The open-sourcing of the X's feed algorithm is a typical Musk's smokescreen. First, while the code was open sourced, the configs and data that determines its behavior wasn't. Any researcher that has some knowledge of the matter will tell you this. Second, that code was last updated in July 2023 [1]. News feed algorithms are updated regularly, especially around the time of US elections [2]. [1] - Source: Hacker News / 6 months ago

Sure it's open source but that doesn't mean the public repo is in any way up to date. Especially given that the repos only have a handful of commits from the few months after the repos were published and they haven't been updated in well over a year. https://github.com/twitter/the-algorithm. - Source: Hacker News / 6 months ago

> Wasn’t the tweet recommendation system “open sourced” as well? Does this guy know the difference between open source and “open source”? What do you mean? There exists only one binding definition of open source > https://opensource.org/osd and either some product does satisfy it, or it doesn't. As far as I am aware > https://github.com/twitter/the-algorithm... - Source: Hacker News / about 1 year ago

Yes, and it's here: https://github.com/twitter/the-algorithm If e.g. Amazon open sources some part of its software infrastructure should they also open source the data it uses or their configuration files? - Source: Hacker News / about 1 year ago

And I believe the source for that was effectively opened up to the world: https://github.com/twitter/the-algorithm. Source: almost 2 years ago

Wow, for me Winamp was one of the first "enshittified" pieces of software. I remember one version was fantastic, and then the next version sucked. I'm pretty sure this was due to a change in ownership or something I remember I used to use https://oldversion.com to download the previous one I'd be really interested in seeing the source code to the original. I didn't know much about programming then, and to me... - Source: Hacker News / 12 months ago

You spoke, and we listened! If you take a glance at this sub's sidebar, you'll see more old software websites. there are links to oldversion.com, vetusware.com, macintoshrepository.org, and macintoshgarden.org in the side bar. Source: almost 2 years ago

Oldversion.com to find old versions of apps. Source: about 2 years ago

Hello, so I recently started messing around with a little software I found called "actual drawing" (yes that's the name, im using ver. 6.0) and it is a web design tool. Kinda complicated and very old (2001 or something) but I am having a blast - the problem is I haven't bought the full version, I just got it from oldversion.com. When I export the page as html, it exports all the elements (pics, graphics, text)... Source: about 2 years ago

Http://oldversion.com is a good site to get win7 compatible software to oppose Edge and IE. Source: about 2 years ago