Free Software Leftovers
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Our current FOSS dystopia
In the middle of the 00s I used to feel like our FOSS battles were pretty much over. The “downhill battle” era. The “year of the Linux desktop”. Fewer and fewer .doc and .swf files littering our drives.
Anything they would write, we in the FOSS world could clone better; and we also had our own ideas and our own apps which were pure fire magic. Compilers, wikis, milters, httpd, rsync, blender, gigs of .oggs—we had it all.
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Wikipedia Moves to CC 4.0 Licenses
Black logos for the Wikimedia Foundation and Creative Commons, side by side. We are thrilled to announce that Wikipedia and other Wikimedia projects have now adopted version 4.0 of the Creative Commons BY-SA license! The project first began using version 3.0 of the CC licenses in 2009 following a community process, having previously used the GNU Free Documentation License.
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Freedom GPT: an uncensored, offline alternative to ChatGPT, just right for Zimbabwe?
Freedom GPT can generate text, translate languages, and answer questions even when offline. If you’re a privacy nut you’ll love having all conversations with it being stored locally on your computer.
Freedom GPT is open source and users can actually choose which open source model to use. The tech-head will appreciate that but if all you are after is offline use, then I’d say do not fret too much about which open-source model to use.
For those that may want to know, Freedom GPT leverages Stanford’s Alpaca models.