Sep 8, 2024, 1:47 AM"Google, Amazon, and Microsoft control seventy-five percent of the cloud computing market. Meta and Google own half of the fiber optic cables supplying internet services across continents."
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"So what did GAMM do? They convinced us that our notetaking apps require an internet connection and forty thousand dollar GPUs located on a server three hundred miles away."
Sep 8, 2024, 4:15 AM@mia
@davidgerard this seems like it’d be up your alley
“The presumptive beneficiaries of this new land of milk and honey are so drunk with speculative power that they'll promise us anything to win our hearts and minds. That anything includes magical virtual reality universes and robots with human-like intelligence. It's the same faux-passionate anything that proclaimed crypto as the savior of the marginalized.”
@zzt @mia @davidgerard yohhh, not tagging me too, I see how it is ;p
Sep 8, 2024, 6:41 PM@froztbyte @mia @davidgerard you’re right! it’s probably good stubsack material come to think of it
@zzt @froztbyte @mia or indeed a full post
Sep 8, 2024, 7:22 PM@davidgerard @froztbyte @mia let’s see if I can get the pull quotes arranged while day drinking!
@mia excellent. 👏🤬
@mia
This is so good:
So what did GAMM do? They convinced us that our notetaking apps require an internet connection and forty thousand dollar GPUs located on a server three hundred miles away. ... Its monopolistic control. It’s computing-hungry magic tricks thrown at the wall, hoping something sticks. The next iteration of the web by way of the internet is just one long infomercial of fifty-dollar solutions to fifty-cent problems.
Sep 8, 2024, 11:57 AM@mia Heck that gave me shivers. Bookmarked.
Sep 8, 2024, 12:14 PM@mia @AndrewRadev with all due respect, this blog post is so bad I don’t even know where to begin. — I’ve been an indie open web stan for a long time. The reasons this author provides are weak, and uses so many words to convey so little.
Sep 8, 2024, 6:36 PM@eljojo @mia @AndrewRadev hey José, I get paid by the word.
“We reminisced about a time when the web was more than just search engine optimization and key performance indicators. Before an algorithm made us dance for our dinners. And it just felt right. So, we made blogs and personal websites and put little pixelated badges on the footers like we used to. We then moved to decentralized social media and joined small forums.
We carved out a space on the web that wasn’t for sale.
[…] Our existence on this unincorporated web threatens those who have made their fortunes off our digital lives. The four largest corporations in the world won’t just roll over and let us have the quirky indie web we all want. They’ve moved one layer up so that they remain our gatekeepers no matter where we go.”
@mia > So, who gives a shit if Meta put Llama on Github for free? How will anyone ship their resulting AI-featured app without Meta’s cloud infrastructure?
Does the author think Meta sells cloud infrastructure for deploying apps? Or do they have a reason to think that’s the plan? I don’t understand this.
The article makes the AI craze out to be more of a planned-out, coordinated effort than it really is. That makes for a more enjoyable rant though. 🤷🏽♀️
Sep 8, 2024, 6:34 PM@alannorbauer @mia Hey Alan! Author here. Yes, imo, I do think Meta is pivoting to cloud infrastructure.
I mean, Meta probably didn't slip and fall into billions of dollars in data centers and GPUs so I'd say it's at least a little coordinated.
@fromjason @mia Hey Jason 👋🏼.
Interesting idea but that’s a pretty wild theory to hinge “Llama isn’t really free” on. I get that free things under the cloak of techno optimism require more skepticism than most so whatever.
Sep 8, 2024, 6:49 PM@alannorbauer @mia I think it's infinitely more reasonable than believing Mark Zuckerberg spent $10 billion on Nvidia GPU's as some bastion of the open web as many prominent tech bloggers have alluded.
Sep 8, 2024, 6:26 PM@mia thanks for sharing!
Sep 8, 2024, 6:40 PM@fromjason had it in my to-read for a while, finally did-read (and enjoyed)
Your site is lovely, as a bonus.
Sep 8, 2024, 6:50 PM@mia that means a lot thank you Mia.
@mia @chpietsch … when "Microsoft, Alphabet, Meta, Amazon (MAMA)" was right there!