Thank you! I didn’t know about them!!

I know right? Open source hardware has so many potential benefits over commercial. Significantly decreased price, privacy, good documentation, right to repair, no conflict of interest and potentially one day performance. Imagine we have engineers from across the world improving a single computer chip design, generator design, solar panel fabrication process, or maybe even perhaps an open source fusion reactor blueprint someday in the next 20 years (pun intended).

I’m seriously considering starting something like this myself. Open source blueprints for power generation/energy storage (regular batteries, thermal sand resevior based batteries, hydro power generation), water filtration, machine tools for fabricating anything, CNC machine, plasma cutters, hand tools, etc. Basically everything you could need to live Open Source.

The problem as always is getting enough designers, engineers, and volunteers.

I believe so, this will very likely have an impact on all of us.

Here is a more direct link: https://www.regulations.gov/document/NTIA-2023-0009-0001

Here are the instructions from: https://www.ntia.gov/federal-register-notice/2024/dual-use-foundation-artificial-intelligence-models-widely-available#

All electronic public comments on this action, identified by Regulations.gov docket number NTIA–2023–0009, may be submitted through the Federal e-Rulemaking Portal. The docket established for this request for comment can be found at www.Regulations.gov, NTIA–2023–0009. To make a submission, click the ‘‘Comment Now!’’ icon, complete the required fields, and enter or attach your comments. Additional instructions can be found in the “Instructions” section below, after “Supplementary Information.”

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That is awesome! This is why Lemmy is the best social media site. Thanks @reddig33@lemmy.world for the resource!

Ayo?

In the words of Ubisoft we need to feel “comfortable with not owning your game”. If buying is not owning then piracy is not stealing.

Got any recommended resources for piracy sites/lists?

Vsauce is awesome! He makes you question everything after each video!

Also…

Some of my favorites are from Edward Frenkel and the Langlands Program. In analogy the Langlands Program can be thought of as the “Theory of Everything” of mathematics linking various seemingly disconnected fields together.

Another great video is from 3b1b where he shows Pi somehow emerge from 2 blocks colliding against each other.

Links & Resources

• YouTube - The Langlands Program - Numberphile
• YouTube - Edward Frenkel: Reality is a Paradox
• Wikipedia - Langlands Program
• YouTube - Why do colliding blocks compute pi?
• YouTube - The most unexpected answer to a counting puzzle

Your comment belongs higher. When given the opportunity to make money by social media advertising sometimes in the thousands or millions, companies, share holders, and conflict of interest groups take it. Cablemod’s burning adapters, cryptocurrency scams, payed positive youtube reviews are some great examples. In general there is no honor system and its best to assume anything that can be abused will.

Also manipulating votes is incredibly effective towards swaying public opinion due to the bandwagon effect. Spend a days worth of effort making fake accounts and downvoting any opinion you see as undesirable and most people will follow suit. This is especially bad in echo chambers like on twitter, reddit, etc.

I wish a broader audience could be aware of this. The best I can do is try to spread the word.

Sources:

• The Problem with Linus Tech Tips: Accuracy, Ethics, & Responsibility: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FGW3TPytTjc
• Cablemod Recall: https://old.reddit.com/r/cablemod/comments/18o7bnv/planned_voluntary_safety_recall_of_cablemod/
• FTX Scandal: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bankruptcy_of_FTX
• Bandwagon Effect: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bandwagon_effect
• Echo Chamber: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Echo_chamber_(media)

Same! And lemmy has provided the highest quality answers on the internet in my opinion.

Due to how important search is, it is not a stable solution to place the trust of the technology, your data privacy, and fair pricing to a corporation. Kagi so far seems great don’t get me wrong! But enshitification from monetary incentives almost always occur. Open source search is the only stable long term solution.

Conflict of interest is the best explanation. The goal of search engine companies is not to provide information as efficiently as possible but rather something else entirely.

A lack of competition is another factor as well with the monopolization of Google, Microsoft, etc. There may exist better search engines, but the average joe, and even some of us, have trouble finding them. The quality search engines don’t get a chance to expand and or are bought out like with Altavista (Regarded as the best search engines from the golden age). For example, crowdview.ai is the best search engine (outside of kagi from what I’ve heard) but I’m unsure if they will be able to stay afloat for a long enough time to get a chance to expand and take shots at Google.

The enshitification has been a gradual process. Think of it as slowly boiling a frog. I’ve observed the quality of search slowly degrading over the past 2 decades. Just recently, it has gotten to such a severe point that searching has been useless.

I found the original GPT-4 to be great at technical search questions! Though unfortunately the quality has been getting worse ever since.

Wiby is great! I love using it to discover sites. It’s very similar to spirit of search engines from the early internet. Though it’s not a general search engine it has its specialized uses so I thought I’d mention it

Thanks! Search results have recently been so bad that I found Yandex sometimes offers better results than Duckduckgo/Google/Bing etc. It’s quite sad actually

Thank you mods for your work! I’m loving these communities!