@richard_merren sure, my point was rather that the...

@richard_merren sure, my point was rather that the means of production are available to everyone. This facilitates being able to be a contractor or start a coop.

If development shifts towards using tools that can only be hosted on large server farms, then it's no longer going to even be possible to own the tools.

Like 30 Jan 2023 at 15:37 | Open on mas.to

2 comments

Richard

@yogthos But I would add that the ship has sailed on the "using tools that can only be hosted on large server farms". We are already stuck with a whole slew of small tools out there today hosted on proprietary platforms for things like data storage, ETL?ELT, logging/monitoring, interop, email blasting, and data analysis. None of those are "AI" but most of them are designed to replace custom code developed in openly available languages like Java and Python and Javascript with turnkey solutions.

30 Jan 2023 at 22:39 | Open on mastodon.social

Yogthos

@richard_merren I find that it's not that difficult to run a fully open source stack nowadays without any vendor lock in.

A lot of people certainly do end up getting locked into stacks like AWS, but it's far from the case that the ship has sailed.

30 Jan 2023 at 22:47 | Open on mas.to