Stop being a professional victim! You don’t have to use US tech. There are open source AI models and tools. You don’t need to pay to compete: in fact by doing so you’re contributing to the problem.

Don’t understand this. I dislike Apple in many ways, but MacOS is an objectively very solid operating system.

Completely fair

This is really interesting, appreciate your taking the time to share, thanks 👍 Now I have a fresh experiment for all those ESP32’s in my drawers 😁

Wonder how much solar power it would take to run one of these nodes, it’s be fun to guerrilla a few across town to create a bit of uh…civic infrastructure.

AFAIK it’s an excellent language let down by political in-fighting in the ecosystem and subsequent fragmentation of is otherwise ‘standard’ libraries. IMO this kills the language.

Kotlin offers most of what Scala does with a much more solid and supportive ecosystem, it’s the obvious winner in the ecological niche of ‘better JVM languages’, for me.