Elias @eliasr@librem.one

📣NEW paper! Don’t believe the hype: bigger AI ≠ better AI. @SashaMTL, @GaelVaroquaux and me on how the race to bigger, and bigger AI has bad consequences and isn't necessary.

1. Smaller AI models often perform better than big models in context

And

2. obsession with bigness has severe collateral consequences, from climate costs, to concentrated power, to more surveillance, to the capture of AI research.

All of this, and what we can do instead 👇

arxiv.org/abs/2409.14160

New blogpost: Running a law firm on Free software (2024 edition)

It has been a couple of years since I last wrote about decoded.legal's (almost entirely FOSS) tech stack.

I was chatting with someone about it yesterday, so now is as good a time as any for an update.

It's not particularly law firm specific; probably more generically "small business" oriented.

I'm always happy to hear friendly constructive feedback :)

https://decoded.legal/blog/2024/09/running-a-law-firm-on-free-software-2024-edition/

#FOSS #lawfedi #Linux #selfhosting #blog

Swedish astronomer Anders Celsius died in 1744 aged 43, although his great rival Fahrenheit was convinced he was 109

Happy Software Freedom Day!

Snäll nykomling söker sin flock. Vilka borde jag följa? Gillar människor, politik, vetenskap, litteratur, natur och trams tex.

"Vi påstår oss ofta ha lärt oss av det förra århundradets auktoritära regimer, och pratar om “aldrig mer”. Men diskussionen fastnar gärna vid vad de auktoritära regimerna gjorde när de regerat under lång tid, och vunnit full kontroll att styra utan motstånd från andra politiska krafter.

Varje auktoritär utveckling börjar någonstans. Och i efterhand förbannar många att de inte stoppade den i tid. "

Nu krävs ditt motstånd mot auktoritär utveckling | Dagens ETC
https://www.etc.se/debatt/nu-kraevs-ditt-motstaand-mot-auktoritaer-utveckling

@matrix

Have you considered putting the Matrix Conference videos up on conf.tube (a specialized #Peertube instance for conference videos)?

#Matrix #MatrixConf #Peertube #ConfTube

I'm going to keep choosing hope.

Vi i Kamratdataföreningen Konstellationen släpper rapporten Kluvna tungor, som handlar om hur riksdagspartierna kommunicerat och agerat i Chat Control.

Vi redogör också svaren på enkäten vi skickade.

C, V, MP och SD svarade på enkäten. De svarade alla “ja” på våra frågor och har därmed tagit tydligt ställning mot Chat Control och massövervakning.

S, M, KD och L svarade inte på enkäten trots flera påminnelser.

https://konstellationen.org/2024/09/19/chatcontrol-rapport/

#ChattControl

@echo_pbreyer “Funny” how the green swab coincides with living memory of state surveilance terror.

🇬🇧Leak on latest #ChatControl attempt (in German): https://netzpolitik.org/2024/interne-dokumente-sperrminoritaet-gegen-chatkontrolle-wackelt/ +++ Only AUT, DEU, EST, LUX, POL, SVN were critical – no blocking minority! +++ BEL, CZE, FIN, ITA, NLD, PRT, SWE undecided +++ EU legal experts confirm violation of our fundamental rights +++ Only 5 days to next discussion +++

Help pressure our governments into defending our #privacy of correspondence and secure #encryption now: https://www.patrick-breyer.de/en/take-action-to-stop-chat-control-now/

Ny opinionsartikel: Ny svensk deadline för Chat Control (https://bahnhof.se/2024/09/16/ny-svensk-deadline-for-chat-control/).

Följ bevakningen av Chat Control 2.0 på https://chatcontrol.se/coverage/.

#chatcontrol #svpol #eupol #EUvsChildSexualAbuse

it's never too late to become the black sheep of your family

"It is not the case that “AI gathers data from the Web and learns from it.” The reality is that AI companies gather data and then optimize models to reproduce representations of that data for profit."

"The productivity myth suggests that anything we spend time on is up for automation — that any time we spend can and should be freed up for the sake of having even more time for other activities or pursuits — which can also be automated."

https://www.techpolicy.press/challenging-the-myths-of-generative-ai/

Read the whole thing!

I released #GNOME #Calls 47.0 yesterday 🚀 \o/

This is the first release running #gtk4 and #libadwaita

Thanks a lot to everyone who contributed code, translations and bug reports!

Find the release notes at https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/calls/-/releases/v47.0

And of course, it has already been uploaded to 🎉

#LinuxMobile #phosh #Debian #Mobian #Librem5