minus-squaredroplet6585@lemmy.mltoOpen Source@lemmy.ml•FOSS infrastructure is under attack by AI companieslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up40arrow-down1·1 month agoThere’s two prongs to this Caching is an optimization strategy used by legitimate software engineers. AI dorks are anything but. Crippling information sources outside of service means information is more easily “found” inside the service. So if it was ever a bug, it’s now a feature. linkfedilink
minus-squaredroplet6585@lemmy.mltoOpen Source@lemmy.ml•What projects does the opensource world lacklinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·edit-21 month agolinkfedilink
minus-squaredroplet6585@lemmy.mltoOpen Source@lemmy.ml•Thunderbird "won't be adopting the firefox terms of use"linkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·2 months ago where legally, “sell” includes things that most people wouldn’t consider a sale Allowing access for valuable consideration is pretty cut and dry. What is the legislation defining beyond that? linkfedilink
There’s two prongs to this
Caching is an optimization strategy used by legitimate software engineers. AI dorks are anything but.
Crippling information sources outside of service means information is more easily “found” inside the service.
So if it was ever a bug, it’s now a feature.