If all you need is to grab your groceries etc from the next village, then yes it looks like it could do that.

This is exactly the kind of usages I imagine the market target is. Namely I believe it’s :

• NOT for going from a city proper to another, e.g NOT to go from Rennes to Paris where a “big” car or train would do, even less going further
• NOT for going within a city, e.g Rennes, where public transport is rather well connected

but rather, as you suggest, going from one small town to another, say 50km radius or less. It’s while one lives in the country side to go to the farmer market on Thursday. It’s to go from and to work from the suburb, without proper bus, even less tram, to work downtown, etc.

I imagine it’s basically where most people who wouldn’t feel “adventurous” enough to use an electric bike, due to the bad weather or workload, could use something just a big bigger.

So you’re saying they are legal, truly sold, but the volume? weight? autonomy isn’t enough?

Sorry if you specified a criteria rather than an example that I missed. I’m genuinely curious as to understand because it seem you are dismissing it as useless for anyone rather than, like a buggy, something that one potentially useful but only within some context, to go with your example something one wouldn’t use in a city center but works perfectly on a beach.

PS: full disclosure, I don’t have that car, not have any economical link to the company, only trying to understand the position.

I’m not sure what you mean by “serious” here. Are you saying it’s fake in the sense that it won’t be sold? Or that the license plate would not actually legally allow it to on the road in France or Europe? Or some of the criteria, e.g autonomy, power, etc would make it realistically usable for any use case except literally playing in a playground?

I’d be up for a review on new models, e.g https://kilow.com/pages/la-bagnole from France, which claims to be repairable.

Wasn’t exactly security but I used a RPi Zero with a camera to monitor my 3D print. It’s small, low-power, wireless, didn’t have any problem with it. I imagine the result can be recorded, analyzed, etc.

IMHO the question isn’t as much you as a user of such platforms is “f*cked” because you sound both mindful and technically savvy. So, on that front, you will be OK.

The harder question I would say is how morally bankrupt you will feel by contributing to worsening the privacy of others for profit. Namely that yes by using Facebook/Insta/TikTok/etc you will gain more customers but those customers are gradually losing their privacy while you make those companies bigger by paying them. That means you depend on those companies more while they get more power.

Because of that I would argue that sure, do everything you can to protect yourself but it can’t stop there. I would argue then than the question is rather, where else can you find more clients, and maybe even “better” clients who are more aligned with your own views on privacy, and maybe even more. It’s definitely a challenge, especially seeing the trend of surveillance capitalism, but as you acknowledge yourself by using Lemmy, there are actual alternatives.

Well that’s one position, another is to say AI, being developed currently, is :

• not working due to hallucinations
• wasteful in terms of resources
• creates problematic behaviors in terms of privacy
• creates more inequality

and other problems and is thus in most cases (say outside of e.g numerical optimization as already done at e.g DoE, so in the “traditional” sense of AI, not the LLM craze) better be entirely ignored.

Edit : what I mean is that the argument of inevitability itself is dangerous, often abused.

FWIW I do have my own page on FLOSS AI, cf https://fabien.benetou.fr/Content/SelfHostingArtificialIntelligence so I do believe it’s at least interesting, even important, to understand what it is.

Still, AFAIK both the electricity https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2024-ai-data-centers-power-grids/ and even the potential for correction https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.04125 from intrinsic properties of the dataset and learning but also as its marketed https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10676-024-09775-5 today make me reiterate, AI FLOSS doesn’t not automatically solve all problems of closed source or proprietary AI.

Edit: I know of Petals, I even discussed with some people working on it, and I learned about federated AI or federated learning back then, since at least 2019 (proof) so this isn’t new to me.

Interesting video and glad to see open-source suggested as a potential solution at the end… yet, it does not solve hallucinations (for LLMs), energy consumption (any form of AI) or… the fact that the hype itself is an economical and political tool at the service of a few. On the final point on regulators, I believe it’s damaging to imply that regulators are ignorant. They are not technical, indeed, but they are not supposed to. Regulators didn’t need to know how to build a plane to dictate rules that would improve safety in the industry, same for not being engineers in order to make the seatbelt mandatory. Yet, they do learn from technical experts, e.g in Europe the JRC that informs the Europeen Commission, Parliament, etc.

Indeed, Linux and FLOSS more broadly was never about technology itself, it’s about empowering. It “just” happens to be where software change could lead to a pragmatic difference for so many lives.

Own your computer, own your devices, value your life and don’t interact with the numerical world through manipulative blinders.

Indeed, reminded me of https://www.ftc.gov/business-guidance/blog/2023/05/luring-test-ai-engineering-consumer-trust which I know think of as emotional honey pots, like https://techcrunch.com/2024/06/18/former-snap-engineer-launches-butterflies-a-social-network-where-ais-and-humans-coexist/

Actually https://darkvisitors.com/docs/robots-txt might be more direct.

Possibly, see https://github.com/ai-robots-txt/ai.robots.txt but I just discovered it myself while looking for a Robots.txt a la CrowdSec/AdBlocking lists, so feedback appreciated!

Obviously important but “Published 2 months ago, on April 15, 2024” so would be good to also have an up to date link to understand what has changed, if anything, since that leak.

Neat, and if you want a physical item to prompt you to do so https://www.crowdsupply.com/dicekeys/dicekeys can be an interesting option.

My documented process https://fabien.benetou.fr/Content/SelfHostingArtificialIntelligence but honestly I just tinker with this. Most of that isn’t useful IMHO except some pieces, e.g STT/TTS, from time to time. The LLM aspect itself is too unreliable, and I do like 2 relatively recent papers on the topic, namely :

• No “Zero-Shot” Without Exponential Data https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.04125
• ChatGPT is bullshit https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10676-024-09775-5

which are respectively saying that the long-tail makes it practically impossible to train AI to be correct in rare cases and that “hallucinations” are a misnomer for marketing purposes to be replaced instead by “bullshit” used to convinced people without caring for veracity.

Still, despite all this criticism it is a very popular topic, hyped up to be the “future” of computing. Consequently I did want to both try and help others to do so rather than imagine that it was restricted to a kind of “elite”. I try to keep the page up to date but so far, to be honest, I do it mostly defensively, to be able to genuinely criticize because I did take the time to try, not reject in block.

PS: I do try also state of the art, both close and open-source, via APIs e.g OpenAI or Mistral but only for evaluation purposes, not as tools part of my daily usage.

Check my notes https://fabien.benetou.fr/Content/SelfHostingArtificialIntelligence but as others suggested a good way to start is probably https://github.com/ollama/ollama/ and if you need a GUI https://gpt4all.io

If it’s your laptop then you don’t have to care about the firewall, your laptop can be the access point and connect to the reMarkable.

Well you can bring your laptop, plug it on HDMI then ssh to the device, I’ve done that in the past.

Not HDMI but you can do screen sharing wirelessly, e.g https://github.com/reHackable/awesome-reMarkable?tab=readme-ov-file#screen-sharingstreaming