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It all depends on how you implement it. He describes the text from images as using machine learning, which implies using an external API to do that translation.
Storing cloud backups requires a server and storage, etc.
It all depends on how you implement it. He describes the text from images as using machine learning, which implies using an external API to do that translation.
Storing cloud backups requires a server and storage, etc.
Source: The sync ultra description from in-app
I might be mistaken, but I don’t think Sync Ultra is the same thing as the ad-free sync premium. Sync Ultra is a subscription because it adds functionality that requires cloud resources, not just removes ads.
That’s how you know they’re starting to feel the pinch of people being fed up with them.
It’s more like realizing that you’re surrounded by fire, so you might as well pick a patch with a nice view.
The only reason to pursue “corporate legitimacy” is for profit, which. I’d say that folks interested in meta content can simply join meta instances.
I’ve seen a lot of comparison to email services, and I think it’s an apples to oranges comparison. Email is meant to be a electronic communication standard to allow you to communicate with anyone. The fediverse is all about individual community control, not global and universal communication.
It’s due to a feature of lemmy called “Federation”. It allows independently hosted instances to communicate with each other, without actually hosting each other’s data.
There is some technical details here: https://join-lemmy.org/docs/en/administration/federation_getting_started.html#federation.
Basically your home base is startek.website, and the maintainers of your home base have determined that they want to be able to interact with other bases. Anything you contribute to a base belongs to that base, but passes through your home base.
You can have local models, but the vast majority of people are going to farm that out to a 3rd party provider via API calls because it’s the easiest thing to do.
Remember I said “It all depends on how you implement it”.