I might order from Amazon twice a year. Orders always go to the post office or a locker.

Sleeping, astronomy.

First, this will be challenged in court. C-22 violated sections 8 of the Charter which states "Everyone has the right to be secure against unreasonable search or seizure" Forcing service providers to collect data without a warrant violates Canadians rights to privacy.

As for steps I've taken or will take:

1. No accounts with any bigtech.
2. The only accounts in my name are financial, drivers' license and official government.
3. I'll be switching to SimpleX if/when Signal leaves Canada.
4. I'll continue using a Mullvad VPN. If their servers get blocked, I'll take advantage of their "Server IP override" feature.
5. TailsOS is also an option.

Overall, I don't plan of changing much as I've already done most of the work on my privacy journey.

Truthfully, I'm more concerned about ID verification (commonly called age verification).

I didn't say "only".

Burn the land and boil the sea, You can't take the sky from me.

From Firefly. Sung by Sonny Rhodes, written by Joss Whedon

"Watch how I soar"

My first thought was Trump.

Its shit and I'll be glad when it gets flushed.

Strength training, protein, and Creatine (10 grams a day) is a winning combination.

There are dictatorships that are far worse but no way in hell will I cross the border to see for myself.

I use them once in a while. Also, I have two in my username.

I noticed you used one in a comment a month ago. Be the change you want to see. 😁

In the words of Homer Simpson "It's funny cause it's true". Well, actually it's sad.

We can't produce enough power and water to run all the AI data centers so everyone gets their own personal clanker.

I see the day where AI is reserved for more important things like medical research.

Politicians are starting to distance themselves from the AI industry so they can get re-elected. When the AI friendly politicians are voted out we might see some changes.

Afaik, the only companies making a profit are the chip makers.

Investors are not getting their money back. Not one AI company is making more than the spend on AI. Sooner or later, investors will see the industry for what it is, a pyramid scheme.

Companies started re-hiring humans because they are cheaper and do a better job than clankers.

There is a growing public backlash on AI data centers. Once the population puts two and two together they will realize the best way to get rid of AI data centers is to not use AI.

The interview The Guardian is referring to (but doesn't name) is likely the one he did with Politico. That was posted in this community a few hours ago.

You should post this in upliftingnews because this is far more than mildly interesting.

“we believe that the world should accept some bad things happening for the benefits of this technology and people having the agency.”

Entitled pos doofus says what?

Daily dose of science. They post about once a week and there is usually one or two detailed science explanations from scientists. The host often gives a brief explanation about why something is happening in a video clip.

LOL

"Open weighted" I take to mean that the user can see what sources the LLM/AI was trained upon. Usually this information is a closely guarded corporate secret.

As for "models" this is no different than the different models that a car company offers. Sentra from Nissan, F-150 from Ford, Civic from Honda

If locally run or through a data center, LLM/AIs have two major problems:

1. The results can't really be trusted due to their tendency to hallucinate.
2. Frequent LLM/AI usage has been proven to deskill the user as well as a reduction in cognitive ability. I'm dumb enough without getting help from a clanker.

Assuming "run it 100% locally" means on your own hardware with network access, I see no reason this can't happen given a powerful enough computer.