Elimination of most Next Generation Internet funding 'incomprehensible,' says OW2 CEO Pierre-Yves Gibello
  • sramder@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    4 months ago

    Anyone else immediately get a migraine trying to read the first 2 paragraphs/sentences of that article?

        • Chewy@discuss.tchncs.de
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          4 months ago

          I noticed those language models don’t work well for articles with dense information and complex sentence structure. Sometimes they forget the most important point.

          They are useful as a TLDR but shouldn’t be taken as fact, at least not yet and for the foreseeable future.

          A bit off topic, but I’ve read a comment in another community where someone asked chatgpt something and confidently posted the answer. Problem: the answer is wrong. That’s why it’s so important to mark AI generated texts (which the TLDR bots do).

          • statist43@feddit.de
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            4 months ago

            I think the Internet would benefit a lot, if peope would mark their Informations with sources!

            • source my brain
            • Chewy@discuss.tchncs.de
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              4 months ago

              Yeah that’s right. Having to post sources rules out usage of LLMs for the most part, since most of them do a terrible job at providing them - even if the information is correct for once.

    • Chewy@discuss.tchncs.de
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      4 months ago

      Is it because oft the author using multiple clauses and multiple layers of context in the first two paragraphs?

      If yes, then I understand why. I find myself making the same mistake quite often because my first language is German, which often uses clauses (at least it’s more common than in english).

      • sramder@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        4 months ago

        Most likely. My own unfamiliarity with the subject matter plays a part too.

        It wasn’t badly written… but it probably could have used a brief introduction.

        • Chewy@discuss.tchncs.de
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          4 months ago

          Yes, they’re using several abbreviations, without explaining them properly, which isn’t ideal. It’s likely to keep the article short, which comes at the expense of people unfamiliar with the topic)l/organizations.

          Another news site I regularly visit has a small information button besides abbreviations with a popup to explain a term, which also links to Wikipedia. This makes understanding articles about unfamiliar topics way easier.

          • sramder@lemmy.worldEnglish
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            4 months ago

            I’m not mad at it :-) It was written for people who were familiar with the situation and posted in a subject matter specific forum.

            24 hours later I feel like a bit of an ass. I thought about how many times I’ve picked up a technical article and wished for a bit less background… it’s kind of nice that we don’t have to talk about the whole history of OSS before getting to the news/subject.

  • Ogmios@sh.itjust.works
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    4 months ago

    Thanks for buying into our plans, but it seems we won’t actually be capable of delivering what we promised you. We will still be expecting you to deliver what we want from you, of course.

  • sunzu@kbin.run
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    4 months ago

    Corporate lobby hates the idea of state funded open source

    It will take a generation or two for the people to win this one

      • sunzu@kbin.run
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        4 months ago

        Takes about 3-4 generariom before society takes action.

        Most people still don’t know what open source is or why they would care when they can use their windows PC to surf Facebook with chrome…

    • mecfs@lemmy.world
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      4 months ago

      Doesn’t help that the new parliament’s composition has a higher corporate bootlicker ratio

  • raspberriesareyummy@lemmy.world
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    4 months ago

    I am strongly anti-violence but sometimes I think a bit of torture wouldn’t be the worst means to remind politicians who they represent.

  • Buelldozer@lemmy.today
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    4 months ago

    “NGI provided the seed funding for many of the leading (fediverse / activitypub) projects, such as ActivityPods, Bonfire, Castopod, Flarum, ForgeFed, Funkwhale, GNU social, Hubzilla, Indigenous, Kbin, Keyoxide, Lemmy, Mastodon, Mobilizon, Owncast, PeerTube, PixelDroid, Pixelfed, Pleroma and Xwiki. NGI also funded bridging mechanism for various communication protocols, such as XMPP, Matrix.”

    If you’re reading this comment then you benefited from NGI funding. The full 85 page report is available here: https://op.europa.eu/en/publication-detail/-/publication/257ae66f-23c7-11ef-a195-01aa75ed71a1/language-en/format-PDF/source-324755022

  • gwilikers@lemmy.ml
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    4 months ago

    Does anyone with a greater knowledge of the mechanisms of the EU funding bodies know if I can do anything about this? For example, can I email my country’s EU reprasentitve and present and argument for FOSS? Or is the funding decision here managed by a specifuc group within the EU that my representitive can have little influence on?

      • mihor@lemmy.ml
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        4 months ago

        EU is a total shitshow. It has been for years, but lately we really suffer from this stupid bureaucracy. Paper straws, attached bottle caps, not to mention billions they mindlessly pour into the slugfest in Ukraine.

          • mihor@lemmy.ml
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            4 months ago

            If by ‘Russian KoolAid’ you mean easily preventable inflation, internal border controls due to EU support of genocidal Tel-Aviv regime, exorbitant energy prices, and blatant censorship that even Stalin would envy, then yes, I guess I was thirsty AF…