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What's something people should buy today instead of tomorrow? (lemmy.ml)
submitted 2 months ago by to c/privacy@lemmy.ml
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Anybody know of anything else that would be quite wise to purchase sooner than later, due to potential (or incoming) regulation that would be regarded as privacy-infringing to enforce? I was thinking about this because I've been pondering a high-quality 3D printer purchase for this reason.

Advice for varying levels of budget would be quite nice, too; I partially intend on this being a post people may want to revisit.

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[–] 1 point 2 months ago (3 children)

Downloading LLM's because the US will censor them seams unlikely. Censorship will pretty much always be bypassable with vpn's or tor.

Maybe I just don't have the same threat model as you.

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  • [–] 3 points 2 months ago (2 children)

    The government could force Huggingface to implement KYC. This would probably push people to start uploading torrents of models, but the problem is that there are dozens of quants for each model. Depending on what GPU you have, how much VRAM and RAM you have, the perfect quant for your machine might not be available on these third party download sites. So might as well grab them now while you can.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

    I suppose so. And by downloading more rare models you could be the one seeding torrents to others who didn't!

    I've just found out a lot of Chinese models are published to modelscope which seems to be a Chinese version of hugging face.

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