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Cake day: June 14th, 2023

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  • Literally one of the few problems that “AI” is actually really useful for solving.

    Turns out that when their little marketing gimmick comes at odds with implanting a rootkit on your machine, they choose the latter. The whole hype around “AI” is excitement about subverting your agency in favor of their own. Kernel level spyware directly injects their own agency without the expense of training and running cheat detection models.

    All the useful applications that can really benefit people have been neglected in favor of LLMs that can more easily serve as data mining SaaS platforms.







  • NuclearDolphin@lemmy.mltoMemes@lemmy.mlDemocrats: Stop dividing the left
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    24 days ago

    The state is the mechanism through which one class exerts its dominance over the others.

    Bourgeois states are the enforcement arm of capital. When it offers improved conditions, it is merely a carrot to prevent you from taking actions that may jeopardize its power.

    In a similar vein, proletarian controlled states can do the same, but the concessions go towards capital and the day-to-day ruling is on behalf of the workers.

    If we want concessions that cannot be revoked, we must overthrow the bourgeois state and replace with a workers state. We cannot reform our way into a society where capital does not have near complete power.





  • No need to apologize. I can differentiate disagreement from attack.

    However, consider that this action raises the bar to run FOSS apps from:

    1. Disable the toggle.
    2. Install the app.

    To:

    1. Purchase a phone that can run an OS that allows you to do the above.
    2. Disable bootloader unlock.
    3. Connect your phone over USB.
    4. Flash the OS.
    5. Do the above.

    OR:

    1. Do the above.
    2. Connect your phone to USB or enable wireless ADB.
    3. Run a command to install the app (repeat for every app install)

    The new barrier to entry is going to inevitably catch a whole lot of people who would otherwise be willing to go out of their way to install FOSS apps. Development will also suffer as a downstream consequence of this.

    I use postmarketOS too, and it is a much more pleasant experience to use than having to break out a second device to update or install software. It has a large number of issues, but it’s more comfortable to use than your comment implies.