Depending on how much is “too much power”, people might still want to purchase them at a discount for self-hosting purposes. The future is most likely to go through a decentralization of AI services, with spme higher efficiency large providers, combined with lower efficiency edge nodes for less demanding usage… at least, until the next order of magnitude technological shift.

Counter proposal: dynamic tactile buttons.

The tech already existed in 2013, just develop it further.

https://www.robaid.com/gadgets/tactus-technology-haptic-feedback-on-dynamic-user-interface.htm

Check the history of ReCaptcha: it started by helping digitize booksxfir the Gutenberg Project, then once it got acquired by Google, it switched to house numbers, street signs (auto driving?), and is now helping with object identification.

Strictly speaking, math gets proven from scratch by every math student. Software is slightly different, since most of it never gets a formal proof at all.

Using a complex GPT-4o prompt, they sought to pull out tweets that focused on “superficial topics”

Wait a moment… They asked an LLM, to tell them what was “junk”, and another LLM, trained on what an LLM marked as junk, turned out to be a junk LLM?

It talks about model collapse, but this smells like research collapse.

My bad, Kiwix is on IzzyOnDroid. You’re right, F-Droid itself might have a tougher time.

F-Droid does automated patching already, they often remove “anti-features”. The migration is a PITA, but not the end of the world, Kiwix did that recently (split into Play Store and F-Droid versions).

I don’t see the issue:

1. F-Droid compiles the apps
2. F-Droid publishes the apps
3. F-Droid gets registered
4. F-Droid subclasses app identifiers under its own

…and things go back to normal.

You won’t be able to update an F-Droid app with an Obtainium one, but Android is already warning about those, not allowing automatic updates from mixed sources.

At this point, why not just root it? There are public exploits for Android 6 vulnerabilities, it’s not like you’d lose any security.

The incident comes barely a week after a group of tourists were filmed blocking migrating wildebeest at Kenya’s Maasai Mara […] crowding riverbanks and forcing wildebeests into crocodile-infested waters

WTF…

China has been building massive “coal to fuel” conversion plants for over a decade now. Their main goal has less to do with Russia, or caring about the climate, and more with reducing the extreme pollution levels they used to have in those mega-cities.

Same thing with electric vehicles. China has a massive population, with growing energy requirements. They’re building everything they can to catch up with expected per capita energy demands.

For reference, in 2022:

• United States: 78kWh
• Germany: 40kWh
• China: 31kWh

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_energy_consumption_per_capita

TLDR: It’s a mess.

Back in the day, I started migrating notepad stuff to Markdown on a Wiki. Then on a MediaWiki. Then DokuWiki. Then ZimWiki. Then Joplin. Then GitHub Pages and a self-hosted Jeckyll.

Each, single, one, of, them, uses a slightly different flavor of Markdown. At this point, I have stuff spread over ALL OF THEM, much of it rotting away in “backups to migrate later”. 😮‍💨
I’ve been considering “vibe coding” some converters…

As for syncing… the Markdown part is easy: git.
Working with a Markdown editor to update GH Pages, was a good experience.
Having ZimWiki auto-sync to git, was good, but didn’t find a decent compatible editor for Android.
I switched to Joplin lured by the built-in auto-sync options, but kind of regret it now, when it has a folder with thousands of files in it.

Obsidian is not OSS itself, but has an OSS plugin to sync to git.
I’ve read that using Logseq alongside Obsidian should be possible… and was planning to test that setup, keeping Obsidian in charge of sync. Possibly with GitHub/Jeckyll, git-lfs for images and attachments.

PS: assuming one could have working back-and-forth converters for the different Markdown flavors, and everything stored in git, then one could theoretically use git hooks to convert to/from whatever local version used by a particular editor.

Yeah, I don’t think I like llamafile, reusing some weights between models, and smaller updates, sounds like a better idea.

What I’d like to see is a unified WebNN support, for CPU, GPU, and NPU: WebNN Overview

(Not to pull rank, but my mail profile can be tracked to Netscape Navigator, across multiple OSs 😁)

I was going to say that AI has a lot of implications in the online world that Mozilla was supposed to promote… but maybe you’re right, the AI genie is out of the bottle and there is little left to do about it. Its impact will be whatever it will be, no matter what people want to say about it.

Not sure which “old Mozilla” you want, the 1998 one? the 2005 one? the 2015 one? It has changed a lot indeed, but kind of has been Google’s anti-anti-thrust shield for 20+ years.

From those projects, which ones are out of scope for the Mozilla Manifesto?

The African nuclear reactors might need more explaining, but the rest seem to be right on the goals:

• Anti-censorship groups
• Lobbying EU AI regulations
• Tool to reveal censorship on ISPs
• Coding/operations related carbon footprint and pollution, which can be used to prevent people’s access

What would be the proper advocacy groups? Would you’ve ever heard of Mozilla without some advocacy group?

People building the yachts, and people operating them, are probably glad for the opportunity to divert some of the money to feeding, clothing, or treating, themselves and their families.

The problem isn’t that billionaires spend money, the problem is that they don’t spend nearly enough.

• ❌ Phone - com.samsung.android.dialer
• ❌ Messages - com.google.android.apps.messaging (Samsung)
• ❌ Chrome - com.android.chrome
• ❌ Camera - com.sec.android.app.camera (Samsung)

The thing is, I keep them there as a “last resort”, not as main use.

Seems like it hasn’t been updated for 2 years. Is it abandoned?

Not sure if entrapment, chasing thought-crime, a case of “laws don’t apply to aliens”, or just a way of diverting some public funds.

There used to be chatbots posing as minors for some time already, expanding it to other areas is disturbing though.