@tiago Yeah, it's the whole #SaaSS thing in a nutshell.

If you're not running the program on your computer, does it really serve you? https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/who-does-that-server-really-serve.html

@lanodan @chjara The assumption is that it serves you as a user, which is to say you own/control it.

The #SaaSS (https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/who-does-that-server-really-serve.html) page pretty much only makes sense with that conception in mind.

An organization/collective can own a computer & control it, but generally the idea I think is an individual owner/user.

@april Yet another evil permitted by thin clients, #SaaSS & centralized software.

And also by gratuitous amounts of human evil.

#ChatGPT is #SaaSS

https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/who-does-that-server-really-serve.en.html

@Zee @wowitskaylie @the_Effekt Most of it is corporate greed.

There's no practical justification for #GamesAsAService. The case is very similar for #DRM.

#SaaSS likewise has pretty steep usability & user-freedom drawbacks that make it entirely a bad deal for users. So corporations just deprecate the more reliable & advantageous options.

@SuperDicq @256 Yep, #SaaSS was a terrible idea.

@davew @shoq Does anyone even remember Google Reader?

It just looked like some cheap corposcum attempt at #SaaSS-ifying something I could do better locally.

@maxissakitsune Ah right. Yeah. Understandable.

Personally, once always-online #DRM was added to photoshop (and then it got turned into #SaaSS later) was when I considered it unrecommendable even to users that intend to use #proprietary software anyway.

Are Chat-bots just #Saass ?

#userfreedom #privacy

#lbry #odysee #librarian

https://lbry.bcow.xyz/@blenderdumbass:f/chat-bots-saass:8

Telling people that "all they need is a #web browser", is a terrible idea. Especially if you want to promote #gnu #linux. This is not about the kernel. Or else you would promote such #malware as #Android and #ChomeOS. It's about #userfreedom . And #webapps / #Saass are not #freedom.

https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/who-does-that-server-really-serve.html

There is no such thing as a #cloudcomputing. There are only other people's computers. Those who believe that their files are stored in a magical #cloud, their thinking is cloudy. And while "cloud" storage is relatively harmless. It's like to save money in a bank. Or ask your friend to hold something for you. "Cloud" computing is an issue of an entirely different proportion.
#freesoftware #userfreedom #saass #lbry
https://odysee.com/@blenderdumbass:f/Imagine-a-world-without-cloud-computing:2

https://fsci.in/statements/sprinklr-controversy-kerala-response #saass

@grainloom

Leading people means helping them move from a point to another.

Like it or not, but #RMS proved a great leadership in #FreeSoftware: he didn't just give it a definition and an identity, but turned it in a powerful and positive political movement. He was being so.successful that #OpenSource was created to embrace, extend and estinguish such movement.

Thank to #OSS we now have #SaaSS, browsers that are more complex to #hack than operating systems and the four #freedoms have been reduced to privileges.

However #Stallman intransigence was still a pain in the ass for many people who want to finally absorb free software in open source.

Without Stallman at #FSF, #GAFAM are way stronger. Now THEY will lead!

Will #Google be creepy with women?
No!

Does Google care about women?
Sure! They are valuable data cow to milk! Great workers! And useful conumers! Just like men.

Same for #Microsoft, #Facebook and friends! They will be great leaders, if you want to be led where they want to milk you.

But I'm a weird #hacker. I prefer weird leaders. Because their weirdness protects mine. And yours.

Don't forget my words: nobody will fight for hackers' freedom. The gentrification process is running fast. First #Linus, now RMS... the next might be you!

@dthompson @cwebber