There might be a long game to #AI, #FOSS, and #personalcomputing .Basically, #capitalism hates how FOSS has "leaked value", and how [home] PCs and local #compute has enabled value streams outside of corporate control. The #cloud drive was the initial attempt to force the value back under oligopole control, on the hardware side, #socialmedia platforms were the "sugar" software. But even these two in combination failed to completely eradicate free open source and alternatives, as this fine #mastodon platform on the #fediverse proves. Enter #AI, the perfect weapon. It offers #techbros both tools: A way to dangle the promise of not even needing people anymore to investors, together with a perfect excuse to kill off the foundation that allows people to grow #cyber skills independently of corporate control - the [home] PC - by driving prices for basic tech like storage and memory way past home budgets.By making a personal computer impossibly expensive to build or own, the base for FOSS erode...
There might be a long game to #AI, #FOSS, and #personalcomputing .Basically, #capitalism hates how FOSS has "leaked valu...
