From his website stallman.org:
Richard Stallman has cancer. Fortunately it is slow-growing and manageable follicular lymphona, so he will probably live many more years nonetheless. But he now has to be even more careful not to catch Covid-19.
Recent video of him speaking at GNU 40 Hacker Meeting. Screenshots of video stream.
Sad news about a pioneer of internet freedom. He has earned his fair share of criticism and detractors, but he has also given a lot to the Linux and free software ecosystem. I personally run !boinc@sopuli.xyz on all my rigs to support open-source cancer research, I hope one day we can finally cross cancer off the list of humankind's foes.
Stallman is like the friend you'll never introduce to your family.
The guy in your WoW guild who carries hard but you know you never want to meet.
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I don't think we're too far away from AI's that can refactor compiled code into any language of your choice; then all software will be open source.
Edit: lul; at least 50 people are butt hurt over the idea that an AI can decipher assembler in 5-10 years
stop getting all your info about AI and it's current/upcoming capabilities from mainstream news media my dude lol
We're nowhere close to what you describe, and even we were, that wouldn't be the same thing as "open source", since you could only do it to code you have access to. You couldn't - for example, use it to get a copy of the Reddit/Facebook server-side source code
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https://www.deepmind.com/blog/competitive-programming-with-alphacode
People overestimate how much it matters that ai "doesn't have the capacity to understand it's output"
Even if it doesn't, is that a massive problem to overcome? There's studies showing that if you have an ai list the potential problems with an output and then apply them to its own output it performs significantly better. Perhaps we're just a recursive algorithm away from that.
Perhaps we're just a recursive algorithm.
GPT, for example, fails in calculation with problems like knapsack, adjacency matrix, Huffman tree, etc.
it starts giving garbled output.
Ask it simple question a calculator can ask. Say square root of 48. It will give the wrong answer
The current LLMs can't loop and can't see individual digits, so their failure at seemingly simple math problems is not terrible surprising. For some problems it can help to rephrase the question in such a way that the LLM goes through the individual steps of the calculation, instead of telling you the result directly.
And more generally, LLMs aren't exactly the best way to do math anyway. Human's aren't any good at it either, that's why we invented calculators, which can do the same task with a lot less computing power and a lot more reliably. LLMs that can interact with external systems are already available behind paywall.
The problem is chatgpt will say you the wrong answer confidently unlike humans
The problem is chatgpt will say you the wrong answer confidently unlike humans
We must be hanging around different humans.
Humans are wrong all the time and confidently so. And it's an apples and oranges competition anyway, as ChatGPT has to cover essentially all human knowledge, while a single human only knows a tiny subset of it. Nobody expects a human to know everything ChatGPT knows in the first place. A human put into ChatGPTs place would not perform well at all.
Humans make the mistake that they overestimate their own capabilities because they can find mistakes the AI makes, when they themselves wouldn't be able to perform any better, at best they'd make different mistakes.
we are very very very far away from that
You should know the difference between free software, open source software and source-visible software.
I rank it Free>opensource>source availiable
Downvoted because phrased as a technical solution. There might be a technical solution one day but until then, if it ever happens, it's a moral problem. By phrasing it otherwise we diminish the value and efforts of countless people, including RMS, who did invest their time in FLOSS for an ideal. Again it might happen but until then we must bet on what is right, not an idealized future that prompts idleness because it is genuinely dangerous.
cancer is bloat
Unknown proprietary blobs intervening his free-functioning body
Seeing him without his beard and hair feels so wrong and even uncanny. I hope he has a lot more years ahead of him and he kicks cancer's ass.
I hope he live enough years to grow back his hair and beard
His great hair is just too iconic, I would never have recognized him.
His page doesn't load so it must be overwhelmed with visitors.
Linux users all around the world who want to be close to him.
When things matter, we are a good community guys <3Fuck cancer!
Literally or metaphorically?
No humor in Lemmy, please.
Cancer and clean-shavenness aside, I disagree with much of his talk. I don't see making social media (or "anti-social media" as he calls it) illegal is the best solution.
My dad is recovering from cancer and it was a hard fight, I sincerely wish the best for Stallman.
Really unfortunate. He looks rough. May his days be long yet.
Eff cancer :(
Hopefully some day we get to the point where it's as rare as polio. I think that's the same kind that Hank Green had though, IIRC. Hopefully it's as manageable.
Your comment confused me since I thought you were saying the EFF was cancer at first.
I have never read the initialisation EFF as “eff” before but now… can’t unsee
Heck's sake, Ballmer hexed that one on Stallman, with all that saying that "Linux is a cancer" and all that
*GNU+cancer
I have a hard time deciding what to do with this.
On the one hand… Dude, even as someone who loves dark humour, I couldn't bring myself to make a cancer joke upon news of a diagnosis unless the person was a true shitstain on the earth, like Trump.
On the other hand…that was fucking brilliant and works on so many levels.
I had pretty much the same thought process.
It's dark, but brilliant.
Yet I can't imagine RMS being offended by this, so I shouldn't either.
That's the kind of thing I wouldn't be too surprised to hear from the guy himself.The world is a better place because of him and I wish him well.
Read the room dude
That’s a terrible joke that deserves the downvotes, because cancer is shit and I only wish the best to anyone who is diagnosed with it, but I laughed.
Retard
Did you really make an account just to post this comment?
You know, serious question from someone relatively new to the fediverse: how do you make sure that people won't just create many accounts across instances if they want to evade bans or create one-time throwaways for posting abusive comments? One instance has no idea about users on other instances after all.
You can't, not effectively. This ain't necessarily a federation problem though, centralised social media has the same problem. You can do the same on Reddit.
That's not to say there aren't things that can be done. Instances can agree to implement shared banlists that include known-abusive IPs or, if an abusive user has a habit of using a pattern in their evasion usernames, you can use a Regex to hunt them out.
On reddit the entire user database is in the hands of one company, so they might be able to tell whether two people are (likely) the same person. So I think that might actually be a problem made worse by federation.
You'd be surprised how hard the task is. Any given identifier can be trivially changed. IP addresses aren't permanent and change frequently for home users. Multiple people genuinely use the same IP. People are likely to have very similar writing styles to someone else by complete coincidence. Browser fingerprinting can be thrown off by simply using another browser or fucking with the User Agent.
That about puts paid to any identifiers either Reddit or an instance owner may have.
Fuck off
Dunno why you of all people are insulting their intelligence.
While they made a clever double reference to the GNU/Linux meme and tying it in with the Ballmer 'Linux is cancer' rant, you not only come out with a one word response, but that one word makes you look infinitely worse than the person who literally made a cancer joke upon news of a diagnosis.
Maybe ableist slurs weren't the best idea?
While they made a clever double reference to the GNU/Linux meme and tying it in with the Ballmer 'Linux is cancer' rant
No. It's an unfunny and retarded "meme" that is overused by redditors. And this obviously isn't related to the steve ballmer rant. They just use the same template with any subject.
Just because you ain't got the braincells to make the connection doesn't mean others can't.
Speaking of overuse, you sure are using the r-word liberally for someone who couldn't get the joke. Or is it one of those "I'm black therefore I can use the N-word" kind of things?
Fucking retard. The subject of this post is cancer. That is all. You think you're smart for overthinking the connection.
Why yes, that slur does apply to me! You see, I have autism and don't take particularly kindly to that slur.
Unlike you though, I actually have to tell people before they know there's something wrong with me. Because, again unlike you, I can act like a normal human being. As opposed to acting like a 5 year old that just learned the r-word. Sorry, I can tell you need an explanation for these things!
Haha wow you are so cool
Very dark but I'll allow it.
man, those screenshots hurt
Noooooooo
Hope he gets well soon. An inspiration to us all.
