Merry Christmas Nostre! 🎄

I’m predicting that after computer hardware manufacturers have forced us all to run demanding software like games on their rented cloud services because consumer hardware is no longer made, there’s going to be a new hacker movement to turn decommissioned data center servers sold on eBay into PCs.

This is extremely promising for the decentralization of chip fabrication. https://www.ibselectronics.com/resources/news/china-shrinks-euv-hefei-lumiverse-unveils-desktop-light-source-for-14nm-chips/

I think I need to start building stuff I didn’t have before. For a long time every time I pick up a tool it’s to repair something that broke, so now tool use and mechanical and electronic work is associated with frustration. Need to find a way to get excited about it.

The “household” robots relying on a company’s cloud service should be fun. 😖

Are Roombas cloud service dependent? https://www.androidauthority.com/irobot-roomba-bankruptcy-3625239/

And in the case of Apple, when you actually purchase and take possession of their computer, you still don’t own that computer.

Yes! Not sure how it’s going to happen but something that seems promising for that is the apparent viability of having smaller clusters of GPUs (such as in a satellite) connected with high-bandwidth lasers or fiber and operating as a larger logical cluster. Seems pertinent to decentralized AI compute with each small cluster potentially individual owned and paid with crypto.

Yeah I know. Still lets it get run on hardware outside the data centers of one of the megacorps though.

GPT-5.2 is great. I’d love to see open source LLMs catch up soon. Deepseek v3.2 isn’t there.