Wasn't exactly security but I used a RPi Zero with a camera to monitor my 3D print. It's small, low-power, wireless, didn't have any problem with it. I imagine the result can be recorded, analyzed, etc.
IMHO the question isn't as much you as a user of such platforms is "f*cked" because you sound both mindful and technically savvy. So, on that front, you will be OK.
The harder question I would say is how morally bankrupt you will feel by contributing to worsening the privacy of others for profit. Namely that yes by using Facebook/Insta/TikTok/etc you will gain more customers but those customers are gradually losing their privacy while you make those companies bigger by paying them. That means you depend on those companies more while they get more power.
Because of that I would argue that sure, do everything you can to protect yourself but it can't stop there. I would argue then than the question is rather, where else can you find more clients, and maybe even "better" clients who are more aligned with your own views on privacy, and maybe even more. It's definitely a challenge, especially seeing the trend of surveillance capitalism, but as you acknowledge yourself by using Lemmy, there are actual alternatives.
Well that's one position, another is to say AI, being developed currently, is :
not working due to hallucinations
wasteful in terms of resources
creates problematic behaviors in terms of privacy
creates more inequality
and other problems and is thus in most cases (say outside of e.g numerical optimization as already done at e.g DoE, so in the "traditional" sense of AI, not the LLM craze) better be entirely ignored.
Edit : what I mean is that the argument of inevitability itself is dangerous, often abused.
FWIW I do have my own page on FLOSS AI, cf https://fabien.benetou.fr/Content/SelfHostingArtificialIntelligence so I do believe it's at least interesting, even important, to understand what it is.
Still, AFAIK both the electricity https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2024-ai-data-centers-power-grids/ and even the potential for correction https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.04125 from intrinsic properties of the dataset and learning but also as its marketed https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10676-024-09775-5 today make me reiterate, AI FLOSS doesn't not automatically solve all problems of closed source or proprietary AI.
Edit: I know of Petals, I even discussed with some people working on it, and I learned about federated AI or federated learning back then, since at least 2019 (proof) so this isn't new to me.
Interesting video and glad to see open-source suggested as a potential solution at the end... yet, it does not solve hallucinations (for LLMs), energy consumption (any form of AI) or... the fact that the hype itself is an economical and political tool at the service of a few. On the final point on regulators, I believe it's damaging to imply that regulators are ignorant. They are not technical, indeed, but they are not supposed to. Regulators didn't need to know how to build a plane to dictate rules that would improve safety in the industry, same for not being engineers in order to make the seatbelt mandatory. Yet, they do learn from technical experts, e.g in Europe the JRC that informs the Europeen Commission, Parliament, etc.
Indeed, Linux and FLOSS more broadly was never about technology itself, it's about empowering. It "just" happens to be where software change could lead to a pragmatic difference for so many lives.
Own your computer, own your devices, value your life and don't interact with the numerical world through manipulative blinders.
Obviously important but "Published 2 months ago, on April 15, 2024" so would be good to also have an up to date link to understand what has changed, if anything, since that leak.
My documented process https://fabien.benetou.fr/Content/SelfHostingArtificialIntelligence but honestly I just tinker with this. Most of that isn't useful IMHO except some pieces, e.g STT/TTS, from time to time. The LLM aspect itself is too unreliable, and I do like 2 relatively recent papers on the topic, namely :
No "Zero-Shot" Without Exponential Data https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.04125
ChatGPT is bullshit https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10676-024-09775-5
which are respectively saying that the long-tail makes it practically impossible to train AI to be correct in rare cases and that "hallucinations" are a misnomer for marketing purposes to be replaced instead by "bullshit" used to convinced people without caring for veracity.
Still, despite all this criticism it is a very popular topic, hyped up to be the "future" of computing. Consequently I did want to both try and help others to do so rather than imagine that it was restricted to a kind of "elite". I try to keep the page up to date but so far, to be honest, I do it mostly defensively, to be able to genuinely criticize because I did take the time to try, not reject in block.
PS: I do try also state of the art, both close and open-source, via APIs e.g OpenAI or Mistral but only for evaluation purposes, not as tools part of my daily usage.
As a shareholder (which I'm not), it's absolutely amazing.
As a human being though... it's simple to look at the history of the company, from its inception based on nepotism and locking-down was hitherto the common good, to going from one place of monopoly (OS, app, cloud) to another (extending to whatever is trendy at the moment e.g XR with HoloLens, AI with OpenAI, etc).
It's IMHO one of the very worst thing that could have happened to humanity in terms of cognitive empowerment. Apple is not far behind but in terms of locking up an entire ecosystem but Microsoft, sadly, is doing it better.
To clarify what I mean is that Microsoft is the business embodiment of learned helplessness. Most people would shrug at the quality of software they provide, the price, etc ONLY because they are convinced, wrongfully so, that they are is no legitimate alternative. If users were actually able to chose, not being coerced into but properly chose, by experiencing alternatives, the World would be totally different. Instead of having computer users who feel an adversarial relationship to their devices, we would have a much stronger relation of "this is MY device" the same way a lot (not all) of people have a repair toolbox at home. They know they can try to fix something in THEIR home, even improve it. Most people understand it won't be easy, they might mess it up, but it's possible to try. Not in software, and that's entirely Microsoft "success". Maybe in an alternative reality others, like Apple, would have made that happen to, but in our reality I blame Microsoft, Bill Gates upbringing from his legal mindset father and well connected mother.
We could have a world were users own their devices, have a challenging yet empowering relationship to technology, starting with software, and instead we have exploitative learning helplnessness. So yes, Microsoft is that bad.
Any review? In theory interested (I have reMarkable 1, 2 and PineNote) but short of trying one myself I'd like to read what people here think, not just announcements, otherwise feels like an ad.
Obviously based on the community here, I'd also like to know, beyond the eInk screen performances (which seems to be the single biggest differentiating factor) if it's possible to use Linux rather than Android, like on the devices I already have.
My formulation wasn't clear, I meant to say I'm happy to support creators in general that make quality content, software or not, but I would always prefer to support open source, open hardware, remixable content, etc rather than closed and proprietary alternatives. I listed games as very rare examples where I'm still happy to support them even if I still wish that the software itself would be made open, even if delayed as Quake or Doom for examples have been. Does it make more sense now?
Half-life: Alyx, Baldur's Gate 3, Elden Ring, ... you get the idea. It's not so much those apps per se, and I'd prefer them to be FLOSS too, rather it's the amazing content and in such rare cases, I'm happy to financially support the creators.
I did that for years, using LibreElec with Kodi, but moved instead few months ago to "just" minidlna on the RPi, headless, then VLC on the video projector, streaming straight for the RPi.
I still use Steam, and even have a SteamDeck (running only Linux) but if you want to avoid that itch.io is probably a good option, namely no launcher, only what game developers provide
Discord, well you could use the Web page, that's what I do and even calls work. If you want to remove it entirely you will obviously lose your contacts so trickier problem
banking, same principle, you can do most of it via the Web. Some convenient options won't work, e.g QR code to login or pay, but overall your bank probably have solutions that don't require anything but a Web browser and your physical cards, do ask them and if it's not up to your standards, check for other banks that might have better terms than the big ones
You don't have to immediately drop the few left but IMHO it's not about being a purist or completionist but rather a journey and you already did a lot!
Wasn't exactly security but I used a RPi Zero with a camera to monitor my 3D print. It's small, low-power, wireless, didn't have any problem with it. I imagine the result can be recorded, analyzed, etc.