Wise observation.
Step 1 to avoid this: resist the introduction of digital ID cards and state sponsored digital identity wallets; they are only being introduced to amplify dependence upon your phones.
Censorial, pro-age-verification pro-surveillance child safety charity *suddenly* against Government attempting to render them irrelevant via age verification to ban children from social media
https://alecmuffett.com/article/160691
“Wait, no, not like that…” — Andy Burrows, probably. Molly Russell: Head of online safety charity warns against social media ban – BBC News
This could happen with your phone.
This could happen with your laptop.
This could happen with your credit card.
It's a long list. Some of us have been working on this, but most large players, public and private, have stayed in fantasyland.
Care to join us?
www.euractiv.com/news/anthrop...
The company says it disagrees with the US government order and looks to restore access
Robin Berjon
x.com/AlecMuffett/...
I think the thing most nostalgic for me is that this is like 1991 all over again, except back then it was "hashes per second" climbing up from the threes and fours and tens to hundreds and thousands and eventually millions and billions.
Cc: @solardiz .
I was a teenage bird watcher.
See the image alt-text for gory details.
Don't believe the birdwashing of the #OnlineSafetyAct and the #SocialMediaBan, it will destroy online culture and impoverish our youth whilst cutting them off from their peer groups.
Original text: www.instagram.com/p/DZj5el5oPRz/
Reference: www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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the advantages of local LLMs
(via @alecmuffett.bsky.social)
OK so I must say that LLM processing with a H200 has its merits for R&D. From one running project: "Avg prompt throughput: 6605.5 tokens/s, Avg generation throughput: 1238.8 tokens/s".
