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"What Is Your Dream for Mozilla" - Mozilla is doing a survey, and it could be a good opportunity to share some of the feedback that usually gets commented here :) in c/technology@lemmy.world
[–] LPThinker@lemmy.world 10 points 4 days ago

Thankfully, development of Servo has been revived, and it's now fully independent of Mozilla. I believe it's now being stewarded by the Linux Foundation of Europe, with a lot of contributions from Igalia.

"What Is Your Dream for Mozilla" - Mozilla is doing a survey, and it could be a good opportunity to share some of the feedback that usually gets commented here :) in c/technology@lemmy.world
[–] LPThinker@lemmy.world 46 points 4 days ago (4 children)

The fact that there's no option to express my anger over the environmental cost of AI is infuriating. There is no responsible or positive use of AI when it's accelerating the destruction of our climate.

Apple Removes Ability to Run Unsigned Apps in macOS 15.1 in c/technology@lemmy.world
[–] LPThinker@lemmy.world -1 points 4 days ago

I have stopped giving Apple my money, for this among other reasons. I have to say, though, that Asahi Linux makes a compelling case for repurposing their hardware for better use.

*Permanently Deleted* in c/technology@lemmy.world
[–] LPThinker@lemmy.world 4 points 3 weeks ago

I've heard it as a word, "Rustles". Not sure how canonical that is though.

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Open-Source Exploitation - David Whitney - NDC London 2024 (youtu.be)
 

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/14246943

I found this talk really helpful in understanding the broader context of open source's recent difficulties (see xz vulnerability, Redis license change, etc.)

I am one of the people who has immensely enjoyed using open source at a personal level (and have done a tiny bit of contributing). I've seen and read a lot about burn out in open source and the difficulties of independent open source maintainers trying to make a living off their work while companies make billions using that work and only ever interact with the maintainer to demand more unpaid labor. But I've never seriously considered how we got to this point or what it might take to move to a more sustainable world of thriving, fair open source.

AI Companies Lose $190 Billion After Dismal Financial Reports in c/technology@lemmy.world
[–] LPThinker@lemmy.world 1 points 9 months ago

This misses the fact that even the experts have been using “AI” to refer to whatever technology used to seem impossible, until it becomes commonplace. Before LLMs there were heuristic algorithms, and then expert systems, and then intelligent agents and then deep learning. As the boundaries of what is deemed achievable expand, the definition of AI moves to just beyond the frontier.

Women STEM students up to twice as likely as non-STEM students to have experienced sexism in c/technology@lemmy.world