A good piece, well designed too. Shows how demanding our current devices are. So much attention requested and so much complexity the user has to deal with. We clearly lost the plot as an industry.

I personally think this is where it'll head after the bubble pops. We should be able to recover enough material to have something viable to run locally. The question will be "where the updated models come from?", it might be the public sector helping there and hopefully those will be truly FOSS and ethical (like Apertus).

The writing is on the wall I think... the real question is not if but when will the enshittification begins? It's been data harvesting for a while now.

Let's help them help us. There are a few things to have in place for governments to be able to pay maintainers.

Clearly the author is angry and he has every right to be. By closing platforms and fighting against tinkering, the big tech companies try to kill of the power user and hacker cultures. By letting this happen we all loose as a society.

This planned giant data center by Meta shows how the big players are grabbing land to satisfy their hubris. So much waste all around.

It feels like staring in the abyss... rather sad I'd say.

Interesting lessons indeed. Especially the first one: "Technology is inherently political, and anyone telling you otherwise is trying to hide their politics." As tech people we too often forget this is all "sociotechnical", no tech is designed and used in a vacuum.

Indeed, don't assume they misunderstood the sci-fi and fantasy they read and you know. Clearly they just got different opinions about it because their incentives and world views are different from your.

There's really a problem with journalism at this point. How come when covering the tech moguls they keep leaving out important context and taking their fables at face value?

Despite clearly being an advertisement for Proton's offering, this shows how reliant European companies are on vendors showing strategic problems. We can cheer at the EU policies when they go in the right direction. It's probably not enough already, but the European companies are clearly asleep at the wheel.

Interesting analysis. It gives a balanced view on the possible scenarios around the AI hype.

Good historical perspective about the attempts to get rid of developers. This never unfold as envisioned. This is mostly about the intellectual work to build artifacts handling the world complexity, and this doesn't go away.

They'll do anything to further their grip on tech. The European Union is sleep walking on this one.

Is this really to improve your work? Or make you dependent? In the end it might be the user which looses.

This is a very rich article. There's indeed more and more a rift between Open Source projects used by hyperscalers and the ones used by smaller businesses and individuals. You likely want to aim for the latter.

Wondering what's on the mind of people working on an hyperscaler? This podcast and its transcript gives good insights.

Probably one of the most important talks of 39C3. It's a powerful call to action for the European Union to wake up and do the right thing to ensure digital sovereignty for itself and everyone else in the world. The time is definitely right due to the unexpected allies to be found along the way. It'd be a way to turn the currently bad geopolitical landscape into a bunch of positive opportunities.

Looks like Europe is finally waking up. It needs to pick up the pace now.

Definitely required more preparation work than brainstorming. That said it's a nice alternative, maybe easier to get right.