Well there’s your problem.
The AI advertising is just a symptom of the underlying issue; VC funding.
The more I learn about AI the more I feel like it’s another dot-com bubble.
LLMs and generative AI are such multifaceted systems that saying “this is for AI” is like saying “this is for the WWW”
Databases, interfaces, storage, networking. All are used in AI but if you just say you make a database and not and “AI database” you’ll lose out on investors.
It’s a bit like the gold rush in that everyone is so fixated on the gold that they don’t see the real economic boom is selling the shovels and building the trains.
People have been using AI tech for decades. It’s just marketing terms come and go.
Well there’s your other problem.
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Next, you’re going tell me a billionaire’s involved somehow!
Looks like it’s Michael Dell and Masayoshi Son.
Investors include Intel (Pat Gelsinger, net worth ~82m), Dell (Michael Dell, ~112b), and SoftBank (Masayoshi Son, ~29b). Probably others, but I’m on my phone so getting this info is awkward.
VC?
Venture capital
I’ve completely switched away from using Minio (and just the S3 protocol in general) in all of my projects.
I’ve found that the WebDAV protocol is better for object storage in almost every case. It’s also way simpler to use and understand.
Now it’s time for me to shill:
I wrote my own WebDAV server called Nephele. It’s free and open source, and you can run it on Docker. Probably doesn’t help if you’re using something that requires S3, but if you’re building something, I implore you to migrate away from S3.
Yeah WebDAV is significantly better for our use cases, S3 has so many weird limitations and it’s hard to find clients for it.
New fork incoming in 3…2…
I’ve never used it but I hear it is actually good but less well known
Luckily I wasn’t even using the UI in the first place, still, not a good sign and probably something to look into for replacement.
They not only force their user to buy their crap, they also intentionally and maliciously frame the AGPL in a certain way.
Fucking cunts.
