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Nextcloud 📱☁️💻

Today the OSI @osi has released it's 1.0 specification for Open Source AI 😍

While the definition isn't perfect, we think some kind of base line is much needed and we thank everybody who contributed to the effort. See our blog for more thoughts!

nextcloud.com/blog/open-source

Nextcloud · Open Source AI is here - NextcloudToday, the Open Source Initiative has released its first official definition of Open Source AI. Find out why this is an important milestone.

@nextcloud @osi
Who asked for "AI" [aka LLMs and image mashup machines] ?

Certainly no one using Nextcloud.

There's potential for so much better cloud (for example a functionnal Gantt app, a proper sync solution for map favorites or a tag-oriented file manager) and you really wanna spend it all on "AI" ?

@Teratogenese @nextcloud @osi I would have settled for allowing users to specify the format in which to display dates and times, but that's just me.

AI is the new "relative timestamp" (i.e., "4 hours ago"). Something that somebody thought was a good idea, nobody actually wants, and is not actually that useful, but somehow got implemented everywhere in all kinds of products nonetheless.

@nextcloud @osi Whatever AI "features" you end up wasting your time with, please, PLEASE, make them optional, and not things that leave gaping holes when they are inevitably disabled.

@steve @osi Great feedback, and we agree: all our AI features are off by default, and optional additions for those who want them. Nextcloud is built with modularity first, for this very reason: we want you to have a choice of what is installed on your Nextcloud!

Agree with the sentiment of others, should focus the energy towards what nextcloud's original promise was, a dependable self-hostable cloud solution. There are so many areas nexctcloud could improve upon instead of hopping on the bandwagon of AI which is not only so compute intensive its horrible to self host it has very limited use case.

Get your affairs in order nextcloud.

@nextcloud @osi techbros invent a new sort of computer that's wrong

Come check out our new software, you can ask it a question and it'll confidently give you a wrong answer, it uses hundreds of times more energy than your old software

and y'all think the problem with this is that it isn't open source

@nextcloud @osi
....or maybe use the development capacities for a built in backup/restore solution? I just set up my whole nc because of "internal server error" after update from v. 29 to 30.

@nextcloud @osi
Thanks for the hint. I guess this wont work for shared hoster setup. 🤔
I would prefer an app with occ support to backup e.g. the calendar data.