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[–] [email protected] 6 points 14 hours ago (6 children)

Rent seeking and usury (the charging of interest)

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 day ago (1 children)

It honestly seems worse.

It's pretty easy to get a ramp built, fixing stupid is much harder.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 days ago (1 children)

https://opensource.org/blog/metas-llama-2-license-is-not-open-source

The actual licence is here: https://ai.meta.com/llama/license/

iv. Your use of the Llama Materials must comply with applicable laws and regulations (including trade compliance laws and regulations) and adhere to the Acceptable Use Policy for the Llama Materials (available at https://ai.meta.com/llama/use-policy), which is hereby incorporated by reference into this Agreement.

v. You will not use the Llama Materials or any output or results of the Llama Materials to improve any other large language model (excluding Llama 2 or derivative works thereof).

  1. Additional Commercial Terms. If, on the Llama 2 version release date, the monthly active users of the products or services made available by or for Licensee, or Licensee’s affiliates, is greater than 700 million monthly active users in the preceding calendar month, you must request a license from Meta, which Meta may grant to you in its sole discretion, and you are not authorized to exercise any of the rights under this Agreement unless or until Meta otherwise expressly grants you such rights.
[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 days ago

It's telling how they never have to "do the sums" for bombs or missiles.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (8 children)

The Llama licence isn't open source because of the restrictions it has.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 days ago (2 children)

"Certified" == crippled?

[–] [email protected] -2 points 3 days ago (2 children)

You can thank Torvalds for supporting TiVoization.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 days ago (2 children)

If I was a gambling man I would be placing a bet on our next PM being Farage.

[–] [email protected] 28 points 4 days ago

hippopotamus

[–] [email protected] 213 points 4 days ago (3 children)

Yup, kernel level "anti-cheat" is a rootkit spyware that "pinky swears" it's only spying for a good reason.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 5 days ago (4 children)

"punishable by a fine" just means "legal for the rich"

[–] [email protected] 28 points 6 days ago (3 children)

One of the biggest rules in IT is always have a backup.

A cashless society has no backup.

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