But if you're a project looking for mostly Equity Free EU funding then sign-up to getonepass.eu.

We're probably all going to have to sign up if we can't get #NGI Cascade funding to continue.

I know I prefer NLNets way of doing things. Not this nightmare of trying to ape the worst of silicon valley to create unicorns.

It's the last month to sign the NGI open letter created by @ps . If you're part of a #FOSS project in the EU consider signing.

ow2.org/view/Events/The_Europe…

#fosssustainability

Well given the demographics of folks mostly pushing it, I'm guessing they never got over the stage of not letting girls into the treehouse. Or folks who were different.

But I think it's folks who believe code can solve everything. Who prefer the status quo and to not examine the power dynamics.

Or to apparently ask others for help.

They've never been taught about the social contract, or if they have, it's purely to reject it.

Rugged individualism.

Also "eww cooties"

Even then though, don't they realise they will run out of training data for their models if no humans are actually writing this stuff by hand?

Are they thinking LLM actually comes up with this by itself? Have they not seen what happens when it isn't given human-made training data?

They are sawing the branch they are sitting on if they discourage people from writing stuff, do they not realise this?

nope, because as far as I can tell they want to believe in the magic snake oil.

Plus I'm fairly sure the folks running the onepass LinkedIn account is an intern and just following the company culture. As an org FundingBox is very much focused on Blockchain and start-up ethos.

I think they think they are doing great things and changing the world.

Having been around that kind of culture, it's kinda shallow "pay no attention to the man behind the curtain stuff."

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So, they want to protect the status quo, but they are encouraging unsustainable ways of doing things which will inevitably destroy the status quo (and in a really bad way that hurts everyone, not in a positive reforming way).

If the end goal of a techbro is to be bought out by a larger company for a massive payoff, then guess it doesn't matter to the techbro if people use their services or not?

It's so disturbing that public funds are thinking this needs to be emulated.

one thing I learned working in a startup was that, no matter how much everyone thought it was cheesing it, the most important part of being financially successful is usually the “exit” - being bought, dissolved and sold for parts, merging with another.

The products rarely make, or have potential to make, as much as a favourable exit. An unfavourable one has the same consequences as it would going bankrupt selling stuff. The incentive is in the system.

@FediThing @vfrmedia