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”.

Yeah, it’s hard. People don’t want to see the problems because they don’t want to change. Law makers are the ones we really can’t fail to convince.

I’ve donated monthly to OpenRightGroup well over a decade now. I make sure it is always more than my wife’s Netflix (DRM pusher) to maintain a net positive!

It is partly designed to hurt Fdroid. Which will hurt Lineage, Graphene, e/OS, etc. It’s all very anticompetitive.

This is a legal/poltical issue more than a technology one. The good guys are the EFF, OpenRightsGroup, EDRi and others in the same side. Increasingly phone apps are forced on us to do things at all, and those apps are not only closed but only run on locked down OSs. It’s anti competitive, anti-freedom, authoritarian, etc etc.

We need to get better at convincing non-nerds. We need to stop fighting political fights by burying ourselves ever deeper in tech. Which I’m guilty of too!

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