NoGravitas

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by NoGravitas 4mo ago
It does appear that the Overton Window has shifted far to the right on immigration, such that far-right views are mainstream enough to be highly visible, and found in representatives of formerly or otherwise centrist parties. I consider thi
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by NoGravitas 4mo ago
Personally, my preference would be moss.
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by NoGravitas 4mo ago
You're making a mistake by confusing "wealth" and "ownership of the means of production". Under feudalism, the means of production are land rights. Merchants don't have those; warrior-nobles do. The ruling clas
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by NoGravitas 4mo ago
Agree with sibling that this is a straw man. The state exists to protect and serve the capitalist class, not particular capitalists. Actual state policy generally arises out of conflicts between factions within the capitalist class, strivin
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by NoGravitas 4mo ago
Epicureanism was fairly heterodox/countercultural even during its heyday, and our sources on it are much more limited than the sources on more acceptable schools such as Stoicism. For example, we don't really have any writings f
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by NoGravitas 4mo ago
If you can produce negative mass, you can (in theory) make a faster-than-light warp drive, so that would certainly have serious implications.
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by NoGravitas 4mo ago
https://theonion.com/fbi-uncovers-al-qaeda-plot-to-just-sit-...
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by NoGravitas 4mo ago
I think it's more like marking a transition in how we thought about software. When I was learning C, we did things at a reasonably low level. I was learning data structures, and building things like binary trees out of things like st
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by NoGravitas 4mo ago
Yep. Effectively, there are a low single digit number of ATProto "instances" - they just pull posts from a more decentralized data layer than Fedi instances.
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by NoGravitas 4mo ago
Ominous, but accurate. Imagine RSS but you couldn't use a desktop or mobile RSS reader, but only Google Reader or a comparably scaled clone.
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by NoGravitas 4mo ago
It doesn't solve those problems, except in an alternative universe where there are a very large number of appviews capable of consuming the entire firehose and you can freely choose between them and cheaply run your own. ATProto is lik
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by NoGravitas 4mo ago
The scale-down floor for running an ATProto relay or appview is much, much higher than the floor for running a fediverse instance.
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by NoGravitas 4mo ago
This article is deeply, deeply misleading, in that it leaves out relays and appviews in all of its diagrams of the ATProto network. Like, are ATProto identities namespaced by instance/home-server like Mastodon or Matrix identities? No
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by NoGravitas 4mo ago
Ed Zitron is always prematurely correct, which is the worst kind of inaccurate (apparently).
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by NoGravitas 4mo ago
Apparently the narrative the bots are following is that "this proves that inference is profitable!"
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by NoGravitas 4mo ago
I live in the US, and it seems pretty spot on to me.
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by NoGravitas 4mo ago
Everything old is new again; observe this song from 1983: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zR_b3WYHZ7o
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by NoGravitas 4mo ago
Yes. It was kind of a bumpy road getting there, but I haven't had any problems for the last 6 months or so.
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by NoGravitas 4mo ago
I use CoMaps in the owner profile with Android Auto. Only caveat is that even with Android Auto developer mode enabled, I still had to install CoMaps from Play Store to get it to show up in Android Auto.
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by NoGravitas 4mo ago
It used to be really good, and then it went to a subscription model, with a lot of back-and-forth uncertainty about the change. I suspect the rating reflects that.
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by NoGravitas 4mo ago
This phone not having RCS is not great. In the US it's the closest thing to a real messaging app that you can just use with random people without pre-arranging to install Signal or something.
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by NoGravitas 4mo ago
If I were to get one, I would certainly get beige... just bought a nice beige mechanical keyboard. I don't think I would pay $500 for it. $150 to $200 maybe. I got my youngest child an AOSP flip phone. I'm semi happy with it. Yo
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by NoGravitas 4mo ago
The biggest existential risk from AI is its contribution to global climate change. The second biggest risk from AI is the potential for AI-generated disinformation and propaganda to spark, or to manufacture consent for, a world war. The ris
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by NoGravitas 4mo ago
If I could install PostmarketOS (and a close-to-mainline kernel?) on one of my old smartphones, I'd rather use that for my cyberdeck project than a Pi. I'm not prepared to do a pmos bring-up on an unsupported phone, though.
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by NoGravitas 4mo ago
No, they were from the same pantheon. Yahweh was originally a second-tier deity in it, a son of El, and one of the tribal deities that El granted dominion over each their particular tribe. Over time, that tribe elevated Yahweh to senior de
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by NoGravitas 4mo ago
I used a 386sx with 4MB of RAM with OS/2 2.1. It was usable for a lot of things. I certainly used word processors, terminal emulators, and casual games in that config. It did swap something terrible if you pushed it beyond its pretty n
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by NoGravitas 4mo ago
I had a 386SX-16 running OS/2 from 2.1 to 3.0. It was usually fine, you could multitask several OS/2 and DOS applications or a WinOS2 session. It was very easy to get it swapping, though, and when it was swapping, it ground to a h
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by NoGravitas 4mo ago
Part of #5, "easy to monetize" leads inevitably to "easy to enshittify". I think this is a point that's not generally well enough understood. If a platform emphasizes monetization, its early adopters will all be gri
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by NoGravitas 4mo ago
This person was hired, from the beginning, to be a meat shield. To be responsible for decisions they won't be allowed to make.
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by NoGravitas 5mo ago
You've given a good explanation of how it works -- under a mode of production concerned primarily with the exchange value of goods, not their use value. If what you want to do is to provide adequate/growing use value, you can do t

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