“Say, you have a nice piece of kit there. It would be a shame if something were to break and it neded repair”

Break-up? If only… I hate these stupid exaggerated clickbaity titles.

It’s hardly more than a realization of their toxic relationship. But that is indeed the 1st step of change.

Not with a DoD contract they won’t

👆Here is an idea👏

This seems just as toyish as did dinnerplate sized drones 2y ago. So chances are I’m wrong again.

I’d say not before the bosses and shareholders agree to take 50% of their compensation in the form of AI tokens.

These fucking leeches…

It is quite obvious that it’s AI

Frontal lobe dementia, also known as frontotemporal dementia (FTD), is a group of disorders caused by the progressive degeneration of the brain’s frontal and temporal lobes, affecting behavior, personality, and language skills. Symptoms often include changes in personality, inappropriate social behavior, and difficulties with language and movement.

– your friendly ai

But… they’ll operate on builtin mini nuclear reactors, just like submarines. They’ll go years without recharging!

– emusk (probably)

I’d very much welcome clarity. Just like with a cancer diagnosis, clarity gives new impetus for dealing with the threat.

Seeing the source (FT) and the Rubio directive, that anonymous qoute from the “European military official” may have come from some hungarian puppet.

Source code of what? Unfortunately, none of the above is anywhere near enough.

We need locally available ai models that can run off-line. Also: the ai context and history must be kept separately from the model itself.

If the ai model needs to communicate with the outside world, user needs 100% transparency and control what data the ai sends.

That’s easy. Just a matter of leaving them off. /s

Seriously, be careful what you wish for! Hw vendors have been trying locking people out of their own devices for decades. Throw in the current trends of big tech and in a dystopian, but possible future you may not be allowed other devices than approved by the powers that be. Russia’s Max(?) app, anyone? Or the Chinees counterpart? Different kind of computerless, but there you go.

In other words, this is a self-defeating wish. I hope not many people fall in the trap of adopting this standpoint. Wishing reality away is not a good strategy.

Of course OP may have just attempted sarcasm. Which is fine.

Who knows, in a year or 2, when tech has moved forward, they FP may release a camera module with better specs. Because of the phone’s modular assembly, that camera could be swapped. I think this is a beutiful concept.

Subjectivity was implied, stating the obvious does not add new insights.

You could have, e.g. by pointing to some of the things you don’t like. This way other readers could decide if they care about the thing. For example, FP6 is does not have a folding screen, which would have been nice. On the other hand, that would have added anothe couple 100s of €s to the price and would have ruined servicebility. So I’m glad they decided to focus on an affordable phone that gives the owner the option to replace parts that they legit sell via their site.

Wel that is subjective, but I’m happy with my FP6. ymmv

😊😁😂🤣

I can recommend the Fairphone for those who appreciate actually owning the device they paid for

This. Have played with similar devices in the past and I was surprised how many of these devices are running standard Linux kernel with some custom engineered distros. Projects like Buildroot, OpenWRT, Busybox and a few others are what the vendors use to roll their own builds.

A few of them agressively lock down the bootloaders in an attempt to (try to) prevent people from owning the device they’ve paid retail price for. Many don’t really bother. The good news is, that such measures are relatively easy for experts to circumvent and break down. This, of course, is not cheap, but needs to happen only once, often for more than a single model. Some kind of bounty-based system could provide incentive and financing for such efforts.

The silver lining is that after the obligatory exploitation by grifters, every new technology of this caliber finally gets a more positive use in our lifes. Maybe somewhat naive, but I think we (ie. our societies) have payed ~50% of the tuition fee as far as crypto is concerned. So hopefully we’ll be able to absorb the tech in our collective lives soon.

Ps: Different topic, but using the same metaphor for AI, I’m afraid we’re just at the begin of its initial fallout.