Apologies, I conflated the two because of the OP being about desktop working out of the box - which obviously you get with macOS or Windows. Still there are people who pride themselves on writing a lot of "automagic" config stuff. The NomadBSD and GhostBSD team do, also...
In fairness, the flip side of OpenBSD's volunteer hardware efforts being so impressive is the continued lack of Bluetooth or Nvidia support, though those come down to conscious choices. Meanwhile the FreeBSD Foundation and its sponsors have paid for recent (overdue) WiFi improvements. That's a...
I have the impression UI devs enjoy the freedom to play designer a bit in FOSS projects, too. Doing it for $JOB generally means the creative side gets tightly controlled by the design and UX professionals.
A lot of people genuinely enjoy working on UI. They're often people with a different skill set to those who work on WiFi drivers anyway - in fact the ability to hack WiFi drivers plus access to suitable hardware for testing is very much a minority affair, one of the causes for FreeBSD lagging so...
This is an interesting example - there's no problem with multiple groups holding the copyright actually, in principle even a large number of them. But a legal situation people are keen to avoid with AI is something suggested earlier in the thread, in which AI-produced content is regarded as...
Indeed, generally AI firms want their end users to be able to utilize their model output with as few restrictions as possible, since that makes their product more valuable. AI firms have tried unilaterally to release their model output from such restrictions, but it's not totally clear how...
Like I said, lots of people make the mistake of mixing up the law on theft and the law on intellectual property infringement. It's very common, and some people even conflate them deliberately to make the latter sound as scary or clearcut as the former. It's a useful rhetorical device, as the...
"Theft" and "stealing" are legal terms. And in law, this is neither theft nor stealing. You can argue it should be ... but it isn't. I wouldn't normally push the point, but you're replying to a thread that literally concerns the legal status of the code produced by Claude. There are huge...
At the moment, AI firms generally state that they do not stake any claim of their own on the output of their models. I wouldn't bet against future legislation to firm this position up* and ensure AI firms don't change their mind later, producing an enormous legal mess given all the works that...
See https://forums.freebsd.org/threads/usb-wlan-recommendation.88658/
But the improved WiFi drivers in FreeBSD 15 might have changed the situation enough to be worth a new thread. Would be interesting to hear what speeds people are now able to get.
As you say, it could (and often will) constitute a licensing breach. But it's not, in legal terms, "stealing". That's a completely different area of law. I understand why people use the word "stealing" here in a figurative and rhetorical manner. I'm sure Theo de Raadt takes a very dim view of...
And aside from design, hardware costs can also fall due to economies of scale and improvements in manufacturing techniques (what economists call "learning by doing"). In the past, a significant driver of the downwards trend in cost of installing solar power generating capacity was the...
This will likely find a new home once the FreeBSD Foundation have finished testing it, but there is now a laptop compatibility matrix:
https://freebsdfoundation.github.io/freebsd-laptop-testing/
Shame it can't be sorted on "score" yet.
In the short term, the firms selling AI services can set the prices, but the economic costs of compute are something they do not control. (In fact they'd prefer those costs to come down, even as their demand for hardware and energy is pushing costs up.) The quoted figures were based on API...
Anthropic's Mythos Preview writeup from 7 April was pretty upfront in several places about the cost of finding their exploits, at least in terms of API pricing (the true cost may be higher, of course - but also bear in mind the long-term trend of reducing compute costs so these figures are...
If anyone fancies updating the documentation for this, the FreeBSD Project's guide to remote installation using mfsBSD still uses sysinstall(8) which was removed in FreeBSD 10.0.
https://docs.freebsd.org/en/articles/remote-install/
https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=294844...
There were six new security advisories today. Of those, three CVEs were found by AISLE Research who are another group using AI to analyze code bases, detect and prioritise vulnerabilities, and propose fixes: https://aisle.com/about-us
Seems we'll be hearing plenty more about the role of AI in...
Another aspect of the original post that's very relevant for the *BSDs is that an LLM trained on GPL and other copyleft code can end up reproducing that code - even if not verbatim, close enough to be legally problematic.
OpenBSD's justification of not accepting AI code is, as far as I...
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