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I'm Tired of Pretending Tech is Making the World Better (www.joanwestenberg.com)
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[–] sudneo@lemm.ee 5 points 10 hours ago

Open source analytics tools are still pushing for ad-driven business models that make the world (and the content) worse. Open source LLMs still waste computational power and pollute. And the list continues. Some open source technologies serve a good goal, some contribute to make the world as bad as some non-OSS.