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- Comment on The Department of Homeland Security Is Demanding That Google Turn Over Information About Random Critics 1 day ago:
What fools we’ve been, thinking we could televise the revolution on a corporate monopolist video platform, where ultimately they have absolute control over. Even bigger fools we’ve been, pinning our emancipatory power hopes to our labour?
- Comment on The Department of Homeland Security Is Demanding That Google Turn Over Information About Random Critics 1 day ago:
The Department of Homeland Security should abide by the constitution.
That’s my random criticism of The Department of Homeland Security.
- Comment on Chatbots Make Terrible Doctors, New Study Finds 1 day ago:
human: je pense
llm: je ponce
- Comment on Chatbots Make Terrible Doctors, New Study Finds 1 day ago:
It’s scary, when someone recommends webmd as a primary, and reliable, source of healthcare information.
Presumably those same people would unquestioningly take the first thing an LLM says as gospel too.
- Comment on Chatbots Make Terrible Doctors, New Study Finds 1 day ago:
Terrible programmers, psychologists, friends, designers, musicians, poets, copywriters, mathematicians, physicists, philosophers, etc too.
Though to be fair, doctors generally make terrible doctors too.
- Comment on Discord will require a face scan or ID for full access next month 2 days ago:
nobody was left on IRC.
If you went back to freenode.net… we’re all over on libera.chat… since freenode.net got bought by rotters trying to enshitify it.
- Comment on Discord will require a face scan or ID for full access next month 2 days ago:
Until the global gestapo put a stop to that.
But yeah. They [the “total information awareness” sort] buy out a network focused on free software, and then nearly everybody just leaves, to a new network. Did happen already.
- Comment on Discord will require a face scan or ID for full access next month 2 days ago:
Free software contributors I hang out with do mention the likes of irc, matrix, codeberg, and activitypub’ising git a lot.
No time to waste mentioning inferior software that’s abusive.
Let alone use it.
- Comment on Discord will require a face scan or ID for full access next month 2 days ago:
Is this satire?
Serious?
Either way, come back to IRC. :P
No, wait, if you were stupid enough to move to discord… do not come back to IRC, polluting it with your stupid.
[I say smugly with IRC never having done anything like this in its >30 years existence… until some future dystopian rule descends on even IRC…? Yikes. Scary thought.]
- Comment on Praise Be 2 days ago:
the purple party
- Comment on Praise Be 2 days ago:
Do need a lot of strength for that.
Daunting that what we’d been doing in prohibiting was not only handing it over to the black market, but increasing the value and attraction of our children to the molesters and blackmailers and worse.
That’s the hardest to come to terms with “Prohibition does not prevent. Pohibition makes the good things bad and the bad things worse.”, for our children.
Do need a lot of strength to face that horror.
But WOAH there… you’re gonna do what now?
“Integrate” how?
- Comment on Rent is theft 1 week ago:
… “both sides”…?
- Comment on Rent is theft 1 week ago:
Why concrete?
It’s energy intensive (~& polluting), unhealthy, and does not last.
Various other options are available now. Lime hempcrete, and various myco-based solutions, for a couple examples.
With various suppressed technologies, if de-secreted and availed, we could even be building giant forest arcologies, and even linking them up to create vast forest arcologyscapes, increasing the carrying capacity of earth into the hundreds of trillions. Not saying we should, just saying we could, and that we have so much headroom without these crooks, these rentiers, seeking to keep others down just to maintain their power over others, even if it means making themselves worse off than what they could be in real terms, in egalitarian freedom and abundance.
Also, I hear there are already sufficient number of empty housing to house all the homeless… but the hoarders do not want to avail that for good use. They want to remain complicit in the manufactured scarcity to increase their return on investment, keeping the bubble growing.
- Comment on You won: Microsoft is walking back Windows 11’s AI overload — scaling down Copilot and rethinking Recall in a major shift 1 week ago:
It’s the freedom, not the Linux.
- Comment on You won: Microsoft is walking back Windows 11’s AI overload — scaling down Copilot and rethinking Recall in a major shift 1 week ago:
I’ve won when everybody gets the principles of free software philosophy, along with other essential freedoms, free roaming, free speech, free assembly, free press, free energy, free healthcare, etc.
It’s the freedom.
Free to use, study, share, change.
The Free Software Definition
The free software definition presents the criteria for whether a particular software program qualifies as free software. From time to time we revise this definition, to clarify it or to resolve questions about subtle issues. See the History section below for a list of changes that affect the definition of free software.
The four essential freedoms
A program is free software if the program’s users have the four essential freedoms: [1]
- The freedom to run the program as you wish, for any purpose (freedom 0).
- The freedom to study how the program works, and change it so it does your computing as you wish (freedom 1). Access to the source code is a precondition for this.
- The freedom to redistribute copies so you can help others (freedom 2).
- The freedom to distribute copies of your modified versions to others (freedom 3). By doing this you can give the whole community a chance to benefit from your changes. Access to the source code is a precondition for this.
A program is free software if it gives users adequately all of these freedoms. Otherwise, it is nonfree. While we can distinguish various nonfree distribution schemes in terms of how far they fall short of being free, we consider them all equally unethical.
In any given scenario, these freedoms must apply to whatever code we plan to make use of, or lead others to make use of. For instance, consider a program A which automatically launches a program B to handle some cases. If we plan to distribute A as it stands, that implies users will need B, so we need to judge whether both A and B are free. However, if we plan to modify A so that it doesn’t use B, only A needs to be free; B is not pertinent to that plan.
- Comment on Microsoft CEO warns that we must 'do something useful' with AI or they'll lose 'social permission' to burn electricity on it 3 weeks ago:
How about we get “Universal Basic Income”, to respect all the unpaid work?
That’d make my choice of not using Excel (at the expense of risking not getting work) more worthwhile.
… And surviving genocide when welfare was stripped away, fraudulently re-labelling as “fit to work”, killing over 130,000 disabled people in Britain from 2010 to 2019, a more worthwhile struggle too.
Otherwise, it seems even if AI does not take jobs, most work done with AI will be unpaid.
- Comment on Microsoft CEO warns that we must 'do something useful' with AI or they'll lose 'social permission' to burn electricity on it 3 weeks ago:
Microsoft CEO warns that we must ‘do something useful’ with AI or they’ll lose ‘social permission’ to burn electricity on it
<Insert AI generated video of Microsoft CEO dancing around with willies on his head>
- Comment on It's easy 3 weeks ago:
👍
My British autism and too long time spent online among non-Brits causing me to consider it could have been meant non-sarcastically. Those people are out there.
- Comment on Ligma 3 weeks ago:
Great, so now all kind people have to look out for:
“You all saw him… He had a gun.”
- Comment on It's easy 3 weeks ago:
Oh, you too?
We should create a group for our special class.
- Comment on It's easy 3 weeks ago:
Poe’s Law prevents me fathoming if that’s said in earnest.
- Comment on It's easy 3 weeks ago:
If people disagreed, I convinced them otherwise.
Because being wrong didn’t matter. Daddy had their back.
- Comment on It's easy 3 weeks ago:
Do not underestimate the idiocracy.
- Comment on It's easy 3 weeks ago:
I did some maths yesterday, after hearing said that wages have gone down by a third every decade since 1970… meaning (if I did the maths correctly) in this coming decade wages are less than a tenth what they were in the 1970s.
A quick search just now suggests house prices are about 4 times more expensive in real terms over the same period.
So that’s fine. We just have to pull on our bootstraps over 40 times harder for better budgeting enough to buy a house.
- Comment on It's easy 3 weeks ago:
Cannot be found
- Comment on It's easy 3 weeks ago:
ADHD can be perfectly healthy.
It just takes some skill to ride that wild bull.
- Comment on It's easy 3 weeks ago:
Yep. Like merc@sh.itjust.works said at the end of their reply:
I guarantee that most of the kids that come from rich families have no idea what it’s like not to be rich. As a result, they don’t ever consider that it might not be normal to be able to have your dad’s lawyer look over the contracts for your new company free of charge. They never think of how easy they had it to find investors for their company, and how forgiving those investors were. It never occurred to them that during those lean months at the beginning when their company hadn’t yet started generating real revenue, that it was unusual to be able to live in their parents’ spare apartment in the city, and to have dad pay off their credit card.
- Comment on It's easy 3 weeks ago:
Gotta admire the cojones of those bootstraps.
- Comment on What a great idea 3 weeks ago:
“the bloody elgs can’t be trusted”
- Comment on Bandcamp bans purely AI-generated music from its platform 3 weeks ago:
The real gems are still hard to find, and require more ambitious exploring.
Most of the best, I get from suggestions from other people in irc or on the fediverse.