Right, like no megacorp ever prevented us from doing whatever we want for our smartphones. Oh wait. (No Pixels don't count, unless you can write your own TEE, your own sensor hub, and your own wake up word)
Re:Stable Diffusion Textual Inversion
by paskozdilar on Tuesday August 30, 2022 @05:46AM
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I'm not saying they can't try, and succeed for a while. But eventually, we will always break free.
Pixel exists (but apparently doesn't count because it's not perfect yet).
Librem exists.
PinePhone exists.
More will exist in the future.
The "Librem is to iPhone as Stable Diffusion is to DALL-E" analogy breaks down when you consider that Librem phone works about 10% as well as an iPhone, whereas SD works 110% as well as DALL-E.
Re:Stable Diffusion Textual Inversion
by paskozdilar on Wednesday August 31, 2022 @04:58AM
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Linux also used to be a "hobby" OS. Now it powers the internet. Things change.
Re:Stable Diffusion Textual Inversion
by thegrimmest on Wednesday August 31, 2022 @01:04PM
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"open source" hardware is never going to work the same way as open source software does. Hardware is fundamentally capital-intensive to produce. Software can be produced (compiled) using hardware that many people have readily available. This is a fundamental, intractable difference.
It's the difference between free knitting patterns and free cardigans.
Re:Stable Diffusion Textual Inversion
by NwpierratorR on Wednesday August 31, 2022 @12:05PM
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It took Linux a couple of decades to get to that point. And it had immense business value in having such a massive infrastructure open for everyone.
For hardware our world is not there yet and won't be for quite a forseeable future.
Hackers built all this technology. There's no way a handful of megacorps are going to take it all for themselves.