shimman

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by shimman 7mo ago
Yes, let's ignore regulations that provide people with stable jobs, societies, and countries. Afterall what good is democracy when the alternative is making more money?
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by shimman 7mo ago
Looking at the US culture, it's not hard to see entrepreneurship as a societal disease. Let's not act like "entrepreneurship" is necessary at all to develop technology. Western governments simply have no ability to find
873.
by shimman 7mo ago
That would be considered a trivial thing, why wouldn't it be? It's just basic crud you're doing. Nothing unique and that hasn't been written about tens of thousands of times across millions of books/blogs/comme
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by shimman 7mo ago
This doesn't seem like a toy but you know... realizing different systems will have different constraints. Not everyone needs monopolistic tech to do their work. There's probably less than 10,000 companies on earth that truly need
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by shimman 7mo ago
May be an "out" there question, but any tech book suggestions you'd recommend that can teach an average dev on how to build highly performant software with minimal systems? I feel like the advice from people with your experie
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by shimman 7mo ago
Reminder that the pardon is a vestigial leftover from monarchism. The idea that one single person can go "nuh uh" in a democratic country is just another massive failure of the US constitution, a legal document written to suppress
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by shimman 7mo ago
Great comment. Dawn of Everything changed a lot how I viewed early humanity.
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by shimman 7mo ago
Might have to do this, better than rewatching the same rotation of sitcoms.
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by shimman 7mo ago
Why should the majority of Americans care about a stagnant US economy? You realize THEY AREN'T BENEFITING from the current economy right? 50% of the population is always on the verge of collapse, that is shameful and pathetic. I absolu
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by shimman 7mo ago
There is no security when the US government can legally compel Google to do whatever they want. This is why foreign governments want to move away from big tech. Turns out the imperial boomerang impacts many things, especially when previous
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by shimman 7mo ago
I use to blame voters too, then I started organizing for a decade and now I rarely blame voters. I always blame the politicians and political parties instead. When the democratic party was the party of workers (the new deal coalition), they
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by shimman 7mo ago
What are the underlying factors? That capital within the tech industry is horribly mismanaged and that maybe we should let the public decide how technology is shaped in this country rather than a small group of people that unironically beli
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by shimman 7mo ago
Unconstitutional doesn't mean much when it's being decided by a group of unaccountable people that weren't elected through democratic means. If SCOTUS says something is legal, it's legal. That's how the system is se
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by shimman 7mo ago
Why are you acting like a vast majority of the population are capitalists? You're describing the actions of less than 1% of the worlds population, acting like it's the norm of human history and not the extreme aberration that it i
885.
by shimman 7mo ago
This assumes that "breaking news" is accurate, it's not, nor is "breaking news" ever worth reading. This is just busy work chasing nothing but vanity. Like asking heroin addicts what heroin they prefer. What an utte
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by shimman 7mo ago
Seriously, our constitution was literally written to embolden a minority of slave owners and make sure that the people could not hold them accountable due to the structure of the government. It was always a colonial white nationalist state
887.
by shimman 7mo ago
Because their boss said so and they're paid the big $$$ to create not to think or push back about the damage they are doing to their users.
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by shimman 7mo ago
Yes and who made up these bureaucrats and what regulations are they following? Who wrote those regulations? Who advocated for them? Who voted for them into law? Sorry but we still live in a democratic society, as much as Sam Altman would co
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by shimman 7mo ago
Wow this is a really good idea. I wonder if the various state trials happening as well should use this for remediation too. It's not a hard thing to implement on their end and should be mandated by a judge as you said. Filing this away
890.
by shimman 7mo ago
That's fine but as someone whose side hobby is literally politics, it's not hard to convince people that disagree with you to join your side. This is what organizing is, please note I am not talking about discussing things online
891.
by shimman 7mo ago
Yeah but LLMs are trained on a majority of shitty bloated things, that's kinda why their output is garbage but workable.
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by shimman 7mo ago
Yeah the weird thing about living in a democracy is you have to convince people who don't agree with you to do things. Maybe try better politics rather than attacks or else you'll go another 30 years of no nuclear power then die w
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by shimman 7mo ago
IDK, I only found out about Dokploy six months ago. The tools nowadays for managing small hosted solutions is absolutely amazing. You can do a lot with a single VPS if you avoid bloated software choices. People often forget there is a massi
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by shimman 7mo ago
This is extremely easy with tools like dokploy tho... I use dokploy locally to manage all my VPSs + home server. Truly good stuff and I don't believe your quip at the end, it feels like poisoning the open source waters for consolidated
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by shimman 7mo ago
Why is entitlement spending bad? Do you think the government should only give welfare to corporations and not people?
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by shimman 7mo ago
It is relevant if you want to attack one of the greatest achievements of the new deal and hate working Americans.
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by shimman 7mo ago
Unless the project is controlled by democratic committee where cloudflare doesn't have a majority of seats it's not open source in any meaningful sense of the word, maybe we should stop acting like corporate sourced software is an
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by shimman 7mo ago
Yes, this is called alienation of the work place and it has been discussed since the 1800s. Maybe tech workers will realize that their employers are literal enemies of humanity rather than their friends. Employers want to mechanize humans a
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by shimman 7mo ago
Feel free to use local services then, not every company has to support the entire world. Some are fine with a small slice. Expecting otherwise isn't sustainable for the sub trillion dollar non-monopolists companies, not without massive
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by shimman 7mo ago
If you're in the USA contact your state AG + Senator and present your case. Mention that Google is abusing small owners due to their ineptitude in security practices, construct the argument that makes it appear Google is squeezing smal

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