shimman

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by shimman 4mo ago
Telling people they should get a better job implies that there is work where YOU think the workers deserve to be taken advantage of. Why IDK, guessing you hate people fighting for better quality of life through democratic norms. People righ
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by shimman 4mo ago
Notice how it's always the plight of people that always get immediately dismissed while the incoherent ramblings of tech leaders like Elon Musk, Sam Altman, and Dario Amodei are always taken at face value and immediately never question
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by shimman 4mo ago
I don't like this argument because it assumes that money should rightfully dictate everything in our lives. Also disagree that there is a "choice" when it comes to consumer spending, as if there are any public options for con
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by shimman 4mo ago
Oh I guess that makes it okay to arrest a person exercising their human rights. Wouldn't want to upset the "public order" (whose order are we talking about here because the public seems to be on the person's side).
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by shimman 4mo ago
No, what I would rather do (read as am actively doing) is help elect people into congress that want to rightfully destroy Silicon Valley and bring the benefit of public software to the masses.
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by shimman 4mo ago
I like your analogy on railroads because it leads us to the point that these tech companies should honestly be nationalized at this point as they are a danger to the country writ large.
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by shimman 4mo ago
How about they actually fund open source in the sense of letting the public dictate the direction of software for the country, not a cabal of unelected people that only care for pushing changes that benefit corporations. Open source would l
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by shimman 4mo ago
You are absolutely allowed to use GPL software in commercial products, why are you deliberately lying or misleading? GitHub could only exist because it was built on top of git, which is also GPL licensed. This is not the only example but sh
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by shimman 4mo ago
A bunch of corporations that don't want their taxes to go up (which a sliver of which could be used to fund public software), along with their acolytes that will never mention worker solidarity or improving the material outcomes of dev
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by shimman 4mo ago
AI is so useful they have to subsidize it with trillions of dollars while having no near term profit. AI is so useful that you have to threaten workers in order for them to use the tools. I'm sorry but all of this is to be determined b
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by shimman 4mo ago
Deno is a great example of how taking VC investments tanks the viability of an open source project. They keep focusing on money driving projects for an extremely small + fractured community (let's be honest here, whose only customers w
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by shimman 4mo ago
There was a reason why the phrase "perpetual" was used, to invoked how unrealistic perpetual energy machines are and how futile it is for the human race to chase such dreams. How many tens of trillions of capital have been inciner
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by shimman 4mo ago
The dream of perpetual labor machine is something capitalists are willing to destroy the planet in order to chase their fictitious dream. Oppressors must be stopped.
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by shimman 4mo ago
No, consolidation within the tech industry has never been good for workers or open source development. For someone who considers themselves as part of the open source community I've been extremely disappointed how anti-worker and pro-c
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by shimman 4mo ago
Okay that's fine, then make the law say they must provide publicly owned models off of publicly obtained data. To think that such a baseline of critical information isn't is the literal foundation of everything they will do, both
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by shimman 4mo ago
You're assuming that they are "dismantling" it in a sense, what they are actually doing is mostly attacking workers while introducing extremely unsafe software. If you think LLMs are terrible, imagine it being the gatekeeper
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by shimman 4mo ago
They've only made it this far because they stumbled head first into a monopoly while also being lucky enough to own the platform their monopoly is on. Quite easy to subsidizes 100s of billions in complete vaporware when you can make it
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by shimman 4mo ago
People like Reid Hoffman do far more damage to the Democratic party than he does helping it. Also don't look well that a member of Epstein's tech leadership, and personal friend, is telling workers how to feel and think.
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by shimman 4mo ago
You don't need a credit card on file, you can prepay and use that balance instead. I'll also say that I've used around 140 gigs of bandwidth the last two months and my costs has only been <$2. Worth it to me, and doubly wo
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by shimman 4mo ago
I disagree, state AGs are taking any opportunity to attack big tech for easy political points. If you want justice, now is the best time to try and get it.
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by shimman 4mo ago
I use forgejo myself but both are great choices. Self hosting has improved dramatically over the last decade. So many things that I would never think we'd have access to, like open source PaaS software on-par with what VC companies off
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by shimman 4mo ago
Why aren't they suing Google in court? Now is the best time to do this politically, the site doesn't mention what state they live in but I'd doubt that you wouldn't be able to get a state AG to listen to you if you reach
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by shimman 4mo ago
Get it right, 99.99% of ideological opposition is mostly do to the naked display of wealth concentration where we are literally forcing Americans to bear the higher costs of electricity, noise pollution, actual pollution, and increased canc
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by shimman 4mo ago
If SpaceX is vital then we need to nationalize the company and have it under democratic control, not under a dictatorship of one.
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by shimman 4mo ago
$30 a month is a pretty massive costs for such a program. Why does it require such a beefy VPS, is it just the initial bootstrapping that requires such resources?
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by shimman 4mo ago
The only reason why I was taught vim is that a coworker wanted someone to know it so they can explain why emacs is better. It didn't work and I've transitioned to neovim.
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by shimman 4mo ago
The free models are good enough for any work (very little) that benefits from LLMs.
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by shimman 4mo ago
There is no evidence that these tools provide a 5% bump, if anything they are providing a 20% liability (pulling random numbers is fun). Also where is the evidence that the workers have ever benefited from productivity bumps? The only thing
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by shimman 4mo ago
The US truly can't consider foreign policy that doesn't help propagate the military industrial complex. It's like the idea of diplomacy and collaboration are two words that do not exist.
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by shimman 4mo ago
I'm always curious what types of books people like when they say they liked reading AI, so what were the last few books you've fully read + enjoyed?

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