I see Trilium!

I don’t think that’s a fair representation. Like for any community, you tend to hear the most about a vocal minority, and drama there was, indeed. That’s not unique to Scala, that doesn’t mean that a majority was engaged in it or was affected by it.

The point about fragmentation holds, though: Scala is a multi-paradigm language, so you tend to have communities assembling around core set of libraries and abstractions that fit their specific needs. It’s not a bad thing from an engineering perspective (you get to pick the most adequate tool for the job), but it will be intimidating at first, and understandably ridiculous when coming from a different ecosystem that you’ve a choice of a dozen or so JSON deserializing libraries. https://index.scala-lang.org/ Is a great help, though.

XMPP is what Matrix was meant to be, but 15 years too early

In part. The whole idea behind snikket is to bundle together a bunch of pre-existing mainstream and well behaved XMPP clients and server under one consistent and polished package, so that it just works out of the box for the less savvy users and admins who then don’t have to think too much about configuration and peers onboarding. So, yes, on Android, you will find a rebranded version of the Conversations client, prosody on the server, siskin on iOS, and IIRC they are working on a SDK for the desktop.

Sure, did I also make up this whole story about people being brutalised by the ICE from which it all derived?

Do I? I’m just giving you textbook facts about authoritarianism and the consequences of living under one.

Whether you believe that this relates to your situation is something else. I’m not here to play mind games with you, all I can do is encourage you to simply look at the traits and definition of it, and bring your bingo card with you. Here it is, unaltered from Wikipedia:

Authoritarianism is a political system characterized by the rejection of political plurality, the use of strong central power to preserve the political status quo, and reductions in democracy, separation of powers, civil liberties, and the rule of law.[1][2] Authoritarian regimes may be either autocratic or oligarchic and may be based upon the rule of a party, the military, or the concentration of power in a single person.[3][4]

Also, I gain nothing from this “fantasy conversation” besides the hope that it might help the reader navigate through what’s happening (and that they will avoid the worst of it).

And which state apparatus do you expect to come to the rescue when all powers are practically consolidated, and the one supposed to protect your rights is the same that oppresses you? Or the oppressor changes/makes-up the rules on a whim? You just don’t seem to understand what authoritarianism is about, and how the deal is changing. Haven’t you been taught history? People generally don’t bring up words like “fascism” for fun and giggles…

Precisely, and you giving one or not doesn’t change the outcome when they come pick you up and you have no recourse.

That’s the problem with authoritarianism: it no longer matters what is legal or not (the repressive state does as it pleases), and even if it did matter what’s legal, too bad that’s not up to you to decide anymore.

We should just stop marketing LLMs as AI.

With OpenAI already enshitifying ChatGPT with ads, and the whole datacenter demand being pegged to questionable (economically, socially, environmentally) build up plans, what if the music stops in just a few months from now? Will micron course-correct? There’s no point fulfilling OpenAI’s orders after the company went belly up, right? And the point of OpenAI orders was first and foremost to buy the competition out of market, so even if LLMs need memory, and LLMs keep being a thing in the years to come, it’s unlikely that this overcapacity will serve an economical purpose.

For one thing, I’m glad people finally come to such conclusions. Matrix has been a huge waste, and the tens of millions of investment would have done wonders if poured over better, more mature, healthier and more diverse protocols.

If there’s one constant about Matrix, it is to perpetually reinvent the wheel because it wasn’t invented there in the first place.

https://matduggan.com/the-year-of-the-3d-printed-miniature-and-other-lies-we-tell-ourselves/

https://arxiv.org/abs/2012.07805

https://openreview.net/forum?id=vjel3nWP2a

https://www.nightfall.ai/ai-security-101/training-data-extraction-attacks

Its not lossless.

Except for when it is, and even when it’s not, there is a fine line leading to calling that plagiarism.

Well, once again, that’s just my hot/IANAL take, but when those weights serve to store information in a way that can easily be extracted losslessly (check-out “model extraction attacks”), we should stop treating them as “just weights”.

I mean, the elephant in the room is the blatant licence violations orchestrated by LLM vendors. If your codebase is GPLed and serves to feed a LLM, it should extend to all the code produced by that LLM.

For decades, the FOSS community has been at each others throats about those licenses, and now that we contemplate the largest IP theft/reappropriation of all time, it’s like, not big a deal. I can’t tell that I’m a prolific OSS contributor, but enough to understand the sentiment: “I put code in the open to help humanity, not to make oligarchs better off with a newfound mandate to pollute”.

Congrats for the release!

I came to bitwarden because we needed to share passwords with my SO and the way those replicate seamlessly on all our devices (desktop, laptop, iOS, Android) is a no brainer. Since bitwarden/vaultwarden is full self-hostable and open-source, I don’t see why I would pass on its convenience.