A dispute about a python library called chardet may be an early rumble of an earthquake in the world of open source software (OSS) and intellectual property law. The incident exposes the potential fragility of the legal model underpinning OSS in the Large Language Model era. …
Let's make the "empowerment" claim, that is somewhat true, here: it's true that most people experience computers as black boxes, and for a long time it has been the case that only the "hacker class" has access to "sieze the means of computation", as it were.
This is attached to my concerns of a scenario I call a "LLM Prison Riot". I strongly believe in capability security, and believe it is the *bare minimum* in a post-LLM environment... even if you aren't using LLMs, because our software supply chain is becoming rapidly less …
See I’ve been trying to find ways to express myself artistically and struggling a bit. Skill issue, perfectionism and not knowing what’s my style yet. But I’ve been enjoying seeing a lot of textile art. I want to give it a go as it also allows me to give scraps a new life.
