southerntofu

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Cogent France: « perform an orderly shutdown of your equipment »(mail-archive.com)
3 points by southerntofu 3mo ago|0 comments
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by southerntofu 5mo ago
Came here to say this. It takes political will, but money is certainly not the issue. It's just like with healthcare, free healthcare for all costs much less per person than privatized healthcare like they have in the USA. It's ju
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by southerntofu 6mo ago
Oh, thank you for clarifying! That is entirely believable, and i'm also one of these people then. I just didn't understand what you meant. I thought you meant people hated AI for being creepy alien tech from scifi movies, not for
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by southerntofu 6mo ago
Sorry for misinterpreting your original comment. I'm not really convinced there's people who don't like AI "because of what it is". I mean, because of what it is, beyond any social/political considerations. The
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by southerntofu 6mo ago
You are being overly dismissive of a mindset you obviously don't understand. Of course being anti-AI is about decent living conditions for humans. Most of us don't believe in singularity or Matrix-style threats. But current AI is
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by southerntofu 6mo ago
I don't think it was less, though only future historians will come up with actual numbers. It was less public, though. Most of the world never tolerated it. Even when western governments tolerated it, the population did not; see also t
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by southerntofu 6mo ago
I didn't hear about this french legislator, but that's funny given the level of rampant corruption in french government. Nothing new (see also Pasqua, Foccart, etc), but in the past decades the information was not widely available
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by southerntofu 6mo ago
Unfortunately, i don't know of a complete reference resource. I'd be interested if you found one. A quick research later i found this CFR resource [1] which probably underestimates the number of civilians killed. I remember report
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by southerntofu 6mo ago
Assuming you're from the USA, your two main parties are exactly like that. The appearances have changed, but Obama drone-assassinating random children on the other side of the world was not much better than what Trump is doing. Not def
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by southerntofu 6mo ago
> Does this also mean only using "standard" parts? Or does the manufacturer have to over-produce the parts for, lets say 7 years Why not? I don't understand how it's legal for manufacturers to produce absolute trash t
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by southerntofu 6mo ago
That blog post was definitely not anti-tech. Maybe you're not familiar with this term. The post was critical of technology from a social/political perspective (with arguments), as were the luddites, but that's not anti-tech.
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by southerntofu 6mo ago
Most of humanity has lived without police for most of its existence. It's not an inherent part of life. And in many places, the police is a very recent (few centuries old) invention with ties to oppressive structures such as slavery an
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by southerntofu 6mo ago
Correct! My whole point was that whether that's a flip or a flop also depends on the legal environment and whether the law is actually enforced. Which is also applicable to AI and its massive copyright/copyleft violations at scale
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by southerntofu 6mo ago
Uber is a very bad argument. In many parts of the world, the only reason they're profitable is because they're breaking the law. There has been much debate about it here in France and quite a few scandals, including how Macron whe
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by southerntofu 7mo ago
There's fallacies with your argument: - it's technically illegal for me to do that here in France, even if i'm the legal owner of the woods - it could be a choice to live low-tech alternative lifestyles, if there was not acti
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by southerntofu 7mo ago
Of course i'm biased (though probably not like you mean), but that "both sides" depiction was fair and rather neutral. I'm personally very happy Khomenei is dead, and so are my iranian friends. But we are all very concer
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by southerntofu 7mo ago
Hello,i don't mean to be dismissive but i think lawmaking definitely needs less AI and less pretendly-neutral summaries. It's already a problem when researching a law proposal that dozens of news outlets will just copy-paste a bla
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by southerntofu 7mo ago
That's not a fair assessment. Context: I hate Trump as much as Khomeini. A "both sides" treatment would be: US & Israel illegally assassinate Iranian leader in bombing campaign, calling agression "necessity". No
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by southerntofu 7mo ago
> what reasons do your friends give? In my (arguably not very representative) circles, unlike the big Facebook->Instagram migration, which was motivated by "i don't like that it's run by a Silicon Valley tech-bro neofas
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by southerntofu 7mo ago
Well, corporations are destroying our planet, whatever our individual consumption patterns are. I could be living in the woods and that would not change. I'm not denying we have a share of personal responsibility in profiting from this
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by southerntofu 7mo ago
Well it is very hard to believe they're guilty, at least to me. Too bad the news report does not provide any actual information about the case and the evidence (actual journalism beyond clickbaity headlines). In environmental circles,
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by southerntofu 7mo ago
Correct. I simply placed it for historical context on Microsoft being hostile to competition, interoperability and free software for much longer than OOXML has existed.
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by southerntofu 7mo ago
I'm sorry you were not convinced. Of course a "file format" could be anything. I personally am convinced that a standard file format (filed for ISO) should have proper semantics that precisely escape assumptions about the app
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by southerntofu 7mo ago
> This is precisely why there are multiple protocols out there and bridges between them. Yes, that's great! What's not great is Bluesky attempting a hostile takeover on federated and decentralized social networks. It's bee
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by southerntofu 7mo ago
I think this is an unfair take. ODF is an actual file format, while OOXML is a serialization format for Microsoft Office specifics, as debated here 6 months ago. [0] Beyond marketing fluff, I don't think anybody at Microsoft genuinely
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by southerntofu 7mo ago
Very fair points, thanks.
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by southerntofu 8mo ago
Not a single of those three things is either left-wing or right-wing. It depends on the actual implementation. For example, universal health-care is only left-wing if it's a public service. Taking money out of the State's pockets
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by southerntofu 8mo ago
Disclaimer: i'm rather hostile to ATProto for reinventing the wheel without bringing much value over AP/XMPP/Matrix. I don't think that's a fair characterization. Most AP implementations famously don't have pri
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by southerntofu 8mo ago
Even at the time Bill Clinton was already very much right-wing. When he was in power, he oversaw the destruction of public services and the introduction of neoliberalism. Is that not right-wing? It's not just me saying this. Ask anyone
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by southerntofu 8mo ago
> de Gaulle would be considered insanely far right today As much as it pains me to say this, because i myself consider de Gaulle to be a fascist in many regards, that's far from a majority opinion (disclaimer: i'm an anarchist)

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