I use jiffies to refer to clock speed.

Why not just build a wikipedia mirror?

All the data is available for free via download, torrent, etc.

Idk I have no complaints about wikipedia to lead me to look for a federated alternative.

Normally I would say view the man page (as a command). Though for some reason when making the thinnest distro possible, the OS team at my job got rid of man.

Wtf man.

Came here to say this lol

They injected some binary code to make a code object (and in doing so inject some obfuscation)… if someone wants to violate the new license, they can easily work around it via installing through pip, commenting out that license check… Not that I endorse library license violations.

I put up packages on pypi with the last LGPL code versions for my own usage. I don’t plan on updating them much, but they work for me.

PySimpleGUI-4-foss And psgtray-foss.

That’s incorrect in that you have to remove the contributions from source code or get permission. Rewriting git history doesn’t get permission or remove history. It just hides it.

This is so sad. I’m especially bothered about the force push to change history. This was a great library. Now I guess it’s time to either use the fork or find something else.

I use GitHub Copilot from work. I generally use Python. It doesn’t take away anything at least for me. It’s big thing is tab completion; it saves me from finishing some lines and adding else clauses. Like I’ll start writing a docstring and it’ll finish it.

Once in a while I can’t think of exactly what I want so I write a comment describing it and Copilot tries to figure out what I’m asking for. It’s literally a Copilot.

Now if I go and describe a big system or interfacing with existing code, it quickly gets confused and tends to get in the weeds. But man if I need someone to describe a regex, it’s awesome.

Anyways I think there are free alternatives out there that probably work as well. At the end of the day, it’s up to you. Though I’d so don’t knock it till you try it. If you don’t like it, stop using it.

Kramer?

I enjoyed Tom Scott.

The other half though is sweet times.

My father in law watches this crap all the time. Also every war propaganda video.

… if not that, Thai boxing or bear hunting. Ya never know what he’ll be watching as long as it’s one of those. Oh unless it’s Friday night, then he’s watching SmackDown.

Sometimes I look at a food menu and get overwhelmed. Would be cool if I could just ask an AI what I would like from this place and it gave me like 3 choices it thought I’d like.

If I don’t like those 3 give me another 3 to choose from.

Besides the overwhelm issue, my dad had really bad eyesight. This would have been great for him to quickly somehow get a giant-print (if we put this in a tablet) version of the top 3 things he’d like from the menu. I had hoped Google Glass would have been able to do something like this for him, maybe by just reading it into his ear. I always felt bad that we’d have to try to figure out what he’d like. I mean we could read the menu to him, but he didn’t want to be a bother and would kind of just go with the flow (and pick one of the earlier things we’d list off). It’s tough to say if he would have liked one of the 50 other items. Miss ya dad.

I want AI to help make people’s lives better.

We’re seemingly talking about different things. I don’t think they can put ads next to my content if they scraped it… Then again isn’t this how Google works? They even have caches of a lot of the content so you don’t need to hit the original one… So we know they store the pages.

I see how if federated it’s more of a gray area since it’s federated: so maybe they can put ads? Idk seems like another gray area. I wonder how a ToS can be applied from a legal perspective if the content was federated instead of directly posted. Then again Google just looks at a robots.txt file to figure out what/how to scrape. Maybe that should apply here somehow? Idk.

I’m guessing it’ll take many years for laws to catch up… And they’ll be written by whoever has more money at the time.

You’re completely right.

Defederation is silly here in my opinion. I’d personally prefer more content and more mainstream stuff. We’re basically isolating ourselves. If it’s so great, it’ll flourish; instead we won’t allow it. So much for an open community. :shrug:

We also collectively downvote people who think this which is also silly. Heck even this post is more/less to bully these instances into doing what this group wants.

Reminds me of the bad side of Reddit.

I highly doubt it. The laws haven’t caught up to what you’re saying. Basically what you are saying would make scraping illegal.

As far as I know it isn’t. If it is: please cite a published law article or something similar discussing it.

It only takes looking at your data to figure out your trends, save the trend, and serve you ads.

Think about it: public posts are public. It’s the same as you putting a note in the town square. Anyone can look at it and see the username of who wrote it.

Defederation doesn’t stop that, it just inconveniences people who want to use/see both sides from one login.

Mine loves the bottom of a bowl of cereal.

Then when you’re done, you find out one of the core modules you use is considered a ‘security risk’ by your infosec team. So you have to start over.

Don’t forget that GPT4 was getting dumber the more it learned from people.