#proprietary software

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To people who see the performance of DeepSeek and think: "'China is surpassing the US in AI." You are reading this wrong. The correct reading is: "Open source models are surpassing proprietary ones." DeepSeek has profited from open research and open source (e.g. PyTorch and Llama from Meta). They came up with new ideas and built them on top of other people's work. Because their work is published and open source, everyone can profit from it. That is the power of open research and open source.

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It’s a great feeling, well, not at first. When you start working with a software that you haven’t touched (and since Desigo is a proprietary software owned by Siemens I had NO chance to use it ) for two years, it can be very frustrating. Trying to maneuver your way through, thinking it should work this way, when it really works that way. THEN you REMEMBER! The fog in your memory begins to clear…

like people could go and fix the little bugs that really annoy them that the company's never going to fix because they're too small, and it would allow better security because there'd be so many more people searching for vulnerabilities. I'd also like to imagine it would also help reduce tech debt and spaghetti code, but honestly idk about that one

and companies could still make money because, while anyone could self-host or modify the thing without reselling (licence dependent), they could also pay to have it hosted for them and to get proper support and priority fixes/features from the official devs

perhaps there could be a few years exemption at the start of a company's life to allow innovative products to get started before a competitor could beat them to the punch

I’m starting a new bit: Proprietary software shaming for appliances that really don’t need proprietary software for the god damned water filter.

And of course, cheaper after market pieces won’t work.

So on Sunday, I need my laptop for church to stream Zoom. It had been working properly when I shut it down. After connecting all of the A/V I/O, I started it up as my laptop had done before hundreds of times with out issue. This time it hangs at the at the kernel boot screen, just after the GRUB hand-off. Luckily someone else brought up their laptop to do ZOOM A/V. 

So I just spend nearly a day trying to figure out what was wrong with laptop. After stewing over the laptop/GPU may have died, I finally figured it out it was the proprietary Nvidia Linux GPU driver. 

Once I figured out the issue, it took my most of that down time to clean up the mess it had made. Nvidia also changed the API calls to their support libraries so it broke my display manager too!