I fear it will end egalitarianism.
Many imagine future AI as an autonomous agent. I don't think anyone will release that. Instead, I expect to see a generative AI like GPT-4, however one that produces super-smart responses.
This will create a situation where the amount of computing resources someone has access to determines how much intelligence they can use. And the difference will be much bigger and more comprehensive than the difference between a genius and a normal human.
Indeed, the best way to learn how to do something that doesn't have a good writeup somewhere, is to search GitHub for nix code.
Actually, it is already able to perform high quality translation. But it's too expensive right now to use at scale.
Huh. I guess that's what happens when Google actually prefer that you download the add-y version, because they also make money from the ads.
You can technically can your proprietary software "free" too. But that's not what the term means. And nether does "open source".
That's not the accepted usage of the term, though. Rather, open source = free software.
And while I do like the term free software better, I don't think trying to start war on which term to use would help anything.
The reasoning given by GrayJay was that they don’t want a bunch of malware / ad filled clones running around, and I think that’s reasonable justification?
It's not.
I didn’t come across any restrictions imposed on an end user to modify the app for their own needs or redistribution
It's by default that you can't redistribute modified versions. You need explicit permission to do so. Furthermore, that license is revocable. So let's say you invest a lot of time into making modifications - at any point, they can revoke the license, and you suddenly find yourself forbidden from distributing your modified version, too/
If/when Grayjay is transitioned to FOSS, I imagine it’ll be difficult for the community to maintain it due to the complexity…
That's not really relevant. There's no requirement in open source on how the projects are to be maintained.
the last thing someone like that would want on a personal project is loads of strangers contributing, bad actors ripping it off trying to make a quick buck, or even worse redistributing it with malware.
It's up to him whether he accepts strangers contributing. That has nothing to do with whether it's open source. If he didn't want contributions, he could disallow any pull requests on an open source software - or conversely, if there are people willing to contribute to a non-open-source project, there's theoretically nothing stopping that. Redistributing it with malware is not really a problem open-source projects have, and malware writers wouldn't care for the license anyway.
The only thing is would be the somewhat relevant would be making a quick buck part, but that's only been a problem for people using MIT/BSD license.
Finally, I'll never understand why people would want to name software after dental string...
I think there's an issue with coupling on the fediverse. For instance, if I run a community, but I'm not happy with the current instance policies, I can't easily move it to a new insurance (while keeping the memberships). It's also tricky to migrate my account - and it will lose me posting and vote history, edit/delete rights, etc. Finally, if I want to participate in two servers that have defederated each other, I have to maintain two accounts, which is a terrible user experience.
There's desperate need to a library that's simpler to use than wlroots or smithay - but unless it supports more protocols (later shell, gamma control, session lock), I don't think this is a real a alternative yet.
I haven't had that issue. I've heard that disabling adblockers resolves it. But people have said that spoofing their user agent to chrome also magically resolves it...