I am waiting for framework laptops to fall in price. They used to cost like 6 Monero and are now down to like 2 or 3.

I use olmo from AI2 which also includes the training data.

Yeah, for me, I am very strict about that. If it is not open source, I will not use it.

I’m aware of the difference between open weight models and open source models, and I will not use open weight models because they are not open source.

Before I learned that I should care, I used closed source software and so now have some closed source software that I still use because of the fact that I got used to it and can’t really easily get rid of it.

AI is the very first technology where I can draw the line immediately and say I will never use a closed source system.

I have switched to open source software and operating systems as much as possible, but because of the fact that I used operating systems and software before I cared about open source, I still have some dead weight to drag around. And with AI, I’m hoping to avoid that issue.

For example, every application on my phone is open source, except for one, and I find that app useful enough that I cannot get rid of it.

I wonder if with the research on CO2 effects, if we will start to get CO2 filters in common appliances such as indoor heating and cooling equipment.

Places like the International Space Station already have to deal with this because they can’t just open a window.

As long as the Chinese are releasing their AI as open source, I really honestly don’t give a shit.

Monero NGU

I’m sorry, but while I have no plans to print one, if I ever buy a 3D printer, I will make damn sure that it can print one.

I would not spend my money on a borked machine that would control what I print.

Tor, i2p if you still have access to TCP and reticulum to bypass TCP entirely.

Edit: I should have said bypass TCP/IP because you need centralized infrastructure to use TCP IP because of the border gateway protocol and routing.

With Reticulum, you self-assign a destination hash using your public and private key pair and then announce that destination hash over whatever connection to the Reticulum network you happen to have. Whether it be Bluetooth, LORA, TCP/IP, serial cable, whatever.

I ran it on my 8GB RAM desktop.

Not the big ones, no. But I think almost everybody can run one with seven billion parameters.

Ollama.com

Install it and then “ollama run olmo-3:7b” gets you a local AI. If you want to run a smarter AI, then you’re going to need a bigger parameter model, which is going to take more hardware to run.