What if instead of making millions of identical general purpose compute platforms and customising them by config (settings, packages, apps) - thus making them all vulnerable to multiple massively scalable attacks...

..we made each computer bespoke, built only with the features and services needed for a particular set of functions at that time, and rebuilt it any time the feature set needs to change?

- fewer vulnerabilities / reduced attack surface
- less scalable attacks -> reduced payoff

Louis Pouzin

How the hell can I have lived and breathed tech since before the invention of the internet and not heard of the man who invented and implemented its key end-to-end networking design, and even invented and coined the term 'shell' for the command interpreter that became ubiquitous on every computer with a human interface?

How the hell does that happen? I remain an idiot.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_Pouzin

H/t @hipsterelectron 🙏

#LouisPouzin

Even though the usefulness of #GenAI is highly questionable, and research continues to underline how strong the claims of advocates are, I don't get involved in debts over that.

The many world and serious harmed that #LLM tech is causing, which we can really identify make any debate about usefulness moot.

"First do no harm"

... is the maxim we should all live by IMO, not..

"AI useful for me so I can live it harming others".

More climate vandalism in the name of #LLM tech:

> BBC File on 4 Investigates has discovered that four planned "hyperscale" data centres - including three in the south of England - are already considering using gas-fired power to meet their electricity needs, creating more CO2 than the cities of Manchester, Liverpool and Southampton combined.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cqvgrvx6ekl2o

#aiBubble #noAI #climatechange #UKLabour

There's plenty to like going on in #FOSS for those who prefer their software to NOT support plagiarism, mass labour theft, climate destruction and fascist tech oligarchs.

#AlpineBSD and #SourceHut are just two awesome projects I've learned about today.

#SourceHut is another independent git hosting service, but with extra tools to support independent, privacy conscious, anti AI, FOSS development for cheap. Or you can self host it. From @drew, founder of #AlpineBSD.

https://sourcehut.org/
#FOSS #noAI

What's the most recent #LLM commit free version of #LibreOffice?

So many projects are willing to ignore ethical issues such as mass theft and plagiarism by LLM corps, and even more importantly the widespread serious harms of using #LLM tech - on the basis that they want to support people who ignore all those problems. What a fucking shit show they make of FOSS. This is the antithesis of freedom.
#noAI

How about a #noAI #Linux distro, or more realistically a family of distros?

This could start with a cross distro package inspection app/script which carries data about packages and their slop status (eg AI policy, last noAI version, commit 'health' etc), and noAI alternatives.

It can offer to pin the last noAI versions, with help about the pros and cons of this, any alternatives etc. It would be a basis for minimal AI distros for each kernel.

What other features might be useful?
#LLM