wonderingwanderer
@wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz
Wherever I wander I wonder whether I’ll ever find a place to call home…
- Comment on Guinness wasn't proud of this one. 4 hours ago:
Did not know you could die doing that…
- Comment on Uhhhh sure? 1 day ago:
That’s atrocious.
- Comment on 1 day ago:
They’d probably opt you into it by default without telling anyone…
- Comment on “Not Ready for Prime Time.” A Federal Tool to Check Voter Citizenship Keeps Making Mistakes: SAVE tool keeps mistakenly flagging voters as noncitizens 1 day ago:
If you think things are already as bad as they can get, then you lack perspective.
There’s still a chance of electoral victory. Progressives across the country are having punishing victories. Don’t throw away that momentum by being too trigger-happy. People are waking up, don’t put them back to sleep.
If the republicans rig or steal the election (which they certainly intend to, but it’s not yet certain how successful they’ll be), then all gloves are off and the third and fifth sentences of the Declaration of Independence kicks in.
Until that point, the fourth sentence still applies.
- Comment on Socialist Co-Ops Against Silicon Valley Empires 3 days ago:
introduce yourself here and tell me your favorite Linux distro
I honestly haven’t used a computer in years. I had given up on windows and tried mac, only to confirm my suspicion that it was even worse. Long before that I had tried Ubuntu once but I didn’t give it much effort, and it was when Linux was still pretty rough around the edges. I was also not very tech savvy, so that didn’t help.
Anyway, lately I’ve been reading more about it. I finally understand how operating systems work and what the different components do. So I can actually understand conversations about Linux now.
I’ve read up on lots of different distros, and there are a few I’m excited to try. I don’t currently have a computer though, so that’s on hold for a bit.
So I’ll probably start with either Zorin or Endeavor. I hear they’re both beginner-friendly. But the more I read about Ubuntu and their proprietary blobs, the less interested I am in Zorin. So maybe I’ll try LMDE instead, cause I think something Debian-based will be a good starting point.
Then I’ll probably spin up a few different VM images to try some others. I’m pretty interested in Solus, Mageia, and OpenSUSE. I’ll also try a few different DEs to see which I like the best, and maybe I’ll try something with the linux-libre kernel just for funsies (and to completely eliminate proprietary dependencies).
After that if I still feel like going deeper I might try some greater challenges. Void, Alpine, Salix, Devuan, and Artix, to play around with different init systems and get a feel for the differences. At that point I’ll be familiar with most of the package managers too, and I’d also give musl and busybox a try to see how they compare to glibc and GNU coreutils.
If I still want to challenge myself more I might try Exherbo and/or LFS, but even without that I think the ones above will give me a good overview of what’s possible. I’m sure by then I’ll be able to pick a favorite.
But I’m really excited just to start learning and tinkering, even just on the more beginner-friendly distros. I’ve been bookmarking some open-source software, pages with useful info, etc. I just need to wait till I have a computer to try it on.
We’ll start a tech co-op.
Someone should make an MMO for the fediverse. We can have meetings there, with a whiteboard for brainstorming and everything! It will be our headquarters.
- Comment on Is she saying that eating ass is bourgeois decadence? 3 days ago:
Tallyho, yip yip!
- Comment on I saw your face in a crowded place 3 days ago:
Right, mhm, cause we all know you’re totally human, right? aha, aha
- Comment on Is she saying that eating ass is bourgeois decadence? 3 days ago:
Whoever created the meme was either being sarcastic or is a dumbass.
My point stands.
- Comment on Is she saying that eating ass is bourgeois decadence? 3 days ago:
That makes sense
- Comment on Socialist Co-Ops Against Silicon Valley Empires 3 days ago:
That should be the norm everywhere
- Comment on Socialist Co-Ops Against Silicon Valley Empires 3 days ago:
Just grab some of your friends
That would require friends…
- Comment on Based on this graph, and this graph alone, guess at what time I completely blocked OpenAI crawlers 3 days ago:
How does one seek initiation into the Order of Torvalds? Asking for a friend…
- Comment on Is she saying that eating ass is bourgeois decadence? 3 days ago:
Right? My first reaction was “Is this fucking sarcasm?”
- Comment on Is she saying that eating ass is bourgeois decadence? 3 days ago:
Exactly! People need to stop translating it as middle class, because it throws people off.
Nobody is coming for Joe Schmoe who makes 70k a year to take away his primary (and only) residence. Or at least, they shouldn’t be.
People these days are so bad at understanding historical context. That, like you said, “middle class” back then meant the merchant class who were neither peasants nor nobility, and that the modern-day bourgeoisie have become the de facto ruling class. Nowadays we call them “Upper class,” “Owner caste,” or “financial oligarchs.”
I’ve tried explaining this to people and they get so caught up in the nomenclature. They say “Bourgeoisie means middle class” as if that’s some definitive argument, and they ignore me when I explain to them what that actually meant in the 18th/19th centuries when it was coined.
The modern day “middle class,” which another commenter rightly describes as the “petit bourgeois,” emerged in the post-WWII era as a result of FDR’s policies and similar societal shifts around the world. It’s a subset of the working class. Even upper-middle class (doctors, lawyers, accountants, cybersecurity professionals, etc.) who make six figures and live in mcmansions are still working class. Still petit bourgeois proletarians, though they’re less likely to think in those terms.
The bourgeoisie are those who own enough capital that they can live off of investment income without actually working beyond sitting in board meetings and telling other people what to do. That’s not “middle class” anymore, except maybe in monarchical countries that still have an aristocracy. And even in most of those countries, the bourgeoisie have become more powerful than the “nobility.”
- Comment on Based on this graph, and this graph alone, guess at what time I completely blocked OpenAI crawlers 3 days ago:
Is that real? Holy shit. Linux is based on a grimoire!
- Comment on Socialist Co-Ops Against Silicon Valley Empires 4 days ago:
This is why this battle has to go on multiple fronts. One is creating coops where and when possible. The other is unionizing existing corpos to gain labour power that can be leveraged to curb the oligarch’s power. The third is fighting at the political level for state funding for coops and labour rights.
I can get down with that
- Comment on Socialist Co-Ops Against Silicon Valley Empires 4 days ago:
If only there were a way to seize the means of production and redistribute the wealth…
- Comment on Socialist Co-Ops Against Silicon Valley Empires 4 days ago:
Co-ops are often dismissed as attempts to create islands of socialism
I’m sold! When do we start?
- Comment on Google criticizes Europe's plan to adopt free software 4 days ago:
They mean it would harm their competitiveness.
As in, “We’d be less competitive if you switch to a competitor” (in this case FOSS).
- Comment on Google criticizes Europe's plan to adopt free software 4 days ago:
I think all these tech billionaires have lost the capacity to think like reasoning adults. If they ever had it to begin with…
Their whole worldview is “What’s best for me?” They have so much power, they think anything that’s not good for them should be scorned by everyone.
- Comment on Google criticizes Europe's plan to adopt free software 4 days ago:
Plus, the whole point in shifting towards open source platforms (besides tech sovereignty) is boosting the development of open source software.
There’s already open source scientific software. If it’s not as feature rich as a proprietary one that costs thousands a year for one license, then all the more reason to encourage more contributions.
- Comment on Google criticizes Europe's plan to adopt free software 4 days ago:
“It’ll hurt our bottom line and make us less competitive” said google. “Aren’t you afraid of missing out?”
FUCK OFF.
- Comment on Meta really wants you to believe social media addiction is 'not a real thing' 4 days ago:
I don’t know, I definitely find myself getting stuck in a loop of endless scrolling even on lemmy. At least, the client I’m using features endless scrolling, and my alcoholic brain is really bad at cutting myself off.
It’s still better for the reasons you stated above. I’m not being flooded with grifters, manipulative advertisements, systematized disinformation, and algorithmically-privileged ragebait content. And my data isn’t being harvested and sold to the highest bidder.
But I wouldn’t say it’s non-addictive. It’s still a steady stream of low-effort dopamine. Not always a bad thing, but I definitely still procrastinate just as much.
- Comment on "I am going to punch you" WHAT A BOSS! 4 days ago:
Yes!
- Comment on Meta patented an AI that lets you keep posting after you die 4 days ago:
“By the way, you would look great in these raybans™”
- Comment on Cloudflare now serves sites in Markdown to AI agents 4 days ago:
A token is basically a linguistic unit, like a word or a phrase.
LLMs don’t parse text word-by-word because it would miss a lot of idiomatic meaning and other context. “Dave shot a hole in one at the golf course” might be parsed as “{Dave} {shot} {a hole in one} {at the golf course}”
They use NLP to “tokenize” text, meaning parsing it into individual tokens, so depending on the tokenizer I suppose there could be slight variations on how a text is tokenized.
Then the LLM runs each token through layers of matrices on attention heads (basically, vectors) in order to assess the probabilistic relationships between each token, and uses that process to generate a response via next-token prediction.
It’s a bit more complex than that, of course. Tensor calculus, billions of weighted parameters, layers divided by hidden sizes, also matmuls, masks, softmax, and dropout. Also the “context window” which is how many tokens it can process at a time. But it’s the gist of it.
But a token is just the basic unit that gets run through those processes.
- Comment on "I am going to punch you" WHAT A BOSS! 4 days ago:
Here’s a nazi, there’s a nazi, and another neonazi, fashy nazi, flashy nazi, nazi nazi PUNCH!
- Comment on Based on this graph, and this graph alone, guess at what time I completely blocked OpenAI crawlers 4 days ago:
I wonder if someone techy can turn the Sworn Book of Honorius into a software program that actually summons spirits and grants powers.
Fun fact though, Trithemius (an influential Renaissance occultist) authored the Steganographia, which provided the basis upon which modern cryptography was built.
- Comment on 4 days ago:
“happy” isn’t a noun, so no one would try to make it plural.
“Software” is a noun, but the plural version is often the same, i.e. “installed a lot of software.”
But since I was discussing “multiple different” instances of software, it made sense to treat each one as a discrete “software,” thus I used “softwares” to communicate “multiple different discrete instances of software.”
Just like how “people” is plural for “persons” but “peoples” means “multiple groups of people.”
- Comment on The Texas man who shot a British woman after an argument about President Trump won’t face charges. The jury hails from a pro-gun pro-Trump part of the state, a legal expert says 4 days ago:
Ridiculous.