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a screenshot of a bluesky post from Tim Dawson:
lot of negativity towards Al lately, but consider :
are these tools ethical or environmentally sustainable? No.
but do they enable great things that people want? Also no.
but are they being made by well meaning people for good reasons? Once again, no.
maybe you're not being negative enough
these are the exact finances of a startup that failed to start
holy fuck I seriously didn’t expect Nix transphobia out of nowhere (I don’t correlate my bans with what other instances do so I don’t usually check the modlog, and their modded posts are old enough I didn’t catch them in their post history)
the programming dot dev defed counter is incrementing rapidly. do any of our regulars come from that instance?
also, for some reason, it’s a split screen video and the right half is a sped up cooking video or someone playing with slime
we have some dedicated Nix threads on FreeAsm, our community for open source stuff that might give you a good recap of the latest stuff. where I’m sitting as a former Nix contributor and advocate is — nothing is fixed, all this obvious fash shit worked so well it’s being tried in other open source communities, and I really would like a nice alternative to NixOS so I can finally release a lot of the Nix stuff I’ve been sitting on (and also because nixpkgs keeps breaking — so many maintainers left that some of the further corners of the package set I use are already showing a lot of rot)
we have that fucking nightmare for residential service; what I’m saying is if they own the substrate, we’ll get that same fucking nightmare everywhere else too. and as we’ve seen in the US, it’s very easy for a broken regulator to see 2-4 companies colluding and decide that’s not a monopoly and no action is needed
“eagerly waiting for them to upload their weights to Hugging Face” really is the same vibe as “eagerly waiting for Magic The Gathering Online Exchange to give me my coins back”
one of our regulars gently telling you this is a weird thread for you to bring up fetlife is all the justification you needed to spam the whole thread with this shit? fuck off
ah yes, everyone’s favorite not suspicious at all YouTube channel “offensive freedom” and their utterly normal videos
fuck it, I’m gonna be real cute and delete their post so they can get real mad about their free speech (and also so the horseshit they linked doesn’t get SEO or whatever from us)
golly fuck it’s been a pristine couple of days for posters to not read the article and then come in here and fucking make up what they figure the article says
these ones didn’t even bring mangled quotes to try and force their point, they just straight up didn’t open the link
programming dot dev, folks
holy fuck awful.systems works on servo