Internet censorship is bipartisan. There’s no voting it away. There is only technical circumvention.

True. The new Chinese open models like Qwen 3 Coder and GLM 4.5 seem pretty good.

I guess going forward we have to look to China for actually open AI that isn’t gatekept by a corporation. How ironic. https://www.pcmag.com/news/zuckerberg-walks-back-open-source-ai-pledge-citing-safety-risk

Reading between the lines: they’re done with open source. Meta AI will be closed source like the other US models going forward.

Convenience and company tech support are more important than freedom and customizability for most people.

Curious, has anyone experienced a service or vendor other than an exchange reject a BTC UTXO that has coinjoin history? #asknostr

Valve just stepped up their censorship of Steam, despite previously stating only illegal content wouldn’t be allowed, at the behest of Visa and Mastercard. It would be cool to see an open source game distribution platform with Bitcoin as the primary payment method one day.

Brain-computer interfaces are fascinating, but I wouldn’t trust any that aren’t open source. Imagine having a part of your body that, unlike every other part, is not open medical knowledge but proprietary technology that a corporation keeps secret.

Hope the ETH speculators get out before the rugpull when it becomes apparent that stablecoins can also be done on Bitcoin and Lightning.

We need an open source EV. https://www.howtogeek.com/111381/you-dont-really-ever-own-an-ev/

I’ve been playing around with the context7 MCP that gives the AI context from current GitHub repositories, which is pretty nice for stuff that’s constsntly changing like the Zig programming language.

Have you tried it with one of the more recent open source LLMs like Kimi K2 or Qwen?