If only we’d had age verification back then, Epstein and his ring of sex traffickers would never have been able to abuse those children!

/s

Besides selling the most sought-after hardware, NVIDIA is also developing its own models, including NeMo Megatron models. These were trained using NVIDIA’s own hardware and with help from large text libraries, much like other tech giants do.

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As the case progressed, the authors also brought up NVIDIA’s contacts with Anna’s Archive, inquiring about “high-speed access” to the shadow library’s massive collection of pirated books.

This is probably why Anna’s Archive hasn’t been taken down yet - the big fish are pirating, too.

Hi, hiya.

Teachers are dedicated.

Turn off the issues tracker and the pull requests or deploy a bare git server for releasing your code. Find a small group of people you really know and trust and work with them on projects, or do it completely alone.

You don’t need to allow strangers to invade your space. You don’t need a performative Code of Conduct or an LLM policy. Open source doesn’t need to be developed openly for it to be “open source”.

Write code. Make things you like. Use any tools you want. Do code drops at 2am on Christmas day. Whatever you do, don’t get tricked into running an operation that’s half tech incubator and half daycare for people whose parents gave them a keyboard and no social skills.

I like this “my workshop has glass walls, but I’m wearing headphones and the doors are locked” model of open source.

Title made me think NPR was the headquarters

Is there a pattern to people like this?

Sure, love is blind and different people have different reasons, but it’d be really interesting to find out there also happens to be a “bang-the-pathetic-one” gene.

They’re not.

I’m guessing it’s just that websites are an easier target, legally speaking, than VPNs.

The EFF warned that the legal risk could push sites to either ban all known VPN IPs or mandate age verification for every visitor globally.

No worries. They’ll use military-grade encryption.

I’ll share more details about where the Ghostty project will be moving to in the coming months. We have a plan but I’m also very much still in discussions with multiple providers (both commercial and FOSS).

For the people, like me, who were wondering where they were going next.

I’ve never heard of this.

Did you bother to look?

• cURL shut down their bug bounty program because of an “explosion in AI slop reports.”
• Godot sounded the alarm on the “increasingly many pull requests generated by LLMs and it’s a MASSIVE time waster for reviewers.”
• Tldraw now automatically closes pull requests from external contributors, “due to an influx of low quality AI pull requests.”

It’s gotten bad enough that Github added a feature to allow maintainers to disable pull requests entirely.

Full shutdowns are rarer (only Cal.com and Jazzband spring to mind), because maintainers are trying to stay open and fight the avalanche of slop with AI contribution policies.

Looking at all of the above, why do you think people shouldn’t be skeptical when the number of PRs suddenly spikes?

because we just don’t have the need

The market isn’t perfect at matching needs and abilities. We famously have a shortage of COBOL programmers, which is crazy given how much of our infrastructure still depends on it. A Nobel prize winner predicted that radiogists would be obsolete eight years ago, and we’ve been suffering a shortage ever since because people believed him and stopped studying it.

The most interesting argument I’ve heard is that vibe coding is to coding, what baby formula was to breastfeeding. When formula was introduced, it took only one generation for us to lose a lot of the generational wisdom and cultural infrastructure surrounding nursing.

We haven’t completely forgotten COBOL, or radiology, or breastfeeding, and technically speaking, we won’t completely forget coding, either. But we might forget enough that it becomes a huge problem when we need to remember.

I’ve heard of many projects disabling contributions, shutting down, or pivoting to closed source and naming slop code as a major reason.

If the contributions are quality, that’s great, but I don’t think skepticism is an inappropriate reaction to a sudden surge in contributions in this year of all years.

MinIO’s official stance is to redirect people towards their proprietary AIStor solution, but that’s a hard pass for anyone who prefers to stay open source. You don’t need to go down that path.

Here are the three open source alternatives

You love to see it.

Is it good news, or is it vibe coding?

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I’m curious about what this’ll look like in practice.

Because it sounds like the US federal government is about to make total surveillance a prerequisite for subsidies.

I guess technofeudalism didn’t catch on, so he’s attempting a rebrand.

Is this that CNN article about the people posting #eyecheck videos on motherless?

I use FreshRSS as the backbend for my clients, but I hate its interface for actually reading.

If I were reading on the web, I’d switch back to Miniflux

The careful reader may note that my title is not quite accurate. It’s not every dependency you add that’s a problem; it’s every dependency you update.

Why not put that in the title, Mr. Hoyt?