One probable outcome of an open-weight-model-dominant world is full AI communism, which is precisely what China proposes: rather than a market product, AI is a ‘public good’ which will ultimately be provided by the state as a kind of ‘digital public infrastructure'.
I'm sold.
If everyone uses AI systems that people largely don’t pay for, there would be no way to finance continued frontier AI development.
There would be no way for private companies to finance AI development. (Also has he heard of a loss leader?) Universities and governments will do it instead.
Congress restricted the use of Chinese model DeepSeek on federal and defense networks because of security and privacy concerns last year
Lemmy is a software; there are multiple instances (servers) that run lemmy and federate (talk) to each other. So it does not sanitise your feed the way corporate social media does. The advantage is that you do not end up in an echo chamber. The downside is that you get the weirdest and most incoherent conspiracy theories known to man. But you're (hopefully) an adult, and can use your reason to decide what's what.
I would have used WiFi on my phone perhaps two or three times in the last year. My home does have a router, because we're dinos, but most new houses don't since everyone has a smartphone anyway.
This is the part I don't understand. Mobile data would work in your houses too, right?
Further, in recent versions of Android, factory settings are set to automatically turn WiFi back on if turned off
I haven't seen this happen, but I use MIUI (Xiaomi's Android ROM) which tends to be aggressive in limiting battery use. It will actually cut hotspot if unused for a few minutes.
Ideally, nothing should change for you. The Linux Mint team tends to be conservative and responsible in their software choices. If they think Wayland is ready for public use, it probably is.
But if something breaks, you can always go back to X.
This hear's El Nino was stronger than usual and the Monsoon is weaker. But we knew that a few months ago, following the heatwave in SEA (and weather forecasts).
Infrastructure and activity patterns in India are usually designed to help survive the heat. Those in (northern) Europe generally are not. We are not a different species, lol.
The consensus so far seems to be that they don't collect as much data as people think, partly because they can't process all of it, and partly because educated guesses are good enough to target ads often enough.
You're on Blahaj. That's enough reason for Tesseract. Your entire instance is blocked.