Yeah, it’s hard. People don’t want to see the problems because they don’t want to change. Law makers are the ones we really can’t fail to convince.

I’ve donated monthly to OpenRightGroup well over a decade now. I make sure it is always more than my wife’s Netflix (DRM pusher) to maintain a net positive!

It is partly designed to hurt Fdroid. Which will hurt Lineage, Graphene, e/OS, etc. It’s all very anticompetitive.

This is a legal/poltical issue more than a technology one. The good guys are the EFF, OpenRightsGroup, EDRi and others in the same side. Increasingly phone apps are forced on us to do things at all, and those apps are not only closed but only run on locked down OSs. It’s anti competitive, anti-freedom, authoritarian, etc etc.

We need to get better at convincing non-nerds. We need to stop fighting political fights by burying ourselves ever deeper in tech. Which I’m guilty of too!

Good podcast episode interviewing Frank Kolichek were the folk is mentioned : https://opensourcesecurity.io/2026/2026-02-nextcloud-frank-karlitschek/

Count the RISC processors and RISC ones in your house that isn’t the central one of a PC. You dishwasher, washing machine, tumble drier, TV, routers, WiFi access points, everything else, will be RISC. Normally ARM or MIPS. Apple has gone all ARM. Microsoft are trying to be relevant on ARM. ARM servers are now in low power data centers. RISC-V has a bright future due IP anticompetitive nonsense of x86 and ARM. Oh and x86 has a RISC heart and instruction conversion chips. Which “won” again? ;-)

Also NT is normally said to be a “hybrid” : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hybrid_kernel

It’s not just the compute, it’s all that data.

As always, have to think where you put your money.

Be so much easier if they weren’t all just different types of bastards!

Don’t know when it stops doubling and switch to thousandths. I mean it’s not like imperial worries about sticking to any bases anywhere else.

Well you have to. My old school engineer dad thinks of everything in “thou”, thousandths of a inch. And if it was all base ten, it wouldn’t be a problem. I had to deal with an imperial label last few weeks, with 3/64 and 3/32 parts. Anyone picking this up isn’t going to know that, they just see 0.046875 and 0.09375.

Oh I know you can run it locally, but I don’t think you can’t create it locally because even if you had the compute, you don’t have the training material.

I don’t know how long AI companies are expecting to run at a loss. It is normal for a while for new bigtech. Though this is new scales. Hopefully this bubble with deflate rather than pop, just because the amount of money will have real world consequences.

No, please for metrification on us. Imperial wastes so much brain. As computers rarely have a way of entering fractions, you end up with decimals of an inch, or miles, etc. Stupid stupid system. Start with putting all distances and speed in both units, wait 30 years, and remove the imperial. It is aging out anyway, slowly. Fahrenheit is almost gone at least.

I’m sure, but it would be in the margin of error. The bigger problem is Democratics thinking the US is a more evolved country than it is.

Well one way is I don’t depend on it already. But it’s also not like food or water, or grid, society infrastructure in general. It’s just another way of doing compute, but dependent on big tech’s big iron. Being made dependent on big tech is the enshitification. It’s just another method, they have already done all the anticompetition they can. Consumer choice isn’t a solution to regulatory failure, but it’s not nothing.

On top of poltical/power problem, it will have similar effect on software developer brains as satnavs do the navigation parts of our brains. Like satnavs, there will be way to get the good / bad balance better, but that’s not in big tech’s interest. It’s all so damn toxic and drowning open source project in slop PR requests.

Broadly, I see “AI” as part of enshitification. I think it’s brain rotting. It’s commerial setup to get your dependent on it.

That is basically DDoSing open source project, which will not merge code without it being properly reviewed. Almost all open source projects are basically artisan code and the maintainers are the custodians of it.

To be honest, that was a mistake on the Democrats. The US is just not ready for that. It wasn’t even ready for an older white woman. It’s like they felt Trump was so awful, they could get who ever they wanted through. Which in a sane world, would be true. America, choose the rich old white Nazi man-child instead, twice.

Is this a technology issue or a human one?

If you don’t understand the code your AI has written, don’t make a PR of it.

If your AI is making PRs without you, that’s even worse.

Basically, is technology the job we need here to manage the bad behavior of humans? Do we need to reach for the existing social tool to limit human behavior, law? Like we did with CopyLeft and the Tragedy Of The Commons.

Nazi always were a bit camp… All a bit homoerotic, but always closeted.

Tragic really, before crimes against humanity drown out any sympathy.

Russia will be piling in money & troll-farms too. If MEGA/Putin lot lose Orbán, it will be a blow to their ability to derail the EU in things like Ukraine support. Sure would be nice to see the back of Orbán.

What maybe we want it a .org that lots of seller sell through. Or some federated shop protocol we can search. It definitely can be better than single massive global monopoly or chaos.