They do know they’d be burning their bridge to the entire Nordics, right? Like this won’t just be Denmark. It’ll be crossing a line that can’t be walked back.

This is of course perfect timing, as memory has become so expensive that 2MB games is all we can afford.

“Scuse me sir, have you read the Bible”?

“Have you?”

Thought crime for thee, freedom of screech for me.

Too late. Putin already pair for it. He’s now got to render the service, like he did many times before.

It’s the art of the deal.

“Sir, what should we do this Martin Luther King day?”

So, yeah, HP and Dell are fucked - by what you may ask? Why, AI of course, because it’s hiked memory prices so far up it’s eating up their profit margins. They might be doomed.

Should have named it PEDO then.

“Listen, this article 5 thing, it’s a bad deal. But Putin - he’s a really smart guy, talented dancer, good kisser - he says we can go halfsies.”

Boycott the Call of Duty mines.

I’ve actually flipped on this position - but before you pull out your pitchforks and torches, please listen to what I have to say.

Do we want mass surveillance through SaaS? No. Do we want mass breach of copyright just because it’s a small holder and not some giant publisher - I.e “rules for thee” type vibe? Hell no. But do we throw the baby out with the bath water? Also: heck no. But let’s me underline a few facts.

1. AI currently requires power greedy chips that also don’t utelize memory effectively enough
2. Because of this it’s relegated to massive, globe heating infrastructure
3. SaaS will always, always track you and harvest your data
4. Said data will be used in marketing and psy-ops to manipulate you, your children and your community
5. The more they track, the better their models become, which they’ll keep under lock and key
6. More and more devices are coming with NPUs and TPUs on-chip
7. That is the hardware has not caught up to the software yet

See where I’m going with this?

Add to the fact that people like their chatbots and can even learn to use them responsibly, but as long as they’re feeding the corpos, it’ll be used against them. Not only that, but in true silicon valley fashion, it’ll be monopolized.

The libre movement exists to bring power back to the user by fighting these conditions. It’s also a very good idea to standardize things so that it’s not hidden behind a proprietary API or service.

That’s why if Mozilla seeks to standardize locally run AI models by way of the browser, then that’s a good thing! Again; not if they’re feeding some SaaS.

But it their goal and their implementation is to bring models to the general consumer so that they can seize the means of computing, then that’s a good thing!

Again, if you’d rather just kick up dust and bemoan the idiocy and narcissistic nature of Silicon Valley, then you’ve already given them what they want - that they, and they alone, get to be the sole proprietaries of AI that is standardized. That’s like giving the average user over to a historically predatory ilk who’d rather build an autocracy than actually innovate.

Mozilla can be the hero we need. They can actually focus on consumer hardware, to give people what they want WITHOUT mass tracking and data harvesting.

That is if they want to. I’m not saying they’re not going to bend over, but they need the right kind of push back. They need to be told “local AI only - no SaaS” and then they can focus on creating web standards for local AI, effectively becoming the David to Silicon Valleys Goliath.

I know this is an unpopular opinion and I know the Silicon Valley barons are a bunch of sociopaths with way too much money, but we can’t give them monopoly over this. That would be bad!! We need to give the power to the user, and that means standardization!

Take it from an old curmudgeon. I’ve shook my fist at the cloud, I’ve read a ton of EULAs and I’ve opposed many predatory practices. But we need to understand that the user wants what the user wants. We can’t stick our heads in the sand and just repeat “AI bad” ad nauseum. We need to mobilize against the central giants.

We need a local AI movement and Mozilla could be in the forefront of this, if it weren’t for the pushback and outright cynicism people trevall generally (and justifiably) have - but we can’t let these cretinous bastards hold all the AI cards.

We need libre AI, and we need it now!

Thank you for your consideration.

Operation “send in the darkies”, fiscal edition

Norwegian BankID can only be installed via the app store, but it still works if you use the Aurora store and G.Micro.

Though I’d like to advocate publishing the app through an F-Droid repo.

Average PulseAudio user.

I think Fedora’s COPR carries on the torch, besides Arch’s AUR. But generally, yeah, avoid PPA’s like the plague. It’s been garbage for years now. You’d be better off actually compiling the software yourself.

AMD is awesome ^^ they’ll rule the land of x86 for quire some while imho. But the problem of supporting hegemony is obvious.

AMDs upcoming GPUs are purportedly on par with NVIDIAs Maxwell, but as long as the prices are the same, we’re in the same boat.

Luckily the prices have been falling, largely because NPUs are replacing GPUs as the primary handler of AI workloads - since it’s more performative and saves on electricity costs.

But, in a “free market” competition mui importante.

Haha this was a great time for me to dump Google Photos for Jottacloud.

Your data will then be stored in Norway and it’s like 13$ for unlimited storage (with the caveat of bandwidth being throttled if you have more than 5TB).

But still, $13 for 5TB is a lot - and that jurisdiction? Hoo boy. My rights are safe, at least.

…okay, so invest in Chinese GPU companies? Invest in Chinese GPU companies.

You are not funny. Your parents are not funny. Your grand parents were not funny. In fact, you have a long standing ancestry of non funny bastards.

Three of these can be heard on sight.