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- Comment on Hey Apple, I have this great idea for a next spot where we burn a pile of books. Call me. 8 hours ago:
What I hate about it is it’s a replacement of something better which could exist in the same role of a mobile computer for normies (like Star Wars datapads?), but, well, bigger and more convenient to actually work than a phone role PDA.
I’d want a device with a color e-Ink display (non-touchscreen or at least not requiring using the touchscreen), with repurposeable physical buttons around (small screens showing different pictures depending on what the button must be used for? or maybe Sony-style abstract emblems used differently by different applications), and those should have sufficiently deep travel, one that can survive a 1 meter fall, with a few interfaces normal for laptops (a few USB ports, HDMI, Ethernet, 3.5 jack, microSD would be good), an LTE modem, an SSD or NVME inside, and a good battery.
I’m fine with it being kinda fat. Some rubber parts to protect against falls may mask it for those who think that’s against aesthetics.
And it should run Linux.
Guess Apple is not the company to address with such wishes, but the funny part is that in general iPad is kinda in the same niche as what I’m describing. Just much less useful.
- Comment on Meet My A.I. Friends | Our columnist spent the past month hanging out with 18 A.I. companions. They critiqued his clothes, chatted among themselves and hinted at a very different future. 11 hours ago:
are opening themselves up to some more sinister exploitation…
They definitely are, and there’s more of that in our days, and generally done by big enough companies, and all connected. Can’t believe I’ve become a conspiracy theorist, but I think modern changes in the Web etc are a part of a comprehensive strategy.
- Comment on Stack Overflow bans users en masse for rebelling against OpenAI partnership — users banned for deleting answers to prevent them being used to train ChatGPT 14 hours ago:
A reaction developed because of there often being some “eat the rich” types thinking they don’t need brain because they have taken the right position.
- Comment on Stack Overflow bans users en masse for rebelling against OpenAI partnership — users banned for deleting answers to prevent them being used to train ChatGPT 16 hours ago:
They were answering me and I wasn’t talking about scraping. Can you arrogant dumb commie shits looking for conflict just fuck off?
- Comment on Stack Overflow bans users en masse for rebelling against OpenAI partnership — users banned for deleting answers to prevent them being used to train ChatGPT 1 day ago:
This is orthogonal to what I’m talking about. I don’t see scraping as a problem.
- Comment on Stack Overflow bans users en masse for rebelling against OpenAI partnership — users banned for deleting answers to prevent them being used to train ChatGPT 1 day ago:
Decentralization and distribution should be enforced, yes.
By, for example, institutionalized resistance to anything like IP law, to regulations and certifications allowing bigger fish to call those who can’t afford them, and at the same time by maintaining regulations against obvious fraud.
It’s not a circular argument, you’re just not paying attention.
The friendliness of political systems to decentralization doesn’t correlate much with their alignment in terms of left\right or even authoritarian\libertarian. So in my opinion this should be a third dimension on that political compass everybody’s gotten tired of seeing. And there are many other dimensions to add then, so useless.
- Comment on Stack Overflow bans users en masse for rebelling against OpenAI partnership — users banned for deleting answers to prevent them being used to train ChatGPT 1 day ago:
but it does seem to be an entry drug for exploitation by the right.
Well, it is a right ideology. It can be that, of course.
- Comment on Stack Overflow bans users en masse for rebelling against OpenAI partnership — users banned for deleting answers to prevent them being used to train ChatGPT 1 day ago:
You are not arguing with me. Not reading comments before answering them is disrespectful.
- Comment on Stack Overflow bans users en masse for rebelling against OpenAI partnership — users banned for deleting answers to prevent them being used to train ChatGPT 1 day ago:
They think they are too big to die by now. That userbase grows like crops, and isn’t conscious of how it’s being treated.
That’s a bit like monopolists and Ponzi scheme owners think. It works sometimes.
- Comment on Stack Overflow bans users en masse for rebelling against OpenAI partnership — users banned for deleting answers to prevent them being used to train ChatGPT 1 day ago:
Of leftist ideologies it’s the best one, but not as beautiful and overarching as distributivism.
- Comment on Stack Overflow bans users en masse for rebelling against OpenAI partnership — users banned for deleting answers to prevent them being used to train ChatGPT 1 day ago:
This has everything to do with centralization, just not with the one small context for it which you picked.
With real decentralization in place market mechanisms work.
- Comment on Stack Overflow bans users en masse for rebelling against OpenAI partnership — users banned for deleting answers to prevent them being used to train ChatGPT 1 day ago:
I think the reason for those bans is that they don’t want you rebelling and are showing that they don’t need you personally, thus ban.
Of course it’s all retained.
- Comment on Stack Overflow bans users en masse for rebelling against OpenAI partnership — users banned for deleting answers to prevent them being used to train ChatGPT 1 day ago:
You can be killed with steel, which has a lot of other implications on what you do in order to avoid getting killed with steel.
Does steel fuck it all up?
Centralization is a shitty backwards idea. But you have to be very conscious of yourself and your instincts to neuter the part that tells you that it’s not to understand it.
Distributivism minus Catholicism is just so good. I always return to it when I give up on trying to find future in some other political ideology.
- Comment on As Israel Begins “Final Phase” of Genocide, Biden Slams Pro-Palestine Protests 2 days ago:
So you are ready to vote for his competition?
- Comment on As Israel Begins “Final Phase” of Genocide, Biden Slams Pro-Palestine Protests 2 days ago:
Slams them with the door until they’re dead
- Comment on Apple introduces M4 chip 2 days ago:
That’s nice, and it’s cool to see correct lighting and reflections in games, but that’s if those are not broken by fuckload of shaders used incorrectly (that would be most modern games).
- Comment on Apple introduces M4 chip 2 days ago:
4:3 is objectively better than 16:9 for anything but watching movies.
I love 5:4 though.
- Comment on Apple introduces M4 chip 2 days ago:
for the new ray tracing capabilities LOL
Raytracing is cool, only why have it in games is beyond me.
Making wallpapers with POV-Ray - yes.
- Comment on „If companies were to do the right thing, they would lose the most valuable customers on earth, preteen kids” 3 days ago:
No, actually nothing is on me. You don’t get it - ok, keep walking.
- Comment on „If companies were to do the right thing, they would lose the most valuable customers on earth, preteen kids” 3 days ago:
You’re also not winning this argument, look at who’s getting downvotes here.
Downvotes don’t have anything to do with winning\losing.
I think it was pretty clear just like other things I’ve said, and I’m too lazy to repeat or rephrase.
So you may go on and think you’ve “won” or something, but you didn’t understand a single thing of what I said in the first place.
- Comment on Why do people still eat beef when we know it's terrible for Earth? 3 days ago:
It’s nutritious. Instead of carefully observing some diet you can eat some beef and buckwheat or cabbage or beans, and you’re good.
That said, I eat meat so rarely that my relatives worry, mainly because it takes some time to cook if you boil it, and I’m lazy and unorganized, and frying it has the potential of, eh, leaving the kitchen for 5 minutes which turn out to be half an hour and returning for the smell.
Other than that people can’t care about every problem at once.
- Comment on Republicans are pulling out all the stops to reverse EV adoption 3 days ago:
Hence things I said. Otherwise the wheel is free for taking for the worst people.
- Comment on „If companies were to do the right thing, they would lose the most valuable customers on earth, preteen kids” 3 days ago:
Well, that won’t be soon, but the closest thing I’ve had to that - went well.
- Comment on Republicans are pulling out all the stops to reverse EV adoption 3 days ago:
Free market involves pluralism of systems and distribution of power as important preconditions. Lobbyism requires monoculture of systems and power being sufficiently centralized to be controllable.
- Comment on „If companies were to do the right thing, they would lose the most valuable customers on earth, preteen kids” 3 days ago:
And GNU utilities were obviously used a lot on Unices and when Linux didn’t yet exist. Also bash is more or less similar to Korn shell, which was used earlier than you may think. And also zsh, despite people perceiving it as very modern, is older than you may think.
Anyway, if a program written for Unix works on a Unix clone, it doesn’t cease being a Unix program. POSIX was a standard for Unix.
I don’t get what are you arguing for. Especially since I meant bourne shell scripts, not bash scripts.
You very much can avoid using a Unix shell. Your average Windows user has never used one, and neither do most macOS people even though it’s included with macOS. Likewise most people will never have to setup a web server.
I’ve said once that I want to give a taste of something. I was more general with things one can’t avoid, as in “one can’t avoid computers and the Internet”. And this was pretty clear from the context, either you are playing dumb or you want to defeat someone in an argument, in the latter case I don’t care because I see you are not doing that.
A taste of real things I’d want to give to help them connect their inner abstract idea of how the world works with actual material things. They will have that idea, I absolutely trust every person to develop that on their own without help. Without that they might not believe themselves when they should.
None of this is going to stop someone getting scammed. You can have plenty of technical knowledge and still get scammed. I got scammed trying to sell a laptop for example. Teaching them how paypal works and to avoid using the friends and family option is much better for this purpose.
See previous.
If you want to give people practical skills start with adblockers and how to reinstall Windows, macOS, and Linux Mint if it goes wrong.
I don’t want them to hate computing. This will lead to that exactly. Especially PowerShell.
Anyway, see that same paragraph.
- Comment on „If companies were to do the right thing, they would lose the most valuable customers on earth, preteen kids” 4 days ago:
I was thinking of showing that on MMORPGs.
- Comment on „If companies were to do the right thing, they would lose the most valuable customers on earth, preteen kids” 4 days ago:
Unix isn’t even used anymore. Linux and the BSDs are Unix-like, not actual Unix.
That’s still called Unix shell scripts even on Linux. Also it is used, Solaris and AIX - sometimes rarely, and BSDs are Unix unless you are a lawyer.
What if your kids are physicists, chemists, or mathematicians?
They still can spend a few hours on something useful for life. I know hundreds of little things like this from various areas even less useful specifically for me. While this is useful for everyone, as we can see every day from normies not knowing how anything in computing works and getting scammed.
And of course this is insufficient to be a systems administrator.
Are you going to say they aren’t good enough to use a fucking smartphone just because they don’t know specific things about a certain specific area of tech?
No, that it’s dangerous for them without some knowledge and feeling of how computers work. That’s not to become a specialist, that’s just to feel things right.
How do you know SQL specifically will even be relevant then? NoSQL is already making headway.
Can do any of that. That’s not about preparing someone for a job.
This isn’t how you get people into Open Source software or interested in technology. You can’t do it by forcing them to do things that are esoteric to the majority of people.
This is about upbringing and introducing people to things they can’t avoid. Not about making them interested (but I’m almost confident that actually it will make a kid interested).
- Comment on That time when Microsoft bought and killed Nokia phone unit 4 days ago:
This actually happens to a degree defined by a working court system. And to make that smaller takes not a very complex set of laws, but they should be enforced. While IRL people make new laws when the bad thing is covered by existing ones which it’s hard to enforce. As if it will be different with a new more specific law.
So I’m hopeful that anti-monopoly institutions get their shit together. This doesn’t have to be this way. It isn’t this way always . ATnT has been split at some point. Standard Oil and so on.
Wheels of justice grind slowly etc. If they still do grind faster than more injustice emerges - then they work and eventually those who fuck around find out. Otherwise - well, otherwise it’ll be some new civilization after the new middle ages, ha-ha.
- Comment on That time when Microsoft bought and killed Nokia phone unit 4 days ago:
I mean, it got a hit, but what ended it was the Elopian suicide.
Also about slick design … That’s subjective, but even Windows Mobile looked better than Apple stuff.
And Nokia UI design was just perfect.
- Comment on That time when Microsoft bought and killed Nokia phone unit 4 days ago:
Compared to Nokia stuff it was bad software.