southerntofu

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by southerntofu 3y ago
Wait till you realize that any form of money is a scam designed to extort riches from the poorest producers and make those riches climb the social pyramid. Tongue in cheek comment of course, but that's an argument that can be defended.
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by southerntofu 3y ago
It's important to see both sides to the benefits/risks analysis. Let that be a counterpoint to the people overselling the positive impact without ever mentioning the immediate or potential downsides. Nothing is ever truly binary o
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by southerntofu 3y ago
> this is a misleading reply because you ignore the speed and scale at which the internet allows sharing to happen. You are misleading because i explicitly talked about the Internet and widespread file-sharing in my comment. Most people
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by southerntofu 3y ago
> Car makers arent putting computers in for funsies. There's a bit of everything. Some parts are due to regulations. Some parts are due to providing fancy options (LCD screens, seat heaters..), some parts are useful for diagnostics.
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by southerntofu 3y ago
That's not wrong, but still some parts wear out and it's harder to find them nowadays. Although to be fair there's still some production for the most popular cars (eg. 2CH, 4L). But it would be interesting if we took that old
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by southerntofu 3y ago
Gitea, Gitlab and Sourcehut are all making money on open source. However, they themselves are open source projects and contribute to a wider ecosystem. Github makes money without producing open source software. <rant>Well, that is if
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by southerntofu 3y ago
Bugzilla and Phabricator don't have the most user-friendly interface, but at least they're not vendor lock-in for proprietary software making money from open source software like Github is. Gitea, Gitlab and Sourcehut are in my op
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by southerntofu 3y ago
Hello Cruise CEO, there's a huge market for durable and profitable "dumb" cars. Why don't you get on that market? In a time when electronics represents over 30% of car costs and ~50% of car failures, people like me would
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by southerntofu 3y ago
> The vast majority of people do not pirate I would be happy to see a serious study about this. What you call piracy has been the norm for centuries and millenia for spreading culture and reinterpreting music/shows produced by other
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by southerntofu 3y ago
No, we haven't gotten on the boat. Who cares how dirty energy is when so much of it is wasted? Who cares if electricity comes from solar or wind, if you're still adding PFAS to any furniture and other dirty chemicals in all food s
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by southerntofu 3y ago
What you're saying is similar to claiming fixing a leak on your faucet is gonna fix the global water crisis we are starting to face. Assuming you are in good faith, you are probably very uninformed about the state of the climate crisis
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by southerntofu 3y ago
France has very strict regulations regarding homeschooling, but i wouldn't consider that a win. The official program, whether in schools or in homeschooling still lacks many things and still contains various forms of historical propaga
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by southerntofu 3y ago
> a distribution that is supposed to be "arch but stable" I don't have eggs in those baskets so don't take my message as advertisement, but i repeatedly heard from various people Manjaro was not that serious/reli
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by southerntofu 3y ago
This is a proved-wrong path throughout history: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Company_town Company towns are one form of what former slaves called "wage slavery" in that time: https://en.wikipedia.
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by southerntofu 3y ago
If you wanna go down that road, "ecocide" or "genocide" may be more appropriate terms. The latter word is more difficult to argue, but one could make a point that there's a mismatch between who benefits more from cl
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by southerntofu 3y ago
Like your fun, but for some extra seriousness, 10k$ is the order of magnitude you pay to setup FTTH in a big city. Most times, consumer ISPs eat the cost and make economies of scale by connecting entire neighborhoods, but if you don't
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by southerntofu 3y ago
> If it doesn't work as I expect it so it should be banned. Well yes that's a very reasonable expectation. In most fields, when you sell something that doesn't work, it's called fraud. But in fields where it actually
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by southerntofu 3y ago
Maybe your tech community. Mine is not scared, but rather aware, that the powers that be care too little about the people and will not bring about strong regulations that we need to save humanity from climate change, or to protect basic hum
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by southerntofu 3y ago
I personally believe most of these applications bring net negative to society. I personally see two exceptions that i don't have strong opinions about: machine translation, and ML firmware for camera output quality. There's probab
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by southerntofu 3y ago
Thanks for asking, made me check. It seems teachers suicide data is not as drastic as hearsay has it, although from anecdata i believe depression is very widespread: https://blog.francetvinfo.fr/l-instit-humeurs/2019&#x
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by southerntofu 3y ago
You seem to have a very bleak view of humanity and social interactions. I don't entirely disagree with your analysis (see also: Mutual Aid, by Piotr Kropotkin) but there's more to collectiveness than pure utility.
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by southerntofu 3y ago
Do you realize people have been claiming this for over at least half a century? Robots are dumb and most physical labor cannot be replaced by robots. Modern AI techniques do not improve on that, as they add unpredictability to the output. S
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by southerntofu 3y ago
I understand your point, but strong disagree from experience. What do you think happens to people who want to do good by approaching positions of power? In my experience, friends who became teachers or cops, they either became evil/abu
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by southerntofu 3y ago
> The economic upsides of AI look like they will be huge. There are many ways to interpret this sentence. What did you mean? If you mean a stupid robot can automate most office jobs, i don't disagree (most of these jobs are entirely
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by southerntofu 3y ago
The article is very low on details: what does the regulation contain? what are github and huggingface lobbying against specifically? > we really redoubled our efforts to make sure that they were not inadvertently imposing expectations (.
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by southerntofu 3y ago
It's not intended to be nefarious, but it can have bad consequences. I know the docker devs had good intentions to help people expose services, when they introduced this. However, they also "helped" people unwillingly expose
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by southerntofu 3y ago
Sourcehut is not free, but they public financial reports and have details about their economic model which seems very sustainable. As for being "alpha", it only shows how much the team cares about not making false promises which s
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by southerntofu 3y ago
Since someone named Github Pages, i feel obligated to name Codeberg Pages, owned by a non-profit association. Or Sourcehut Pages, not sure about the legal entity but the business model is very clear and sound. Otherwise, there's the us
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by southerntofu 3y ago
The same person who quoted the sales team said customer support usually replies quicker via the forum than via email which would be the official support channel. To be clear, i'm not against best-effort support and that's actually
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by southerntofu 3y ago
I understand your point, but as i read the article from Tor Browser using safest mode i had no idea advertisement was involved. I tend to forget people actually place ads in places. Trying to refrain myself from using stronger, more judgy w

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