I’ve already made this a separate post, but I do think it is very relevant to this. You can already start finding alternatives to US-centralized software and digital services, and these two sites are a great start:

https://switching.software/

https://european-alternatives.eu/alternatives-to

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You know, if the mainstream news spent this amount of oxygen explaining that it can be downloaded in various sizes and run securely, the whole world would be in a much better situation.

I am not saying that China don’t do some of the things they are accused of, but the amount of anti-China fear in Western nations is only hurting ourselves.

Remember there have been worse times and you are descended mostly from people who survived them.

I love this

They actually can’t. Being open-source, it’s already proliferated. Apparently there are already over 500 derivatives of it on HuggingFace. The only thing that could be done is that each country in the West outlaws having a copy of it, like with other illegal materials. Even by that point, it will already be deep within business ecosystems across the globe.

Nup. OpenAI can be shut down, but it is almost impossible for R1 to go away at this point.

and it’s open-source!

Sooo… after hearing what he just said at the AfD rally, I take this back. Block that cursed shit.

I think both Twitter and Musk are incredibly toxic for society, but we don’t want to set that precedent. People can make their own choice whether to visit the site. At most, links to Twitter should be flagged as such.

I’ve also recently switched to Linux Mint as my daily driver. Linux + Open-Source is finally in a really good spot. I tell people that switching OSes always takes new learning, but a step-by-step approach is a sustainable one.

Whenever I go back to Windows and see news and ads popping up in my Start Menu, etc, I realize how much shit we were putting up with even pre-Copilot. That’s not even including Microsoft Edge forcing itself back as a default program with each major update. It’s like the word “consent” doesn’t exist to those people.