DrDystopia

In the traditional sense, yes. VPSs is somewhere between the classic self-hosting as you described and off-site managed hosting.

I think of VPS more like administrating a virtual server rather than actually self-hosting.

On-site self- hosting, on owned hardware. Who knows what's going on behind the closed doors of data centers around the world.

And let's not get into industry standard ~~hardware backdoors~~ remote control systems.

Being criminally stupid when planning crimes is pretty stupid.

Hmm, I'm not sure I consider tech bros, vibe coders and GUI dependents as tech people. The type of tech people I'm thinking of don't seek to ease friction, they want to create a frictionless system.

Because that's what the average tech idiot need - To be able to show off to the average idiot.

If idiots want to follow idiots, that's a different issue.

Tech people have zero idea what privacy is or should be, and desperately look for anything to make then feel elites.

What you're describing are 'idiots' and they're in the tech field as well as saturating every other aspect of life.

Those with privacy systems truly worth flexing, won't. So that excludes me as I don't have any darknet only, privacy focused, self-hosted, deep encrypted systems at all.

You’re focusing on their use of AI

No, I'm focusing on the hypocrisy of calling it green. A lot of other people are focusing on the AI tech though.

They’re a non-profit company that gives 100% of their profits

That's not how non-profit profits work. 100% of the surplus might be invested in green causes but that's after operating costs, salaries and a plethora of minor expense posts are handled using their profit/income.

It’s hardly greenwashing.

If legitimizing polluting technology by saying we're doing such a great job at combating pollution isn't green washing, perhaps I've misunderstood the term? It was certainly used against the billionaires flying to climate conferences, their argument was that they did such an important job for the environment that they should be able to fly private jets to the meetings. Others called it a green washing of their personal travel arrangements.

Your complaint just doesn’t make sense.

That's OK, I'm not too bothered about being understood by every single person I come in contact with. Sometimes the divide between worldviews is simply too big to try to bridge.

https://www.ecosia.org/chat

Nonsense. I run my own home hosted Ollama AI server 24/7. But I don't claim it to be green tech in any way. Talk about strawman, I don't see any claims regarding the worth of AI, perhaps I missed it?

Fun fact, smaller model LLMs can run on Pi5 at not untolerable speed. Could work on solar I suppose.

I don't want them to greenwash AI. So as long as a self-professed green company provides a claimed green AI I don't agree with them.

I don't want them to greenwash AI. So as long as a self-professed green company provides a claimed green AI I don't agree with them.

I don't accept AI implementation as a green product, and when the "green AI" they advertise is a special, low complexity opt-IN model I feel like I'm being bamboozled on two separate levels.

I'd love to write you an expansion, but...