DCC book 4
The economy of anonymity by Amaya
Artificial Intimacy by Sherry Turkle, just out
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The economy of anonymity by Amaya
Artificial Intimacy by Sherry Turkle, just out
At the risk of being presumptuous I believe that's the wrong way of looking at it. The point isn't to show the entire World that everything you did is perfect (because it's not, for anyone) but rather to grow from potential collaborations, even if only just discussions in issues. It is a humbling process to show how something was built but with a positive crowd it is definitely leading to growth!
- AR where the machine can be put on your desk, next to documents
- VR where the machine is in context, e.g. a 3D model of German Naval Signals HQ in Guernsey, eventually stepping back to a broader context.
Putin or Trump are totally isolated from economical and political consequences so they have no problem severing ties. If there are genuine co-dependencies, including for the leaders, they it's much harder to break peace.
I imagine the ideological aspect is the deeper motivation but it only matters with the right circumstances.
Adding a warning about it could help.
> I have the skills and desire to do these things.
Please check out my page on the topic https://fabien.benetou.fr/Content/SwappingPartsOfTheRestrict... and let me know if I could improve it somehow to help you.
Overall though my recommendation is :
- do what you can TODAY no matter how small
That means if the OS is too big a of a step, start with an application. If the hardware is too locked down, start with data so that next time you buy hardware, you will bring over that data then switch. Don't postpone.
doesn't it boil down to not using unique services?
If nobody provides an alternative today that could switch as quickly as changing an endpoint and token then you are coupled.
It's not a technical decision as much admitting in the strategy that we are cutting corners because it's cheaper/faster today but some hypothetical day in the future when we'll magically have more resource we won't?
It's not about NVIDIA stock, it's not about your latest harness, it's not about code review on generated code, instead it's about what happens to us when something not human fakes being human and the dangers of it.
I only started reading it but if it's as fundamental as her previous "Reclaiming conversation" then I expect it to change my life for the better, even if it means fighting against the dangerous behavior of the majority of people around me.
An AI is not a person and when you elevate it to that status you lower yourself. It is very dangerous, even more so when it's done, like mobile phone and engagement more broadly before, for profit.
Protect yourself and those around you, regardless of how you like or dislike AI, and trust actual humans specializing in studying human behavior, not psychopaths craving billions.
The farmer take care of his pigs but only to the point they get slaughtered.
If you are a normal person research (e.g. https://arxiv.org/html/2606.22721v1 but there are a lot more, not necessarily on coding) has shown that you indeed are being less careful. It most likely also works better simply because more resources are being poured in.
Sure question what the latest tool can offer and how to integrate with it... but that's just being an app, or a window manager, or a package manager, or a distribution, that's not challenging what the OS itself is and does.
If your OS doesn't change how a computer allocates resources, then you are talking about higher level, and that can be super valuable too, arguably more valuable, but ... that's a different thing.
PS: also chroot (half a century, just checked for the fun of it), jails, containers, VMs, etc limiting how the allocation can be done do exist and have been used for decades already.
In fact I will even admit it, yes AI has gotten better... but also how could it NOT? It has literally all the resources it can has, namely attention from everyone, everybody talks about it, a lot of workers, from state of the art researchers to annotators, all the material resources, from dedicated chips to networking to water to electricity, the entire available dataset of Human written and said thoughts, literally everything published and thus categorized.
AI literally has everything humanity can provide, it better be "better".
Piracy and stripping DRMs though definitely work.
When Meta bought Oculus a decade ago I though "why the heck are they buying this VR company..." which prompted me to read "The Age of Surveillance Capitalism: The Fight for a Human Future at the New Frontier of Power" 2018 Shoshana Zuboff's book.
The idea is precisely that they don't need more of the same data, they have enough (even though they do need to keep them up to date) but they instead need more KINDS of data to keep on earning money from selling ads.
They don't care for the technology itself, only for ways to distinguish needs better and that's exactly what a new digital medium provides.
TL;DR: yes.
It wouldn't have been touted at the "metaverse" and a revolution of having business meeting in a virtual room... looking like a boring office and maybe it would "just" be millions of gamers, but to stay we are in a better state because of Meta is questionable.
They did invest a ton and their products (if one can manage to make abstraction why they even exist in the first place) are actually well done but the line their brought on the entire industry created unrealistic expectation.
Is it good, is it bad, I'm not actually sure but I'm rather confident to say it's not obvious.
Meanwhile it's been years since KDE Connect allows devices to talk to each, sending SMS on desktop from phone, pausing phone podcast from desktop, sharing files from XR headset to desktop, etc.
A lot could be improved but the modern open-source desktop is already doing great.
At the risk of stating the obvious llama.cpp isn't just about LLaMa as https://github.com/ggml-org/llama.cpp/blob/master/src/llama-... someone else pointed out.
Image outputs are supported, videos I'm not sure but I don't think that's an output, just a preview of the equirectangular example, so, same question here, what does this model outputs that isn't supported?
Scripting in the terminal can manipulate windows too (e.g. xdg-open with KWin), or send notification locally (e.g. notify-send) to any devices (again or ntfy), or open dialogs (e.g. kdialog), or controlling other devices (e.g. curl to HomeAssistant API) so indeed it opens up an entire new world of possibilities... and it's combinatorial.
Also for another bit of context, scripting works ... on the weirdest newest devices, e.g. a Meta Quest on Android thanks to Termux. If there is an OS there is surely a terminal in there somewhere, and if there is, you can script on it. So... scripting isn't "just" for your desktop or a remote server, it's everywhere.