Capitalism ruins everything. Even if you can argue it’s what made it.
this post was submitted on 15 Sep 2023
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Not sure the mega corps have it all, there are still small sites that people run, I my self run some stuff. My lemme instance for 1.
The way I see it, is the mega corps have the budget to make hosting with them cheaper that running at home.
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Hey its not all bad, ChatGPT and midjourney have been really entertaining. We now also run on decentralised media.
Okay ChatGPT has been an exciting announcement. That's true, thanks for reminding me. It's somewhat of a double edged sword too though. It's hugely beneficial for my job right now, but I'm also seriously concerned about the future of my career for the first time since entering this field. I have no delusions that ChatGPT won't eventually replace millions of programmers. Programmers won't completely go away, but when companies get their LLMs set up, and figure out how to integrate ChatGPT into their systems, programmers, analysts, writers, and about 80% of the careers on the planet are going to be seriously impacted.
Fortunately or unfortunately I think there is plenty of time before successful adoption starts to impact the majority of IT related careers. Just based on the rate of adoption of other useful but complicated IT frameworks like k8s.
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Optimization is the natural path of all things commercial. When the Internet was young it was more experimental as a whole and that was fun for people. Computing is still experimental but the experimentation isn't obvious as it was back then. Unfortunately that means adventure finding you across your computer screen doesn't happen as often. You either need to look for it around the fringes or look beyond the monitor.
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The 00s were also filled with corporations monopolizing entire portions of the industry with almost no resistance, even going so far as to have protections for their empires legislated. We're aware of what happens and we get mad about it, before we were ignorant to everything except for what we were told by those mega corporations.
IBM's proprietary software runs all financial transactions in the USA. Apple and Microsoft are the only commercial operating systems. nVidia can sue the pants off of anybody who even thinks about rendering things in a similar manner to their GPU firmware capabilities.
This is why I'm currently trying to figure out how to setup an intranet via something like openvpn. Basically a walled garden that keeps the corpos out. My version of it will also be locked to a max of 1.5mbit/s to help with bandwidth costs.
I've looked at private 5g for this a couple times using something like Openstack Magma. Get me and few friends and family and I've have decent coverage I think.
Holy shit never expected to see this comment on lemmy. I worked on magma in the early days of it
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It’s the equivalent of a dead and abandoned shopping mall in a shit hole city once popular. It was a course charted long before the 00s though.