• “The web” is an open protocol aimed for interoperability
• “The AI” is a bunch of competing, mostly closed and private services

That will be interesting to see how this difference impacts the bubble explosion.

Those “bozos” are desperate to capitalize on thin air, and fintech tells them to go ahead:

AI cannot be managed with outdated cost models. Business leaders should treat AI economics with the same rigor as energy or capital allocation, recognizing tokens as the new currency

https://www.deloitte.com/us/en/insights/topics/emerging-technologies/ai-tokens-how-to-navigate-spend-dynamics.html

Wait, it could actually be a great opportunity mein Führer… i mean Mr. President. https://youtu.be/zZct-itCwPE

AI is perfect for fueling a financial boom: great narrative, incredible promises in short and long term, huge needs and potential, and high risk that it will go terribly wrong. Bankers love that and can create unlimited credit to fuel the fire. But since they constantly create new gambling products, one can also bet that it’s not fueled enough and is about to crash. Total schizophrenia.

What sounded like impossible in absurdity few years ago seems to be today’s norm. Is that a competition of apocalyptic claims, a new religion? Actually these guys keep on trying to convince themselves and others in order to inflate the bubble till the end. It seems to be like coke, they’re so high on the power it gives them.

Recommend Veracrypt.

Or Luks which is well integrated with Linux. Are there significant advantages with Veracrypt?

3? I understand it’s a start, but it’s not so impressive.

I’m more interested in actual user feedback because a product like that is quite an ambitious use case and advertised as ready to use with tons of features.

Rent isn’t theft. It’s payment for a service

Sure there’s a service and the owner has costs, but it’s actually quite unrelated to the rental price in most places. I think the question is about the regulation of markets for basic life requirements. Alternatives aren’t very appealing IMHO: social aids (taxes on the rich), charity (by the rich), or persistent homelessness.

Who actually tried this?

Open source is not only about publishing code: it’s about quality, verifiable, reproducible code at work. If LLMs can’t do that, those “vibe coding” projects will hit a hard wall. Still, it’s quite clear they badly impact the FOSS ecosystem.

Techbros got a bit too excited with Moore’s law: they want everything they touch to grow exponentially. Specially money.

Thanks but strangely i didn’t recognize that same token ;)

Seriously i doubt that Nadella was just talking about strings of chars. An interesting paper was published the day before Nadella’s talk (https://www.deloitte.com/us/en/insights/topics/emerging-technologies/ai-tokens-how-to-navigate-spend-dynamics.html):

Business leaders should treat AI economics with the same rigor as energy or capital allocation, recognizing tokens as the new currency

No such issue with end-to-end encryption, as only the end user devices have the keys. It’s used by Apple (that was the main argument in the FBI wanting to unlock iPhones), some messaging services like Signal and Whatsapp, only mentioning big tech. Of course, you have to trust them when it’s closed source. Here the story is that Microslop chose from the beginning centralized keys that they own and can share. It’ s all well known, but the news is that they really did it.

Nadella keeps on talking of “tokens” generated by the data centers that must be infused everywhere. Surely a new BS buzzword but what is it? Since the target of such talk is finance executives, is it about the merge of crypto-currencies and AI, i.e. how to make out of gigantic investments?

Oops 🫩. It’s the EU’s anti-circumvention law.

Source:

The European Commission claims to promote open source and freedom from foreign tech abuses, etc. It now seeks feedbacks from communities: “Towards European open digital ecosystems”.

It seems to be perfect timing for getting rid of that article 6 which turns

Assuming you keep a critical eye on the results, surely AI can be used for some meaningful things like the ways you found - thanks for sharing them. But i could bet that most people will be stuck at the BS generator level with its poisonous effects on them and the society at large.

Not sure i understand the idea taking over an open source project when one can contribute or even fork it.

Anyway, it looks like France is quite Open Source friendly. For ex. the “DINUM” (gov. IT agency) has quite a few FOSS projects, finally could support financially Matrix, and there’s also quite a push for open data (https://www.data.gouv.fr/). About surveillance i suppose it’s quite bad indeed, but i don’t think it matters if the software has a licence like AGPL.

Finally, i doubt there’s a safe haven for privacy nowadays, but please prove me wrong :)

Freedom of expression was a great moto to grab power. Now: censorship of material already censored. I think most people slowly realize what’s going on thanks to moves like this. Do they?