Hardly unrelated, reform (and it’s predecessors) have a long history with Russian money.

I don’t think the UK wants the war in Ukraine to continue without end but the proscription by the writer in this piece seems to be Ukraine can’t win so we should stop giving them weapons to defend themselves and force Ukraine to capitulate.

There does seem to be a desire to get to a ceasefire but so far Russia hasn’t backed down from demanding territory they haven’t taken as a precondition to that. Does anyone seriously trust Russia wouldn’t just use the ceasefire to rebuild before taking the next chunk out of Ukraine? It takes two parties serious about peace to stop the fighting.

You don’t think the creators should get paid? Do you know how much effort goes into making quality videos?

Ironically it’s probably because so many of the slop videos try and copy their style. However I would have thought YouTube would be more proactive with a channel with 25M subs.

Hmm I see nothing - I guess the posts don’t federate back to .ml?

I joined the .ml server because it was the dev server. Looking at the communities I subscribe to most are on other servers. Occasionally people ascribe beliefs to me based on my home server but so far I haven’t bothered looking for a new home.

When I first joined there were a bunch of popular instances that closed down so choosing a non-dev server seemed like a bit of a gamble. Same with mastodon servers.

We also have the very catch all of “disturbing the peace”. Some friends of mine got done with that because the police had been called despite no actual crime being committed. They were eventually “bound over” for a year which is basically a deferred fine to encourage you not to do anything that attracts the police’s attention.

They have also attacked civilian infrastructure as well as non-aligned shipping. They are not the angels you portray them to be.

Are attacks against logistics supporting your aggressor not allowed? I suspect arms shipments from Iran to Russia are very much legitimate targets.

It’s not like Iran have held back attacking fellow gulf states even outside the obvious US bases they host.

On the other hand it’s legitimately one of the wonders of the digital world. A communally edited source of knowledge free for all to access. While it’s good to scrutinise foundations and how they are run I’ve not seen anyone propose a better solution so far. The data is freely licensed so forking is possible but it’s not really the technical details that make Wikipedia the resource it is today.

I don’t begrudge peoples difficulties with English. It has some positives like not needing gendered conjugation for objects and a fairly wide cultural exposure. However it freely steals words from other languages making it a bit of a mongrel. Also the spelling and pronunciation is entirely non-regular so the usual answer to people looking for rules to work these things out is “just know”.

Thanks. Are they related? I don’t understand any Asian languages myself but I do recognise difference in for example the Korean symbols and Japanese ones. But Japanese and Chinese ideograms look very similar to my ignorant eyes.

It’s super common if it’s any sort of open source project because the collaborators can be anywhere and English is a good baseline.

IIRC one of the big tasks when Star Office became Open Office (later Libre Office) was translating a bunch of the German comments to make the code more accessible.

I’m sure I’ve seen some majority french code bases as well. There are certainly academic hypervisors out of China which have comments in Chinese kanji.

The first red flag is calling it Zelenskyy’s regime and the second is defining it as a proxy war. This isn’t the West using Ukraine as a way to target Russia - indeed had Russia not invaded there would be no war. The prospects for peace would be much higher is Putin wasn’t sticking to his maximalist demands for territory he hasn’t managed to take by force. I don’t think it’s Ukraine that has been slow walking the talks.

They have their own flags, languages, laws and legislative assemblies.

Debian for the stable base flatpak/snap/src for the bleeding edge apps.

I’ve been on one recently in Wales but that last local train I got was a new one so I think they are being replaced.

I think the two principle arguements he’s making are open weights allow for misaligned models and these models are using distillation to more efficiently train.

I don’t really care about the distillation point - it seems it’s just hoovering up the internet with extra steps. It’s really up to Anthropic to deal with by enforcing their ToS. Sauce for the goose etc…

I can see the argument about alignment but it’s not a new problem. In the FLOSS world we generally don’t put restrictions on use on the code we release even if it might get used for bad stuff. It certainly wouldn’t hurt for the authorities to test open models to find out where the guardrails are but ultimately rather than banning the tech you need to enforce the law against the people that use the tech to do bad stuff.

Most trains have toilets on them. The only ones that don’t tend to be the local 2-3 carriage bus on tracks style ones.

What do you need/use that you find in modern editors that you can’t get in something like Emacs? While there are AI integrations for Emacs they are all optional.