...DigiMon, digital monsters, DigiMon are the champions~!
taanegl
joined 10 months ago
I thought his nickname was Bibi.
I kind of laughed, cried and cringed, when I fl read Nestlé did the exact same predatory thing in California as they did in Africa, and that was to divert fresh water rivers to then bottle said water and sell it back to the locals. Ain't that just a bitch.
There is no "free market" regarding water. Only captive audiences.
Better yet, tell them you're dying, and if you need to, fake your death, move to Argentina, make that dive bar you always dreamt about.
Kill some babies, maybe colonize some land, destroy a whole lot of infrastructure. The usj! This meeting sure could have been an email.
Automattic are the people behind wordpress.com, JetPack and WooCommerce. The amount of people who use their software is staggering. I've set up a fair deal of WordPress instances myself.
WordPress also recently became ActivityPub compatible, in a single-user mode - I think. This actually makes me consider it for my own blog, but I ick at PHP - probably undeservedly, as modern optimizations make it lightweight and quick (cache all the things).
What I'm saying is that they might make having on-site chat and self-hosting a possibility. If they provided a sort of freemium WooCommerce thing, where some add-ons important to certain operations cost money, but that the chat integration is a compliment to Gutenberg and the theming system? Bruh. I'm there.
That being said, freemium sucks, but it's better than not being able to self-host, as bills have to be paid - for both Automattic, other companies and freelance developers ^^;
The venture capital samba:
- Make free service (it'll pan out, trust me bro).
- 1 years passes... trust me bro
- 3 years passes... look at all this user data we can sell - trust me bro
- 2 more year passes... look, we're going to have to fire some people...
- 1 year passes... we're not really making any money, so trust me bro - we're only going to increase subscription fees a little...
- 1 year later, increase subscription fees...
- 1 year later, increase subscription fees...
- 1 year later, increase subscription fees...
- Listen, Mr Creditor - I have liquidity. So much liquidity. I'm rife with the stuff... increase subscription fees
And so forth, and so on...
In the worst timeline drivers and firmware get distributed through snaps with a mandatory account login.
Knock on wood..
Ah yes. In the future you'll have to pay more than $70, because you need to tip the devs so they can get paid. What's that? Not happy enough with the game? No pay for the team behind it then. It's only fair.
Oh heck yeah. The first Godot driven VST effect? Yeah buddy... or clap. Do it in clap!
Welcome to the world of venture capitalism. It's all "come on, guy! This is the next thing! Trust me bro!"
But by that token energy is the possibility collusion and cooperation within the industry, to front these technologies in board rooms and to shareholders. The problem is the question of the how and why. We can compare the current AI boom with the crypto boom.
The crypto boom just made NVIDIA more exploitative and fronted scams, grifts and rugpulls in the form of smart contracts and NFTs.
Everyone pretty much abandoned it, like in the gaming industry, because being associated with crypto was tantamount to being declared a plague bearer.
Then we see NPUs being integrated into SoC's by Intel, AMD, Apple, etc, platforms like Hugging face, frameworks like pytorch.
Sure, there's a crapton of illegal data harvesting and new swathes of content farms, as well as the premonition of mass layoffs in the future. But all these things are strictly speaking speculation.
I personally think that some of the moves being made to distribute AI processing is good, because it is far better to having access to AI processing from within the SoC of your device, rather than being locked to the GPU market. But the question still remains.
Will localised SLM's, LLM's and stable diffusion really take off? Or will these NPU's be gangrenous limbs come the next decade? Will we all have to bend over to our AGI overlords? Only time will tell.
Place your bets.