FOSS communities probably won’t form around most of these projects, as you said. Assuming the software can be managed by a few people with LLMs, likely local in the very near future, it’s quite possible that plenty end users who didn’t use FOSS before would jump on these instead of paying money to MS or Adobe. That in itself is a huge win for the majority. Depriving MS from revenue that is. Then for community FOSS, this has potentially significant positive implications about our biggest challenge - dealing with proprietary formats and proprietary blobs. This could mean perfect .doc/.docx compatibility in LibreOffice. It could mean a perfectly working nouveau driver for NVIDIA GPUs. How about fixing the tons of bugs we workaround in motherboard firmware. Or fixing that corner case in Wine so it can run your fav obscure game. Or reverse-engineering communication protocol of cloud-connected IoT to integrate it in Home Assistant. Etc. Etc.

In short: FOSS is a social activity. Assuming this method can produce very good source from binaries, that itself won’t create FOSS communities, but FOSS communities can use it to significantly improve the FOSS they care about.

Thank you!

Is that on FP6?

This is really odd, I’d expect the unprocessed live concert audio to be badly clipping. Smells like a bug in FP’s camera or the OS.

This appears to be a Jetpack Compose UI for Krita.

They can still re-rank Google’s results to surface more relevant information.

But it feels it got much worse much faster over the last 2 years.

It’s this setting: https://github.com/aosp-mirror/platform_frameworks_base/blob/1cdfff555f4a21f71ccc978290e2e212e2f8b168/packages/SettingsProvider/src/android/provider/settings/backup/SecureSettings.java#L68. You can trace it in the source code. The general name is Reduce Bright Colors. Check Graphene’s src for that. Woulda linked Google’s AOSP web page but it’s giving me 503 because that’s how Google do these days.

Def is

I feel icky every time I visit.

If a web site dies because a dc got torched, that’s bad redundancy architecture and DR plan. 😄 I’m considering transferring some domains to AliBaba Cloud. I don’t think any bombs or arson would be befalling those dcs anytime soon.

A shit show that’s not to miss!

Today I was explaining to my wife why I couldn’t pull off Sailor Moon cosplay. Now I’m not so sure. 🤔

Just conceptually, agents pull data from the web via search engines. There isn’t currently a mechanism that makes one piece of information on the web trusted while another is untrusted. There’s new websites popping up that put up technical information every day. It’s pretty easy to imagine an agent getting code from a well optimized site that injects a backdoor in whatever the agent is building. Even before code hits any repo, the agents regularly execute stuff from the web while they figure out what to put down.

Who makes it?

I recall how a few of us who highlighted this risk (as well as the cost increase risk) back in the early 2010s when UofT was starting to migrate from on-prem (sovereign in newspeak) services to Microslop’s cloud. We were called crazy paranoid, etc.

Shared Services Canada (SSC) renewed its agreement with Microsoft Canada to procure software and services for the Government of Canada. In addition to the services renewed under this agreement, SSC will now be able to provide all public servants with access to Office 365, thus laying the groundwork for a digitally-enabled public service.

https://www.canada.ca/en/shared-services/corporate/about-us/transparency/publications/enables-modern-accessible-service.html

That’s awesome. If I had to guess, the data of the Teams call might not leave Canada but it might be stored temporarily in a Canadian Azure dc where it’s STT-ed, transcript analyzed and matched to whoever’s bid to be called up. The bidder could be an American firm and the call to it isn’t the Teams data so “no foul” been committed. 🤭

E: some might call this industrial espionage.

Lots of people with lots of opinions. I’m talking about the platform and whether the platform would shadowban, demonetize and so on anti-zionist material or not.

Would only affect the US and still serve as a YouTube alternative elsewhere. I’d like a Feduverse alternative better but video hosting is expensive, plus any replacement of YouTube must also come with the ability to get paid for people who do that full-time.

YouTube could use some competition. Creators who publish to multiple platforms could also use an alternative, especially if the alternative doesn’t censor pro-Palestine and leftist material as YouTube does.

Nice try feds! We all love flock.