“They want to build a prison” “They want to build a prison” “Another prison system” “Another prison system” “For you and me to live in”

They are the only dectralized cloud computing platform i know, with BIONIC, pedals.ai, and kobald.ai all being being very application specific and no privacy in them.

That said i also didnt like the UX and so i havent really used them

First design things to work fully offline. Full airgap between the system and the rest of the world. Then introduce features to update that airgapped system from one way data transfers (like sneakernetting a hard drive/USB/disk/tape). Then introduce additional features to get that data from a network but cached local. Then introduce networked features, and only if connecting to another independent system is absolutely needed.

Basically stick what has worked in tech and avoid developing SaaS. At least if you are making something for users and not shareholders.

If it didn’t suck much I’d probably like it

Promoc and Harvester HCI taking over the space would be a dream come true for me

The abstraction of the compute, storage, and networking that cloud providers is really useful for devs. Using that only to rent hardware is extremely cost prohibitive for some, not to mention the risk of renting stuff for critical workloads.

Heck China and Russia are both as well.

There seems to be a theoretical maximum to the number of people or area per nation state

This. Honestly things like image detection, anomaly detection over big data sets, and semantic searching, all seem very useful in professional contexts.

Generative AI not heavily grounded in real data is just better for no-risks tasks.

They have a tiny version that is listed as 1000 on their website, plus the simulation is FOSS

You seem to think we disagree on creation of a police state or massive surveillance system being a bad thing for some reason. None of which are stopped with regulations by the states that are funding and building said things …

For sure they are! Meta more then the others though

Collaboration. Industry leaders, universities, and hobbbiests can all collaborate in the same place rather then siloing to their own infrastructure

Sorry I guess there is a bit of a casm of understanding between us here. Yeah restricting hammers, heavy hard objects on a pole found crafted throughout human civilization, does sound neigh impossible to me.

I mention hammers because they used a popular biker gang weapon to honest. Quite a bit of murders done with hammers.

“We have to block Huawei from selling telecom equipment to other countries to limit authoritarian control!”

“We have to force countries to use our oligarchy controlled ISP to maximize authoritarian control”

Honestly this just feel like that Mr Bean cheating meme it’s just looks so obvious

Right. It’s small, and compact, so you can fit in the bike, and quick swing to someone’s Dome just about does it. /s

Violence is a method of action, some tools are force multipliers in that action, and thus useful in that case.

Don’t get me wrong, hammers building houses and plow shears have done more to quietly change the world then guns and swords ever have, but guns and swords have.

I mean the Oracle CEO said so explicitly last year to investors

Tbh I just duckduckgo the company and product if I find it in Amazon and order directly

Small buisnesses and more so consumers can flex on what they use. Academia can choose what they teach and require Governments can choose what they pay for

We have power

Learn from the best of the US example and leapfrog from using opensource and the best of the Chinese example using open hardware.

There are so many places where good FOSS and FOSH investments can act as public infrastructure for an entire economy. After that just fostering good education so that more people can leverage and improve on it and we might really see a Renaissance