I… agree but isn’t then contradicting your previous point that innovation will come from large companies if they only try to secure monopolies rather than genuinely innovate? I don’t understand from that perspective who is left to innovate if it’s neither research (focusing on publishing, even though having the actual novel insight and verifying that it does work), not the large companies… and startups don’t get the funding either. Sorry if you mentioned it but I’m now confused as what is left.

They just provide the data. They can question the methodology or even provide another report with a different methodology but if the data is correct (namely no fabricated) then it’s not up to them to see how it’s being used. The user can decide how they define startup, i.e which minimum size, funding types, funding rounds, etc. Sharing their opinion on the startup landscape is unprofessional IMHO. They are of course free to do so but to me it doesn’t question the validity of the original report.

Neat.

Warning disclaimer : I’m not a cryptographer.

I actually tinkered with https://github.com/open-quantum-safe and it’s actually quite simple to become “post-quantum” whatever. The main idea being that one “just” have to switch their cryptographic algorithm, what one uses to encrypt/decrypt a message, from whatever they are using to a quantum-resistant (validated by NIST or whomever you trust to evaluate them) and… voila! The only test I did was setting up Apache httpd and querying that server with Chromium and curl, all with oqs, while disabling cryptographic algorithms that were not post-quantum and I was able (I think ;) to be “safe” relative to this kind of attacks.

Obviously this is assuming a lot, e.g that there are not other flaw in the design of the application, but my point being that becoming quantum-resistant is conceptually at least quite simple.

Anyway, I find it great to demystify this kind of progress and to realize how our stack can indeed, if we do believe it’s worth it now, become resistant to more threats.

Please clarify, as I asked in https://lemmy.ml/post/20245112/13688624 I don’t see how that’s relevant. They are sharing opinions from startup CEO or numbers that are about large “old” (much earlier than the boom, e.g Ant, Shein, ByteDance). That’s certainly interesting but does not contradict figures from the article.

Research happens through university, absolutely, and selling products at scale through large companies, but that’s not innovation. Innovation is bringing new products, that is often the result of research yes, to market. Large companies tends to be innovative by buying startups. If there are no startups coming from research coming from universities to buy, I don’t see how large companies, often stuck in the “innovator dilemma”, will be able to innovate.

Thanks for linking to criticism but can you highlight which numbers are off? I can see things about ByteDance, Ant group, Shein but that’s irrelevant as it’s not about the number of past success, solely about the number of new funded startups. Same as the CEO of ITJUZI sharing his opinion, that’s not a number.

Edit: looks totally off, e.g “restaurants, in a single location, such as one city, you could immediately tell that there were large numbers of new companies.” as the article is about funding, not a loan from the bank at the corner of the street.

RPi with minidlnad, all devices at home from computers, phones, tablets, video projector, even VR HMD, can play content with e.g VLC.

Very quick to install (basically have a media directory with your videos inside) and still very flexible, e.g new content is added simply by copying from any other device with access, e.g scp which itself can be a script after downloading something.

OK… unable to argue, blocked.

Thanks for the in depth clarification and sharing your perspective.

this is a good development

Keeping finance in check is indeed important so I also think it’s good.

What about the number of funded startups though and the innovative products they would normally provide customers? Do you believe the measures taken will only weed out bad financiers or will it also have, as a side effect, to bring less products and solutions out? Does it mean research will remain academic but won’t necessarily be commercialized or even scaled? If you believe it will still happen, how? Through state or regional funding and if so can you please share such examples that grew for the last 5 years?

I keep track of parts of such a solution at https://fabien.benetou.fr/Content/SelfHostingArtificialIntelligence namely TTS, STT, LLM, etc. There is also a recent HomeAssistant article https://www.home-assistant.io/blog/2024/06/07/ai-agents-for-the-smart-home/ which is quite interesting… but also concludes that they don’t believe it’s ready for prime time for most.

If you have specific use cases in mind, happy to give more pointers for solutions I believe might fit. That being said I’m not personally convinced as I don’t use any assistant on a daily basis. Still I believe FLOSS alternatives are interesting to consider for any topic.

Founded in 2019, right after the peak according to the very graph I highlighted.

Neither I nor the article is saying there are no more startups nor innovation from China. What the article is saying is that it’s radically less than 7 years ago. You can still list few amazing Chinese startup from 2023 or 2024 and it would still not make the article “nonsense”.

Just ran a VR game for Windows just this morning, worked like a charm, didn’t tinker one minute (using Proton and SteamVR, Valve with NVIDIA, just for context).

Then you also read things like https://www.forbes.com/sites/jasonevangelho/2024/08/21/linux-scores-a-surprising-gaming-victory-against-windows-11/ on non technical websites… and can’t help but wonder if it “will” be easier or… if it’s already done.

plain old Konsole

Come on now, it’s pretty active! Cf https://invent.kde.org/utilities/konsole/-/commits/master/?ref_type=HEADS 13hrs ago, a new feature weeks ago and https://konsole.kde.org/changelog.html

I believe that’s precisely the point of the article, that there will be no new BYD which was funded 29 years ago.

Care to unfold a bit more what’s hilarious? Which metrics from the article are wrong or irrelevant for example? You might disagree with the conclusion, and maybe rightly so, but are you saying the data itself, e.g number of companies funded is false? Or it does not matter and something else could help better understand the situation?

Look at /r/deGoogle and you will, sadly, see a lot of people that have a problem stopping.

A typical example is how services from Google, e.g Google Docs, Meet, etc do everything they can to avoid not logging in, and while having to do so, prefer to use a GMail acccount, or “at least” a Google account (which might not require a GMail email).

So… a drug no but a dependency hard to ignore for a lot of people, the same way some people feel “forced” to use WhatsApp.

You are extremely privileged if you never felt that way.

To not rely on it anymore? Not be tempted?

I suggest to delete it but giving yourself a grace period, e.g 1 year where you redirect emails until you are sure you updates most people and services accordingly. After that period, better to delete and this way hope that Google doesn’t have any of your data anymore.

What if your domain registration lapses and someone else grabs it?

Registrars do warn quite a bit but indeed you can add a yearly notification 1 week ahead in your calendar.

What if you can’t afford the cost five years from now?

You are in quite deep trouble then because the registrar itself is relative cheap, e.g $10/year. It also does not seem to increase significantly. If you can’t afford that you probably should focus on basic necessities first. If you are serious about it though, just like with the yearly notification, set $1/month just for this.

What if you just don’t like the domain name someday?

I mean… you change it? Just like when you went from person@gmail.com to person@mydomain.tld . That process is a bit annoying but as you’ve done it once, it will be easier.

All of these reasons will be problematic and some can result in identity theft and significant fraud. It’s definitely not a decision to be taken lightly, particularly if you have a lot of online accounts.

It’s not a light decision BUT it’s also not such a big deal. If I want to go back to person@gmail.com I can just do so any moment I want (well person-something@gmail.com to be precise). I will keep a 1 year grace period for the transition, start with the most critical accounts first, e.g government and banking then social media, then random accounts based on my history. It’s annoying but it’s a matter of hours over few weeks at most.

The only challenge is to be methodical and giving up on the idea that you’ll update 100% of the account. Getting 99% of the account that truly matter is enough IMHO.

PS: for actually sensitive data, and assuming you somehow didn’t manage to get the grace period YET still are smart enough to think ahead, multi-factor authentication will keep your accounts safe. Honestly I don’t think the overlap though between somebody who cares enough about that AND let’s domain expire is very big though.

Clarifying privacy from whom could help identify possible solution.

Because without privacy you can’t be a proper human being. You need privacy in order to have the safe space to develop, to dare try, to explore without the constant judgement of others. If you can’t be a proper human being, can you genuinely have democracy?

It’s both a per-requisite for humanity and what the political system that is often considered as the most just.

That’s why I care.