Starts with ‘the whole world’ but continues with local Merican problems…

Strange with this sudden interest in open source. I wonder what happened ?!?

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If they go to open source/federated, then great, but they are just moving to EU “big” tech and the exact same fascist psychopaths in charge. These ‘nationalist’ campaigns are not all true grass-root movements, but just the EU oligarchy that pushes the information sphere to secure their own EU fascist oligarchy. Capitalism => Fascism, and EU leadership are deep in it (since they are really just local ‘manufactured consent’, positioned by the US regime)…

Yup, capitalism is the root cause of ‘ai-slop’. We always had it through capitalism. The name of the game is to spit out cheap products on the market. Just getting the ad profits from random search hits, is enough to sustain players on markets. There’s an economic incentive for all slop we see on the net yesterday and today.

ANY tool that accelerates the quantity of their products/increases search presence will be exploited. Kill the economic incentive, and you kill ‘ai-slop’…

The video does not support the claim in any way. Dumb propaganda claim on top of a US instigated ‘color-revolution’/unrest.

I had an account, but got sick for a whole year or so. When I tried to come back, they had taken the account down, and I could only access with an old emergency code I didn’t have anymore - I ‘only’ had my user/password.

I guess I had less than 40 emails, so the account didn’t cause space problems, or anything. But I managed to get a few other essential services bound to tuta before I got ill. That was unfortunate.

I won’t be dealing with a corporation that treats mail accounts casually as if they were not an important ‘anchor’ for other internet services. A small mail account should never be taken down for ‘not using it enough’. No tuta business crap again. disroot.org are the shit for me. Cool guys, and they still had my ~8yo account running without me using it until now…

"Qualcomm’s (NASDAQ: QCOM) $2.4 billion acquisition of Ventana Micro Systems and Meta Platforms, Inc.’s (NASDAQ: META) strategic takeover of Rivos have sent "

Mostly US state propaganda… The big US tech *unts just bought up smaller corps, and have now been put on a pedestal as the ‘world leaders’ of that segment. Well, that’s one way to do it I guess…

Some none-verified AI-slop for all: Key Findings from Chinese Sources

1. China’s Shipment Dominance

   According to Chinese industry reports and the RISC-V International Foundation, China contributed over 50% of global RISC-V chip shipments in 2024. This is based on data from the 5th RISC-V China Summit, where officials stated that global shipments exceeded 100 billion chips, with China accounting for more than half.

2. Scale of Chinese RISC-V Ecosystem

   Over 60 Chinese companies are actively involved in RISC-V, spanning IP design, SoC development, manufacturing, and ecosystem support. This contrasts sharply with the original list of 5 companies, which included only one Chinese firm (StarFive). Key Chinese players beyond StarFive include: 芯原 (VeriSilicon) – Leading IP provider and chair of China RISC-V Industry Alliance (CRVIC). 中兴微电子 (ZTE Microelectronics) – Major contributor to RISC-V-based communications chips. 阿里巴巴 (Alibaba) – Through its T-Head division, developing RISC-V processors for cloud and edge computing. 华为海思 (HiSilicon) – Investing in RISC-V for future chip designs.

3. Market Momentum and Investment

   Government Support: China has prioritized RISC-V as part of its semiconductor self-sufficiency strategy, with significant state funding and policy incentives. Research Output: Chinese academia and companies are prolific in RISC-V research papers and patent filings, accelerating innovation. Ecosystem Growth: The China RISC-V Industry Alliance (CRVIC) has over 190 member units as of 2024, fostering collaboration and standardization.

Agree. For example; the amount of times we correct our own speech before ‘releasing it’ is staggering. We have a ‘stochastic parrot’ mechanism build right into the hearth of our own cognition and it generates the same problems for us. ‘Hallucinations’ are build into a statistical model. It takes a lot of culture/rules and energy to constantly adjust(habituate to expectations/environment into the ‘norm’. People that have fallen out of normal social environments know how difficult human interactions can be to learn/overcome.

Current llm’s doesn’t have the ability to do these micro-corrections on the fly or habituate the corrected behavior through learning/culture etc.

‘Context length’ is also directly mappable to human cognitive load, where chronic stress tends to shorten our ‘context length’ and we lose overview in a split-second, and forget the simplest things. ‘Context length’ are for an llm, roughly equivalent to our ‘working memory’.

However, compensating systems are already being designed. Just like life/evolution did, one by one, these natural tendencies from statistics will be fixed by adding more ‘cognitive modules’ that modulate the internal generation and final output…

Disroot.org seems like a great free/open alternative. Works great for me…

This is just how the Merica Oligarchy/psychopaths have treated everybody else in the world for the last 75 years. I guess the common Merican doesn’t like it either ? Welcome to the revolution !

We have both capabilities - just as all other animals -, but it is mostly ideology/culture and swarm information control by psychopaths and dark-triad humans that causes these major power-dynamics - destructions.

As you said, we have all the tech and knowledge to create a kick ass world for everybody, but we have no control of our global information - psychopaths does, and we can’t break out from that information bubble, so human civilization are in an “Ant-Mill”.

We won’t progress - break out of the mill - until we have reined in our top psychopaths and finally ended the system of manufactured ideology, morals/‘values’ and information control that generate and nurture these thrash people to power - and keeps ordinary peeps from organizing our selves in more normal/intelligent structures.

I haven’t been following closely lately, but yes, its a cool idea. However, it have almost stalled for many years. Not because of the project, but the idea never caught on with distros etc.

They have kept watching/working on it though, and latest push I think, were a tech-demo distro where you login via the SOLID ecosystem and keep your data etc there. I forgot the name, but it should show up in distrowatch searching for ‘solid’ - I presume.

I think most sota llm’s knows enough about Solid to help with small apps etc for it.

Agree, but we need a better word than that… It’s hard not to include ‘americans’ so people know what we are talking about. We likely need a prefix slur that we designate to the (mostly) scum people in the bottom of North America that supports the US Capitalist Oligarchy/globalist hegemony. ‘Crapmericans’ ? hm, there must be better suggestions…

BUT, we have an enormous production… …no wait… we don’t. We have an enormous technical and intellectua… …hm, nope… …enormous resources of ener… arg, also no! …economy, no… …military, lol no! …‘self-confidence’ …could be ?..

DEBT ! They have an enormous debt - I knew there was one !!

…yeah, okay, but it’s something …

Not sure why he thinks that EU are less *unt’ish than US ?! …but anyway; Then he is ready for the next step; Go 100% open source, foss and distributed. Savings are 100% and he won’t support the rich unts - neither in the US nor in the EU = good for everybody…

You have to think in ‘information dimensionality’. A yes/no toggle is 0D, a list is 1D, a list of lists (std hierarchy) are 2D, a list of list of list are 3D etc. All information storage types are one of these dimensions. Think of a graph-base file system with nodes and edges between everything. Now, imagine a filesystem where you flick a switch and the whole structure shows another pov ? Maybe you want the whole thing to be shown as file-type hiearchy, or only parts of it. Maybe you need to show movement in the structure, so everything are in a temporal/spatial hierarchy, maybe you are only interested in dependencies ? Relations ? Other ‘weird’ metrics ? …and so on. The main problem is to manage, find and show the needed information in a higher-dimentional fs.

Technically a normal file is also a list, or another ordered structure, but in this sense, they are just a node with further dimensionality.

There’s a TON of information layers locked away in our normal filesystem hierarchy, so OP are perfectly right, and people here have no imagination or even a world model of information structures…

Not sure why people defend an archaic organization form here - reflex ?

You are perfectly right that files and folders are simplistic, and should naturally adapt to the pov that are more information rich/valuable. Hoomans tend to collapse a high-dimensional structures to 0D to 3D, so we can manage the information. In that sense, a std hierarchy is only ONE pov over a ton of pov over the same content. A standard hierarchy is only a low 2D dimension structure that are our first attempt at organizing information. It’s not wrong - just imprecise af.

Anyway, hardlinks are a small step up, can build wild static structures (like a oneshot filesystem in Guix), but is cumbersome to control in multi-dimensional information structures. Likely not what you want, but look into fuse file systems if you want to move on to a dynamic file system hierarchy. An interesting one is a tag file system. It turns a standard limited hierarchy into a much more dynamic file-structure where a file can - and does - belong to a bunch of tags - file type, size, group, comments, whatnot. There are many many fuse fs that can convert anything into a better structured file system. Tagging is a step up from a dumb 2D hierarchy, but maybe a graph file system is the ultimate freeform dynamic filesystem that can present all the pov’s we could possible need ?

Go for it.

Nonsense propaganda from the US tech-lords/Plutocracy. Who gave big tech the power to investigate and convict anyone - without any oversight ? Ridiculous warmongering…

Alternative idea for the adventurous lot - or extreme self-hosters: Buy an old Xeon datacenter server with 1.5tb ddr3 ram (separately). Ddr3 still costs around a dollar pr gig (a month ago), so this rig with two xeon and 24 * 64gb ddr3 ram will cost ~1900$ + transport: ~2k.

(OR an older pc motherboard with 4*64 channels or similar)

DDR3 is a bit slower, use more power, and the server is big/noisy, but the difference in price is unbeatable, and it’s a hell of a KVcache (for ai) if you put a gpu in it.

Note though, that power expenses are going up in the West.

Not helping here, but I heard a guy with Guix did that. Guix just builds a profile with the extra desktop parts, run it in a local container if you want and add that profile to the local software stack. Not a vm but maybe you don’t need it ? Both the system, home and the desktop profile are declarative, so very mobile. I think he had his DE user profile remote also, so extremely minimal/air-gapped and stable solution with almost zero local data: system, home, desktop-profile, remote user profile (ldap etc).

In declarative operating systems, you describe what you want, and the system builds it for you. Your whole system configuration is a few files of std code (learning experience ;). Personally, I’m done with the usual monolithic distros. They are too error prone for my taste, and not really moving with the dev flow of operating systems imho.

Anyway, just a loose rumor/idea, I have no links and don’t actually know how to do it, sorry.