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Re:Petals: Run 100B+ language models at home bit-torrent style by ricardobeat on Monday January 02, 2023 @05:06AM (#34216241)
Where exactly is decentralized tech today?

Nobody around me ever uses any of it. Old p2p networks (gnutella, kademlia, emule) had way larger impact on society 20 years ago.

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Re:Petals: Run 100B+ language models at home bit-torrent style by pmontra on Monday January 02, 2023 @05:45AM (#34216493)
Email and the web are more decentralized than they look. Just think that different FOSS and closed source user agents and servers interoperate without any problem, especially for email.
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Re:Petals: Run 100B+ language models at home bit-torrent style by feanaro on Monday January 02, 2023 @06:47AM (#34216914)
And in non-web space, there's Matrix (https://matrix.org).
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Re:Petals: Run 100B+ language models at home bit-torrent style by ricardobeat on Monday January 02, 2023 @07:44PM (#34225968)
They were talking about crypto. Email and the web were born out of research & universities, not the “potential to attract investors”.
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Re:Petals: Run 100B+ language models at home bit-torrent style by blamestross on Monday January 02, 2023 @07:49AM (#34217360)
BitTorrent isn't getting any smaller. Mainline DHT is still 10x bigger than Bitcoin.
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