Well if I could get a twitter API to abuse for free, I’d compete with him to create automated shitposts. Not going to pay for it though

I’m loving your commentary on the subject.

When I mentioned Mistral, I meant their attention to open source. Their new model (Mistral small) can be run on consumer hardware with similar results to ChatGPT if trained on good data. AI isn’t that useful outside of me asking it to write one-liners but I haven’t had the experience you have.

How much VC/Microsoft funding does OpenAI have? Surely they can’t afford to keep burning cash like they are now? When will they make AI so expensive to use that it will become useless?

The only AI startup I care about is Mistral. Amazing models, altruistic attitude towards AI and software. In my opinion, one of the few great companies out there. Give them a few more years and I’ll consider them in the same league as Mullvad.

I’ve seen this movie before. MBAs are fucking idiots.

Truer words have never been spoken.

I’m just waiting for OpenAI or someone else to jack up prices in the name of profits so high that they will be the equivalent of Nvidia for business AI.

Suddenly hiring for creative roles will be back in full swing because companies won’t be able to afford it. Unfortunately, in the end, the shareholder always wins

I see. You need either IPSEC/OVPN or need to encapsulate wireguard in an SSL tunnel. It’s a little involved but possible to do

How do they plan to “ban” encryption? What are they going to do if I get a VPN and download the Signal APK?

I’m on Debian. Which RSS reader do you use? Is there a fuzzy search for YouTube?

I honestly don’t think EU and Asian leaders have the balls to do this (because the American government will support American companies if it comes down to it). Tougher fines that are difficult for the tech giants to swallow should be the first step

Malicious delays should be recognised and interest should be charged as an additional percentage. Also, the EU is hardly doing enough. It’s like they’ve been bought by these companies

Can you explain your setup? I’m interested

Companies like this need to be criminally charged, but we know that’s not going to happen

Which boycott? Random Joe over there is handing over his SSN to ChatGPT no problem

Agreed. I wonder if they are just too scared to actually do this

AI companies should be fined percentages of their total worth by the government whose artists they are taking advantage of. For example: Japanese government penalises OpenAI 50% of their net worth for every image which is even marginally similar to any publishing house in Japan. And they should be very lenient about taking on these cases.

I want OpenAI, Microsoft, Google, Facebook and IBM to get fucked so bad they won’t even dream of coming back and doing this. I don’t know why the EU penalises these companies in monetary amounts. They should be putting rules like a certain percentage of your company for a certain type of wrongdoing.

TBH if Japan or other asian countries bleed these companies dry they will be sitting on an immense sum of money which will propel them to superpowers in their own right. It’s a win-win for everyone

Use Accrescent / Aurora?

Whilst I think that recoll’s searching mechanism is better than what I can patch together with find and grep, is recoll really the right tool for the entire home directory? I’m currently using it to search my email because Thunderbird doesn’t work that well and I’ve pointed it to my documentation so I can search through my projects easier.

I think we are still miscommunicating, partly due to my fault.

There’s not tons of use for a workspace here, or at least not in my personal experience. Its my phone, my phone IS my workspace.

When I said “workspaces” what I meant is a “Work Profile” - you know, the kind of thing you manage with the shelter app and that companies use MDM for to manage their company-specific apps.

Second, android makes the assumption that you want basic functionality like email, and internet use, and messaging, location info for mapping, etc, so all of that got coded directly in to the OS. yeah you can use Firefox but can you uni stall chrome? Can you unintstall gmail?

Android doesn’t make these decisions, Google does. It is a common misconception that Google ships AOSP with Pixel. They do not.

Third, among those things google has an effective monopoly on is their app store. Its incredibly difficult to, as a normal person who is not especially technically inclined, to make heads or tails of fdroid, or worse to have to find your own app store.

If you don’t want Google apps, either install a custom ROM or get root access (I hear KernelSU is making great progress). I don’t think your point is valid, you’re talking about stock ROMs. I’m not. And God help people who buy from a carrier, that’s probably the worst way to get a mobile phone.

Don’t want to use PlayStore? Use Accrescent + Obtanium + F-Droid + Aurora (preferably in that order). There is no longer a reason to have playstore installed on your device unless one of these FOSS projects die or you paid for apps from the playstore before. I’m perfectly comfortable with using these instead of the pre installed spyware they ship me.

There are attempts to work around this, AOSP is one of them, but the fact that its a thing in the first place illustrates what I’m trying to say.

AOSP is not a workaround, it’s what Google bases their OS on (what they ship with the Pixel) along with other manufacturers. Yes, Google writes a lot of AOSP but it is FOSS and available to anyone. Otherwise Huawei wouldn’t be able to make Android devices at all.

Thus, /e/os is stuck. Package microg, or dont provide access to the google app store for their consumer focused devices, or use google play services.

eOS is FOSS. Murena is the business. And no, I don’t agree - they could have at least given us an option (like LineageOS does) to either have microG or not have it in the base image. This is not a hard thing to do.

I suppose I can just rip MicroG out and only install it in a “Work Profile” but not having to do that would be a great QoL upgrade.

I do know that it does not seem as though AOSP as a ROM is widely used

Giving credit where it is due: due to Google’s efforts in making project Treble compatibility mandatory along with further enhancements to the Android software ecosystem, you can technically run AOSP’s (or really, any ROM’s) GSI on any phone you can unlock the bootloader to. That is only possible on the Pixels, older OnePluses, some Motorolas and some Nothing Phones in the US, excluding Murena’s phones and some other niche manufacturers. There are caveats due to proprietary firmware but that’s where we are right now.

In conclusion: I would have liked an eOS without MicroG pre-installed. I suppose I could rip it out but I’m afraid I’ll miss some artifacts. But that’s a minor worry. I’m sorry for the long note.

How authors of software projects behave has never been my concern when evaluating their projects technically. I’m no expert, but I’ll pay tribute to Gr******OS for everything that they have done for the community; hardened Malloc by itself is a great advancement in the Linux kernel. Unfortunate that two people like them at the forefront of FOSS have disagreements, but I do not care. I hope both of them live long and healthy and bring FOSS even greater achievements.

Are you using it for your entire FS? That’s a lot of files to index

I’m a bit confused.

The idea is to contain all non-FOSS apps in a workspace. I assume that I’ll have trouble without microg for some apps in said workspace, which is why I’m looking for a way to put microG in that workspace.

The rest of the apps will all be FOSS. Thus, I do not see a good reason to bundle MicroG in the base image. I’d like to keep all non-FOSS+Google stuff in one workspace and not have them touch the rest of my apps.

I’m assuming workspaces are akin to a “namespace” in general Linux terminology.

The problem you are going to run into though is that google has baked itself into android that you need something to trick android into thinking its operable.

In stock android, you COULD have a workspace that only uses microg, but considering you otherwise MUST have play services… Why?

What do you mean? I genuinely do not understand, I thought DeGoogled AOSP would work just fine.