I suspect that commit will have side effects

OpenAI says it has evidence China’s DeepSeek used its model to train competitor White House AI tsar David Sacks raises possibility of alleged intellectual property theft

OpenAI says it has found evidence that Chinese artificial intelligence start-up DeepSeek used the US company’s proprietary models to train its own open-source competitor, as concerns grow over a potential breach of intellectual property. The San-Francisco-based ChatGPT maker told the Financial Times it had seen some evidence of ‘distillation’, a technique used by developers to obtain better performance on smaller models by using outputs from larger, more capable models. This allows them to achieve similar results on specific tasks at a much lower cost. OpenAI declined to comment further on details of its evidence. Its terms of service state users cannot “copy” any of its services or “use output to develop models that compete with OpenAI”.

I'm so sorry I can't stop laughing. OpenAI, the company built on stealing literally the entire internet, is crying because DeepSeek may have trained on the outputs from ChatGPT. They're crying their eyes out. What a bunch of hypocritical little babies. Cry more, freaks.

www.ft.com/content/a0df...

Decentralized Social Media Is the Only Alternative to the Tech Oligarchy The TikTok ban and Donald Trump's rise to power show how fragile our social media accounts are. We must normalize and invest in decentralized social media.

The last few weeks have really highlighted just how fragile corporate social media is, and just how beholden to political power it is. To build any sort of ground-up power we must continue to invest in decentralized alternatives that are resistant to intervention

www.404media.co/decentralize...

Has Bluesky replaced X for scientists? Take Nature’s poll The research community has flocked to the social-media platform Bluesky. Tell us about your experience.

Help get Nature off the Nazi site! www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Leaked Meta Rules: Users Are Free to Post “Mexican Immigrants Are Trash!” or “Trans People Are Immoral” Facebook now allows attacks on immigrants and trans people, and posts like “Mexican immigrants are trash!” and “I’m a proud racist.”

NEW: I've obtained internal Meta docs revealing an array of sample posts that are now allowed under new hate speech rules. Examples include calling children "trannies," “Jews are flat out greedier than Christians," and “immigrants are grubby, filthy pieces of shit”

theintercept.com/2025/01/09/f...

Casual Viewing | Will Tavlin A decade before Airbnb persuaded homeowners to transform their homes into hotels, Netflix convinced its users to turn theirs into mini Netflix warehouses. Customers who held onto their DVDs for longer...

This deep dive on Netflix purposely turning movies into barely distinguishable forgettable slop is so insightful, researched & brutally hilarious. A must read if you want to really know what’s happening to the business AND culture of movies.

Merry Christmas!

I tried that in the past; too much of a pain to jailbreak. This is a Waveshare 7.5" screen + universal controller with Wifi. All plug & play, and then programmed via ESPHome.

www.waveshare.com/7.5inch-e-pa...
www.waveshare.com/e-paper-esp3...

An e-paper data dashboard in an IKEA frame.

Getting there on my own dashboard. Testing Thameslink data is a bugger when the line is down…

GitHub - Madelena/esphome-weatherman-dashboard: A simple dashboard with weather and NYC subway information for ESPHome A simple dashboard with weather and NYC subway information for ESPHome - Madelena/esphome-weatherman-dashboard

This is genius, and I'm worried it's going to become a gateway drug to building all sorts of stupid shite with ESPHome github.com/Madelena/esp...

I’m down to like 3 apps I use sparsely for distraction and a couple (maps, weather, Venmo) I use out of necessity. This paragraph sums up how I’ve thought about myself the last few years. Great article by Zitron reminding ppl like me we are having a sane reaction to a predatory system.