I'm becoming convinced no one is actually here.

I just saw this somewhere: the neighborhood is the unit of change.

Meaning that's the scale at which we can (and should) have the most impact.

Aka start where you are.

sigh

Pretty damn macro, yo

So I'm hosting this free, in-person community workshop next week at our local library. Getting off the surveillance/data-harvesting app model is one of the most urgent things we should be doing. I'm here to help. If you want the cheatsheet for my starter kit let me know.

There’s really no need to be using the big US AI’s with all of their problematic aspects. Europe seems to be going in the right direction.

Here’s a similar one in the Netherlands, which is as much or more of a data privacy bastion versus Switzerland, which is actually beginning to wobble a bit, at least on anonymity.

greenpt.com

I’ve been talking a lot about Euria, a Swiss AI I like for its data privacy/sovereignty and environment cred (renewables, reusing waste heat, using minimal water). I don't really use AI except for a bit of research - certainly no generative AI - but I like to know what the best examples are.

GreenPT looks very interesting too, data privacy and eco-friendliness seems to be where things are heading for AI in Europe.

Demolishing?? I had not heard that.

Go non-surveillance, non-billionaire, and eco-friendly as much as you can.

Not smart to use any Google product, don't forget they track you and harvest your data mercilessly. Time to do things differently, without that Google crutch. How about Organic Maps, ditch Chrome for DuckDuckGo, Proton for Gmail, Ecosia for search, Euria for AI?

It doesn't create docs? I don't really use it for more than research. I sort of assumed it doesn't do everything the bigger ones do, but for me that's the right tradeoff for the positives.

Just got a last-minute St Patrick's Day gig at an assisted-living place. They said my originals and throwback covers are fine, but they also want a couple of Irish songs. Any easy faves to learn? I have Danny Boy (J. Cash version) and Too Ra Loo Ra Loo Ra in the works.

I confess Euria got me finally trying AI. Not generative AI, I am still totally against that, but for research type stuff I hadn't touched AI until now, due to data privacy and environmental concerns. Euria takes care of both. I really like it.

It's great for me so far

I'm really enjoying Euria, and the data protection plus addressing environmental problems makes it the clear winner.

A lot of people write off Eurea for this, but to me that's wrong. Any model with have biases. Qwen's are unfortunate but transparent (Tiananmen Square), otherwise for me it works great. Also, people don't realize you can change the model in Eurea, you can make it run on Llama or Mistral for example.

Yeah, but it's pretty sweet other than the name ;).

You can actually set Euria to use Mistral like Le Chat. People think Euria is wedded to Qwen but you can choose the model you want.

I'm doing the same. I hadn't used AI until now but I really like Euria, and I feel comfortable that data privacy and environmental/energy/water problems are addressed.

I have, it's my first and only AI. I love it. I'm anti-generative AI and haven't touched any of it due in part to data privacy and environmental concerns. This to my knowledge is the only one that addresses both in very real ways. Happy to discuss it.

I'm making the move to infomaniak as well. I really like Euria so far, and I don't even use AI otherwise. The sustainability and data privacy make me more comfortable trying it.

You can simply select a different model if you don't want Qwen, right? They also offer Mistral, Llama, etc. All models will have biases, I worry about US corporate ones...

I've been thinking just recently how I want to get back into small work prints. Inkifi looks interesting.

Love Snapseed, though I don't love the new interface.

Omg. So powerful and poignant.

I won't be awake at that time :). It would be great if someone could provide an update on encryption legal cases in Europe/Switzerland. I know several countries in Europe would like to undermine encryption. Which way is the wind blowing?

This is totally needed and one would think it's totally doable. Ignore the naysayers.

@raskin.house.gov