Earlier quoted context omitted.
No-one needs LLMs. AI has no value.
The chariot was superior! Who needs them darn cars
My grandpa was doing just fine before those newfangled chariots became all the rage. What's wrong with walking?
France's government is ditching Windows for Linux, says US tech a strategic risk
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Re: France's government is ditching Windows for Linux, says US tech a strategic risk
#22But Linux is US tech? Isn't the main guy American?
The “main guy” is Finnish. He also got American citizenship recently, but given the US has increased attacks on naturalised citizens [0] and has a history of this [1] it’s not a solid foundation.
[0] https://www.npr.org/2026/01/16/nx-s1-5677685/as-focus-shifts...
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internment_of_Japanese_America...
Re: France's government is ditching Windows for Linux, says US tech a strategic risk
#23Finally Europe grew a spine
still growing, you mean. France is, however significant, just one country. and then there is broader push to FOSS inside Europe, as well as Europe's own sovereign solutions. some attempts were failed, some were successful, but everything is still in progress
EDIT: on a second read, this sounded too diminishing of this achievement than I intended. the point is that it's not fully done yet, although it is remarkable that there is, finally, a political will for such actions
Re: France's government is ditching Windows for Linux, says US tech a strategic risk
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Yeah, he became American, just like Einstein, Fermi, Von Neumann, etc. There's a big lesson for Europe there, everyone super productive and able to move to the US does so at the first opportunity.
You might want to do a bit more reading on why European intellectuals migrated en masse to the US in the 1930s.
Definitely. And then one could start wondering if the direction might reverse.
Re: France's government is ditching Windows for Linux, says US tech a strategic risk
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The chariot was superior! Who needs them darn cars
My grandpa was doing just fine before those newfangled chariots became all the rage. What's wrong with walking?
I, for one, have never needed AI for anything ever in my life.
AI has, however, made my life noticably worse. Especially when dealing with braindead robot driven customer "support". But also in making it financially impossible to buy more RAM or upgrade a GPU.
I think we'd be better off without yet another bubble.
Re: France's government is ditching Windows for Linux, says US tech a strategic risk
#26Is this the daily thread on this topic?
Astroturfing around this is getting suspicious.
Re: France's government is ditching Windows for Linux, says US tech a strategic risk
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It is open source. Many companies which contribute to it are American, but nobody from America can tell you what you can or cannot do with it - unlike Microsoft or Apple with their proprietary OS being forced by US government.
Funnily enough there is some level of control that can be exerted by the US gov via the distros (at least the major ones - see legalese restrictions on Redhat/Ubuntu etc when you want to download , stating the various US gov laws/sanctions that they follow) and also via the kernel - i think some time back Russian kernel maintainers were removed. So Open source it may be , however there are still pressure points that…
Europe has a major distro in the form of SUSE, so that’s not too worrying.
Even if upstream linux banned european contributors, there are enough european contributors that a fork would just emerge. So I’m really not too worried about that happening.
Re: France's government is ditching Windows for Linux, says US tech a strategic risk
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No-one needs LLMs. AI has no value.
At this point in the broader dialogue your position is roughly as interesting as flat earth. Only bored people are going to bother replying and no one is taking you seriously. Don't do yourself a disservice by clinging to this.
Okay, give me one example of what AI might be useful for.
Re: France's government is ditching Windows for Linux, says US tech a strategic risk
#29Really proud as a French, I think the government has had some success with moving to something matrix based for the public sector too.
https://tchap.numerique.gouv.fr
I just hope we end up having more wins at the EU-level, instead of massive fails like GAIA-X...
Re: France's government is ditching Windows for Linux, says US tech a strategic risk
#30Is this the daily thread on this topic? Astroturfing around this is getting suspicious.
> Astroturfing around this is getting suspicious.
Nah, linux and "$curreant_year is the year of the linux desktop" is just something the hacker / maker / nerd scene is passionate about.