebrating the refrigerator?
For centuries, people have pursued the dream of creating synthetic gold. The myth of the philosopher's stone and other magical substances and devices have inspired thousands of stories all around the world. The desire for infinite wealth coming out of thin air is just so irresistible. There is only one problem with this dream scenario. Things are only expensive when they are rare and hard to acquire. Just like with printing too much money, creating too much gold will depreciate its value and in
Tom RennerThings that made me think: Digital gardening, web degradation, and digital ghosts
This week's thoughts provoked by https://indieweb.social/@maggie, @atns, and @404mediaco
Maggie Appleton (@[email protected])
95 Posts, 216 Following, 4.31K Followers · Product design at ought.org Makes visual essays about UX, programming, and anthropology. Adores digital gardening 🌱, end-user development, and embodied cognition
GeePawHillReminder: there is a legitimate, complex, subtle, and very important discipline called "artificial intelligence".
It does not involve chatbots or venture capitalists or stealing intellectual property or marketing or climate disasters or a lack of customer service or firing everybody or data centers or un-turn-off-able shite being shoved in to every computing device against the user's will.
There are a lot of victims of this "AI" scam, but I often think of the legitimate researchers.
Some years ago I started a hobbyist project where I would write entirely custom bitmap modifying algorithms from scratch in C++ and run some of my photos trough them. It yielded some interesting results and probably some of it cannot even be replicated in Photoshop or other out-of-the-box software.
https://www.deviantart.com/theatanas/gallery/88440028/the-color-of-code
Mojo ♻️After 178 days in space, astronaut Ron Garan says humanity is living a “BIG LIE” — we put the economy above the very systems that sustain life. His call: planet first, then society, then economy. #overvieweffect #climate #sustainability