muntedcrocodile
@muntedcrocodile@hilariouschaos.com
- Comment on If AI was all it was cracked up to be, it wouldn't be shoved in your face 24/7 3 days ago:
AI is defiantly in a bubble atm but its the same as the .com bubble. The market will crash, places its not useful it will be removed, places it’s useful it will be kept. Its defiantly useful but not to the degree its promoted at at the moment.
Its also that we haven’t yet got to the point where a couple dominant market strategies have taken hold. So its just everyone throwing as much shit as they can at the wall and we are yet to see whats gonna stick.
- Comment on The mental health industry is probably profiting a lot from political turmoil. 3 days ago:
Most peoples mental health isn’t effected by politics. The only people who are being negatively effected mentally are weak minded or extremists.
- Comment on The glaring security risks with AI browser agents 1 week ago:
I’m pretty bullish on ai myself but I just assume its gonna do the worst. AI coding agent can run commands in the terminal but I have to click yes every time. Even if it does get something paste me worse it can do is fuck up 1 qube and the rest of my system is fine. AI has access to a browser it can fully control. But said browser has no logins and is completely sandboxed I don’t think its necessarily bad just that nobody is gonna use it in a safe way.
- Comment on Better safe than sorry 1 week ago:
Engineering mathematics is easy. Follow simple rules, follow simple formula, do basic algebra, don’t screw up ur units. The issue is when numbers start to get involved. I’ve made more mistakes simply doing the number wrong than anything else. This is why using code to solve all ur problems is goated
- Comment on Autograding tool 1 week ago:
My university had a system like this. They also had all the tests and the expected answers in a file at …/tests.txt and …/results.txt u could read both files look at the command line args passed to ur code find what line in the tests file they passed and return that same line number from the results file. 100% on every single item. They pulled me into a meeting to complain about it but granted me the marks anyways cos I was technically correct according to the marking criteria. Needless to say they fixed the access perms and rewrote the marking criteria for the next year.
Yeah this is a bad idea if not done extremely carefully cos rce. There is CodeRunner as a moodle plugin. If u wanna roll ur own then u would wanna use something like Firecracker for secure execution.
- Comment on You're out of your element, dude. 1 week ago:
I’m very unhappy about how people draw the moon. The dark part should always intersect the top and bottom at the poles. It should not have any stars in the dark part either.
- Comment on ChatGPT's new browser has potential, if you're willing to pay 1 week ago:
Openai needed data on how people interact with websites so they could train an ai to interact with websites and replace you at ur job. Now a whole bunch of people will be helping to train an ai at replacing themselves. Genius, evil, but fucking genius
- Comment on The glaring security risks with AI browser agents 1 week ago:
Let me guess: has access to everything and prompt injections can be anywhere?
- Comment on Should We Do A, or Some type of recognition post for ppl who post a lot on HC? 1 week ago:
My bot on !news_summary@hilariouschaos.com gonna win every time lol
- Comment on You'll Own Nothing and It's Awful [Gamers Nexus x Level1Techs] 1 week ago:
Hmm seems ur client doesn’t do display names.
I asked for a definition and how that was contradictory to my claim as starting with someone else’s definition and proving that said definition is either absurd, wrong, or proves my claim is a far easyer task.
Socialism is by definition the collective ownership of the means of production. Which gives u 2 major problems.
- What does collective ownership mean?
- What counts as means of production?
According to Marx the means of production is resources, tools, and infrastructure. This includes tangible assets like factories, machinery, land, raw materials, and technology, as well as intangible elements such as intellectual property. Essentially anything that isn’t human effort. This is a very vague and potentially broad definition and can be used to justify u not owning anything. A car is infrastructure for transport u can’t privately own it. A house is land and means for production u can’t privately own it. Ur phone is a tool you can’t privately own it. Your next meal is infrastructure for the continuation of society u can’t privately own it. An idea is intellectual property u can’t privately own it. So anything that can be used to generate economic power u don’t own. Literally everything u own can generate economic power and is thus part of the means of production.
Now what does collective ownership mean? Most would say it means that the means of production are owned and managed by the community, society, or a representative public body. So it sounds great in theory that everyone owns everything but that doesn’t really help the fact that someone needs to manage everything at every level. U must select a leader to make decision regarding the means of production. What u have thus essentially done is handed all means of production to 1 single person or group. This is an obscene amount of concentration of power in a very small group of people or a single person.
Say u elect a power hungry leader they control everything. Ur house, ur communication, ur transport, ur food, ur education, ur children education. A power Hungary leader would immediately start making the lives of those loyal to them better and the lives of those unloyal worse. Imagine that trump gets elected as the leader of a socialist state then he decides to do the following in blue states: limit power production Slow factories outputs Reduce transportation Reduce doctors in hospitals Reallocate police to different areas Take all the water out of the river upstream in a loyal state Turn off the cell towers to silence any complaints Pull the firebrigate out and send in a patsy to start wildfires Reallocate fertiliser to other states Reallocate food to other states U might be able to implement checks and balances to prevent some of these but their are an infinite amount of evil things that could be done.
In a capitalist society u can’t just stop people shipping food to a state u have to make every single private entity stop individually, doable but much harder. And no u can’t just have many smaller socialist communities to decentralise power cos all u’ve done now is reinvent the concept of the private company.
That’s before we get the point of “what’s the point of putting in any effort in a socialist society”. Why would I work harder, work longer, invent new things if doing so does not increase the quality of my life? I’m studying to get a good degree to make lots of money to get a good life where I can do the things I want with all the stuff I accumulate. Under socialism why would I do this? Why wouldn’t I do the bare minimum and go to the pub every day? Why try when my life is no better off for doing so?
So we have a country of lazy bums who own nothing and a ruling class that own everything and can force u to do anything they want lest ur means of survival get revoked.
So what about absolute capitalism? No collective ownership everything is private. Well the first guy to pay for the first private military gets to use that private military to go kill anyone they disagree with and own literally everything. They can then rent everything to you so u can create value for them. Working harder doesn’t improve my life cos I own nothing and will never own anything cos I’m a slave to whoever owns everything.
So we have a country of lazy bums who own nothing and a ruling class that own everything and can force u to do anything they want lest ur means of survival get revoked.
Wait a minute that’s the exact situation absolute socialism got us into.
So some people would thus say we will allow some private ownership but everything else will be collectively owned. And depending how far along that spectrum u are defines pretty much every single society that currently exists. Less collective and more private u have the US more collective and less private u have the Chinese.
So we have ended up exactly at the only logical place to be. A healthy mix of both. I can come up with an idea to solve real world problems I can build a private company around that idea and charge people for me solving that problem for them. I can then go home and not worry about getting stabbed or my house burning down cos I pay a percentage of that money I made (tax) to the central ownership committee (the government) who pay for the collective ownership of the means of production to ensure I don’t get stabbed (the police) and my house doesn’t burn down (the fire brigade).
I’m a utilitarian (society should do the most good for the greatest number of people). As a result of that we need some socialist policy like police, and a fire service, and healthcare, and roads, and education. We also some need capitalist policy to align the incentives for people to put in effort to make peoples lives better. For instance u get rewarded with profit when u solve someone’s problems, u can own property so u can improve that property or use it to generate value for society, if u are better than other people u deserve to have a better life because u earned that by benefiting other people. If you are not adding to society you do not deserve anything. The only rule that has ever and will ever matter in this universe is Darwinian selection. Capitalism is Darwinian selection of goods, services, and ideas. Capitalism strives to promote greatness and that which doesn’t meet this bar ceases to exist. Socialism strives for the lowest possible in every regard. Nobody expects the government to make the world best roads we expect them to make roads good enough to get us and our goods from point A to point B without catastrophic failure.
We need socialism to create a fair playing field and we need capitalism to provide incentives to people to build a society on top of that.
- Comment on You'll Own Nothing and It's Awful [Gamers Nexus x Level1Techs] 1 week ago:
If u looked at my username u would see a little Australian flag. I wonder if that perhaps would indicate that I am not indeed American? If you are such an expert perhaps u can elaborate on how you would define it and how that is contradictory to my usage of it?
- Comment on You'll Own Nothing and It's Awful [Gamers Nexus x Level1Techs] 1 week ago:
Extreme socialism and extreme capitalism are essentially the same thing. Both inevitably devolve into a fascist dictatorship where u personally own nothing and have no liberty. We need both in health moderation.
- Comment on The most valuable advertising keywords could be "ublock origin" 2 weeks ago:
In its settings it has keybinds for everything u can just read form their and customise as u please. Its quite new and apparently they are very open to pull requests.
- Comment on DirecTV screensavers will show AI-generated ads with your face in 2026 2 weeks ago:
Makes sence that the birds aren’t working at the moment since the government is shutdown
- Comment on Selfhost an LLM 2 weeks ago:
Openwebui is awesome and allows u to use it as an api for all the models u have it hooked up to. Can point it at ollama or any openai api compatible api endpoint (like open routers)
- Comment on The most valuable advertising keywords could be "ublock origin" 2 weeks ago:
Have u tried Zen I’m really enjoying its keyboard first design philosophy. Still ff based telemetry removed and all
- Comment on DirecTV screensavers will show AI-generated ads with your face in 2026 2 weeks ago:
Who the fuck are they getting your face?
- Comment on New Rules Could Force Tesla to Redesign Its Door Handles. That’s Harder Than It Sounds 2 weeks ago:
Inside or outside? Ik they have issue with inside door handles and safety but I don’t see a need to redesign outside handles?
- Comment on The highlighted division and factions of Lemmy. 2 weeks ago:
Leftists hate every other flavour of leftist that doesn’t align 100% with their flavour of leftist. Its the same reason the centre is moving right. As the right is unironically more accepting and ideologically diverse.
- Comment on Scientists build artificial neurons that work like real ones 2 weeks ago:
That’s a huge step. We can do full neuron level scan of human brain and now we can make artificial neurons. All we need now is to combine that with some cloning and we have effectively invented immortality.
Not sure if its good enough for that yet. But huge step in that direction. Also the digitisation process does destroy you existing brain so might still be dieing depending on ur interpretation of star trek teleporters.
- Comment on If chickens are modern dinosaurs some dinosaurs probably tasted like chicken. 2 weeks ago:
No. Chicken tastes like dinosaur
- Comment on Australian Government gets a taste of what everyday people have to deal with in terms of data breaches as Prime Minister Anthony Albanese's mobile phone number released online 2 weeks ago:
I need someone where to send me the number so I can make sure I don’t accidentally send him a message saying cunt
- Comment on Looking for bot-friendly Lemmy instances/communities for RSS reposting 3 weeks ago:
I’d recommend asking the admin imo
- Comment on Looking for bot-friendly Lemmy instances/communities for RSS reposting 3 weeks ago:
Most instances will let u create Jr own community to do that but u won’t get any human sorting ap lied that way without building a community around it. Most people would be upset if u did it in existing public comms. I run !news_summary@hilariouschaos.com where I do a similar thing but with AI summaries. The bot is foss and takes RSS feeds as the input.
- Comment on ISPs created so many fees that FCC will kill requirement to list them all 3 weeks ago:
As someone in rural Australia its better than any wired service we got
- Comment on ISPs created so many fees that FCC will kill requirement to list them all 3 weeks ago:
U have the choice its up to u. U have the right to let ur ideology force u into getting fucked by other telcos. Just remember that its a choice u made.
- Comment on ISPs created so many fees that FCC will kill requirement to list them all 3 weeks ago:
Starlink
- Comment on What's the best chat to self host? 3 weeks ago:
I’m self hosting matrix and its great
- Comment on What options of resistance are programmers creating to not submit to AI culture? 3 weeks ago:
They will adapt or die. If they haven’t adapted already telling them isn’t gonna change their minds.
- Comment on What options of resistance are programmers creating to not submit to AI culture? 3 weeks ago:
Most programmers are embracing ai. As its the use case where it acts as the biggest force multiplyer.