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

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.

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.

Broadly, I see “AI” as part of enshitification. I think it’s brain rotting. It’s commerial setup to get your dependent on it.

That is basically DDoSing open source project, which will not merge code without it being properly reviewed. Almost all open source projects are basically artisan code and the maintainers are the custodians of it.

Is this a technology issue or a human one?

If you don’t understand the code your AI has written, don’t make a PR of it.

If your AI is making PRs without you, that’s even worse.

Basically, is technology the job we need here to manage the bad behavior of humans? Do we need to reach for the existing social tool to limit human behavior, law? Like we did with CopyLeft and the Tragedy Of The Commons.

Not all IP is self surviving. Even CopyRight isn’t always a bad thing, if you think of small artists, for example. My fear is about CopyLeft mainly as I feel it’s been incredible successful in pushing forwards openness. The megacorps hating it, tells you it is doing its job. Only of the things they love about LLM and code is it can license wash away CopyLeft.

It’s not just a tech issue. Funding tech dev is great, but there is a political problem.

We need to vote for politicians who get the need for competition and will fight vendor lockin. Who will ensure things that are needed to do stuff isn’t done only for the duopoly.

We need to support groups fighting bad politicians and getting into media to inform normal people. Who make legal fights. EFF, OpenRghtGroup, etc.

They did since it was online. It’s closed and online, the OS “owner” are the only true admin. If it’s closed and online, your “commands” are just “suggestions” compared to theirs.

To be clear, Microsoft ♥️ Money. Azure would be dead in the water if they didn’t support Linux. Web development is Linux development, so their platform would be dead for web development if they didn’t do WSL. They do only the Linux they have to.

There need to be enforced of competition law here. Companies aren’t going to voluntarily support a platform with few users. Users aren’t going to move to a platform without critical apps.

We live in a dystopia were you have to have the banks app to do online banking even on your desktop. You can’t charge your car without an app. You can’t navigate your car without a map app that has traffic information. Etc etc. I want FOSS alternatives to all these, but there isn’t and Google could take even having a FOSS platform at all.

This something we need regulators to fix. It is a politically problem, not a technical one.

America screwing up trust should wake up Europe to dealing with American tech monopolies. Now it’s not something just nerds and economists complain about, it is a geopolitical problem.