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by samj 16d ago
Pagelove | https://pagelove.com | Founding Software Engineer | REMOTE | Full-time | $110k–$130k + early equity Pagelove collapses the modern web stack into its simplest form: no databases, no APIs, no application servers. Just H
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Shared Platform for Open Source Initiative (OSI) Reform(floss.social)
2 points by samj 2y ago|1 comments
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by samj 2y ago
Item 1: Repeal the Open Source AI Definition (OSAID) Item 2: Adopt a process for formal review of previously approved licenses Item 3: Remove “code of silence” from Board Member Agreement Item 4: Directors should be allowed to use FOSS for
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by samj 2y ago
This journalist didn't: "I’m a dues paying member and I didn’t receive it, and it’s highly possible that others deleted the email without opening it." OSI’s Continually Changing Election Story https://fossforce.com
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by samj 2y ago
Bradley M Kuhn has since announced[1] the platform[2] Luke would have been running on (with a blog post for updates[3]): Shared Platform for OSI Reform Item 1. Repeal the Open Source AI Definition (OSAID) Item 2. Adopt a process for formal
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by samj 2y ago
This this is another issue, and it's why I'm not holding my breath for the data and will be satisfied with rebranding to the more appropriate Open Weight moniker (caveat: license).
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Meta's Llama Models Are Not Open Source but Open Weight According to Meta(samjohnston.org)
3 points by samj 2y ago|3 comments
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by samj 2y ago
We’re finally starting to see some precision in language from the company, in that they consider that the Meta LLaMA AI models themselves are NOT in fact Open Source, rather Ope nWeight. Thank you for admitting on the public record what the
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by samj 2y ago
"Nobody disagrees about the principles [behind the OSAID], where we see disagreement is implementation" The principles are the four essential freedoms of free software, and the one job the OSI had in implementation was to work out
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by samj 2y ago
“Some of the tension we've seen is in people that haven't made that mind shift to the wider picture and are just trying to apply what they are very familiar with, that they're experts at, and that made it more difficult.” Lik
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Community Commitment to Open Source Definition(opensourcedeclaration.org)
3 points by samj 2y ago|0 comments
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by samj 2y ago
Karsten correctly called the consensus on that thread, including my own view as one of the folks named in the article, that accepting less-than-open "public" datasets like the dumps of the Internet made available by the Common Cra
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by samj 2y ago
That's why Open Source analyst Redmonk now "do not believe the term open source can or should be extended into the AI world." https://redmonk.com/sogrady/2024/10/22/from-open-source-to-a...
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by samj 2y ago
Yes, and Open Source started out with a much smaller set of software that has since grown exponentially thanks to the meaningful Open Source Definition. We risk giving AI the same opportunity to grow in an open direction, and by our own han
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by samj 2y ago
The OSI apparently doesn't have the mandate from its members to even work on this, let alone approve it. The community is starting to regroup at https://discuss.opensourcedefinition.org because the OSI's own forums are
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by samj 2y ago
Nobody's asking for exact reproducibility — if the source code produces the software and it's appropriately licensed then it's Open Source. Similarly, if you run the scripts and it produces the model then it's Open Sourc
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by samj 2y ago
Normally yes, but said board is taking a very liberal view of "experts"; the "co-design" process literally says "everyone is an expert" ( https://jods.mitpress.mit.edu/pub/costanza-chock&#x2
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by samj 2y ago
The "co-design" process is literally the "Do Your Own Research" of technical standards ( https://jods.mitpress.mit.edu/pub/costanza-chock/release/4 ): "We believe that everyone is an ex
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by samj 2y ago
/me waves
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by samj 14y ago
OP gives up drinking, decides the rest of his industry has to as well. I'll get right on that.
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Infographic: Diffusion of Social Networks(samj.net)
2 points by samj 15y ago|0 comments
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by samj 15y ago
"If computers of the kind I have advocated become the computers of the future, then computing may someday be organized as a public utility just as the telephone system is a public utility... The computer utility could become the basis of a
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by samj 15y ago
According to Skud (who was also suspended) you have to do this before you get suspended — now she "can’t use Google Takeout to export [her] profile and stream": http://infotrope.net/2011/07/22/ive-been-suspended-from-goog...
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by samj 15y ago
Skud observed ( http://infotrope.net/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/plus06.png ) that she "can’t use Google Takeout to export [her] profile and stream" after having been suspended herself: http://infotrope.net/2011/07/22/ive-been-suspended-fro
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by samj 15y ago
Facebook lists provide (barely) adequate functionality for users with large and/or complex social networks to constrain sharing but, like Circles, they're a PITA to set up. Fiven most people don't need them it's no surprise they're buried i
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by samj 15y ago
Perhaps Facebook just understand that for a social network to be successful you need to encourage sharing at all costs; Google+'s Circles actively constrain sharing, increase complexity and raise the barrier to entry.
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SpotCloud Security Response(groups.google.com)
1 points by samj 16y ago|0 comments
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by samj 17y ago
In addition to space constrained applications such as SMS (and artificially space constrained applications like Twitter) shortlinks are also required anywhere humans are required to remember and/or enter them - that is, when they are printe
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by samj 17y ago
So is it short_url or short_uri or short-url or short-uri or "short url" or "short uri" or shorturl or shorturi? "shortlink ( http://code.google.com/p/shortlink/ ) doesn't have any of the disadvantages of its predecessors... Sam
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by samj 18y ago
Everyone likes a good demo so check out my follow up post 'Towards a Flash free YouTube killer...' Sam 1. http://samj.net/2009/02/towards-flash-free-youtube-killer-wa...

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