by gavinhoward on 6/6/24, 10:21 PM
by nehal3m on 6/6/24, 10:15 PM
I pulled out of all clouds when it comes to my personal stuff recently (including streaming stuff, I just store music, movies and shows locally like I did 15 years ago). I didn't realize I missed the simplicity so much. Just back up your stuff every now and again and you're fine, no fees, no syncing, no requirement for a connection. Offline first. Storage is cheap as chips now so there's not much of a barrier for I imagine most people.
by kaycey2022 on 6/7/24, 1:55 AM
People threw Stallman under the bus just because he is a bit of a creep and maybe unfunny and certainly looks like an ogre. But he was always right. His contributions to OSS cannot be understated.
by potatoball on 6/6/24, 10:10 PM
by pieter_mj on 6/7/24, 12:32 AM
The only guy who is literally unreplaceable and understands freedom at a mitochondrial level.
by bfrog on 6/6/24, 9:56 PM
He was right about licenses with compilers as well.
by TheRoque on 6/6/24, 9:58 PM
There's a whole subreddit dedicated to this, r/StallmanWasRight
by hello_computer on 6/7/24, 3:22 AM
I think a lot of this generative AI is going to be like fiber deployment in the late 90s.
The movers and shakers are paying top-dollar for improvements that will have a brief shelf-life. Just as the googles and facebooks were able to buy dark fiber for pennies-on-the-dollar in the early 00s, some other upstart is going to bargain AI tools and talent from the adobes and openais of the world for a similar discount.
That is to say, adobe is most likely doing this to train models that will put their current customers out of business. They probably think they're cutting-out the middleman for a better margin, but this seems like a greedy bet that could easily go sideways.
by api on 6/6/24, 9:54 PM
The beatings will continue until people actually modify their buying behavior on the basis of concerns like privacy and autonomy.
Right now nobody cares, where "cares" is defined as "alters buying behavior." If you don't alter your buying behavior in response to this stuff you don't "care."
by bdjsiqoocwk on 6/7/24, 1:29 AM
Stallman is always right if you're willing to wait long enough.
by jrepinc on 6/6/24, 10:31 PM
Stallman is still right, almost 100% of the time, sadly. And looking at the direction and trends of big enshittification all GAFAM/BigTech corproations are going he will be even more right in the future.
by orionblastar on 6/6/24, 9:43 PM
by goliv04053 on 6/6/24, 10:23 PM
*still
by darby_nine on 6/6/24, 10:15 PM
Of course he was! Doesn't mean that his proposed solution worked (or will ever work, though fingers are crossed).
by gary_0 on 6/6/24, 9:57 PM
Ironically that Twitter link won't work for me unless I switch browsers and sign up for an account. Or is that the joke?
by bishbosh on 6/6/24, 10:50 PM
I wish we could stop with the deification of this creep as though he was the only person arguing that proprietary software has concerns.