I know there is some overlap between open source and anti-AI activists, but I have a hard time reconciling it. My million+ open source LOC were always intended as a gift to the world. Yes, I would make arguments about how it would strengthen our communities, and the GPL would prevent outright exploitation by our competitors, but those were to allay fears of my partners to allow me to make the gift.
AI training on the code magnifies the value of the gift. I am enthusiastic about it!
Some people do look at open source as a tool for social change, career advancement, or reputation building, but those are all downstream of the gift.
Good Monday Morning, X community and Christians everywhere. Let's not forget what all of this is really about:
Ephesians 6:12: "For our struggle is not against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the powers of this dark world and against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly realms."
Charlie Kirk fought for open debate, and enemies of truth hated him for it. Free expression is under attack everywhere. Once free speech is lost, every other freedom soon follows. We must continue Charlie’s mission to defend it.
“What do we mean when we say that first of all we seek liberty? I often wonder whether we do not rest our hopes too much upon constitutions, upon laws, and upon courts. These are false hopes; believe me, these are false hopes. Liberty lies in the hearts of men and women; when it dies there, no constitution, no law, no court can save it; no constitution, no law, no court can even do much to help it. While it lies there it needs no constitution, no law, no court to save it.” — Judge Learned Hand, 1944
The war against the bureaucracy. The taxpayer pays for their governments, their summits, their NGOs. The bureaucracy has grown so much that not only do they not acknowledge that every single one of their salaries is paid by the taxpayer, but they demonize them as being the problem. The war is not against millionaires or billionaires or anyone who makes their money in the free market; it's against those who enrich themselves at the taxpayer's expense.
Video games are meant for you to be immersed in an exciting and creative alternative reality and have fun with friends.
Adding present-day political bullshit kills the vibe.
X and Instagram both have a well-functioning PWA that is almost indistinguishable from their native apps.
But their PWAs don't work offline...
If you're going to build a web app, make sure it's a freaking good web app.
Otherwise, don't bother.
Native apps have set the standard for over a decade so a sub-standard web app simply won't cut it.
If we want web apps to be taken seriously, we need to take them seriously.
Read my thought on this and how you can make your web app work offline in my latest Medium article 👇
Building virtual sets on top of reality, moving around in them and seeing them transformed entirely with Gen AI. Is this the future? :D
This was quite simple to make actually:
Figmin XR running on my Quest 3, using some models from sketchfab and some custom creations to set-dress my hallway. Filming a small performance of walking through the set and then using Runway Gen 3 to transform that. I'm still missing a lot of control with the AI process, like uploading style frames along the duration of the video.. but overall this is pretty incredible! Can't help but think about how insane it would have been to be able to use Dreams for stuff like this!
What do you think?
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