The return of the fat client in the age of AI mainframes? Nvidia is selling shovels in the AI gold rush, so they don’t care either way.

I don’t think you can be pro copyleft and pro-today’s-LLMs, which are used to wash away copyleft. Copyleft and LLM poison the code and downstream developers have to play nice.

Guessing you don’t like GPL either. Restricting those developers down stream of you.

Exactly. Right now it is the mainframe era and the billionaire monopolies want it that way. However that is a future not one but them wants. Little tech rebel alliance is the way to go. I’m not interested in big tech’s imperial AI.

If they are commiting code they don’t understand, this is but one of the issues they are going to get hit by. They can’t blame the AI, the buck stops with them.

It won’t go away, but LLM won’t always mean automated-cargo-cult-programming, digital serfdom, climate apocalypse and a financial speculation bubble. At some point, their cost will have to be their actual cost. Bigtech hope is many will be so hopelessly dependent at that point, that they will pay that cost. Also that there is little competition because few can run at those losses.

But I think at that point, efficient small language models you can own/host, train and use at will, will be a thing. No one wants to be (American) bigtech serfs.

I’ve done a thing with Kamailio and Baresip and MQTT and Linphone on my phone so when someone presses the door bell button, I get a video SIP call from “doorbell”. But other I think are doing things with HomeAssistant, go2rtc and Frigate. I just didn’t like it so went my own way. Would love to have done my own Signal client that wrapped RTSP, but it wouldn’t be allowed on the Signal network, but Linphone is ok. Video SIP is standard at least.

You can also flash a Wyze Doorbell v1 with Thingino

https://github.com/themactep/thingino-firmware/wiki/Camera:-Wyze-Doorbell-(V1)

Lots of ways self hosting ways of doing bidirectional rtsp doorbell.

Humans are going to be the weak point of any system.

I was thinking this about getting off America servers and services. More a question of digital sovereignty security. But it is all do with hacking via humans by pretending to be support staff.

Is this to help them burn cash on AI a bit longer? That’s how I’m taking it.

Exactly, consumer choice only works as a force in a functional market. Phone OSs are very much not a functional market. This requires regulators to wake up.

Humans and still humans, but red vs blue is the worse setup. All debates just become which team you are for.

No, the US needs to move past Red vs Blue “democracy” to something multi party and with constant coalitions and compromises. Then hopefully grown ups will run the US. Two parties is a democratic failure.

Sounds like your dentists is a “Nazi bar”.

Good podcast episode interviewing Frank Kolichek were the folk is mentioned : https://opensourcesecurity.io/2026/2026-02-nextcloud-frank-karlitschek/

Count the RISC processors and RISC ones in your house that isn’t the central one of a PC. You dishwasher, washing machine, tumble drier, TV, routers, WiFi access points, everything else, will be RISC. Normally ARM or MIPS. Apple has gone all ARM. Microsoft are trying to be relevant on ARM. ARM servers are now in low power data centers. RISC-V has a bright future due IP anticompetitive nonsense of x86 and ARM. Oh and x86 has a RISC heart and instruction conversion chips. Which “won” again? ;-)

Also NT is normally said to be a “hybrid” : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hybrid_kernel

It’s not just the compute, it’s all that data.

As always, have to think where you put your money.

Be so much easier if they weren’t all just different types of bastards!

Oh I know you can run it locally, but I don’t think you can’t create it locally because even if you had the compute, you don’t have the training material.

I don’t know how long AI companies are expecting to run at a loss. It is normal for a while for new bigtech. Though this is new scales. Hopefully this bubble with deflate rather than pop, just because the amount of money will have real world consequences.

I’m sure, but it would be in the margin of error. The bigger problem is Democratics thinking the US is a more evolved country than it is.

Well one way is I don’t depend on it already. But it’s also not like food or water, or grid, society infrastructure in general. It’s just another way of doing compute, but dependent on big tech’s big iron. Being made dependent on big tech is the enshitification. It’s just another method, they have already done all the anticompetition they can. Consumer choice isn’t a solution to regulatory failure, but it’s not nothing.

On top of poltical/power problem, it will have similar effect on software developer brains as satnavs do the navigation parts of our brains. Like satnavs, there will be way to get the good / bad balance better, but that’s not in big tech’s interest. It’s all so damn toxic and drowning open source project in slop PR requests.