I just want an easy-to-use, offline geocoder (mainly address to latlon but reverse would be cool too) that doesn't require terabytes of space, hundreds of gigabytes of RAM, and days to process. Handheld GPS units were doing this with only a few GB decades ago.
Why does this seemingly not exist as a FOSS project in $current_year?
I don't consider that even a threat of LLMs, just humans being human.
Just like we don't blame video games for violence.
Would be nice to not have to deal with terabyte+ PostGIS database shenanigans that take days to build and hundreds of GB of RAM. Looking forward to US coverage and easy updates (or local rebuilds). Will you be directly ingesting TIGER/Line shapefiles?
Thanks!
Your morals are not the same as everyone else's, it's inherently subjective, and trying to play the altruism olympics is a zero-sum game; there are ways to make everyone lose, every time. Example: The devices we are all using right now are supported by forced child labor. Checkmate.
Who are we to say what other people should be concerned about? Nobody put us in charge. Some believe that trying to impose one's moral standards on others is a sign of arrogance and dismissive of individual autonomy. Usually if something like this were so universally accepted by everyone, it would just be a law already.
Did you have the same moral expectations of the inventors and/or users of the printing press? Think of those poor scribe monks.
What about the cotton gin? Those poor handweavers.
And the steam engine? Computers? Cars? Airplanes? Computers? Calculators? Where does it end and why?
Instead, why not let EFF concentrate on what they do best? The last thing they need to worry about is making their website pretty; I don't fault them for phoning it in. They're legal experts, not graphic artists.
completely block all VPN traffic nationwide or withdraw access from Utah entirely
And neither of which are technically possible with certainty in the first place. There is no such thing as "blocking VPNs" unless you narrowly define "VPN" as "a well-known provider of VPN services that publishes a list of IPs we can block."
But there's absolutely nothing anyone can do to stop me from making a "VPN" from my house to Timmy's house in the next state.
Legally in the US it currently doesn't matter as long as a human prompted it to do its work, and no other entity comes forward with any potential copyright claims, which would be evaluated subjectively anyway.
As a rule, strong feelings about issues do not emerge from deep understanding.
If we're playing the altruism olympics game, everyone is already throwing stones in a glass house as it is, because virtually all electronics and batteries on Earth are made from materials mined by forced/child labor.
open-slopware calls OpenBSD having a "Permissive AI Policy" and links to this commit as evidence.
Does this mean the brain actually works similarly to NNs? And that modeling it is possible?
BSDs allow AI too
