Wen Kimi-2.7-Code with E2EE ?

Sell them on using ppq.ai with private money (bitcoin), especially with ppq's E2EE models. That's a great use case, for a few bucks. Most people don't want to speak openly to chatgpt under KYC. If they have an option, as they do with ppq.ai, that opens up their interest. (Also valid for a vpn, another good use case.)

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I just realized that you put the credit ID in the lightning invoice. Could you have a different reference ID; probably just keeping track internally of what credit ID equals what reference ID and simply have a different reference ID in the lighting invoice? Otherwise, depending on the circumstances, anybody who sees the lightning invoice also gets the credit ID.

And as we saw many times, you can vote for strawberry yogurt or blueberry yogurt, but you're getting yogurt.

I don't think so.

life = abortion, yes or no?
liberty = forced vaccines or no?
property = taxes (theft) or no taxes?
markets = freedom or regulation?
palestine = genocide or no?

What *do* the left and right agree on?

My advice is to cut anyone out of your life who criticizes that decision. It’s actually a great litmus test. Letting go of those people just makes room for better ones. We only have so much time, and we can't waste it on people who don't share our basic values.

Unschooling and a no-vaccine policy are two of the most important things you can do as a parent.

I'd recommend surrounding yourself with people who feel the same way you do. It’s important for your kids to be around people who see your choices as normal; otherwise, you're just inviting unnecessary tension.

Unschooling is fun. You made the right choice.

#unschooling

I see the reverse. At this point I think Americans on the left and on the right agree about 20% of issues and disagree about 80%.

And to your point : one of the scariest developments in terms of freedom is the newly required ETAs and now biometrics in Europe, Japan, Thailand, etc. I can't see how to avoid it all except : being smuggled in, or simply refusing to travel. I can't see how even bitcoin fixes that. I guess the only way is to boycott countries doing that and buy-cott the ones not doing it.

Then you definitely know more about China than I do. The Chinese people I know all live abroad, so they're a small group who probably weren't as affected by the propaganda (proof being that they chose to leave), and their friends/contacts back home are likely the same.

That's a scary thought. If 95% of people fall for the propaganda and only 5% escape it, that's a really dangerous situation.

On the CPU/compute point: yes, overall it would be more, but *locally* (in a totalitarian State) it could be less if the heavy lifting is done elsewhere. Right now, more "open" hardware seems weaker and more expensive. To be clearer: if the UK went totally totalitarian and locked down all the good devices, I'd use low-power, open hardware locally and offload the heavy computing to devices in countries that aren't as restrictive.

But what you said about China is really concerning. If it's that bad over there, how do we make sure it doesn't get like that here? Hmmm... "Voting harder" doesn't seem to be working.

Maybe all this craziness will eventually end, just like it did with the Soviet Union? I don't have any contacts in Russia, though, so I don't know what life is really like on the ground right now.

But then I'd like to know more about that 5% in China. Is it a hard and painful existence, or do they manage to live pretty well through all of that? Because if the 5% can be okay, then maybe we have to resign ourselves to the fact that only the people who are awake and taking actual steps will live well. That's not my wish, but it might be the reality.

But if even that 5% are struggling, it really doesn't bode well for us.

#openhardware

Exactly. That's why I'm uneasy with GrapheneOS requiring trusted computing. I feel like by using and promoting it, I'm helping the market for those chips instead of supporting freer alternatives.

My way of squaring that circle is to avoid using smartphones whenever I can. I'm looking for a flip phone for calls, and since I only use my smartphone for photos and music, it should be easy to swap it for something more open. I also refuse to install banking apps or any other "required" software because I don't want that to become the norm. Because of that, I won't use any bank/fintech that forces you to use an app.

With alternatives like RISC-V (much much slower, yes), we at least have a sovereign option available.

Now that AI is advancing, I find myself needing to browse the internet far less often. This reduces my need for CPU power, as some web pages can be quite heavy. When combined with services like routstr.com, it seems like it would be possible to access decentralized stronger computing power even with a relatively weak local device. This means that unless they manage to lock down devices and chips worldwide, we still have a way to preserve our freedom.

But as you say, it does mean less sovereignty. However, looking at how Chinese users find ways to access the open internet through friends acting as relays in other countries, it seems that with a strong personal network, we can still maintain freedom; as long as the world as a whole isn’t completely locked down.

At some point, voting with one's feet will probably also become a necessity, as some countries will slide into tyranny faster than others.
In Western countries, I think we tend to feel like the laws are the actual system, but I think that in the rest of the world, the laws and what actually happens on the ground are very divergent.

This conversation makes me feel that, to stay consistent with my (perhaps misplaced) optimism, I should focus more on open hardware going forward. That’s one of my issues with GrapheneOS — its reliance on a trusted computing device (if my understanding is correct). I don’t really want to encourage that approach. I’ll need to look more closely at our open hardware options at this point.

I like the approach of using the right tool for the right job and perhaps opting for much weaker hardware (but open) if it can handle the specific task I need it to do. Then, I can use other small devices for other small tasks. Also, I’m very interested in the auto-routing features of some AI projects, where they direct queries to the appropriate AI model based on the nature of the query and the necessary computing power.

Preserving our sovereignty will likely mean learning to be economical with our resources.