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The Chinese government hopes that by opening up the platform, humanoid robots will be developed more quickly for different areas of application in industry so that they can then be used commercially. This fits in with the plan adopted by the Chinese Ministry of Industry and Information Technology in November 2023 to mass-produce humanoid robots from 2025. The plan also envisages that such robots will be able to think, learn and innovate from 2027. This approach is to be accompanied by the industrial mass production of robot components. The first machines for this and individual robot components were presented alongside the Tiangong robot.
What deluded corner of Sam Altman’s asscrack do these clowns live in?
This is an extremely serious issue and unfortunately not many people know about or understand it. Too many still believe that if something is open source then it can’t have malicious code and backdoors in it, but unfortunately that’s just not the case. We already knew that the mainstream platforms and western made hardware all have built in backdoors and co-operate with the intelligence agencies, but that this is now extending to the more fringe alternative platforms and OSS as well is very worrisome.
And there is nothing that guarantees that just because they managed to fend off one attempt at infiltration that no further attempts were already made and maybe even successful. I think that where this is all heading toward is that at some point people for who privacy and security against western governments is essential will have no choice but to use exclusively Russian and Chinese made products. Yes those will undoubtedly have backdoors for their respective states as well, but as long as they do not share their intelligence with the West i frankly couldn’t care less if they know what i’m up to. The main government that you need to be worried about is always the one in your own country, doubly so if you live in the imperial core.
I don’t think FOSS is being targeted in spite of being fringe, it’s being targeted because it powers the internet. It isn’t fringe at all in an enterprise server context, and I think it stands to reason that the gathered data from this kind of source would be significantly more valuable on average than that gathered from end-user desktops. But in turn, so long as there is a legal means for private companies to safeguard their privacy generally against any external actor, there is a significant vested interest in safeguarding FOSS against backdoors. Indeed the xz backdoor was disclosed by an employee of a company whose own enterprise server software product is proprietary.
Neat, it’s nice too see the numbers and analysis. Looks like Lemmy is enjoying healthy growth. It’s also interesting to see the challenges people have when migrating from a centralized platform. I recall there was also a lot of confusion with the idea of instances when Mastodon started becoming popular.
In my view, the key aspect to focus on is sustainability. There are three things that are required for an open source platform to thrive. It needs developers to maintain the code and add features, volunteers to host servers, and users to generate content on the platform. I’d argue that Lemmy is already largely sustainable in all three categories today.
I think this is a key difference between open source platforms and corporate ones. A company needs to make revenue and show growth for the investors. This creates pressures to grow aggressively, and if the company fails to keep growing then it will probably die and the platform will disappear. On the other hand, open source doesn’t have these kinds of pressures, and as long as a project can reach sustainability it can exist indefinitely without needing constant sustained growth.
There are three things that are required for an open source platform to thrive. It needs developers to maintain the code and add features, volunteers to host servers, and users to generate content on the platform. I’d argue that Lemmy is already largely sustainable in all three categories today.
Those are great points, and we do hit them mostly.
I wish we had a few more core devs on the lemmy project taking on issues, but I think we’ll get there eventually. We def already have a healthy ecosystem of apps and app developers now that makes lemmy’s future a bright one.
And while we don’t need constant growth of users, it’s great to see a lot of people enjoying lemmy and sticking around.
For sure, it’s really nice to see the community grow, and I find most people tend to be generally positive, especially on Lemmygrad. I suspect that having separate instances helps in this regard since people can just join an instance that suits them. I’m really excited to see what’s in store for Lemmy in 2024. And kudos on all the amazing work you’re doing on the platform. You’ve built an amazing thing, and I’m thankful to have this space with so many comrades. :)
In terms of scale and absolute number they absolutely are though. Canada might produce more renewable energy per capita, but that’s more than offset by the sheer gluttony of energy consumption per capita. Also worth noting that much of Canadian renewable infrastructure, such as solar panels, was almost certainly produced in China.
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