As long as public money -> public code, this could potentially be a net positive for stopping predatory AI practices from Microsoft and buddies.
Comment on European Commission cuts funding support for Free Software projects
Churbleyimyam@lemm.ee 4 weeks ago
Also
The reasons for this shift in budget away from funding Free Software and the NGI initiative seems to be an allocation of more funds for AI, leaving internet infrastructure by the wayside.
Good old AI bubble strikes again.
Brickardo@feddit.nl 4 weeks ago
rottingleaf@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
It’s a justification, they know full well it’s not some future revolution.
But it’s a very good device to hijack discourse and funds.
It seems obvious that people who get to the top are smart, just not in the good way. They know the potential of various technologies. If they don’t understand the subjects themselves, they have hundreds of experts willing to lecture them. Even if they pretend to not have understood a word, in fact they do gain knowledge.
Churbleyimyam@lemm.ee 4 weeks ago
Yeah, after what happened to Greece it’s hard to forget how the EU is heavily infiltrated by the vultures of private finance.
rottingleaf@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
Just vultures. It’s pure corruption. People of the kind that already rule Russia.
Any kind of progress, justice, right etc they don’t respect.
Big fish eating smaller fish is one thing they respect, and they also want more privacy while stealing, and the ability to spy after everyone else and coerce courts and institutions.
It’s that simple.
Churbleyimyam@lemm.ee 4 weeks ago
Agreed. We have allowed our democratic system to be quietly stolen from us without even really noticing. I think we either need to properly reclaim it or to start new systems away from it. The Fediverse is a really good example of the latter.
endofline@lemmy.ca 4 weeks ago
Hawala awaits :-)
Churbleyimyam@lemm.ee 3 weeks ago
Was ist das?