2026-09-24 05:29 UTC
@miki@dragonscave.space @prism@infosec.exchange @tristan@hachyderm.io And I can see why the kind of people who are drawn to fedi (outside of the blind community, who came here for a different reason) would be resistant to anything that requires a central service, whether subscription or free (a.k.a. "you're the product"). Ideally, software should be feasible to run locally, and should be open-source, so anyone can understand and modify it, not just the tech elite.
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@matt@toot.cafe 2026-09-24 05:33
@miki@dragonscave.space @prism@infosec.exchange @tristan@hachyderm.io I can think of an analogy to computers themselves. When computers were new, people might have reasonably argued that all of the machines that we need should be feasible to manufacture locally in any town with the right craftspeople, and should be simple enough that those craftspeople can understand them. I also see where the analogy breaks down. A microprocessor or other integrated circuit reliably follows a human-made specification; a generative model does not.