Re: Google's search algorithm changes

2024-05-29 Thread Marc Sunet
Probably for the best, (potentially) opens up competition and at least wakes up people to the realities of monopoly. To me, the most amusing thing about this is to see the a corporation crumble on its own turd purely due to self-inflicted damage. Is it greed? Is it arrogance? Is it the fear

Re: Microsoft's revenue structure

2024-05-29 Thread Marc Sunet
On 5/16/24 22:38, Federico Leva (Nemo) wrote: Il 15/05/24 04:49, Marc Sunet ha scritto: Which reminds me, how is it still legal for an OEM to ship a "default" OS in a computer without giving the customer any choice [...]? Has this been an avenue of research for the FSF or

Re: Microsoft's revenue structure

2024-05-15 Thread Marc Sunet
What's your takeaway here? Is this mostly an exercise out of curiosity? > The Techrights site frequently posts articles which say that Microsoft's accounts should not be trusted. It'd be illegal for a publicly-traded company to meddle with financial results and they'd risk lawsuits from

Re: FSF official site does not announce important events

2024-05-15 Thread Marc Sunet
Can someone from the FSF explain why this is the case? Marc On 5/3/24 15:57, Akira Urushibata wrote: I visited the official FSF site to see when they stopped posting announcements of talks by RMS. Up to September 2019 RMS lecture notices appeared frequently. After the following entry in

Re: GPL on AI generated code

2023-02-20 Thread Marc Sunet
There is an ongoing lawsuit on this: https://githubcopilotlitigation.com/ https://githubcopilotinvestigation.com/ On 2/16/23 08:06, Paul Sutton via libreplanet-discuss wrote: I would agree with this yes,  so if services such as ChatGPT change GPL code it remains under the GPL and should be

Re: The beast is live - Github Copilot

2022-06-28 Thread Marc Sunet
I feel that one difference between the values of free software and open source is that the free software does not have a problem with taking people's work and re-selling it, as long as the work being resold is free. Whereas open source focus more on what authors get out of "open source". And

Re: The beast is live - Github Copilot

2022-06-26 Thread Marc Sunet
Is copilot something only github can offer? If the vast majority of training data is from public repo that anyone can access, perhaps the only thing stopping people from making something similar is the computing power to convert the data to weights? Well, I guess that and your will to comply

The beast is live - Github Copilot

2022-06-23 Thread Marc Sunet
https://github.blog/2022-06-21-github-copilot-is-generally-available-to-all-developers/ Thank you all you have unwillingly contributed to this project. The wait is finally over; today we announce that Github Copilot is now available to all developers for $10/mo or $100/mo. You will receive $0

Re: Jitsi mailing list help

2021-02-18 Thread Marc Sunet
The first part seems to be an error on their side. Got a timeout error from Cloudflare over here. To raise questions / feature requests, you can try their Github. They have been responsive in the past for me. On 1/28/21 7:36 AM, quiliro wrote: Paul Sutton via libreplanet-discuss writes:

Re: What email can folks try that's in harmony with principles of Libre software and like gmail isn't stored locally?

2020-12-07 Thread Marc Sunet
I would not suggest that anyone host their own email unless they are also a security/administration expert. You won't be in control of your email, or the many digital identities tied to it, when your cloud or home server gets hacked. For additional information, you can cross-reference the

Colonizing education

2020-12-07 Thread Marc Sunet
https://instituteforpubliceducation.org/monopoly-technology-platforms-are-colonizing-education/ An old but ongoing battle. -- GPG: 9C2A AF1D CC91 0A53 AB0A B6A1 C457 0E01 081F 8F91 https://emailselfdefense.fsf.org/ OpenPGP_signature Description: OpenPGP digital signature