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A few years back I regularly ran half marathons. If I missed a few weeks of training due to illness, work or whatever’s, the trainer would often say „the body never forgets“. Thought it was just old guy pseudowisdom, turns out there’s science behind it!
I think you’re attributing a lot more to malice what can can more easily be just greed and stupidity.
Goodacre catalogues this and related scenarios in a 37-page risk assessment prepared for CISOs evaluating Intel vPro hardware connected to corporate networks. Its conclusion is blunt: connecting an untouched-ME device to corporate resources “exposes the organization to a class of compromise that defeats the host security stack in its entirety.”
I hear a lot of concern about backdoors in Chinese hardware but this is just dystopian.
Have to admit I’m out of the loop. If I do have a Bambu printer, can I still use it in LAN mode with OrcaSlicer? Can I still use current firmware or do I need to downgrade?
So wait a moment. How can the browser even check if play services are installed? And scanning a QR code is just accessing the camera, what does that have to do with Play Services?
What is the possibility of that leading to hyperinflation?
Don’t overstretch my analogy like that. How about this:
Google has standardized The Restaurant. The kitchens all have the same tools and ingredients and are open to anyone. Seating and billing is standardized, and you can easily order and pay at your table, and the food is delivered straight to you via pneumatic tubes and nicely packaged. The food might be expensive or cheap, tasty or revolting, but the experience is always the same.
There are a lot of hobby cooks that like to cook in the Google restaurants. If you want to eat their food, you might have to pick it up straight at the kitchen, or nicely ask the hobby waiters. The cooks have been there for years and whipping up nice creations - mostly for free, beacause the ingredients and tools were free, and they really like to cook. Because the food is so good, some people tip the cooks or waiters directly.
Now Google introduced a new rule: everyone has to use their billing and pneumatic delivery system, citing improved food safety. The hobby cooks and waiters are infuriated, and even some of their customers, and they demand that everyone can still come to the kitchen or the waiters. But Google just says: look, my restaurant, my rules. If you don’t like it go make your own.
No, it wasn’t ever. It always belonged to Google who benevolently open sourced parts of it and retains control.
Safetynet and PlayIntegrity are under Google’s control. The PlayStore is Google’s. All of the APIs are Google’s! Hardware blobs are closed and belong to the manufacturer.
Just because some of the stuff shows up on GitHub doesn’t make it an open platform.
The megacorps can do anything they want with their product. The chef can change the menu anytime and he can refuse you service - it’s his restaurant. Our problem is that it’s a duopoly and there’s nowhere else to go.
The only way out is open standards and platforms, enabling true competition.
If the only tool you have is a hammer…
Some of your bills in your pocket may come from the vendor A, some may come from an ATM. So the bank knows some of the bills you got.
Vendor B might go shopping somewhere, or deposit his cash in a bank. Or put it in a sorting machine that scans the serial numbers.
You pay B with some bills from A and some bills from the ATM. And now the bank can connect all three dots. The transactions aren’t completely transparent, but aren’t truly anonymous anymore.
Cash is not anonymous. The serial numbers are being used for tracking.
The current state of LLMs is financially and environmentally unsustainable. I’m sure that in short time, additional technologies like neurosymbolic AI will prevent hallucinations and improve efficiency. But will they help AI vendors become profitable?
They AI bubble might pop or fizzle, but we’ll see what developers do with their code bases when they don’t have their toys at their disposal anymore.
The improvement removing the handles is there, but negligible. Especially considering the safety implications. Didn’t China ban flush door handles for safety reasons?
If you miss how the web was before everything became Plattform, this might be a good place to drop kagis small web initiative: https://kagi.com/smallweb
It is not:
- upgradable, but what laptop is these days?
I got a used Framework for under 600€, upgraded the keyboard, speakers and motherboard. The old motherboard is now one of my home servers in a dedicated case.
Was considering migrating from Fedora and getting a MacBook, but this is making me reconsider.
Don’t worry, Chinese LLM vendors without access to the newest hardware will take care of that.