Gormo

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by Gormo 1y ago
> Conservatives believe that the status quo may violate the transcendent order and that they are duty bound to restore it. No, those aren't conservatives. They're something else.
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by Gormo 1y ago
Nothing in Russel Kirk's concept of conservatism implies any of the specific policy positions you're attributing to conservatism per se. Someone whose political agenda is to force society to confirm to a doctrinal ideology that in
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by Gormo 1y ago
> None of those are left wing (or even “more frequently associated with the less right wing of the two major parties in America”) These are quintessentially left-wing in the context of the past century of American politics. > Fascist
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by Gormo 1y ago
Yes, it describes everyone who aims to use unrestrained political power to reshape society, i.e. the precise opposite of what "conservatism" actually means.
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by Gormo 1y ago
> Can you name even a single left-wing policy or rhetorical position of this administration? Tariffs. Deficit spending. Federalization of law enforcement. Hyperpoliticization of social questions. Government ownership/direction o
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by Gormo 1y ago
Yes. Far to the left of Carter, who I'd consider a moderate conservative, and marginally to the left of the more centrist Obama. I'm construing left-wing as (a) seeing an expansive role for the state -- and in the US especially
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by Gormo 1y ago
Tax hikes on American consumers and businesses. Expansions in federal spending against growing budget deficits. Government pursuing ownership or de facto control of private industry. Aggressive use of executive fiat to pursue novel policies
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by Gormo 1y ago
It's common for people to assume that if IBM didn't use a simple, open architecture with off-the-shelf components for the original PC, then we'd never have had the PC ecosystem as we know it. But this view neglects the fact t
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by Gormo 1y ago
Agreed. I consider traditional "virtual communities" (lie Usenet, IRC, BBSes, web message boards, etc.) to be something quite different from modern "social media", and I find the former to be far preferable to the latte
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by Gormo 1y ago
The problem is that these terms do signify real, stable ideologies, but the vast majority of people are superficial trend-chasers who don't actually adhere to any stable ideology, so misuse these terms to refer to whichever tribe the
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by Gormo 1y ago
> Huh? Apple absolutely does not want this to happen. That's why it doesn't happen. I'm not sure what you're trying to say here -- how does Apple merely not wanting a competing product ecosystem to emerge explain why
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by Gormo 1y ago
> The problem of how you organize content in desktop user interfaces is far from solved. Strong disagree. Mature conventions have been established for decades, and while there are always edge cases and new incremental features that need
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by Gormo 1y ago
> I found the navigation to be scattered and disorienting. I find to be significantly less scattered and disorienting than the vast majority of "modern" websites.
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by Gormo 1y ago
Which is all well and good, and to the extent that people are won over to those arguments and create more political capital for putting an end to these privacy-violating policies, all for the better. But that's not a substitute for nor
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by Gormo 1y ago
The developers and the FOSS community generally; F-Droid is a good app store for FOSS, but there's no inherent need for app stores in the first place. Duplicating the tremendous success of the Linux ecosystem is a worthy goal, but even
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by Gormo 1y ago
If anything, I'd say it's the other way around. Apple and Google themselves don't seem to have the resources to do that -- iOS and Android are layers built on top of BSD and Linux, respectively -- whereas it's FOSS proj
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by Gormo 1y ago
> Indeed, that's why I'm not very hopeful about the future of our privacy. I'm not very hopeful about politics generally, for that very reason. The obvious solution is to work to make politics less of a determinant of outc
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by Gormo 1y ago
I'm not making a blanket statement against LLMs for all use cases. I'm certain that LLMs are, for example, much more performant at indexing already-curated documents and locating information within them than humans operating manu
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by Gormo 1y ago
> It targets the apathetic 99% of the population who won't have the energy or knowledge to do anything about it. That's the same 99% of the population whose motivations and priorities define the incentive structures applicable
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by Gormo 1y ago
> It is not defeatist drivel to argue for political action rather than trying to hit everything with a technological hammer. I'd say it's actually worse than defeatist drivel, since it actively discourages an entirely feasibl
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by Gormo 1y ago
> A majority either voted for him, or didn't vote against him. The majority did vote against him. He won in 2024 with 49.8% plurality.
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by Gormo 1y ago
How is an LLM making stochastic inferences based on aggregations of random blog pages more likely to be correct than looking things up on decidedly non -random blog pages written by people with relevant domain knowledge?
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by Gormo 1y ago
TheServerStore.com often has good deals. I actually bought a brand new 64-core EPYC 7702 server with 256 GB RAM and 8TB NVMe storage for about $3K fully assembled earlier this year.
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by Gormo 1y ago
Not that much different from any other form of content aggregation. Web links posted to HN or Reddit also either strip out individualized links or conflate everything together under the same link. There are plenty of solutions to this. If
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by Gormo 1y ago
Reddit and HN fully support RSS. Discord, WhatsApp, and iMessage are all messaging applications that aren't directly related to the use case for RSS. That leaves Twitter and Instagram as the two major sites for which RSS would be appli
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by Gormo 1y ago
> In modern times, when people say VPN they're typically referring to a VPN with only a gateway and nothing else that all traffic gets routed through. That's not really true -- this narrower usage only seems to apply in the con
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by Gormo 1y ago
> Meshnet is their peer-to-peer secure networking solution, not their conventional VPN solution. What you're describing as a "peer-to-peer secure networking solution" -- i.e. tunneling through the public internet securely
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by Gormo 1y ago
A podcast, by definition, is an RSS feed -- if it doesn't have RSS, it's not a podcast.
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by Gormo 1y ago
OTOH, I can't imagine not using an RSS reader. I'm sitting here with Liferea on my desktop connected to my TT-RSS server, which I use to manage pretty much everything I subscribe to: blogs, podcasts, YouTube channels, webcomics
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by Gormo 1y ago
Lost it to who or what? What other feed syndication protocols are in widespread use? RSS is everywhere, and I don't see anything else comparable.

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