Wilder7977

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by Wilder7977 19d ago
Yours is simply a logical fallacy. Antifascism and anticapitalism are not terrorism. That's a fact, they are ideologies expressed in a multitude of ways, most of which absolutely pacific. This doesn't mean that it's impossibl
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by Wilder7977 1mo ago
What does socialism have to do with universal health care? For someone who is making a point of using correct terminology this seems really strange. Universal healthcare is a policy that is completely compatible with capitalism, implemented
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by Wilder7977 3mo ago
Using GenAI on things that you couldn't approach is also extremely scary and dangerous in my opinion. For example, I would never in a million years use generated code I don't understand (fully) to interface and possibly interact
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by Wilder7977 4mo ago
Apparently yes, judging from the fact that ChatGPT did that with a number of people. My question though it's another: is it malware a software that does a stdout print, or is it malware a software that takes untrusted instructions and
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by Wilder7977 4mo ago
I think this is an interesting (although philosophical debate). The library doesn't take destructive actions, it prints a string that says "go do something". This is quite common in logs (e.g., wrong configuration, ensure thi
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by Wilder7977 4mo ago
Anyone physically near your house can just see you leaving the house and know you are not at home, besides all the other signs. There is no control against this, and it shouldn't be something you rely on to prevent break-ins or burglar
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by Wilder7977 4mo ago
Yes, correct. Is the distinction between human labor/actions and a program executing hard to grasp? Moral is a human thing, not an absolute thing, so of course it's different if there is a single human involved and a tool, and a h
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by Wilder7977 4mo ago
So no external libraries for anything? Billions of lines of code that duplicate the same thing n-times across an organization? And the benefit is the obscurity of "no one will know how to exploit them"? No, thanks.
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by Wilder7977 5mo ago
It's not though. It's still just a piece of code, much closer to IDEs or any other program than to a human assistant in any way that matters (morals, responsibility).
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by Wilder7977 5mo ago
Aerospace makes my Mac usable, but it is a looooong way from what i3 offers in my experience. i3 is way snappier, super stable, with good features out-of-the-box (including a status bar) - you forget it exists. Aerospace is slow, has to use
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by Wilder7977 6mo ago
This seems completely detached from reality. For example it ignores the gazillion medium(-like) "articles" that are not much more than the output of a prompt. Here AI is not about style, is about content too. If you open such a po
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by Wilder7977 6mo ago
Democratizing? A handful of companies harvesting data and building products on top of it is democratizing? Open research papers, that everyone can access is democratizing knowledge. Accessibile worldwide courses, maybe (like open universiti
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by Wilder7977 7mo ago
I am on e/OS since 2021 with a FP3 and, for what is worth, I never had to reinstall, wipe or anything. My phone just had it's 5th birthday and it has been a single continuous set of updates. I know the versions differ by model, so
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by Wilder7977 7mo ago
My wife works for a competitor of the company mentioned. They are in EU. Still run everything on AWS. The data collected is usually even more than what stated, full video recording of the session with audio etc. AWS EU region is not doing
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by Wilder7977 7mo ago
77.500 channels which make any money. Now plenty of those make a handful of dollars per month. Also, 77k worldwide. I am not going to deny that YouTube (and all social media) created new markets. But how is this not an argument that shows
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by Wilder7977 7mo ago
There are no such detailed numbers as far as I know. No platform (twitch, YouTube etc.) generally provides this information. Thinking bad one could assume it's because most people would realize it's one in a million who makes it.
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by Wilder7977 7mo ago
The journalism one is really a great example I did not think about. I understand there is an argument to be made about what is the "value" of things, but for me it's quite clear that journalism has the inherent value of provi
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by Wilder7977 7mo ago
https://alanspicer.com/what-percentage-of-youtubers-make-mon... Claims 0.25% of channels makes any money at all. The amount that make a decent living is realistically even smaller, possibly < 0.1%. To me the YouTube exam
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by Wilder7977 7mo ago
And if it's so cheap and bespoke, why buying it and not making it in house? What about access to people with know-how of that product? You use a product that only 4 other companies use, you can be sure you won't find any new hire
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by Wilder7977 7mo ago
YouTube is a platform, it's not a product. And in this case, created a new market. A market in which, by the way, still very few people (relative to those who try) are successful. In fact I wouldn't be surprised if the percentage
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by Wilder7977 7mo ago
And those companies will do what? Produce products in uber-saturated markets? Or magically 9900 more products or markets will be created, all of them successful?
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by Wilder7977 7mo ago
Plus, a core part of what qualifies as a bullshit job is that the person doing it feels that it's a bullshit job. The book is a half-serious anthropological essay, not an economic treaty.
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by Wilder7977 7mo ago
This assumes every decision-maker is a rational actor. Just today an executive was rambling about "quantum-empowered AI". These are the people who take decisions about firing workers. It is entirely possible that AI will replace m
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by Wilder7977 7mo ago
"In aggregate" means few individuals on the planet, unfortunately, not the whole collectivity. This makes your statement almost almost surreal in my eyes.
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by Wilder7977 8mo ago
I get the same issue on Mac, if it's any comfort. I had to close and reopen the app 7-8 times to have my microphone recognized, despite it worked reliably on every single tool I ever used, both on Linux and later on Mac. Teams couldn&#
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by Wilder7977 8mo ago
Despite me not being particularly interested in the AI hype and not seeking out discussions etc., I can tell you have seen many instances of people (comments, headlines, articles etc.) actually saying exactly that: "in the future"
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by Wilder7977 8mo ago
I wanted to come and express this thought, but you did that already very well, thanks for that. I am saddened too by the fact that the system is designed so that people like him can waste a large amount of economic and human capital.
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by Wilder7977 8mo ago
You are confusing being political with carrying out political discourse. They are not the same thing. Being political for software means for example making some specific choices while designing it and advertising them as such. Means choosin
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by Wilder7977 8mo ago
In 2026 hoping that software could be (more) apolitical is a very brave stance. I look at the software world and I can see core political statements in almost every popular software. From privacy invasion, supporting shady industries (e.g.,
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by Wilder7977 8mo ago
What a bad take. Not every political statement is morally equivalent nor worthy of the same respect. Supporting self-determination of people is not the same as supporting oppression of people - for example. So the free expression is conside

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