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Wait. Are you all seriously arguing/considering that the barrier is something like "innovation" or "UX" or "hard work at improving the OS?" Like seriously? Come on. By now we shoul…

I strongly predict this article is mostly pointless very soon. Much as people may not want to like it, "software" as a product to buy and sell, even as a subscription, is probably …

Relatedly, there needs to be some kind of way to distinguish between types of LLM usage. Nothing more boring -- and often not even favorable or useful to a semi-hobbyist -- than ju…

The irrational exuberance of these guys. It's interesting to see what happened, somebody somewhere got the very very bad idea (if the goal is to make money) of "we will build, like…

Oh, I have all the thoughts about this. I've been experimenting with this for well before Obsidian existed by using what is probably the best proto-Obsidian -- https://zim-wiki.org…

Yup. My point exactly. That's an unfortunately useful distinction that is fact these days. I don't think NAS v. Server or whatever this whole thread is about is -- or more importan…

Belief in the Singularity and belief in God strike me as extremely similar. Both, I think, are extremely interesting ideas where very few theories, e.g. pro, anti, or anywhere in b…

I'm almost 50, but I absolutely could see how someone younger could view it that way -- precisely because the present is much more similar to than novel than it used to be? Like, "…

That would be because "piracy rates" are not, in fact, much lower.

I can easily accept that arguments like "an Iphone is just a computer" are often overly reductionist. But people justifying much of this segmentation? Come ON, any NAS is just a se…

They're not at all "completely different issues." Both are well within the category of "If you buy a device to do a thing, then the device does something else that is not readily a…

Sure. And you'll quite literally never be able to get any meaningful reduction in this practice unless you attack it at the level of big, publically known companies; the warnings a…

Oh, I'm 100% about how much I trust AI labs to do the right thing, which is never.

In the words of the meme, "why not both?"

So, I graduated from law school 20 years ago, and -- given even the internet THEN, like, pdfs over mail -- that law journal filing cabinet thing was actually already dying; I had m…

It's only strange if you do the silly thing of presuming a "fair market" in which e.g. it's generally easy to get reliable information about how all of the things work. There's jus…

But again, I think you're dancing around "Stallman was right," which is frankly why I come to the reverse idea. I think it is fine to call these things "open" because "open" was lo…

The more I see this argument, the sillier it becomes to me. The point of "open source" in software is something like "the ability to deconstruct the thing line by line for purposes…

Weirdest downvote I've seen. This isn't like, painfully obvious to everyone? Maybe I'm old, but it feels like everyone has a little too much "business-brain."

Just wondering about this, because I don't think I've seen it said plainly. Hugging Face is the place where all us home-labbing AI enthusiasts get our models from. Aka, at the end …

It's a metaphor.

Okay, but it kind of sounds like you want to nanny-state the writer's language. Their conclusion seems like an absolutely fair interpretation of what they saw, and it also strikes …

Interesting to see that this crypto thing might still have legs, as someone who's invested a lot of time (and thankfully, not a painful amount of money) into the idea. Yes, it's sc…

Obligatory "Stallman was right" here. Seriously, though. Without legal teeth and against marketing, "Open" never much stood a chance.

Interestingly wrong; probably has to do with the fingerprinting and whatnot. I do appreciate that the "canirun" one 1) was also wrong 2) but let me pick my real card from the dropd…