Except what about the open source that google, amazon, microsoft etc sponsor? Is that bad or good? What about companies who build open source software? Are they good to start with and then become bad at some tipping point of market penetration? Are Meta sponsoring pytorch because they do a lot of machine learning in python or is it because they want to sell you on the cloud services (that they don't actually sell people)?
The whole thing feels like when you sit down at a bar and the guy next to you decides to start up a conversation about their pet topic and just will not fucking shut up no matter what. Full of pat "solutions", "deep" thoughts, dumb made-up terminology ("GAMM") that he clearly feels ever so proud of, deliberate changes to the meanings of words (eg "cloud"[1]).
His claim that "minions" of google, amazon, microsoft and meta are behind the whole crypto thing is one of the single stupidest and most obviously wrong claims I've ever heard anyone make. It's right up there with the face on mars, moon landing conspiracy, "turnip-shaped" earth[2] and all this other type of stuff that is so obviously wrong on its face it's hard to know where to begin.
Really appalling that this sort of nonsense is getting any airtime.
[1] Which really doesn't mean whatever he's saying it means in this article. The fact that Meta or Google own some undersea cables doesn't mean in any sense that they own "the cloud". Cloud means infrastructure as a service. Google offer cloud services. They actually brand them as such. Meta do not offer cloud services. THey run honking big old-school datacentres which they use for their own purposes. They need a lot of TCP/IP so it makes sense for them to pay to put in place the infra to reach their customers.
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Article definitely lacks quality, however I get the idea that GAMM bad open source good
Except what about the open source that google, amazon, microsoft etc sponsor? Is that bad or good? What about companies who build open source software? Are they good to start with and then become bad at some tipping point of market penetration? Are Meta sponsoring pytorch because they do a lot of machine learning in python or is it because they want to sell you on the cloud services (that they don't actually sell people)?
The whole thing feels like when you sit down at a bar and the guy next to you decides to start up a conversation about their pet topic and just will not fucking shut up no matter what. Full of pat "solutions", "deep" thoughts, dumb made-up terminology ("GAMM") that he clearly feels ever so proud of, deliberate changes to the meanings of words (eg "cloud"[1]).
His claim that "minions" of google, amazon, microsoft and meta are behind the whole crypto thing is one of the single stupidest and most obviously wrong claims I've ever heard anyone make. It's right up there with the face on mars, moon landing conspiracy, "turnip-shaped" earth[2] and all this other type of stuff that is so obviously wrong on its face it's hard to know where to begin.
Really appalling that this sort of nonsense is getting any airtime.
[1] Which really doesn't mean whatever he's saying it means in this article. The fact that Meta or Google own some undersea cables doesn't mean in any sense that they own "the cloud". Cloud means infrastructure as a service. Google offer cloud services. They actually brand them as such. Meta do not offer cloud services. THey run honking big old-school datacentres which they use for their own purposes. They need a lot of TCP/IP so it makes sense for them to pay to put in place the infra to reach their customers.
[2] Sportsman Andrew Flintoff decided flat earth wasn't dumb enough for him and that the earth was actually turnip-shaped. https://www.timesnownews.com/sports/cricket/article/earth-is...