I literally asked, you implied.

specs were too low

what usage was limited by specs?

it isn’t the tech that is bad. Self hosting a model for a task that suits it like speech recognition for a disabled person is righteous and liberating.

Even that is tricky. One must check how the model itself was trained, namely :

• was the trained data acquired rightfully (e.g. not stolen images without creator permission)
• was the training done properly (e.g. not out of a datacenter running on polluting generators)
• was the annotation of the training data done within worker rights (e.g. psychological support if violence or porn data to remove)

rather than just solely have a positive use case and being privacy preserving.

On Firefox (my default browser everywhere it’s available) I use the Coil extension but seems it’s now called InterLedger (Wallet) cf https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/web-monetization-extension/

If you go on my web site https://fabien.benetou.fr/ you should see 3 hearts under the 3D model if it’s enabled.

being sensationalist. OR (and more likely answer). Musk is building some bespoke data center in the middle of bum-fuck nowhere without the local infrastructure to support it

It’s exactly what’s been reporting in several pieces from 404 Media, and others. Namely xAI does NOT have the infrastructure BUT Musk has a history (Tesla, SpaceX, etc) of cutting corners. He “gets shit done” like no one else not because he’s particularly smart or efficiency … but because he breaks the law, as simple as that.

histrionic

True… yet nearly everybody else, maybe beside few like 404 media, seems to be either boot licking or access “journalism” so I get the “spicy” take.

May I introduce you to https://webmonetization.org/ ?

Yes but I need to carve out time for it. I explicitly warn others about that, that I will be unavailable because I’m playing. I usually think of it as a choice between playing vs something else I enjoy doing, namely sports outside, watching a show, reading a book, coding, etc.

To expand a bit on the “I explicitly warn others” it also means I dedicate time for others but I also expect to have time for myself, including to play. I actually even recommend other adults to do so. Video games can be absolutely amazing. They can be an art form or something casual, they can be about any topic. I genuinely believe that adults who do not play, and I mean in a healthy fashion, are missing something. It’s just so damn fun!

IMHO if you consider it a valid hobby like any other and don’t try to “cheat” by squeezing it in in addition to everything else, removing time for chores or worst, sleep, then sure you might have time for it BUT, yes, like every other hobby it is a privilege.

Edit: anyway, back to Clair Obscur. FWIW finished BG3 last year (3x), Elden Ring this year (offline), so I do spend a bit of time on long, very long games, but it does take me a while.

You’re right obviously, you dirty communist! /$

Post updated accordingly.

how is Belgium to live in and what would it look like to live there right now?

It’s literally between France, Germany and the Netherlands, I mean geographically yes but roughly culturally too. Arguably Brussels is a mix of all that and other cities again match where they are.

So… it’s a Western European country with good quality of life despite thanks to having one of the very highest taxes rate. You don’t have to be a socialist to be here but if you want to become a rich entrepreneur it’s going to be challenging.

Source : immigrated there from France ~10 years ago.

Edit: s/despite/thanks to/

No Linux build, not git link, why would anyone care?

Not sure what NLNet is going to do about software lol, I believe you mean something different.

That NLNet https://nlnet.nl/ funding FLOSS project.

There are also BlueHats in France showing how administration is using AND consequently funding FLOSS https://code.gouv.fr/en/bluehats/ by paying for sysadmin, feature dev, maintenance, etc.

Don’t underestimate management desire to be absolutely indistinguishable from their competition.

They read the Harvard Business Review, learn new terms they don’t understanding, make a PowerPoint out of it and voila, they are “innovative” like everyone else.

If HBR put “AI” on its cover you can be damn sure all those innovators are going to put AI wherever they can.

I would love to, but we stiill use Windows specific software

If I had 1 cent every time I read that… and I pulled those cents together… and then paid software developers to build that missing software for other OSes like Linux… then we’d gradually see less of those comments.

It’s as if the isolation was the business model, proprietary software insuring that alternatives do not exist because users do not bother to get together and unstuck themselves from glowingly dangerous (security wise but probably even financially dependencies.

Hopefully initiatives like NLNet are precisely trying to alleviate such challenges. Until them compatibility layers like Proton are showing the way with arguably some of the most complex and demanding in terms of performance software, namely games.

Minority Report, the bad parts.

Edit: glad I’m using a deGoogled Android phone, can’t trust manufacturers not to enshitificate.

The purpose of a system is what it does.

Right, reminds me of the hacker mindset or more recently the workshop I did on “Future wheel foresight” with Karin Hannes. One can try their best to predict how an invention might be used but in practice it goes beyond what its inventors want it to be, it is truly about how what “it” does through actual usage.

very very little actual logic

To be precise, 0.

The business model IS dodging any kind of responsibility so… yeah, I think they’ll pass.

I agree and in fact I feel the same with AI.

Fundamental cryptocurrency is fascinating. It is mathematically sound, just like cryptography in general (computational complexity, one way functions, etc) and it had the theoretical potential to change existing political and economical structures. Unfortunately (arguably) the very foundation it is based on, namely mining for greed, brought a different community who inexorably modified not the technology itself but its usages. What was initially a potential infrastructure for exchange of value became a way to speculate, buy and sell goods and services banned, ransomware, scam payments, etc).

AI also is fascinating as a research fields. It asks deep question with complex answers. Research for centuries about it lead to not just interesting philosophical questions, like what it’s like to be think, to be human, and mathematics used in all walks of life, like in logistics for your parcel to get delivered this morning. Yet… gradually the field, or at least its commercialization, got captured by venture capitalists, entrepreneurs, regulators, who main interest was greed. This in turn changed what was until then open to something closed, something small to something required gigantic infrastructure capturing resources hitherto used for farming, polluting due to lack of proper permit for temporary electricity sources, etc. The pinnacle right now being regulation to ban regulation on AI in the US.

So… yes, technology itself can be fascinating, useful, even important and yet how we collectively, as a society, decide to use it remains what matters, the actual impact of an idea rather than its idealization.

FWIW I did try few LLMs locally too (cf my notes on the topic https://fabien.benetou.fr/Content/SelfHostingArtificialIntelligence ) but AFAIK that is only the top of the iceberg, that LLM has been trained before and that’s a significant part of the cost.