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by selfhoster1312 1mo ago
Do we even have a real choice with our governments? As a minor yet dramatic exemple, last year in France the Front Populaire won the last parliamentary elections, and according to republican tradition and common interpretation of the consti
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by selfhoster1312 1mo ago
I hate to make this argument because the PRC is far from a political ideal for me, but the chinese political system also has elections and votes. Voting is not what democracy is about, and very indirect elections for a vast body with immens
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by selfhoster1312 1mo ago
The technique is simple: don't publicly serve expensive (CPU/RAM-wise) pages. A simple blog like the linked article can be 100% cached and served to anyone without needing CloudFlare. Performance optimization for website already i
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by selfhoster1312 1mo ago
If we're actually talking about a hack, there's no particular reason to believe it was done by an APT who would like to retain access. Maybe a kid just wanted to do it for fun? Maybe a smaller hacking group who would just like to
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by selfhoster1312 1mo ago
> Biggest mistake most librefication projects make is to do their project out in the open That's not it. Most youtube downloaders are not developed in the open and Youtube still breaks them every other week by changing on purpose th
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by selfhoster1312 1mo ago
> the lawyers are more expensive than just ignoring these pet projects The lawyers are more expensive than happy customers staying customers because they can enjoy the client they prefer, that's for sure.
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by selfhoster1312 1mo ago
> There's a lot of IKEA furniture on the second hand market. Anecdata: about half of secondhand IKEA-like furniture i get my hands on is somewhat severely damaged, and about a quarter overall i just throw away. Stats may be differen
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by selfhoster1312 1mo ago
> People don't get rid of it because it gets worn out. That's true, but once you move it around and/or disassemble it it gets very easily damaged, which prevents second-hand use. > Why would I want to buy furniture that
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by selfhoster1312 1mo ago
You are correct, I used Ikea as a generic name for cheap plywood stuff. But there was still strong furniture being built in that era, it didn't all stop in the 1930s, if anything, because a portion of the population even in the global
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by selfhoster1312 1mo ago
We can and should ban technologies whose cons outweigh the pros. For example, in the past century, we successfully banned leaded pipes and paints, uranium glass, asbestos, CFC refrigerants (etc). Most of those struggles had intense lobbying
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by selfhoster1312 1mo ago
I don't think it's just a question of uniqueness. There's still distinct cultures across the planet, which affects architecture, furniture, kitchen equipment (and many other things). Some people might reasonably expect when t
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by selfhoster1312 1mo ago
Yes, the problem is durability before Ikea was counted in centuries. Sure, this or that furniture may need to refit the hinges or refill the cushions every few decades, but your local handyman/handywoman would do it for cheap and the f
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Ask HN: Is .org now Trump-controlled?
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by selfhoster1312 1mo ago
> Do you think AGPL is going to stop a crawler from incorporating your work into their training set? No, but i propose we ostracize anyone who uses LLMs for the wrong reasons (i.e. not accessibility), and i hope you do too. The reasons a
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by selfhoster1312 1mo ago
Nitpicking here, but nazi repression was not only against jewish people. Also against other claimed inferior races (eg. tsigans), but also handicapped people, homosexuals... and very relevant to this thread, communists and anarchists.
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by selfhoster1312 1mo ago
Ha yes of course, this is obvious to anyone in the field but always a good idea to repeat. For example, do not use human feces as fertilizer for food you'll eat (at least not directly).
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by selfhoster1312 1mo ago
I agree it's still a problem, but closing obviously-LLM PRs and banning the "contributors" would help i guess. What would help even more is hosting your project on a network where that's bad etiquette, eg. Codeberg.
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by selfhoster1312 1mo ago
That sounds like hypophantasia, i.e. not the absence of internal imagery, but a very vague one.
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by selfhoster1312 1mo ago
Using manure and compost as fertilizer is likely as old as agriculture (though i disagree using pesticides is fine). What did you mean?
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by selfhoster1312 1mo ago
> That's a super weird way of putting it, which makes me hesitate to agree with you. Yes that's weird sorry. What i meant is it belongs in the uncanny valley. I don't have any good/bad feelings about test suites and C
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by selfhoster1312 1mo ago
So i'm critical of LLMs even if you consent to their use (for ecological/political/cognitive reasons). But in that case at least it's your tool and your expectations. I'm not even sure the maintainers had a say in t
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by selfhoster1312 1mo ago
> It is a shame that Google's leadership is so spineless. This is wrong, just like the article you linked. Google has been a proud member of the military industrial complex for many years. Alex Turner is naive when he thinks big psy
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by selfhoster1312 1mo ago
Because letting sloperators near your codebase, even for a very minor obvious and correct change, may have long-term negative consequences for your project. It sends a signal to other sloperators to keep doing what they do, when we really n
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by selfhoster1312 1mo ago
> Because of machines, things have arguably improved for humanity as a whole. That's a very narrow view of the situation. I agree that this side of the coin exists, but there's also the other side where drinkable tap water is b
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As a contributor who had to deal with 2 automated reviews in the past month, it's a bad experience. I really wanted to upstream my changes, but these bots made me question if i should at all. Bots don't understand how their words
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by selfhoster1312 1mo ago
That's true. I can't say i'm 100% against soldering parts, that would be silly. What concerns me is that undocumented parts that are unavailable to buy as spare parts are soldered and have firmware that enforces pairing with
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by selfhoster1312 1mo ago
Thanks, that's a fair data point. Although i'm sure it depends on actual user workloads. I'm not saying that I support closed-source firmware, locked bootloaders, or even that replacing SSDs is the one true path to sustainabi
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by selfhoster1312 1mo ago
The solutions Gates proposes aren't even close to being adequate, they are detrimental to actual solutions. Gates claims AI regulation will make sure AI solves the climate crisis for all. AI is in fact a major contributor to the climat
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by selfhoster1312 1mo ago
Are you saying the dough is fine but 1% of the batch wasn't cooked? Or rather, that 1% of batches isn't cooked, taking your entire downstream activity down until a new batch arrives?
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by selfhoster1312 1mo ago
I mean, the leadership brought it on themselves. For a few years they encouraged sloperating Copilot. Before that, they were encouraging Github Actions usage. Now the scale problems they're facing is because of those 2 actions of their

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