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Comment · 1 month ago
Infobae has more information (in Spanish) and a video demonstrating the fire extinguisher:
https://www.infobae.com/mexico/2026/08/27/se-puede-apagar-el...
Comment · 1 month ago
> America has the most progressive tax system in the world. There is no other country where the ultra rich pay such percentage of the tax burden.
Nope, not even close. Sort this list by "Highest" and keep in mind that NYC is only one city in the US:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_tax_rates
Comment · 2 months ago
Exciting to see this soon after someone got the Fairphone 6 camera working on postmarketOS:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49338285
The 6+ is a different model, but the announcement says the camera module is the same.
Comment · 2 months ago
Absolutely not. This is exactly why people have a problem with Chromium, which now has some of the same restrictions on extensions as Safari (Manifest V3).
- uBlock Origin works best on Firefox: https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/wiki/uBlock-Origin-works-b...
- uBlock Origin Lite FAQ: https://github.com/uBlockOrigin/uBOL-home/wiki/Frequently-as...
Comment · 2 months ago
Muse Glimmer doesn't redeem Meta, but it's a contribution to the commons and the Apache 2.0 licensing is an improvement from the restricted licenses attached to Llama. If even Meta can use a permissive license for its model weights, so can any other company.
Comment · 3 months ago
Even with US sanctions, Chinese AI companies would continue to serve users in every other country in the world (including China itself), so I don't see why they would stop releasing open weight models.
Comment · 3 months ago
Alibaba Cloud runs ModelScope, which is like Hugging Face but based in China:
- Source code (ironically on GitHub): https://github.com/modelscope/modelscope
It's not limited to Alibaba's Qwen. All of the other major Chinese ones are on there (GLM, DeepSeek, Kimi, etc.) as well as finetunes and quantizations of the non-Chinese ones.
Comment · 3 months ago
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
- Script: https://archive.org/stream/hitchhikers-guide-to-the-galaxy/H...
- Film (with some differences): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=41Vli6Fnj1E
Comment · 3 months ago
OpenAI is currently a PBC that metastasized out of the original nonprofit also called OpenAI which owns 26% of that PBC. But yes, it is ridiculous.
Comment · 3 months ago
Unlike Claude Fable, once an open weights model is released, it's available forever (or at least until every copy is lost or deleted, which won't be soon).
Open weights models are already great, and the ones that are already released will continue to be just as good as they are today even if newer versions are released at a different speed in the future.
Comment · 3 months ago
I have no reason to care about the interests of these companies. My interests are best served with a competitive selection of open weights models available for my use.
OpenAI has the year-old GPT-OSS, and Anthropic has never released any open weights models. Meanwhile, other companies are delivering a steady stream of high-quality open weights models every month, and I'm not going to stop using them just because some other people don't like the country they were developed in.
Comment · 3 months ago
I agree with you on the distinction. Meta's models are not even open weights, and yet they are claiming that their models are open source.
Comment · 3 months ago
Whenever Meta claims their models are open source, you have to double-check.
SAM License (https://github.com/facebookresearch/sam3/blob/main/LICENSE):
> iv. Your use of the SAM Materials will not involve or encourage others to reverse engineer, decompile or discover the underlying components of the SAM Materials.
> v. You are not the target of Trade Controls and your use of SAM Materials must comply with Trade Controls. You agree not to use, or permit others to use, SAM Materials for any activities subject to the International Traffic in Arms Regulations (ITAR) or end uses prohibited by Trade Controls, including those related to military or warfare purposes, nuclear industries or applications, espionage, or the development or use of guns or illegal weapons.
> b. If you institute litigation or other proceedings against Meta or any entity (including a cross-claim or counterclaim in a lawsuit) alleging that the SAM Materials, outputs or results, or any portion of any of the foregoing, constitutes infringement of intellectual property or other rights owned or licensable by you, then any licenses granted to you under this Agreement shall terminate as of the date such litigation or claim is filed or instituted. You will indemnify and hold harmless Meta from and against any claim by any third party arising out of or related to your use or distribution of the SAM Materials.
The DINOv3 License (https://github.com/facebookresearch/dinov3/blob/main/LICENSE...) is similar but with the model names swapped.
It's always nice when a model's weights are released, but Meta's models are not open source because their weights always come with weird restrictions.
Comment · 3 months ago
European Commission press release:
"Commission provides guidance to Google for AI interoperability on Android and sharing of Google Search data under the Digital Markets Act"
https://ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/detail/en/ip_26_...
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