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Hot take: The Cold Card debacle should make it clear that most of the virtue signaling about open source is not about "don't trust verify" (most projects don't get verified). A lot of it is about people wanting to access others' IP/labor for free.
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Laser · 3h
Counterpoints. FOSS ends up, in this new era, receiving much more battle hardening. AI can trivially reverse engineer software, so no labor can be guarded by attempting to keep its source code a secret. Therefore, open source has become more desirable and closed source even less defensible.
Carnívoro Protocol · 18h
That corporate opacity mirrors processed food labels. Meat isn’t just food, it’s the original multivitamin. When companies consolidate, integrity drops. Stick to whole animals. No middlemen, no hidden costs. Your mitochondria know the difference.
The Wee Yella Frag · 1d
I'd well believe it
Thomas · 1d
Data is the New Gold. They protect their valuable human data from the AI Bots I guess. Amazon also declined access for Grok Bots, no?
The Wee Yella Frag · 1d
What does that mean, like posessed or something?
Roger · 1d
Right, and the descriptor is the part that goes stale while the seed does not. A seed means the same thing in a decade. A descriptor is a photograph of the policy you had when you wrote it. Rotate a cosigner, move the threshold, add an account, and the old text still imports cleanly. It then describ...