A reflection on the Forkiverse experiment, why it felt different from day one, and how it changed my view on instance choice in the Fediverse.
When Google locked AlphaFold 3 behind commercial restrictions, three MIT PhD students rebuilt it in four months. Now Boltz has $28M, a Pfizer partnership, and a bet that open-source can capture drug discovery infrastructure.
The first two versions of Google's #AlphaFold software (to predict protein folding) were #OpenSource, including the one that earned its developers the 2024 Nobel Prize in Chemistry. There were no restrictions on commercial use. But the third and most recent version blocks free commercial use, and is poised to earn $100+ billion from partnerships with #pharma companies. Then three MIT students reverse-engineered AlphaFold 3 and released their OSS model, called #Boltz, with no restrictions on commercial reuse. Like Red Hat, the Boltz team is making good money selling services while leaving the software free and open.
https://www.implicator.ai/when-google-locked-the-door-three-mit-students-picked-the-lock/
What, like it’s hard?
I replaced Windows with Linux and everything’s going great. Linux diary, chapter one: winging it. Regret level: none. https://www.theverge.com/tech/858910/linux-diary-gaming-desktop
If you care for your privacy and safety and don't want to deal with mega corp obsessed with AI, Linux desktop is the right choice for you.
'Fascism is a word that’s been used a great deal these last few years,' says the article pictured above (scanned in full here at the Internet Archive).
Nobody wants a computer. They want what it does. Not the annoying machine. Including phones. I just got a new phone, a Fairphone 5. It’s a nice phone. And Fairphone officially supports the Google-f…
On Version History: Behold the power of the pause button.
Bob Weir, the singer-guitarist who co-founded the Grateful Dead and later found success with Dead & Company, has died at age 78.
The killing of Renee Good reveals, yet again, Trumpism’s violent, authoritarian essence. MAGA is at war with the reality of American society.
When the State Terrorizes the People
The killing of Renee Good reveals, yet again, Trumpism’s violent, authoritarian essence. MAGA is at war with the reality of American society.
New piece:
https://steady.page/en/democracyamericana/posts/4b2f8d7a-55ba-4a6b-a523-1a1ee780fd69
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