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FOSS NEWS

Odysee presents new AR-based payment system, discontinues Stripe payment and LBC content boosting:
odysee.com/@Odysee:8/introduci
(Discontinuing LBC support probably means the platform won't be connected to the LBRY blockchain anymore. Also, content discoverability will be hurt pretty much, even if creators can get monetized, smaller creators will have a much harder time being discovered. I get that their new parent company Arweave is probably forcing them to switch to their crypto stuff and ditch LBRY, but it will probably just hurt the platform in the long run, especially because the new payment system requires signing up to an additional service, which many people are not a big fan of.)

Thunderbird 140 released with "Mark as Spam" and "Mark as Starred" actions for notifications, reorganized settings, bug fixes:
9to5linux.com/thunderbird-140-

ONLYOFFICE Documents 9.0 for Android released with OCR support, DocSpace version history, Markdown and OpenDocument Graphics support, etc.:
alternativeto.net/news/2025/7/

Matrix 1.15 released with OpenID Connect support, richer information about rooms before joining, better room discovery, additional text formatting options for messages, etc.:
alternativeto.net/news/2025/6/

7-Zip v25 released with faster compression, enhanced CPU support, improved legacy format handling:
alternativeto.net/news/2025/7/

HuggingChat is shutting down, will be replaced by another service better integrated into the Hugging Face ecosystem:
alternativeto.net/news/2025/7/

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OdyseeIntroducing: Decentralized Payments on Odysee - For Everyone, EverywhereView on Odysee: Introducing: Decentralized Payments on Odysee - For Everyone, Everywhere

How to make income online with 2D/3D animations.

Step 1. Ask #Huggingchat to generate your script
Step 2. Make a storyboard in #krita
Step 3. Edit your assests in #Krita #GIMP #ImageMagick
Step 4. Create your animation in #blender #OpenSCAD #freecad #Friction #synfig #pencil2d #Glaxnimate #FFmpeg
Step 5. Put it all together in #kdenlive #shotcut #flowblade #natron
Step 6. Upload your video to #odysee
Step 7. Promote your content on #mastodon #peertube #pixelfed #xmpp #matrix #irc

I noticed a change in the #HuggingFace #HuggingChat #ChatGPT like service. In the past HuggingChat had an option to allow or disallow the use of your conversation to improve open source #LLM models. Now, that option is gone.

Looking at their #privacy policy, HF makes a very clear #DataPrivacy statement: your data will not be used for model training. Which should allay privacy concerns.

Are you more inclined to use HuggingChat over ChatGPT or #Gemini?

I want to recommend a web interface for communication with open source LLM — HuggingChat. On the site, you can use Mixtral-8x7B-Instruct-v0.1, #CodeLlama 70b, #Llama 2 70b, and a couple of smaller models as well.

Also, the site has its own version of #GPTs — assistants. Since the #HuggingChat service is significantly less known than ChatGPT, there aren’t as many assistants yet. But their presence alone pleases me greatly.

huggingface.co/chat/

huggingface.coHuggingChatMaking the community's best AI chat models available to everyone.

Digging into a dream, I asked #huggingchat which building has pencil windows with a rectangular top.

It instantly proposed the Seagram Tower. Which does not have pencil windows. The rectangular top it envisaged was the Seagram roof. Not at all what I meant.

Utterly useless but absolute.

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#HuggingChat donne maintenant accès au modèle #OpenChat (coucou à @pb ). Je lui ai demandé quoi dire lors du panel du colloque #IAhumanités

« Bonjour cher(e) collègue,

Je suis ravi(e) d'avoir l'opportunité de vous parler aujourd'hui sur le thème "IA et humanités". En tant qu'expert en intelligence artificielle (IA), je serais ravie de partager mes idées et perspectives sur comment cette technologie peut être appliquée aux domaines des humanités.
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j'ai fait une quinzaine de de tests unitaires en #python pour transformer des données d'open data vers des données standardisées.
puis j'ai demandé à un Llama de #huggingchat de factoriser la fonction de transformation.

le résultat était plus concis, oui, mais plus aucun test ne fonctionnait avec les résultats attendus XD.

🤗 Hugging Face Launches #ChatGPT Alternative

A 30-billion-parameter #opensource #AI #chatbot called HuggingChat, designed to compete with OpenAI's ChatGPT.

Try it, here:

huggingface.co/chat/conversati

Developed by Open Assistant project under the #German nonprofit LAION, #HuggingChat aims to be a versatile, customizable & efficient assistant accessible to all.

Hugging Face's next move could be introducing HuggingChat #Apps, solidifying its position as a major competitor to #OpenAI