It is only a matter of time before private citizens are arrested and charged with crimes for owning/using powerful computer parts and software without official permission and authentication

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• IAmYouButYouDontKnowYet@reddthat.com ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Yeah no shit. PCs are going away. Streaming computer systems are going to our the retarded western lifestyle.

  …PC will be illegal and streaming your desktop to a dead screen will be mandatory.

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• Kolanaki@pawb.social ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Now I understand why DIY computers are such a huge part of cyberpunk stories.

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• AlecSadler@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Part of me thinks this is why memory prices are being held high. Even if supply increases I doubt we’ll see significant reductions in price.

  Frontier AI models will only be accessible by the rich and powerful (government and corpos). Distilled frontier models for local use may exist but will be arbitrarily out of reach for most due to hardware availability or pricing.

  This is all by design.

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  • Tar_alcaran@sh.itjust.works ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Oh no, we can only use limited versions of the climate destroying unaffordable slop machines! Whatever shall we do to lose money now?

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    • AlecSadler@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      The rich will get richer and the poor will get poorer, and whether you participate in it or not will not change that. That all of us will continue to not even have the opportunity to play on a level playing field should concern you. I don’t give a shit about your opinion on AI in general; this is still a problem for us.

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• nymnympseudonym@piefed.social ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Open hardware

  RPi FTW!

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  • CorrenteAlternata@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    The raspberry pi is not open hardware, as far as I know. For example the Broadcom SoC used are definitely not open hardware.

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    • CorrenteAlternata@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      And also, having open hardware (i.e. having full specifications and schematics) is not really going to help much if you can’t get CPUs (you can’t manufacture your own CPUs: the machinery required costs way too much).

      If they really ban owning CPUs, the only one to obtain one would be through black market…

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    • nymnympseudonym@piefed.social ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Alright then, Pine64 FTW!

      https://pine64.org/devices/

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• vepr_jako_pepr@slrpnk.net ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Its not inevitable, I do think that anarchist syndicalism is the best vehicle for stopping this. We can change whats cool, we can be accepting and capture the zeitgeist with interesting social relations rather than purely technological developments.

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• ChaoticNeutralCzech@feddit.org ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  GPUs that have their own proprietary network stacks and need cryptographic authentication when?

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• bacon_pdp@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  www.gnu.org/philosophy/right-to-read.en.html

  This has been known for a very long time

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• hoohoohoot@fedinsfw.app ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Please post this to anarchy and flipanarchy communities, I wouldnt want to take credit for this realistic and promising thought

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• SlurpingPus@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Cory Doctorow predicted this fifteen years ago (transcript here).

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