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birding

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Categories of birds

I feel a little bit for our crow friends, they are awesome and very social. They even are a little bit shy and feel uncomfortable when stared at. They can be amazing friends. They don't deserve to be associated with government. But I get the joke, they're probably reporting to their friends.

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Linus Torvalds shares his thoughts on Anti-AI coding rules

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are you trolling?

I checked your history and you seems to genuinely interact but you're sentence makes no real argument (more like a joke).

But maybe you haven't read the rest of the conversation so here some points:

  • You can and are encourage to download and use free software. Same with comments.
  • You are not allowed to monetized free software (hence the GPL v2 vs v3 debate). To be honest also with my comments.
  • The term stealing could indeed be confused with the modern usage of fascists who want to fight against piracy but it was used for a good century by communist to talk about capitalists stealing surplus value made by workers.
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Why not LLMs?

It is lacking the "money problem": the high cost is adsorbed by big capitalist organizations (at the cost of the hardware price inflating) that hope to get everyone addicted/dependent on the tool to then surge the prices.

This is not open tech, this is not for everyone, this is not to make a better world. This is business.

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Firefox Devs Working on Tab Previews

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On top of the fact that those previews are annoying as hell as other comments pointed out, I want to add that this kind of feature also uses a fair amount of processing + memory.

I think that is a nice opt-in feature for those who wants it but I like my default light and simple.

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"We found a vulnerability..."

The current version has a critical security vulnerability (https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/advisories/mfsa2024-51/) but to fix it the new version compiled against libclang version 27 but Google decided to remove it from Android so the building pipeline needs to be adjusted.

There's a long discussion: https://gitlab.com/relan/fennecbuild/-/merge_requests/63 , about building the newer version

In the meanwhile the app is a security hazard.

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Floating-point arithmetic

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That could be a nice way. Sadly it was in a C++ code base (using tensorflow). Therefore no such nice things (would be slow too). I skill-issued myself thinking a struct would be 0 -initialized but MyStruct input; would not while MyStruct input {}; will (that was the fix). Long story.

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It is a nice PR but for me I am not impressed. Rolex is also a non profit organization in Switzerland and and mostly help hiding there finance.

Correct me if I am wrong but all I see is words and promises. I would trust them if they release the yearly finance transparently.

For now the only act I can judge them on is their collaboration with police to give ecologist activists IP.