Seeing China (Tencent) and the US (Lightspeed LA) working together really gives me hope that everything will turn up alright.

I pay for Ollama Cloud. As for the training of the big models, big companies do it using who-knows-what resources.

Tool usage is very important. Qwen3.5 (135b) can already do wonderful things on OpenCode.

Everyday I stray further from the path of mainstream gaming.

It doesn’t make sense to stay locked into the Mac environment unless the hardware is incredible or you need to develop iOS applications.

Controlling people in the way you mean goes all the way back to “Revolta das Vacinas” and the higienistas. That’s not what I mean. What I mean is digital control over what people do. You think Brazil doesn’t have the US technology to control what people do over the web, but look at all the Amazon and Oracle datacenters that keep appearing on Brazil.

It might not be direct technology transfer, but it is at least licensed to process brazilian info and, if with Bolsonaro, to help the government with direct knowledge against public interest.

CPF, fingerprint, photos,… that’s all well knowledge of fingerprinting the citizen. But what about the digital fingerprint? That could be much larger: what you do, your psychological profile, and what you do on your free time.

Can you imagine; all those companies in contract with the government. Suddenly they have access to your profile and how you respond to everything. I’m not talking directly about the democratic government here, since it doesn’t matter if it is Lula or Bolsonaro on this. But you have to keep in mind that the personal interest, by which I mean the interest of the peoples initiative, association and expression, is defended by the left, not the right.

You’re in for a surprise if you think the government doesn’t want absolute control. In an age where people use their phones, are constantly online. Maybe you will find out there people who “just want to get in peace to their homes”, or “just want to be left alone”, or that the basic for life is “being able to walk carelessly on the streets”. It’s the complete reversal of what is human and what we need to be human: connection, food, water, development.

People need education and knowledge, but more than that, people need the right to build, the right to tinker, the right to find out who they are, the right to find out what’s best for everyone in society and for their own groups, the right to participate democratically.

None of which are guaranteed in Brazil right now, and certainly won’t be with Bolsonaro. Don’t be surprised if Bolsonaro talks trash of the Fediverse or of what the radical left thinks is freedom of expression and association.

India is heading for IT centric jobs in large corporations, planning to be “the brain of the world”. With many IT consulting systems all over the world going through India. That’s the plan. And that will be done by large Indian corporations, like the Tata consulting mentioned on the article.

https://www.ft.com/content/b3c0b486-07a2-11dc-9541-000b5df10621

It’s government trying to control people all over again.

Bolsonaro (Flávio) will probably make an argument saying that under him people will be free from control or something like that, but it’s just bullshit. What we would get under him is brazilian ICE (Internal Customs Enforcement - isn’t that funny).

MidnightBSD chose to be out of Brazil, like it happened with Rumble. This law will be enforced.

If you live in Brazil and probably South America for some time, you’ll know that it is hard to get hardware from Europe even from Ebay. It simply “does not ship to your destination”. Now with the Mercosur + EU agreement that may be easier, but if software keeps leaving, the hardware and hardware culture won’t be able to make up for it.

It’s just software leaving the margins, and it will get worse if Google keeps pushing Android and Mobile culture further. Brazil may just become as corporate-centric as India.

Didn’t hear anything about it in Brazil. It’s being done under the radar. Can’t even find articles about it.

Why are people so pissed at this FelixCress guy? He is just wrong, there is no need to debate.

Hacking isn’t about reinventing the wheel. This isn’t a finished product destined for a market. Even if it was, think about the small business utilities involved in local knowledge (“low-tech”): many small producers (farmers, shops, etc.) still use “obsolete” mechanisms and improvised mechanical technology. If that could reflect personal or community knowledge into real technology, even if “low technology”, that’s already a social gain for those people.

Besides that, it’s worth it for a personal project where the end goal is obtaining knowledge about how things work in the world. Not everything is about stocks, and stocks doesn’t fill all of the “market” also.

the reddit discussion is interesting

I’m hopeful ARM will follow more the licensing path than the going full Android path. I think stronger ARM computers, built at the ISA level by any company are also stronger RISCV computers. Builders like Rockchip (China) show that ARM and RISCV computers will bring alternatives to people, possibly with smaller fabs or on demand.

Remote computing is very expensive. It’s just the gated (owned by companies) LLMs that are cheap for the final consumer. Training a 2b LLM on remote compute will cost thousands of dollars if you try to.

bullies!

Palantir only cares about one philosophy. The “philosophy of God”. You may like some enlightenment figures like Kant or Leibniz, since the sense of hierarchy is powerful on the epoch, but that’s about it. You’re supposed to reverb/echo the “philosophy of God” or get out! Critical thinking without hierarchical thinking is just a pain on the ass for them, so you can “go home and eat our metaphysical shit” or submit to the Mathematical God which will create all the rules and philosophy we need.

I guess that’s what he means.

Well, it’s weird that it gets 16%

You’re giving Microsoft too much credit. The market in general doesn’t want you to think of an alternative.

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