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An apple tree, once infected, can colonize junipers and cedars as far as 6 miles away(!). Yes, a highly infectious and amazing organism.

https://portal.ct.gov/CAES/Fact-Sheets/Plant-Pathology/Cedar... "As many as 7.5 million spores may be produced in a single gall and these spores have been known to be carried as far as 6 miles."

One of those things is mainline kernel support the TH1520, which it may well end up lacking, at least for a considerable length of time.

From IRC:

<graydon> I think I named it after fungi. rusts are amazing creatures.

<graydon> Five-lifecycle-phase heteroecious parasites. I mean, that's just _crazy_.

<graydon> talk about over-engineered for survival

<jonanin> what does that mean? :]

<graydon> fungi are amazingly robust

<graydon> to start, they are distributed organisms. not single cellular, but also no single point of failure.

<graydon> then depending on the fungi, they have more than just the usual 2 lifecycle phases of critters like us (somatic and gamete)

https://old.reddit.com/r/rust/comments/27jvdt/internet_archa...

I think that the medium shapes the resulting political characteristics of the system, yes the centralized network, where every user is easily traceable thus readily policed and censored, ends up creating totalitarianism, given how human nature works...

So we need to design a system that isn't easily traced, as an inherent property of how it operates, so that it's not possible for those who want to exert power over others, to do so.

Just as an example, using a radio/satellite data broadcasting architecture, where the receiver is untraceable, means that the government can no longer round up people for reading "forbidden" things anymore. That allows us to have a new darknet to replace Tor that's far more difficult for the government to police.

Again as an example, the content request can be transmitted anonymously using HF radio or LoRaWAN, being only a few bytes, and has no sender address. And the response can come down via satellite, broadcast to everyone, who also ends up storing it locally on their computer. That way we can reduce the number of retransmissions required. We already have a usable worldwide satellite data broadcasting network, you can see a list of recent transmissions at https://blocksat.info.

It's certainly enough bandwidth to support a text based darknet, which works in a similar way to how Teletext did, but with caching of content on your local hard disk. Which you can browse freely like the Internet.

China's T-Head TH1520 is coming close, it's RISC-V and supposedly faster than the Raspberry Pi.

And they have a 64-core version in the works: https://twitter.com/SipeedIO/status/1620011141639581698

What's surprising is that this unencumbered hardware is coming from a country that's a dictatorship.

And that is precisely what using the Internet in 2023 entails. Every single thing you do is being monitored and compiled by the government. Likely with CloudFlare acting as the universal man-in-the-middle.

https://theintercept.com/2015/09/25/gchq-radio-porn-spies-tr...

And you directly feel the chilling effect of it, no longer can you type whatever you want into that search box anymore. It's super creepy, and we're used to it. Only when it's gone, for example when we use a locally running AI chatbot, do we feel freedom again, and the difference is striking.

Thank God the next great thing in tech is AI and we have the option of running that locally. And because of that, I am looking forward to tech progress again. Where progress doesn't always mean expanding state control over people.

Yes, potentially over-reaching, because it's debatable whether it's overreaching or not.

And the manufacturers doing this, is a prime example of the law of unintended consequences. Where trying to solve a problem through legislation makes it worse in the end.

I almost can't believe this is actually for real, it reads like satire from TheOnion.com.

Welcome to America in 2023, where they are deliberately adding allergens to food, in order to comply with potentially over-reaching laws...

It's peanuts too: https://snacksafely.com/2022/04/company-will-add-trace-amoun...

And especially so in Ukraine, where feral hogs have been known to consume the bodies of dead russian soldiers. You can Google it, I don't want to link to it here...

By the way, I was thinking of something along the lines of a powerful FPGA with direct access to large quantities of very fast NAND flash, likely many chips in parallel, which will save having to load the model into RAM..... So it will be able to directly run from NAND flash, which opens up the possibility of using very large models???

Power consumption would not be an issue if it's used sporadically throughout the day, it's not like it needs to run continuously?

There is still the issue of NAND flash read disturb, which I haven't fully looked into yet.

I found this to be very liberating, that I can finally type whatever I want into the LLM, without the possibility of the government knowing what I am writing. Just being able to do that, and have the watchful eye of the state not being able to monitor you is amazing.

And that is why I decided not to have children myself. I never want another person to go through the atrocity that was done to me. Yes my parents were particularly horrific, but I even think the coercion of the compulsory education system that nearly everyone goes through, is wrong.

And I don't expect anyone to ever have to care for me, to me that's slavery, and instead I'll down a bottle of dog euthanasia solution when I'm ~80 and cannot survive on my own anymore.

If they limit our ability to block ads in general, I am going to dramatically reduce my Internet usage even more than I am doing now. The Internet is bad enough already as a platform for enabling mass surveillance and social control. Time to start doing more offline things, such as experimenting with AI on my local computer. To you fascists at GCHQ and other government "thought police" agencies, try stopping that now... Especially a mass movement where many people decide to pull the plug, in the name of intellectual freedom.

I've been doing this since ~2008 or so using Debian Linux. My custom setup is also capable of booting other computers on the network over PXE. It uses AUFS and tmpfs - yes, it needs upgrading to a more modern union filesystem. The neat thing about it is that you can turn off the power to the computer and any changes you make are completely gone (depending on the user account). Thus whatever I do on my computer leaves absolutely no trace whatsoever. I use it to write my temporary personal diaries/notebooks, and I can write whatever I want, and once the power's cut, it's gone, because it was all in RAM only.

A very good adaptation for living in an authoritarian society (a "police state") with draconian laws, where they are actively trying to clamp down on dissent, including suppression of certain political views. Down with Big Brother and the Thought Police!!!

Well the first thing we can do is start disconnecting safety critical infrastructure from the Internet and/or radio networks... This stuff should never have been online in the first place.

Assuming the training is based on public data, then making it illegal is like a "thought crime" where the state is trying to prohibit carrying out certain computations. Well if I believe the government has no right to control my thoughts, then I believe it has no right to control whatever computation I do on my private computer as well.

Down with these ** control freaks, so much of everything nowadays prioritizes safety over freedom. This time let's put freedom first.

Some kind of distributed training, BitTorrent style would be one way of getting around it, using thousands of GPUs worldwide? If we could somehow make the training process profitable, like a cryptocurrency, then that would be even better.

Because the folks at the NSA are not going to stop doing so... The government itself is going to continue with it. And we don't want to allow the state to have the monopoly on advanced AI.

If the government tries to prohibit training these models, I think we should find a way to keep it going somehow. Yes, civil disobedience.