@Caldathras

AFAIK, they tend to utilize ethical datasets any way.

The list of local LLMs includes Meta's LLaMa model, which is famously built on 81TB of illegally-redistributed material from torrent sites.

Unless someone manages to destroy all the files on Github/Hugging Face and no one reposts them, I would say it's very unlikely local LLMs disappear like these SaaS services that eat billions of dollars a year.

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For the record, if AI money results in international copyright terms via the Berne Convention being reduced to a maximum of 20 years, I consider the sacrifice worthy. These companies will still be hit by all the infringement for the works they exploited in the past 20 years, and our public domain will be much richer for it.

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You're assuming that the resources will still exist to maintain this corporate boondoggle after that length of time.

Small, local LLMs aren't going away. LLMs aren't likely to get much better, but they certainly aren't going away, however you feel about it.

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Can't they use Flathub flatpaks on their atomic systems? Most users of atomic systems probably add Flathub anyway.

They can, and they likely should, but Fedora can't offer users Flatpaks from Flathub because they would be legally liable for patent infringement; for the same reason they can't offer most RPM Fusion repositories by default.

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This seems unlikely.

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I saw Naya's Quest in a Nerdcubed Free Games Friday video a few months ago and wanted to play it in a bout of nostalgia, but it's a flash game, so I couldn't. Cool to see it come back in a collection!

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I've started to use GOG because they have some VNs there that Steam don't - despite it being way more expensive due to lacking regional pricing).

Ditto. Steam is a very mediocre/bad store for VNs.

The thing is, it's not like there's never an antipathy towards Valve and Steam. Even now, people do still complain about them.

I am not so much invested in Steam winning as I am in Amazon losing.

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"we failed multiple times to disrupt the game platform Steam"

And the world collectively breathed a sigh of relief.

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I only know the name Netease as one of the formerly top sponsors for Blender...so this is what they do.

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This protocol has actually been in discussion on the mailing lists since at least 2017, predating the Freedesktop Gitlab. In fact, Graeme Gill of argyllcms [External Link] had been in discussion with Wayland developers since 2013 about a color management protocol, when they were much less receptive about it.

The protocol being merged is a big deal.

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