Lumo Apps is one thing, Lumo itself is another. The way Proton is marketing this service is truely misleading.
As a user of Proton I ma really disapointed by their Lumo marketing and the actual reality of the service. Reminds me how they marketed ProtonPass at launch in a different way. I'm starting to think it's a bad thing having them developing such a wide ecosystem of tools. They should focus on a more narrow number and make them stands out.
LLM are becomming widely used and whoever controll the LLM training control people lives to some extends. It's crazy how people are relying more and more on ChatGPT for conveniance, some even think it is actually intelligent/smart (it is not). LLM have biais because training data and training recipes are not neutral. Governments and big corpos can use this to extend control and manipulate/influence opinion, behavior, etc... They can choose how and what to censor, the point of view of information that could change user perception of it. With closed data and training recipe we can not see how it is made and what rules the models have been following.
Most open source model only publish the finally wieght model. No training data (mainly because they violate IP, copyright, etc... if you ask me) nor the training recipe, so you only have the possibility to host the model yourself. They slap Open Source on it and voilà... but it often isn't and when it is you can see that it perform worse (because they haven't read all Sci-Hub and Z-Library unlike Llama and ChatGPT for exemple.
Open Source is a way to create but is not limited to only software but many different things.
LLMs are software. Most open source LLMs are using Open washing to label themselves as Open Source, however it is not. The importance in Open Source is being able to study how it was made and most of open models have closed training data-sets and training method. Apertus is trully open in the sense that they published Open Data and full training details.
You have the right to be bother by "AI" but let Open Source enthousiasts being... well, enthousiasts when in a field of Open Washing someone created something trully Open Source to the point of sharing it in an Open Source community on a FOSS plateform.
Yeah it is dependant on Google and Google can do censorship. However from personnal experience (maybe it differ in different countries) Google does less censorship than Microsoft at least regarding their search engines.
These are PC games (either co-op adventure or party games) than can be played locally and that I have enjoyed myself (in no particular order). Bold ones are my fav.
Yes, Bitcoin is not a currency, it's an open permissionless network of trust secured not by access right managment and opacity but game theory and past energy. Very useful to build currencies. I recommend you Andreas Antonopoulos work, his content age very well and everything is under CreativeCommons. A great video to start is : What is Bitcoin and why does it matters?
The problem with current transactions isn't the money itself, it's the services that use that currency.
It really depend where you live. For Venezualian, Lebanese, Turkish and many more people there is huge problem with their currencies and banking services. Also in Africa many ex-french colonies are forced to use Franc CFA which is basically an economic-leash by the french government.
We can debate on the many issues with the USD currency but these are little (for now at least) compared to others.
As far as I know both of them are also payment processor, not only currencies.
Why would I use a third-party to store or process my Bitcoin payment? That's the whole point you're not forced to use a trusted third-party to store or pay. I don't, never did.
As a swiss citizen I can tell you that there is way enough regulation covering that currency, in fact it is regulated as foreign currency (currency of cyberspace hehe). I don't know how it is outside but also looks heavily regulated in EU and probably is in America.
I know, I'm not that stupid :D It was for the meme cuz this is the internet.
The main issue is that regular payment processors don't do what they are suppose to do (process payment and nothing else), they freeze account for no reasons (GrapheneOS, flipper-zero, etc...) censor payment because they don't like an industry (closed an entire plateform (UTip) because of one adult content creator), industries that already are regulated by law. Holding users funds longer than needed, or censoring for political opinion etc.
In this regard Bitcoin is neutral : You have the money, it's a valid transaction. You pay enough fees your transaction will be confirmed sooner. Who you are, how you get this money and why you are sending it is none of the payment processor business.
Yeah maybe because the game was good two years after the initial release haha