What is “minimum necessary data”? Or does everyone define that for themselves?

US-based software does have hosting physically in EU, which makes it in the same legal domain, but US has the CLOUD Act, where US can force their companies, even if abroad, to pull data to US. So, being simply in the same legal domain or country does not make it sovereign. You actually need your own hardware and the full software stack where there is no foregin ownership to actually be sovereign.

And if you just scale up from individual persons to nations/blocks, whats the difference between “I will not use Google Drive, I will selfhost Nextcloud” and “EU will not use Google Drive, it will selfhost Nextcloud”.

Me in this case is just not a person, but a country/political entity. EU is selfhosting instead of using US-provided hosting.

Please stop calling seflhosting “digital sovereignty”. It’s just a marketing buzzword, but basically there is nothing there except “I will host it myself”.

Oh, I better then go ahead and buy them at high prices before it turns out in 2-3 years that he was wrong.

Maybe they can protect themselves with a… great firewall of USA?

Imagine the failed democracy, where the elected representative says that what failed him was pursuing his own agenda, instead of the will of the people he is supposed to represent.

Or what happens to the stock price once the temporary surge in demand fades or new companies enter the market and disrupt it.

You don’t blame the knife when people get stabbed, so why blame AI for code it generated on the developer’s behalf? AI is a tool. Nothing more.

For the other stuff - I can’t take people seriously, because most people pick and choose when it’s convenient to be moral and ethical. Same people who don’t like AI pollution are using cars and plastics in their daily lives and would absolutely flip out if someone would ask them to give it up for the environment. AI is just the current “trend” to hate and be moral about because not many people are depending on it yet in ther day to day life.

I understand that people have concerns, but those concerns are only relevant if they come from a maintainer or repo owner point of view. There is an entire spectrum of how AI is used in code, and it’s not a simple yes or no thing. I am for example completely against vibe coding as it’s just a risk and liability in the long run. However, to use AI to brainstorm, get suggestions, discuss architecture, learn with examples, and assist basically like someone else is sitting next to you while you code yourself… that is something completely different, and results in a completely different outcome.

In the end, it depends on can the person at the steering wheel take full ownership and accountability of the code they produced, with or without AI.

No, because it’s about the what, and with or without AI is the how.

We don’t have disclosures “built on a Linux/Windows/macOS machine” or “built using IntelliJ/Eclipse” so why is it important what tool was used to do something?

This is the right way to go. This will incentivize many companies to rethink their strategy, and slow down or scale down AI adoption. After that and the revenue drops for many AI companies, they will back off purchasing all possible RAM and storage in existence which will drive down pricing. And when the prices get to normal again, we will simply buy more RAM for our local machines and run free models.

This news kinda makes me happy. Shit’s starting to fall apart. Finally.

Plain ol’ spreadsheet.

Oh, funny, I also have sentient AI at home that I developed, but choose not to release it. My mom also created one accidentally while baking a cake but it was to powerful and she also decided to best destroy it like it never existed. You know, for everyones safety.

According to Wikipedia, they basically have no representative nowhere… I would rather vote for a more established party which actually has the power do influence the decision. Surely there must be one mainstream party that has the same stance.

Pardon my ignorance, but physical cards are tap-to-pay since it exists, no smartphone needed, and as a bonus, you don’t need to think about your battery dying before you need to buy something. It’s a problem of extreme convenience, not something you depend on in any way. An alternative could also be a smartwatch, which you can set up tap-to-pay on, so you can have a custom ROM on your smartphone and pay with your wrist.

Can we prevent this on the EU level? It really is just killing independent competition.

I, as the owner of my device, don’t want to wait 24h.

I hope this will popularize the ROM community again. It gradually faded out due to mainstream ROMs having every perk of the custom ROMs but now the custom ROMs can start offering freedom, which no official ROM will offer.

Expired domains have “cooldowns” because this would be a security issue, if suddenly, overnight, because someone forgot to extend their domain, there is suddenly a new owner. This means, after the domain is expired, you usually have a grace period where you still have the chance to extend it before someone else “snatches” it under your nose.

They are trained to achieve goals. If your goal ist to win a war, but also not kill anyone… its incompatible.

I seriously don’t understand how anyone would expect any other outcome. It has a goal - to win, or not to lose. What is the logical way to have the highest probability of winning? Use strongest weapon. You wouldn’t expect it to tell you how to build a rain catchment and filter system when you tell it your thirsty.