i think the big problem for the open source/FOSS communities isn’t that their code is being used via LLMs for other open source projects, which I’m pretty sure is fine, but for closed source commercial projects, which is NOT fine and a clear licensing violation.
it’s the free–>commercial “loophole” (really outright theft, but here we are) part that’s problematic
oh, that wasn’t really the point; i just pointed out that a ban isn’t the only way to undermine a culture or language!
it was in addition to what you wrote, not meant as a counterpoint.
overall good points, but I’d like to expand on the one about forbidding languages at educational institutions:
a ban isn’t even necessary to expediate the decline of a language; it’s often enough to simply defund it.
teachers need funding, and simply not giving any to other languages or other cultural curriculum is effectively the same as a ban.
few schools and administrations would shoulder the costs of “extra” curriculum, because few have the funds to do so, particularly when it comes to minorities…
source: am part of such a minority (in central europe though) and our state actually sponsors extra language classes, courses, and cultural clubs, activities, and events in order to preserve our unique identity and culture.
it’s still trending towards extinction though, as such minorities tend to do…
tl;dr: no need for a ban, just withhold a bit of funding and it will die out within a few generations…
instead of hamachi, may i suggest zerotier for your gaming needs?
runs on linux, CLI only though, but i found it ptetty intuitive to use. documentation is pretty good too!
the advantage over hamachi (don’t know about tailscale) is peer-2-peer connection, meaning it’s great for gaming with friends for the way lower latency!
the servers only negotiate the pathways between peers, everything else is directly between peers ;)
i mean, seems you’re also conveniently skipping over the part that says:
as long as we can counter them by rational argument
it’s right there in the text:
popper states outright, that there are some ideologies and by extension people, that straight-up cannot be argued with. these, therefore, must be excluded from the community, and thereby form the limit to tolerance that must be enforced.
people really love to misinterpret popper…
what goes along nicely with the tolerance of paradox is the quote about anti-semites being entirely aware of how absurd their position truly are:
“Never believe that anti-Semites are completely unaware of the absurdity of their replies. They know that their remarks are frivolous, open to challenge. But they are amusing themselves, for it is their adversary who is obliged to use words responsibly, since he believes in words. The anti-Semites have the right to play. They even like to play with discourse for, by giving ridiculous reasons, they discredit the seriousness of their interlocutors. They delight in acting in bad faith, since they seek not to persuade by sound argument but to intimidate and disconcert. If you press them too closely, they will abruptly fall silent, loftily indicating by some phrase that the time for argument is past.”
take both popper and sartre together into consideration of a larger context and it becomes abundantly obvious that a certain minimum of intolerance is strictly necessary for a functional society.
what happens when all checks on speech are removed can be clearly seen in the rotting corpses of facebook and twitter… it’s disastrous.
probably because “talent” is more specific:
that would be like “why not call them dogs?” when talking about poodles…yes, it’s technically correct, but not really representative, is it?
…what are you talking about?
the policy is the solution to the problem.
which means the problem very much is landlords!
the entire purpose of policy is to provide legal means of regulating what is NOT working in society without it.
and the reason policy is required, is because landlords, in general, are greedy bastards that see their fellow brothers and sisters as nothing more than sacks of money walking around. their ghouls. parasites that provide absolutely nothing of value, and demand payment for “the privilege”.
when people talk about landlords, it’s never about the sweet old person renting one flat to supplement their income slightly. it’s always about the ruthless property conglomerates that own half a city, or the random guy owning 15 apartment complexes.
renting out surplus rooms, or a second home is not an issue, in general, because the people that do so usually rent to others in a very similar economic bracket as themselves. that means they know, from personal experience, about how much some in that bracket can afford. so prices stay pretty much reasonable.
but that’s not true for, let’s call them, “Big Landlord”. they don’t give a fuck, if anyone can afford the units they provide. these are the assholes that only see ‘funny number must go up!’ and literally nothing else.
it’s not renting that’s being criticized here; it’s specifically landlords.
renting is perfectly fine.
what is not fine, is that a public necessity is tied to a private individual or company that can charge whatever they want.
that last part is the problem.
vienna often gets cited as a notable example for large scale, affordable public housing projects, and while that is fair, the reason those are affordable, is because they are owned by the public, i.e. the city of vienna.
THAT’S how rent is supposed to work: for the people, by the people.
it’s how a society gets affordable housing, not this price gouging nonsense that neoliberal politics has popularized…
there seem to be 2 feet, right next to each other.
the keys are weird, but it might just be compression artifacts: since I can’t spot any other of the typical continuity errors…i think it’s real?
the gray tech boxes have neat continuous lines, which ai usually fucks up, the carpet seems properly rectangular, the hair doesn’t have that weird ai shine to it, the shoes have proper patterns, the hand seems mostly okay; might be a weird shadow, the mountains seem too good for ai, the curtains’ folds seem too believable for ai (fabric usually has continuity errors, afaik), probably some other stuff…
i think the keyboard is really just compression artifacts, since the big tree on the right has similar artifacts. the cable holes also seem too orderly for ai, too neatly arranged.
might also be photoshop or some other cgi but i dunno… doesn’t seem all that obviously ai to me…
…unless there’s been some very major advancements i missed?
like i said: I’m not entirely sure either way…
eta: also the vase on the right has what seems like proper reflections
on the flip side there’s the million “orphan crushing machine forgot to crush one orphan today! so wholesome!” type posts that are even worse imho…
you know the ones: “kids save up to buy wheelchair for classmate”, “kid works 80h weeks to pay off lunch debt”, “kid works at meat packing plant after school to afford bicycle”, and on and on.
each is more depressing than the previous.
these types of posts are the exact opposite of wholesome, yet frequently get upvoted on wholesome communities and it’s just…what is wrong with people? why would you think that shit is wholesome??
neither the stuff you mentioned, nor the orphan crushing machine stuff should be on wholesome communities.
tbf, i noticed the popular wholesome comms seem to be doing a lot better on this front lately! waaay less orphan crushing machine, and way less of the “x died, yippee!” posts.
so you just think dead children are an acceptable price to pay for… absolutely nothing. got it.
they were saying that the “patriots” (so maga, not actual patriots) are claiming that they would step in and stop tyranny, but are actually doing the opposite.
and them claiming that that’s the reason they need their guns is the most prominent reason that constantly comes up in discussions about gun control. which is true.
so they are saying that particular argument is utter bullshit, and that gun reform should disregard that argument.
and gun reform/gun control doesn’t mean nobody can have guns.
it just means stricter rules on who can have them. which, yes, is a necessary legislation that every civilized country already has.
autocorrect/spellcheck tripped you up friend: it’s serf (as in serfdom) ;)
that was super obviously sarcastic…
.:|:;
it only sounds like that, because it is. :/
saw a setup like that at work, until it was determined to be a fire hazard. which it was.
had to short the start pins of the MoBa with a paperclip to start the damn thing.
we called it “the scorpion”, cause it would shock you if you touched it wrong, and it kinda looked like a scorpion with the cables hanging out all over the floor…
#tales-from-IT
mosquito nets in third world countries
oooohhh…yeah…about those…
turns out the mosquito nets are devastating local fish populations, because people use them to fish, since they get them as a finished product instead of having to knit nets themselves. and starvation being a bigger immediate threat, they prioritize that over malaria.
the nets are also laced with toxic chemicals (against the mosquitoes), which are extremely toxic to fish.
they also have much smaller holes, so they catch the young offspring as well, leading to rapid depletion of stocks.
so, yeah…good idea in theory, but didn’t turn out so great…
probably highly dependent on your work environment:
it’s the exact opposite at our office…
head>desk
that implies the rate at which CTs kill occupants is even higher than that when compared to modern cars, right?