OpenAI’s notion of “fair use”: military and weapons

Those type of companies are getting so f*****g disgusting.

https://techcrunch.com/2024/01/12/openai-changes-policy-to-allow-military-applications/ https://www.theverge.com/2024/1/12/24036397/openai-is-softening-its-stance-on-military-use

It serves a purpose. But an evil one: stopping journalists from reporting on US war crimes

The rape story was part of a mud campaign. It was made up and the world fell for it. What happens here is: A journalist publishes proofs of US war crimes. And the war criminals (US gov) come after him because of exactly that. Their message is clear: who ever reports on our crimes will be destroyed. This is a fight against press freedom and against the democratic freedom as we think to know it.

https://www.republik.ch/2020/01/31/nils-melzer-about-wikileaks-founder-julian-assange

It is completely creepy. Think about who is behind Open AI. That’s a mixture of Elon Musk, Peter Thiel (Palantir), Microsoft and others. A right-wing, anti democratic, anti-human and purely profit oriented group. The name “Tools for Humanity” is complete sarcasm. What they do with Worldcoin smells like a modern attempt of colonization. Collecting biometry, subverting critical infrastructure (financial systems), making fake promises, blinding poor people with shiny metal balls and a little bit of money in some cases.

This can be stopped though! The Kenyan government apparently banned the project - for good.

Starting from a working example is always a good idea :) then once things start breaking you might have a clue why.

Have no experience with iced but interesting. Can you share a minimal example of what you’d like to do? At least the source code of Sandbox reads fn view(&self).

Also fun to read this (by Google employee): https://blog.yoav.ws/posts/web_platform_change_you_do_not_like/ I literally snacked popcorn.

In general, that’s definitely a problem too. Just look at Windows 11. Now M$ wants you to buy a new laptop such that their OS can run at all. I use a >10y old laptop with Linux. No performance issues for everyday use.

Going from Google-Android to LineageOS boosted the battery life of my old Smartphone by a factor 3 roughly. There where some Google-things consuming battery in the background, probably spying on me. Also using simple Apps from F-Droid helps to get a smooth experience.

Those sympathies with a fascists are alarming and should make people worry much more than the Reddit-drama itself. Anybody cares about that?

Couple years ago a Youtube-Googler told me that adblockers are their big worry. Suckers.

Did not notice yet because use Piped XD

IDEs can automate build/test flows. But you can also automate them with scripts. This has the significant benefit that you can check this scripts into your version-control system (git) and publish them together with the code. Then your collaborators can use the exact same scripts. With IDEs that’s really not working well because it would force others to use the same IDE as you. Possibly the IDE configuration is not even version-control friendly.

You may actually miss out when using an IDE. Driving without training wheels is more fun :)

I’ve used IDEs (Netbeans, Intellij) in the beginning but then started migrating away. They where just too heavy for me. Also, often IDEs do lots of stuff in the background such that you easily don’t understand fully what is going on. Now I settled using the ‘helix’ text editor. It provides some IDE-like features like integration with language-servers, syntax highlighting, code completion, file navigation, code navigation, symbol search. But there are no dozens of buttons for triggering compilation etc. You do all this on a separate terminal.

Quite handy for such setups are tiling window-managers like i3. They allow you to easily fit the editor and terminals on the screen. This way you also don’t need the build-in terminal of an IDE.

Would like to see this succeed but have zero insights. To you think there’s actual momentum behind the fork?

Helix is neat but not a full IDE. After a while I’m much more efficient and basically don’t use the mouse anymore. https://helix-editor.com/

Ok, funny. Worked this way. Thanks!

Cool! I just don’t get yet how I can subscribe to federated channels. Sometimes I find them in the search, sometimes not. This one does not show up. I tried searching for !rustlang@lemmyrs.org - no result. Any ideas?

Well, I think it does contribute to the discussion here :) . Even though the problems behind the original post might be different.

That’s also somewhat my dilemma. I really like Rust as a language and I’d be happy to use it also for my day-job. Unfortunately, I don’t see it adopted in the companies I work for.

True. As an outsider I can only speculate what is going on there. As you say, other BigTech-financed projects seem fine.

About big tech companies sponsoring projects: The have an interest that Rust is maintained and many people write good crates which they can use. But they don’t care so much about the world being able to profit from the ecosystem. If they do, then just because this is actually profitable for themselves.

I think this turns into a problem once a project get mainstream. Let’s imagine that in twenty years Rust largely replaced C/C++. It would become part of the worlds critical infrastructure. I don’t think it is good to let the monopolies have the governance. I don’t believe that they act in interest of people. Often it may appear the way. But if it does, I’m convinced that there’s usually a business interest behind. For example, screwing people completely would be bad for business or might trigger the attention of regulation bodies. So they don’t do it. Screwing people very gently such that they get used to it before they notice might happen. Slowly boiling the frog. This type of companies do that on a daily basis.