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by chobeat 7y ago
Protonmail. From what I've understood, tutanota is better but I'm also a German resident and they are based in Germany, so better have a provider abroad than at home. I give you a precious bit of information than blew my mind: if
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by chobeat 7y ago
Forward to the new address, unsubscribe from all the crap and change my address in every website that I care about. For humans I still don't know, I guess I will start writing from the new account and if they don't take the hint,
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by chobeat 7y ago
This weekend I started my degoogling. Gmail and Chrome are gone. Let's see if I can survive for a week.
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by chobeat 7y ago
To clarify how he uses AI, I suggest you to read this: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3078224 This might help you to bridge your understanding of AI with how it's used elsewhere.
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by chobeat 7y ago
Well, if you want to suggest some proposal for the reading list, I would love to include your contributions. My projects are very local: Tech Worker Coalition in Berlin e Gambe.ro in Italy, so I don't think there's any room in tho
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by chobeat 7y ago
If he sounds like he's bending things, that should sound good to your ears. Otherwise he would be just reinforcing what you already believe and how you already see the world and therefore not doing any good philosophy.
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by chobeat 7y ago
I don't get what you're talking about. I'm a Machine Learning engineers and I find his work one of the best being conducted on the topic. You can say he's snob or inaccessible, but for me Pasquinelli is in the top 1% of
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by chobeat 7y ago
You should read some of his more rigorous works: http://matteopasquinelli.com/
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by chobeat 7y ago
I'm trying to work in that direction on many fronts. Hackernews is not really one of them but this post was really in Hackernews style so I decided to post it here.
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by chobeat 7y ago
While agree with you on the need to straighten the narrative and usage of these terms, the author is a philosopher and uses AI not in the common sense nor in the Computer Science sense. It is indeed confusing but he's very very rigorou
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Three Thousand Years of Algorithmic Rituals(e-flux.com)
76 points by chobeat 7y ago|25 comments
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Awesome-critical-tech-reading-list v0.2(github.com)
3 points by chobeat 7y ago|0 comments
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by chobeat 7y ago
You can read our motivation here: https://gambe.ro/about I would say there's a huge target demographic that HN will never cover. HN is addressing a very narrow target. A very vocal and over-represented one, but very sm
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by chobeat 7y ago
we have no profit and we can demostrate it, so it shouldn't affect us. Also, since we don't have to pay taxes, it's not clear under which jurisdiction we are. The host is in Italy, the domain is from Romenia, the guy paying t
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by chobeat 7y ago
it's fine, but every language allows to express ideas that cannot be expressed in other languages, or allows you to think about the same ideas from a different perspective. While I agree that a common language is necessary, erasing all
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by chobeat 7y ago
we are working on a toggable dark mode. Everybody is asking for it and we hope to deliver it soon.
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by chobeat 7y ago
This is true, and I have very strong feelings about developing an indigenous discourse on technology and against the passive acceptance of the influences and ideologies coming from California. At the same time, the production right now is l
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by chobeat 7y ago
The software is Lobste.rs' but the goal for what the community should become is closer to what HackerNews is right now. Clearly, as the name implies, we acknoledge the importance of using their software, but the community we want to bu
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Show HN: Gambe.ro, the Italian Hacker News(gambe.ro)
20 points by chobeat 7y ago|16 comments
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by chobeat 7y ago
but for sure they cannot have the perspective of a woman. And a white bro cannot have the perspective of an Indian or a Chinese or a Quechua. Asserting that white brogrammers cannot embody some perspectives doesn't say that they have a
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by chobeat 7y ago
With gig platforms you're free to get abused by many different companies. Yey!
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by chobeat 7y ago
For some people, because of their jobs or their need for social validation, this is just not an option. You cannot impose this decision on personal willpower or morality because it's more complicated than that.
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by chobeat 7y ago
They are only moving to other platforms that are harder to track, like Discord or Telegram. Just because they don't appear in the data doesn't mean that they don't exist. Then yes, you sanitize some platforms but the problem
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by chobeat 7y ago
I've just added this post to my reading list. I share it if anybody is interested in this and similar topics: https://github.com/chobeat/awesome-critical-tech-reading-lis...
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by chobeat 7y ago
you should, because you might make worse decisions for the business, for the system or for the people that are impacted by the system. If you don't have the right data to decide, don't decide using the data.
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by chobeat 7y ago
I call these approaches: "there must be OpenCV in there somewhere"
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by chobeat 8y ago
If you like weekends and holidays, you like unions.
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996.ICU(github.com)
4 points by chobeat 8y ago|0 comments
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by chobeat 8y ago
I can't wait for all the STEMlords and edgy kids from r/futurology to blabber about Elon bringing them to Mars.
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by chobeat 8y ago
Say it to all my friends that make art and don't want to sell it. Their hunger is very real.

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