gloriousspearfish

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[–] [email protected] 176 points 2 months ago (10 children)

Once upon a time Google used few and non-intrusive ads. The ads were soo well-placed and relevant, that they almost seemed like a service to the user, rather than being forced upon you. Some of us even added exceptions for Google ads in our ad blockers, so we would not miss out.

I miss those days.

[–] [email protected] 65 points 5 months ago (18 children)

At some point this will happen with plastics too. Soo much plastic is ending up in nature, with soo much energy ready for the taking. When one fungus or bacteria mutates just right to munch on that feast of plastic, that vast energy source will ensure that organism multiplies rapidly.

And that is when plastic stops beeing useful for many of the tasks we humans use it for. If your plastic container decomposes as rapidly as a cardboard box, it will quickly become much less usefull.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 6 months ago (3 children)

Raise healthy, emphatic and intelligent kids.

If I manage that, everything else can go to hell, and I would still be happy and content in life.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago (3 children)

What if it is Sunday? Does this Saturday refer to yesterday?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago

That is a very interesting research area.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

What he means is, your security considerations here must come from some perceived threat. What kind of threat do you forsee that requires this high level of security?

Usually when you consider security you start with a threat model, describing the scenarios you want to protect your systems from. And based on that you decide the necessary technical security measures that are relevant.

[–] [email protected] 42 points 11 months ago (4 children)

It is time to rename the company. OpenAI is not open anymore, and has not been for a while now.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (3 children)
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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

I agree, it is much more clear. I do like Free also, but it is confusing in English.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 year ago

It has evolved of cause. One of the sources you referred to, the OSI, has a clear agenda to define the term open source software according to their own definition. They are advocating that we use the term in the more narrow sense as you described, rather than the more original broad sense.

The Wikipedia article basically just cites OSIs definition. If you dig into the talk page on Wikipedia it is clearly a disbuted definition that is currently written.

While I absolutely am a proponent of free, libre or open source software, no matter what we call it, the narrow definition OSI suggests of open source software is still not how most people understand the term.

Narrowing the term open source software the way OSI proposes increases the confusion, it doesn't help.

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