Watching this feels like a masterclass of diplomacy. Zelenskyy is talking directly and respectfully to the Fox audience, while trying to clearly explain why Ukraine can’t just bow down to faulty peace deals without question.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy addresses heated Oval Office exchange with President Donald Trump and Vice President JD Vance, conditions for a peace agreement and more with Putin in exclusive 'Special Report' interview.

Watching this feels like a masterclass of diplomacy. Zelenskyy is talking directly and respectfully to the Fox audience, while trying to clearly explain why Ukraine can't just bow down to faulty peace deals without question.
I would just like to push back and say that the Internet was an open public project, and it has helped countless people across the world. Every single problematic tech that people are pointing to at the moment are closed-source commercial projects.
That is Capitalism at work.
Bloomberg and others are funding the Paris agreement for the US, where the government pulled out: https://www.bloomberg.org/press/un-special-envoy-michael-r-bloomberg-announces-effort-to-ensure-u-s-honors-paris-agreement-commitments/
LLaDA - new MIT-licensed Diffusion LLM
Explainer of Diffusion LLMs from Andrej Karpathy: "Most of the LLMs you've been seeing are ~clones as far as the core modeling approach goes. They're all trained "autoregressively", i.e. predicting tokens from left to right. Diffusion is different - it doesn't go left to right, but all at once. You start with noise and gradually denoise into a token stream."
I really hope an explanation is forthcoming as to why they need all data. It is concerning that a "privacy-focused" browser doesn't take the time to explain that.
Until they do, I think I'm gonna give WaterFox a whirl.
I wonder if the "limited resources" are due to them potentially losing a whole load of customers recently.
You know, if their tech truly is as open-source as they market, then they've still contributed hugely to the ecosystem. If it turns out it's not actually operationally open-source, then this will be remembered in a hugely negative light.
Edit: I did just see their post about being impacted by the US spending cuts. I can't imagine Proton would be super happy about that administration at the moment. But then again, who knows these days.
That is some straight up Freudian shit
This was in the same speech where he said that the Holy Spirit was working through Trump to do all of this, and that Trump should have a third term and beyond.
It's becoming obvious that we should be treating Trumpism as a religious cult, not just a political movement.
For sure, thanks! https://libro.fm/referral?rf_code=lfm723891
Lol. Pythagoras - considered one of the gods to maths teachers - explicitly talked about the mathematical beauty of music. Where was this person trained?
If you're into audiobooks, I strongly recommend libro.fm instead - it's all DRM free downloads, so you never lose access.
President Donald Trump has made the crackdown on undocumented immigrants living in the United States a priority for his second term in the White House.

President Donald Trump has made the crackdown on undocumented immigrants living in the United States a priority for his second term in the White House.

But but but SteamOS!
I was using Audacity for quick Normalization and other edits to my samples, but I've since learned I can do that inside OpenMPT (and save those edits back to file). Audacity does lack any form of "midi-esque" sequencing though, which is how I primarily work.
Having said that, Audacity has come a long with VST support, etc, since Muse Group got involved. But unfortunately, they also allegedly enforced data tracking in a way that didn't respect the community that had supported it up until then. I actually don't know what the latest is (someone else feel free to reply with the update), but it hasn't been crucial enough in my workflow to keep up with.
My pleasure :)
Silver-lining: Ableton is very good and teaches a lot! Also, in case you ended up getting into Max4Live at all, it's worth checking out PlugData
Didn't realise it came with some Linux distros - cool! Sounds like something for me to spend a weekend looking into..
Yeah I asked about that on the LMMS Discord too, and said I had the same assumption. Apparently it is still under active dev, but you need to scroll down to the nightly builds.
I don't know why they don't update the Git Releases..
Just started exploring Linux Studio Plugins last weekend! I've heard Ardour is good, but I'm sticking to $0 options if I can help it. That way people don't need access to credit cards, etc, to use the software
I'm a Professional Game Composer now using entirely Open-Source tooling
I believe that Open-Source is one of the strongest cultural movements towards diffusing power structures. I now use Open-Source tooling throughout the entire production of my works to clearly show that it is possible + effective. Currently in my Workflow Digital Audio Workstation (DAW) – OpenMPT, Fu...

Trump wants US to 'take over' Gaza and own it 'long term', with Palestinians resettled
The US president says he wants the US to take "long-term ownership" of Gaza, turning it into the "Riviera of the Middle East".

Trump wants US to 'take over' Gaza and own it 'long term', with Palestinians resettled
The US president says he wants the US to take "long-term ownership" of Gaza, turning it into the "Riviera of the Middle East".
AllenAI Tulu 3 405b freely available for chat and download
Not sure if this has been shared already, but AllenAI / Ai2 is a US-based nonprofit who are trying to build AIs as open-source and transparently as possible.
Their OLMO models have fully transparent training data. Their Tulu ones are as transparent as you can be building on top of Llama. For some positive news out of the US this week, they released their new 405B Parameter model for free online chat and download.
Chat: https://playground.allenai.org/
HuggingFace: https://huggingface.co/allenai/Llama-3.1-Tulu-3-405B
AllenAI Tulu 3 405b available for chat and download
Not sure if this has been shared already, but AllenAI / Ai2 is a US-based nonprofit who are trying to build AIs as open-source and transparently as possible.
Their OLMO models have fully transparent training data. Their Tulu ones are as transparent as you can be building on top of Llama. For some positive news out of the US this week, they released their new 405B Parameter model for free online chat and download.
Chat: https://playground.allenai.org/
HuggingFace: https://huggingface.co/allenai/Llama-3.1-Tulu-3-405B
US Bill proposed to jail people who download Deepseek
According to the language of the proposed bill, people who download AI models from China could face up to 20 years in jail, a million dollar fine, or both.

US Bill proposed to jail people who download Deepseek
According to the language of the proposed bill, people who download AI models from China could face up to 20 years in jail, a million dollar fine, or both.

Non-US alternatives to digital services
From a practical standpoint, the country that hosts many digital services is undergoing rapid political change. For awareness of non-US alternatives, check out:
https://switching.software/ <- seems to be more FOSS focused
Non-US alternatives to digital services
From a practical standpoint, the country that hosts many digital services is undergoing rapid political change. For awareness of non-US alternatives, check out:
Canada and Mexico respond with own tariffs against US
In retaliation for U.S. President Donald Trump’s tariffs, Canada is slapping 25 per cent tariffs on $155 billion worth of American goods.

Canada and Mexico respond with own tariffs against US
In retaliation for U.S. President Donald Trump’s tariffs, Canada is slapping 25 per cent tariffs on $155 billion worth of American goods.

Video Essay: How Tech Billionaires Plan to Destroy America
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Internal Memo about FBI firings from Acting Director (5:51 onwards)
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