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Skullgrid@lemmy.world 3 weeks agothat doesn’t seem to be the same thing, I skimmed most of the article, but that speech is about restricting what hardware can do , not making hardware unavailable to general people so that we become dependent on “cloud computing”
If we can’t store or compute anything, we will be reliant on those with that power. Cloud providers. They will suck up all our data, analyze it with their AI, and charge us for the privilege.
They are forcing us to rent from them their ability to watch us and predict us.
Welcome to the global panopticon.
The speech is about software (and laws) not being able to properly limit software, and that as long as we have “General-Purpose Computing” (aka. PCs or hardware/computers that you have access to) we will not be able to properly limit software. Cory just didn’t think as far as the solution 15 years later being to move the hardware on which your software runs away from you.
It is quite tragicomic how we went from mainframes and terminals in the 60’s to GPC/PCs in the 90’s and now are moving back to cloud (aka. mainframes and terminals but on a global scale).
balsoft@lemmy.ml 3 weeks ago
Eh, it’s a continuation of the same idea. Remove the ability to do arbitrary compute from the hands of the people, let the corpos decide what you can and can’t do (and they have decided that the only thing you should be able to do is give hallucinating chatbots your medical history in exchange for predatory ads). Whether it is restricting what you can do with your own computer, or just restricting you from buying your own computer in the first place, the outcome is the same.
4am@lemmy.zip 3 weeks ago
Think about the power Microsoft has when they have every business document on earth and an AI that can summarize vast quantities of them on an ongoing basis.
They’re taking control of free markets, of political movements.
deltaspawn0040@lemmy.zip 3 weeks ago
I am sure getting the gist of all the knowledge in the world will be very useful. They’ll have the general idea of the kind of things they may or may not need or not need to do to accomplish anything!