Pledges coming from proprietary software companies mean nothing
Get behind the community that is _really_ fighting to curb climate change:
It’s almost as though we need regulation.
@kde@floss.social @kde@lemmy.kde.social Pledges seem to be a trend as of recent.
@kde@floss.social @kde@lemmy.kde.social I’m legitimately getting annoyed by the widespread obsession with AI as it’s not being used for the betterment of society. The original purpose of ChromeOS was to breath life into old laptops. That pledge comes from us all; slashing greenhouse gasses is done by using open-source OS’s on older computers. Not new computers, but ones we already have.
Old vs. new hardware is difficult. New hardware can also do the same with lower energy consumption.
It’s impossible to calculate, but the tipping point would be where the saved energy surpasses the energy needed for producing and transporting the hardware.
I’m quite sure that my raspi4 is more powerful, smaller, less noisy and requires less energy than my oldest computer.
The thing is just that they rarely only improve the efficiency.
@jocarren @kde@floss.social @kde@lemmy.kde.social code should not be completly #AI free: “RTMF!!1” “AI, Sir”
In a sense maybe it’s a good thing this big AI hype is here so prematurely. People will misuse it and rely too heavily on it, and it will fuck everything up, since it can’t really do what these execs and the media want to claim it can do. So it will fuck up and hopefully people will learn from that. And we can start seeing products advertised as AI free.
And then when AI finally does get to the point where it is capable of doing these amazing things, we will be more careful at that time. Maybe. Hopefully.
