ViatorOmnium

That’s the thing, Software Engineers have choices.

Yes, all big companies will do some dubious things.

But then you have big tech that does all those dubious things and is also breaking democratic institutions everywhere with a sledgehammer.

And then you have Palentir, which are literally Hollywood movie villains.

At this point they are light years of their livelihood depending on it. There’s no way they don’t notice where the bombs are falling, they had plenty of time to look around and have decided they don’t care.

They have two types of people:

• Software Engineers and Computer Scientists that don’t care who gets hurt as long as they get to work on their interesting problem. I call them the Wernher von Braun club.
• The ones that are also prospective customers

The Venn Diagram might be close to a circle.

Is it so surprising that the mindset that makes people unable to face changes in one area of their lives also makes them unable to face changes in other areas?

x11 doesn’t support HDR at all, so even with HDR support still not being fully mature in KDE and GNOME that’s a argument for wayland.

The main limitation is the VRAM, but I doubt any model is going to be particularly fast.

I think phi3:mini on ollama might be an okish fit for python, since it’s a small model, but was trained on python codebases.