bruce965

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[–] bruce965@lemmy.ml 2 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago)

If your question is about the legal differencr: this fork is licensed as GPL 2 (free libre open-source software), while the OG is proprietary (albeit source-available).

This means that everyone is allowed to do anything with this version and nobody can ever prevent them from doing so, while the OG doesn't have such freedom.

The original authors might one day decide to halt the development and pull the source code, and/or decide to start "enshittifying" Aseprite, but LibreSprite will forever remain free and available to everyone.

[–] bruce965@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 day ago

For me it was the same drive. I remember I had to generate a special file to convince VirtualBox to use the physical partition as if it was part of a different drive. I don't remember the details. Quite hacky perhaps, but it worked.

[–] bruce965@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 day ago

Iirc I had a Windows 7 (maybe 8 or 10) Home OEM, original (not cracked), but it still worked. Perhaps if I had kept using it for long periods in the VM it would have started complaining? Anyways I booted it baremetal from time to time, so maybe that's why it kept working.

[–] bruce965@lemmy.ml 3 points 2 days ago (5 children)

That would definitely be a technical challenge, but also it's absolutely possible.

I used to do dual-boot Windows + Linux and I could run the Linux installation from a VM in Windows as well as the Windows installation from a VM in Linux.

When rebooting between metal and VM, Windows would always spend a few minutes "doing things" before continuing to boot, but it worked.

Linux would not even fret. It would just boot normally without any complaints.

I don't remember exactly which distro I had at the time, but probably it was Linux Mint.

[–] bruce965@lemmy.ml 14 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

If you don't want proprietary drivers the choice is quite straightforward: AMD. The official drivers are open source.

As for my experience, I've had absolutely no problems in the last few years with AMD, but I have to admit that I have always been using an iGPU, which has always been good enough for my needs.

I used to have problems with Nvidia proprietary drivers, but that was at least a couple years ago, things might have changed. I've never had issues with the free unofficial drivers, besides worse performance.

[–] bruce965@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 week ago

Understood, thanks 👍

[–] bruce965@lemmy.ml 7 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Mmh, okay that makes sense. Especially the multilinguality would be pretty important. As for the legality, we'll see how it goes. Do we even know if it's really possible to build a good model with only legally acquired data?

As for the censorship, as far as I know, for DeepSeek's models it's injected in the prompt after the training is completed, so it shouldn't really be censored if you run it locally.

But yeah, you have raised good points. Thanks.

[–] bruce965@lemmy.ml 18 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (11 children)

I am conflicted about this choice. I am happy that the EU Commission will invest funds into open source technologies, but at the same time the US and China are already investing enough into "free as in free beer" models. Is it really worth it building yet another model?

Why not fund open source software development instead of funding machine learning? €20 million would do miracles divided between a few teams of developers, but they might merely be bread crumbs for machine learning training.

[–] bruce965@lemmy.ml 22 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

FYI this has already been a thing for a long while thanks to an open source third-party implementation, and also works on Windows 10. I use it all the time, it's very similar to Linux's and I've never had any issues so far. Not sure if Microsoft's official solution will be any different/better.

https://github.com/gerardog/gsudo

[–] bruce965@lemmy.ml 1 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

Yeah, I realize that and that's a nuisance for a videogame... If the game is small enough, OP might be able to give it a virtual GPU with VirtualBox, I did it in the past to play with friends on a single computer. I don't know if the usual KVM-based VMs support it as well.

[–] bruce965@lemmy.ml 10 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

Keep in mind that non-hardenized containers only protect you from bugs, they don't protect you from sophisticated malware. If you suspect the software you are trying to run might be a virus, don't run it, or run it in a virtual machine.

I would recommend using containers only if you absolutely understand how to make them secure AND you have no reason to suspect the software you are running might contain nefarious code. In any other case use a virtual machine.

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