Free software's going to have to find a better strategy against SaaSS given, on top of all the other obstacles and challenges to it, purely local computing is enroute to becoming financially/physically impossible. Ethical, freedom-respecting ways to use shared/distributed storage and shared/distributed computing? Dust off that Franklin Street Statement and try again? AI/LLM has been the problem but may "just" be a subset of this problem.
I don't think I'm saying anything new to a lot of people here, but I'm remembering times in the last 10 years people oversimplifying the problems out of a well-meaning desire to have clear ethical lines shot down / shouted down projects that would have significantly advanced user freedom over forest/trees complaints about potential "SaaSS" elements in those projects.
