They should move out of US and keep doing it anyway.

What I had in mind was the Mastodon meltdown some years ago over search indexing.

I don’t understand the Fedievrse objection to search indexing. Search indexing is the most important piece of what makes the internet.

Right now the best model is Flux: https://huggingface.co/spaces/black-forest-labs/FLUX.1-schnell

You can also get their pro version if you are ok with paying: https://blackforestlabs.ai/

Come back in 6 months and the answer will be different. Things are moving very rapidly.

The largest social media operator in the world had to adopt open source concepts and ActivityPub in order to compete. I see this as a huge win.

America has more prisoners than China.

I don’t mind paying for software and I regularly donate to open source projects. The problem is that most corporate software is closed and I don’t have the freedom to use it as I wish.

Copyright exists to bully ordinary people. It does not apply to megacorps.

Academic publishing is a scam.

arxiv.org just works. Nobody needs Elsevier.

Yet another reminder that Google is an unreliable company. Install Fdroid tonavoid Google’s mistakes.

you should just install mesa, no?

yes, and also building lots of new metro lines at the same time. I take the metro for destinations that I used to drive 5 years ago.

In my hometown of İstanbul the number of subways have grown like crazy. It’s beautiful to watch.

It helps to move quickly when your entire infrastructure crashes.

Not hard with Huggingface PEFT

noice

The crowdstrike failure is probably helping Linux.

I think you can have password auth in Samba.

That being said, the more important thing is to protect your VPN network.

it’s breaking down. Pytorch supports ROCm now.

yes