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- Comment on Who should america be more concerned about MS-13 or Russia? 1 week ago:
Russia. MS-13 is nothing in comparison. Though it wouldn’t surprise me if Russia supports MS-13 as part of their hybrid warfare. That’s how they work.
Understand that Russia has largely been able to put US to its knees through hybrid methods that utilize and enhance the negative effects of american arrogance, neoliberal dogmatism and the war on drugs. Trump is the final stage before the empire comes down. It’s probably too late to turn the ship around by now. China + EU is already the facto world leaders and the US is doing everything to destroy itself and there is no real political anf economical self-awareness among people with power.
The US should have started to decrease inequality, stop the war on drugs and enforced (sane) tariffs and migration policies 15 years ago. The EU has the same problems, but there isn’t the same level of inequality and political extremism and fundamentalism, which makes me believe that the EU will survive as a western democracy and relevant world player, but the US will not.
- Comment on What are some FOSS programs that are objectively better than their proprietary counterparts? 1 week ago:
Maybe give Doom Emacs a try? Anyway, I thing we can put IDE/Editor the subjective quality bucket.
- Comment on What are some FOSS programs that are objectively better than their proprietary counterparts? 1 week ago:
Ok, I agree about music apps and Google Maps.
Isn’t Intellij largely open source? What does premium offer over the community edition? More content and support? Anyway, I find this one subjective. I would argue that Emacs, VS Code and Neovim are at least as good (much better if you work with many different programming languages and/or require extra control).
- Comment on What are some FOSS programs that are objectively better than their proprietary counterparts? 1 week ago:
Seems you don’t know how to configure your editor/IDE. There is nothing in a “Jetbrains IDE” which you cannot also get in Neovim, Emacs or VS Code. Using only FOSS plugins. Or what functionality are you thinking of?
- Comment on What are some FOSS programs that are objectively better than their proprietary counterparts? 1 week ago:
The facto standard is not an objective quality.
- Comment on What are some FOSS programs that are objectively better than their proprietary counterparts? 1 week ago:
I mean the best big tech “products” are FOSS as well. But I guess it depends on which definition of FOSS that you use.
Usually, nowadays, proprietary software is built on 95% FOSS and then you maybe have a thin layer with your own stuff (which will become FOSS in a year or two when there’s someting better that can replace your own hack). The rest is content and marketing.
Proprietary software which doesn’t have an objectively better FOSS counterpart (that I can come up with right now):
- Nvidia GPU stack. But ROCm and IPEX-LLM will probably catch up in a year or two (both are mainly FOSS).
- Some videogames that still use their proprietary engines. Though they are certainly not good because of their in-house engine, rather the opposite. I.e. they are good because of content, not software.
Many people bring up proprietary CAD and graphics software. Though I suspect that’s a more subjective opinion. My experience is that proprietary CAD apps and the Adobe suite are buggy as hell. My experience is that the people who use these softwares have learned how to cope with the legacy crap and they refuse to learn new and better ways.
I had to integrate Photoshop into a project a few years ago. The whole software just smelled huge legacy bad quality code base. Buggy as hell. But good marketing and/or user lockin I guess.
I don’t consider anything from Apple to be good in an objective way. Unless you count social status symbols as an objective quality. I do consider price to be an objective quality though.
The only good things that has come out of Microsoft are open source. VS Code, dotnet core and Lean. Same goes for Google.
- Comment on What are some FOSS programs that are objectively better than their proprietary counterparts? 1 week ago:
A more relevant question: What proprietary software is better than its FOSS counterpart?
Because I can’t come up with any.
- Comment on How are the blatant anti-competitive practices of Apple just…allowed? How is this even possible? 2 weeks ago:
Because the political right doesn’t actually like functional markets.
- Comment on Do you use your blinker in a car? 2 weeks ago:
I don’t drive a BMW, so yes.
- Comment on Should we boycott games with loot boxes? 2 weeks ago:
Yes.
- Comment on How wil people react if Trump is right about Tariffs? 2 weeks ago:
I believe in meds and I believe in science. Especially the science of complex systems. I don’t believe in political philosophy branded as science. The reproducability metric of social sciences and political economy is so bad that the complete field should move into humanities and philosophy (which isn’t bad, but it isn’t science). Aspiring sciences.
I mean it isn’t a secret that huge amounts of resources has been poured into neoliberal think tanks since the 70s. It’s an ideology which justifies the rich getting richer. Such stuff always get at lot of funding. It’s inherent.
I don’t think I’m the one who’s in lack of critical thinking here Mr 420.
- Comment on How wil people react if Trump is right about Tariffs? 2 weeks ago:
Tariffs will be super hard on american economy. There is no universe where current tariffs and migration policy wont mean stagflation from hell. But that’s a price that might be worth/necessary paying. However, if american blue collar are able to organize, there is a possibility that blue collar salaries will keep up with inflation and that implies economic power is transferred to the working clas (supply and demand will be on the side of blue collar at least). Transfer of economic (and political) power is very much needed if the US democracy shall survive (or return from the dead).
But it’s all a big gamble for sure. Chaos and feudalism/fascism is probably the most likely outcome. Everything is so complex that it’s impossible to know for sure. Hopefully evolution has empowered us with enough accurate intuitions.
- Comment on How wil people react if Trump is right about Tariffs? 2 weeks ago:
Take them meds bro.
- Comment on How wil people react if Trump is right about Tariffs? 3 weeks ago:
I believe the tarrifs are good. Though for other reasons than Trump. The current (previous) situation is super unstable and unsustainable. It basically require a global US monopoly of violence (which was the case for about 30 years). Trade imbalance implies war (as stated by Keynes).
However, the arguments of the Trump administration are completely false and uneducated.
We’ve all been drenched in neoliberal propaganda for about 50 years (disguised as science), so it’s not weird people are unable to think outside of the box on this matter.
Also, super valid question. Don’t get the down votes.
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- Comment on Trump cuts funding to FOSS projects. 3 weeks ago:
What languages and patterns will be considered woke?
For sure memory safety and dependent types. C++ will probably be shoved down our throats.
- Comment on Reddit’s 50% Plunge Fails to Entice Dip Buyers as Growth Slows. 4 weeks ago:
Fuck Reddit.
- Comment on Elon Musk’s X blocks links to Signal, the encrypted messaging service 2 months ago:
Because its a more user friendly experience. Your grandma can use it with no hustle. Matrix is more complicated UX and also much slower and buggier (at least if you use Element and matrix.org). Ive actually started to prefer Delta Chat over Matrix.
- Comment on Why do AI bros and other staunch AI defenders seem happy about the potential of killing off the creative industries? 3 months ago:
Yes. 👏
- Comment on Why do AI bros and other staunch AI defenders seem happy about the potential of killing off the creative industries? 3 months ago:
Thank you.
- Comment on Why do AI bros and other staunch AI defenders seem happy about the potential of killing off the creative industries? 3 months ago:
Great and sober answer.
- Comment on Why do AI bros and other staunch AI defenders seem happy about the potential of killing off the creative industries? 3 months ago:
I promise, objective qualities are fare easier to define than subjective ones like “soulless”.
- Comment on Why do AI bros and other staunch AI defenders seem happy about the potential of killing off the creative industries? 3 months ago:
Don’t really know the definition of AI bro, but most people here would probably put me in that box.
How can someone not value the ingenuity and creativity behind a work of art?
Generative AI can for sure be creative. It can synthesize new information, probably similar to how your brain synthesize new information.
I really don’t care if some random blockbuster CGI is the product of an artificial or organic neural network. The movie probably suck either way. I don’t have an emotional attachment to things made by people whom I don’t know and who uses a craft or art which I don’t care much about. If my son made a drawing I will probably like it even if it looks like crap. And I would like it if he used an AI tool to produce something cool too.
You probably use lots if things without caring about if it was made using an “artificial” process or made by hand.
Also, likely you wouldn’t be in a position where you had the luxury to even reason about this subject, if automatic processing and artificials never became a thing. Everything in your life would just be about survival. Computers wouldn’t exist for sure.
For some reason you don’t like it when you’re aware that some “art” was made, using automatic processing or “AI”. And that’s fine. But don’t expect different people to feel the same. That goes for about anything.
Do these people not see or feel the human behind it all?
Speaking for myself, no. But there are exceptions. Like if something is made by a loved one. Though it’s because the object makes me think of that person, and if it was made specifically for me, I know that person care about me.
And are these really opinions that you’ve encountered outside of the internet?
I know few people who feel as you do. And the ones who do, usually doesn’t know much about technology and also haven’t given much thought to the philosophy of this subject. Also, the only ones I can think of, that share your feelings and are vocal about it, are hobby “creators” of “art”. My guess is that you’re part of a pretty small but loud minority and that you will change your mind when you’ve given this subject a bit more thought. If you can realize how you can utilize this new tool in your practice, you will provably change your mind quicker.
I do programming for a living and I think that AI code assistants are awesome and that they really boost my productivity. I can spend more time on the interesting and hard parts of programming. The tool would suck if it wasn’t for my knowledge, skill and final touch. In the hands of someone who doesn’t know what they’re doing, it will produce bad results faster (which usually is what junior developers do, with or without AI assistance).
Most people probably don’t care how something was made, as long as the final product is cheaper and/or of the same or better objective quality. Also, I think that most people are glad that they’re now able the produce their own content without having to learn the specific craft or art involve. I’ve had a good time for sure. Overall, I think this AI thing is a very good and democratic development in society.
- Comment on What's the greatest joy you have gotten from a video game? 3 months ago:
As a millennial, I’m probably not alone when I write Red Alert, Atlantis, Diablo and Fallout 2 on a computer without internet connection. Also endless demos from PC Gamer CDs.
The more unusual game I want to add is Warlords 3. Got it as a Christmas gift from my cousins boyfriend (he was maybe 20 years older than me). Probably because he wanted someone he could play shared screen PvP with. Spent a lot of time with that game.
Also playing Tibia on a 33k dial up connection was special. A very laggy and expensive experience. Always afraid that mom would just turn off the connection because she had to make a phone call. And the true horror I felt when I encountered another player or a new monster deep within an unexplored dungeon. I didn’t like WoW when it came out. Probably because of emotional bluntedness that free PvP in combination with gear + xp loss causes.
And I’m still chasing the dragon.
- Comment on What's the greatest joy you have gotten from a video game? 3 months ago:
That must have been really awesome. ❤️
- Comment on Why is it considered sexist to ask women to smile? 3 months ago:
I don’t know if it’s sexist but it sure as hell is annoying. Don’t tell people to smile if you don’t have a very good reason.
- Comment on Rainbolt never misses 3 months ago:
Ah! LOL!
- Comment on How active is Lemmy now? 3 months ago:
Ok, I rephrase. Zero ads on Lemmy. 🙂
- Comment on How active is Lemmy now? 3 months ago:
There are huge subreddits that are basically dead or just filled with spam. The ratio of active/passive users on Lemmy must be much much larger. A Lemmy community with 100 active members almost feels like a subreddit with 10 000 members.
- Comment on How active is Lemmy now? 3 months ago:
To be fair, that happens on Reddit as well.