If you are at #fosdem2024 go check out the #jolla team and give Sailfish a try! It is by far the most functional, private, alternative smartphone OS I have ever tried and love them. More people need to know that you don't need to go #flipphonefebruary or some flavor of Android to get a full featured daily driver that doesn't harvest your data or demand your constant attention.
The presentation of #liquidprompt at #fosdem2024 was surprisingly successful! I did not foresee that. Room was extra packed. Got a lot of questions and people reaching out with thanks and more questions. Awesome experience for my first contact with the @opensourcedesign community.
#covid19 is still around. It harms the immune system, brain and cardiovascular system of many, whether you're healthy or not. There is a significant chance for the development of Long Covid. It severely disables and outright kills some people.
Walking around unmasked, around thousands of other unmasked people, is an almost guaranteed way of getting infected with #covid.
Not only are you endangering yourself, but once you travel home, you're going to infect other people in public transport, your co-workers, your family, your friends, possibly even your pets. Some will die, some will become disabled or ill for life, and many will build up damage to their organs without even knowing it. It will cause more pressure on hospitals and healthcare workers, at a time when many are already at the point of bursting.
By not wearing a mask and by not demanding mask/clean air policies, you are joining in on a mass spreader event. The virus will keep circulating, new variants will appear, the suffering will continue. One day soon the next victim will be you.
For people involved with free and open source software, so principally associated with accessibility and inclusivity, you're extremely lacking in this front. This event is an embarrassment. Who's going to keep development going, once everyone's sick, disabled or dead?
Problem: Models are black boxes and results not reproducible and auditable from pure usage. #AGI#fosdem2024 Government oversight should be there. Nadella from Microsoft wants AI for pure market growth. OpenAI works on Superalignment with 20 percent of resources. Speaker thinks: Safety should be 80 percent! And we need a debate in #FOSS about it.
Reminder of the potential range of risks connected to #AGI appearance. Safety should be priority, therefore reproducibility and a scientific approach is important. Needs availability of code and data (not the OpenAI approach anymore, I might add) #fosdem2024#opensource