October 7th anniversary weighs heavy as Jews enter the High Holy Days
The anniversary of the October 7th attack on Israel takes place during the Jewish High Holy Days. It's a time of ending things that need to be ended in order begin things that need to be begun.
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From Project Gutenberg:
At the Earth's Core
by Edgar Rice Burroughs
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Microsoft Office 2024 is now available for Macs and PCs
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This AI Startup "Copied" an Open-Source Project and Got Half a Million Dollar Funding by Y Combinator
This AI Startup "Copied" an Open-Source Project and Got Half a Million Dollar Funding by Y Combinator
AI startups, and open-source forks with VC funding. A bad match.Ankush Das (It's FOSS News)
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Epic Games CEO Tim Sweeney announced that the firm is now "financially sound" during a presentation at Unreal Fest 2024 yesterday
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Nextcloud Enterprise Day speaker spotlight: Felix Gebauer from Schleswig-Holstein! 🎉
Mark November 6th in your calendar, as Felix Gebauer from Schleswig-Holstein state administration joins us with a keynote on digital transformation in public sector.
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Yakuake is a convenient terminal that appears from the top of the screen. A free and open source program
Install: Software Center (Appstream), Deb, RPM and Flatpak packages
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Luke the leucistic Curlew and friend as high tide floods the saltmarsh at South Walney today.
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You CAN shout “fire” in a crowded theatre
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The cliché that “you can’t shout ‘fire’ in a crowded theatre” originates in the 1917 United States Supreme Court ruling against Charles Schenck, a socialist who had issued a broadside calling for young men to refuse military conscription and was convicted under the Espionage Act. These were the circumstances under which Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes wrote the statement: “The most stringent protection of free speech would not protect a man in falsely shouting ‘Fire!’ in a theatre and causing a panic.” Note that the word “falsely” is invariably dropped when quoted by advocates for censorship.
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ESA and Honeywell join forces for ultra-secure data protection with quantum-enabled satellites
In today's complex digital landscape, ensuring secure communications and data protection has become increasingly challenging. Recognising the need to safeguard sensitive information, ESA has partnered with Honeywell UK, a global technology leader in aerospace and digital solutions, to develop quantum satellite technology that could revolutionise data protection for citizens, businesses and governments across Europe and beyond.
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in reply to RobotToaster • • •I simply can't wrap my head around the thought process behind launching a clusterfuck like this. Y Combinator probably didn't do their due diligence and simply rode the fading AI Bubble, so I can at least understand how the funding might have been approved.
But actively leaving your $250,000+/year job to team up with some questionable choices to basically fork two OS projects, change the discord links and generate an illegal licence for that shit show, all while proudly stating, publicly, "dawg i chatgpt'd the license, anyone is free to use our app for free for whatever they want. if there's a problem with the license just lmk i'll change it. we busy building rn can't be bothered with legal" when they are made aware of the fact.
This is absolutely insane, sounds like someone was about to get fired and decided to use some personal relations and fresh graduates to somehow successfully cash in one last time with absolutely no regard of even the basics. Pretty wild that those guys even managed to figure out how to found a Startup. Probably asked ChatGPT for instructions there, as well.
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rtxn
in reply to Emotet • • •It's not the first time. They also backed an obvious scam MMO that promised the world and more, while it was nothing more than an asset flip.
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Unknown parent • • •But they made half a million.
And there are literally hundreds of similar companies raking in billions in investments that magically vanish while the founders live a luxury live and move on.
The real question is: why do VCs shit so much money into obvious frauds? Are they this stupid or do they just hope to pass it on to the greater fool?
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bassomitron
in reply to leisesprecher • • •$500,000 is nothing to billionaires, or even people who make hundreds of millions a year. It's a lot to average folks like us, but to them it's the equivalent of going to the casino with money they can afford to blow.
But I do think you're right about passing it on to the greater fool. They bet it'll be the next hot product, regardless if they know it sucks or not. Then some bigger bag of money will come in and buy it up, thinking they'll be able to somehow milk a sustainable profit out of it. You'd think by now that VCs would be smarter about the boom and bust of tech startups, but alas...
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in reply to TexasDrunk • • •Juice
in reply to TexasDrunk • • •Quantum computing. It might be a real thing but it'll go through a grift phase first.
Another one will be environmental carbon capture, like pulling carbon out of the atmosphere. This one would be easier to fake but might not get traction for longer since the ideological superstructure in our society is already built up so that it is hard for a political crisis to emerge due to global climate concerns. Even though climate change is worsening, and whole cities are being destroyed by hurricanes, the debate is still pretty stabilized. However since this grift will end up being sold as a commercial solution to a political problem, the grift will probably come from a larger player like Lockheed or Boeing, which would necessitate investing in the most evil companies in existence. Still you never know, Tesla stayed afloat for years without making a working product by selling carbon credits issued by the government to other car companies, so you might be able to bootstrap this one
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in reply to moitoi • • •delirious_owl
in reply to krolden • • •nednobbins
in reply to moitoi • • •There are a lot of scams around AI and there's a lot of very serious science.
While generative AI gets all the attention there are many other fields of AI that you probably use on a regular basis.
The reason we don't see the rest of the AI iceberg is because it's mostly interesting when you have enormous amounts of data you want to analyze and that doesn't apply to regular people. Most of the valuable AIs (as in they've been proven to make or save a bunch of money) do stuff like inventory optimization, protein expression simulation, anomaly detection, or classification.
Chuymatt
in reply to nednobbins • • •xavier666
in reply to moitoi • • •Slight correction. AI is not a scam.
While AI is a powerful tool, it enables people to do scams very easily.
nednobbins
in reply to xavier666 • • •Maybe.
There have been a number of technologies that provided similar capabilities, at least initially.
When photography, audio recording, and video recording were first invented, people didn't understand them well. That made it really easy to create believable fakes.
No modern viewer would be fooled by the Cottingley Fairies.
The wouldn't fool modern audiences either.
Video effects that stunned audiences at the time just look old fashioned now.
I expect that, over time, people will learn to recognize the low-effort scams. Eventually we'll reach an equilibrium where most people won't fall for them and there will still be skilled scammers who will target gullible people and get away with it.
CosmicTurtle0 [he/him]
Unknown parent • • •Are you kidding me?
Alexander Bell stole the telephone.
Edison regularly stole inventions from Tesla among others.
Steve Jobs fucking mind raped Woz.
The American Dream is taking someone else's hard work and profiting off of it.
TexasDrunk
in reply to CosmicTurtle0 [he/him] • • •𝕸𝖔𝖘𝖘
in reply to TexasDrunk • • •LiveLM
in reply to RobotToaster • • •So all it takes to get that sweet, sweet VC mula is a Vscode + extension fork with some hipster branding on top? Really???
Aren't these guys supposed to be tech geniuses or some shit?
Billions of dollars and they don't have a single actually knowledgeable intern who could glance at this project and say "yeah, no, I could do this too?"
Or are they're just ignoring them because AI is a glowing hot buzzword right now?
This is baffling. The entire tech sector praises VCs like they're god's gift to earth, meanwhile they're out here backing stupid shit like this, how can anyone take these people seriously?
LiveLM
in reply to LiveLM • • •The absolute gall of these guys. Would be inspiring if it wasn't maddening!
grue
in reply to LiveLM • • •Rich/famous tech people have never been "tech geniuses." They're always sociopathic business/marketing types.
FrederikNJS
in reply to LiveLM • • •nednobbins
in reply to RobotToaster • • •It's otherwise a fairly well written article but the title is a bit misleading.
In that context, scare quotes usually mean that generative AI was trained on someone's work and produced something strikingly similar. That's not what happened here.
This is just regular copyright violations and unethical behavior. The fact that it was an AI company is mostly unrelated to their breaches. The author covers 3 major complaints and only one of them even mentions AI and the complaint isn't about what the AI did it's about what was done with the result. As far as I know the APL2.0 itself isn't copyrighted and nobody cares if you copy or alter the license itself. The problem is that you can't just remove the APL2.0 from some work it's attached to.
delirious_owl
in reply to nednobbins • • •This is great. So all their VC-funded work will get released publicly, and we all benefit.
I don't see why people are upset that FOSS projects are getting VC funding for development..
nednobbins
in reply to delirious_owl • • •Haha. Maybe.
I doubt the VCs will provide much followup funding if they can't control the code base but weirder things have happened.
delirious_owl
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in reply to RobotToaster • • •Metz
in reply to RobotToaster • • •Of course it is a cryptobro...
Yep, already hate that guy. Talks and behaves like an absolute dipshit.
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in reply to تحريرها كلها ممكن • • •The Bankman fried the clients.
Sam's the Bankman.
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delirious_owl
in reply to 0x4d6165 • • •How is it boot licking to get money from rich people to develop open source software?
Lemmy is FOSS that was funded by a grant from NLNet. Its the same outcome as this.
If anyone is licking boots, its the rich people licking the FOSS boots
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in reply to nek0d3r • • •nek0d3r
in reply to delirious_owl • • •Right, exactly, which is why they launched with a FOSS license. Oh, wait--
Imagine the money going to VSCode which actually is the one getting contributions
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delirious_owl
in reply to nek0d3r • • •If you're upset, just ask them for the source. If they don't respond, sue.
In any case, we're all going to get the source and we'll all benefit from this.
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in reply to delirious_owl • • •7eter
in reply to RobotToaster • • •How does one "fork" a repo like this and then is proud about 100+ contributors he got?
I believe they know exactly what they are doing and just don't care.
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in reply to Croquette • • •Which is the exact same behavior that caused the dot com bubble. VC funding was throwing money at any and every dot com business, in the hopes that it would explode and lead to profits.
All it did was massively overvalue the dot com companies, which caused a bubble when people finally realized they were overvalued and VC investors turned off the spigot of free money.
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in reply to RobotToaster • • •Road to success (2024 AI Hype Edition):
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in reply to SuperiorOne • • •xenoclast
in reply to Croquette • • •Gambling with OTHER PEOPLE'S money.
You win, you take a cut. You lose. Someone else suffers.
These people destroy everything for greed.
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