@neil@decodedlegal I wonder when web design companies will start to pay attention. Most have probably never considered themselves in the software business, but so many will deploy WordPress or Drupal with a pretty theme and then provide no maintenance. Many seem to have no plan except to wait until the site gets inevitably cracked.
@MediaActivist There are two people I hold responsible for Brexit more than any others: David Cameron and Jeremy Corbyn.
Cameron gambled the nation to try and quell an internal divide in his party, and lost.
However, the one I blame most is the one who 3-line-whipped his supposed opposition party MPs to vote with the govt to trigger Article 50 before any plan had been tabled. There was no attempt to stand up for the 45% of the nation that opposed Brexit. For that, he can get in the sea.
"The output from an LLM is a derivative work of the data used to train the LLM.
If we fail to recognise this, or are unable to uphold this in law, copyright (and copyleft on which it depends) is dead. Copyright will still be used against us by corporations, but its utility to FOSS to preserve freedom is gone."
@mishari "We show an adversary can extract gigabytes of training data from open-source language models like Pythia or GPT-Neo, semi-open models like LLaMA or Falcon, and closed models like ChatGPT"
@aral I'm not involved with #Fedora, but presumably there's a release process that is written somewhere.
This sounds like a bug in not just the software, but also the release process. Perhaps the way to tackle the software bug is to fix the release process so that alarm bells ring *before* next release.
Grabbing prerelease images and testing and raising bugs in the run up to release might provoke some action - if you have the time to do that. *someone* clearly needs to!
Today is #LongCovidAwarenessDay and marks one year since I started talking openly about my personal health.
I've never been comfortable with sharing my personal information, but I hoped by talking about what it's like living with #LongCovid (for nearly 4 years now) folks may reconsider their YOLO approach to #covid and actually #WearAMask
This past year has been the worst of my life. It was the year hope died. Hope that I might get better, and hope that ppl might take #Covid seriously.
Whenever I see network software with IPv4-only documentation and examples, or an IPv4-only website it doesn't inspire my confidence in the rest of their code. Anything released in (at least) the last ten years should have support for IPv6 enabled by default.
It is important, however, that this isn't just some box ticking exercise. As with a #CodeOfConduct it needs monitoring and enforcing by members of your team.
The CoC and #HealthPolicy really should be the first things considered before even deciding to run an event during a continuing Pandemic.
Different studies have put different numbers on it, and depends on whether you're vaccinated, how many and how recently you've been boosted and which variant you catch etc, but this Scientific American article from January suggests:
"11 percent among those who are unvaccinated and 5 percent among those who have had two or more doses of the vaccine"
Best case, fully vaxxed, a 5% saving throw is something to avoid!
"SARS-CoV-2 was categorized as a Biosafety level 3 pathogen together with Tuberculosis, [Bubonic Plague], [Yellow Fever], and [Bird Flu]... yet unlike other diseases in its category, it has been allowed to spread, replicate, and mutate freely in the population. Seasonal respiratory infections such as Influenza, Parainfluenza, Rhinoviruses, Adenoviruses and similar are conversely Biosafety level 2 pathogens."
"Two days ago" here refers to a date in 2021, which is when archive.org archived the site.
Seriously, just display the actual date. Trying to be clever and showing a delta just means it will always be wrong. It gets more wrong the longer the browser tab remains open (unless you waste CPU keeping it updated).
To my utter astonishment, the NGI Outreach Office just declared all Open Source conferencing software as unfit for purpose.
"Following the technical problems and limitations we encountered when trying to use the open-source BigBlueButton software, we have decided to revert to a proven commercial solution, ZOOM. We are fully aware that this technical choice is not fully in line with some of the values promoted by the NGI initiative..."
@paolo@onepict I think it's pretty clear they aren't interested in a solution. The trainer is used to Zoom. If they'd just said "due to the technical issues yesterday the next session will be held on Zoom. We're sorry about this and we're working with the BBB folks to resolve the issues" I'd understand, but the language in the email said that no FOSS or European software was suitable, unlike a "proven commercial solution" like Zoom.
It wasn't just what was said, but how it was said.
#Amazon (FR and UK) both are now asking for a CAPTCHA if I try to visit them. No contact details and no accessible alternative. Pretty sure this is illegal in the EU. If it isn't, it should be.
Now I can read that page, but I have a friend who very definitely cannot, and would get a headache just looking at that screen for a few seconds (my browser preference is for dark mode, and yet the page is blinding white), and so I refuse to.
@MediaActivist Another word I'd like to see a replacement for is terrorist. It's always a sign the writer has stopped thinking, or is pushing an agenda. There are no terrorists, just people.
FOSS hacker. Founder of the #Librecast Project, working on improving #privacy and #decentralizing the Internet with #multicast.Also, tractors. Has a language habit.