When privacy is criminal, only criminals will have privacy.

Done. Good on OpenRightsGroup pushing this. More this is highlighted the better.

If Firefox had enough market share to be a problem for Google, or would probably also have enough money to not need Google.

These American Big Tech monopolies pump money out of our country, and many other countries. They are parasites enfeebling us all.

He was radicalised by money. Lots and lots of money. He had a price and it was met.

They had really got the locking people in down to an art like they so now. It was a more innocent time, computer wise. Now, if it’s not open, basically assume they are doing something bad.

In a decade or two, they will be electric and there won’t be a carburetor. It will all be more like that parking system. The moment software comes in, much easier to lock people in. That needs to not be the case. It’s always made out that somehow working on software of these things is dangerous, but somehow working on a mechanical machine of controlled explosions of flammable liquid is not. Most people are just going to flash on firmware someone else did.

Surely repairable doesn’t mean no tech, just open tech. I’m sure there is tech features that are worth having. It’s the vendor lockin and enshitification that isn’t.

The return of the fat client in the age of AI mainframes? Nvidia is selling shovels in the AI gold rush, so they don’t care either way.

I don’t think you can be pro copyleft and pro-today’s-LLMs, which are used to wash away copyleft. Copyleft and LLM poison the code and downstream developers have to play nice.

Guessing you don’t like GPL either. Restricting those developers down stream of you.

Exactly. Right now it is the mainframe era and the billionaire monopolies want it that way. However that is a future not one but them wants. Little tech rebel alliance is the way to go. I’m not interested in big tech’s imperial AI.

If they are commiting code they don’t understand, this is but one of the issues they are going to get hit by. They can’t blame the AI, the buck stops with them.

It won’t go away, but LLM won’t always mean automated-cargo-cult-programming, digital serfdom, climate apocalypse and a financial speculation bubble. At some point, their cost will have to be their actual cost. Bigtech hope is many will be so hopelessly dependent at that point, that they will pay that cost. Also that there is little competition because few can run at those losses.

But I think at that point, efficient small language models you can own/host, train and use at will, will be a thing. No one wants to be (American) bigtech serfs.

I’ve done a thing with Kamailio and Baresip and MQTT and Linphone on my phone so when someone presses the door bell button, I get a video SIP call from “doorbell”. But other I think are doing things with HomeAssistant, go2rtc and Frigate. I just didn’t like it so went my own way. Would love to have done my own Signal client that wrapped RTSP, but it wouldn’t be allowed on the Signal network, but Linphone is ok. Video SIP is standard at least.

You can also flash a Wyze Doorbell v1 with Thingino

https://github.com/themactep/thingino-firmware/wiki/Camera:-Wyze-Doorbell-(V1)

Lots of ways self hosting ways of doing bidirectional rtsp doorbell.

Humans are going to be the weak point of any system.

I was thinking this about getting off America servers and services. More a question of digital sovereignty security. But it is all do with hacking via humans by pretending to be support staff.

Is this to help them burn cash on AI a bit longer? That’s how I’m taking it.

Exactly, consumer choice only works as a force in a functional market. Phone OSs are very much not a functional market. This requires regulators to wake up.

Humans and still humans, but red vs blue is the worse setup. All debates just become which team you are for.