The kids would be the ones answering as well, so that shouldn’t be a problem.

I know a lot of people here come from Reddit, but I’m sure I’m not the only one here who grew up using old school phpBB forums to talk to other kids about random stuff online after school. My favorite forum was not in English and probably had fewer than 100 active members, and its by far the best experience I’ve had online. I didn’t bother much with other public social media before Mastodon.

I think at least some of us are dreaming of recreating that type of safe and fun online space, where it’s possible to create more close-knit (but nevertheless anonymous) communities. Reddit isn’t it, and I agree that it’s not good for children (or anyone) to be on there.

Whether the Fediverse could provide it remains an open question. It certainly comes with huge moderation challenges.

They’re putting chemicals in the water that turn the friggin’ fish gay

How do you consider your job security? Are you planning to stay in the field for a while?

Those I know working on AI have either been fired already (Google) or are looking for openings. Hopefully it’s looking better for you. :)

Thanks!

Fucked up. Sometimes it’s hard to understand who these peers in juries are.

Don’t censor words when talking about rape on this platform. Those who wish to avoid seeing this content will set up filters to avoid it, and by messing with the word you are exposing them to this content rather than protecting them from it. :)

I’m a bit sceptical of people who are too into “socialism as a government type” - they tend to develop fundamentalist ideas about what the perfect society should look like, and which means are justified in order to get there. Usually all means will be. To me socialism is at its best as a critique, allowing us to understand what’s going on in the world and how to fight it piece by piece instead of trying to construct some ideal society based on a feeble understanding of reality.

I guess what is considered easy is very subjective. I seriously think Marx’ Manifesto of the Communist Party is not a bad place to start. It’s everything Capital is not: short, easy to read, somewhat superficial.

I’d say the historical analysis is at the core of marxism as much as the economic one, and it’s summarized perfectly right from the start:

The history of all hitherto existing society is the history of class struggles.

Freeman and slave, patrician and plebeian, lord and serf, guild-master and journeyman, in a word, oppressor and oppressed, stood in constant opposition to one another, carried on an uninterrupted, now hidden, now open fight, a fight that each time ended, either in a revolutionary reconstitution of society at large, or in the common ruin of the contending classes.

Make sure to take a second to reflect on this and the Soviet Union and the failure of Marxist-Leninism. It was not the end of history, but another common ruin. Which brings me to the biggest problem of studying socialist theory: The line between theory and propaganda is often blurred. The Manifesto of the Communist Party itself, thought-provoking as it is, is a pamphlet made for wide circulation, and more propaganda than academic work. Marx’ understanding of history revolves around how proletarian revolts such as the Soviet Union go wrong and end up reproducing existing power structures. Yet many of today’s self-proclaimed Marxists are somehow blind to this and end up tricking themselves with all sorts of mind games.

That’s why I think it’s important to start with Marx himself. Understand his view of history and his criticism of the economy, and reflect on what it means for what you see in history since it was written. It still holds, though the theory itself has become weaponized in the very historical and economical dynamics he is describing. If you understand this independently you’re less likely to become a sucker who falls for propaganda.

And of course, Marx wasn’t a god, and he didn’t get it all right. I personally think the main problem is his understanding of history as having an “end” (a teleological account) - Marx believed every class revolt would lead us slightly closer to a classless society, and that eventually we would get there. This builds on Hegel, who had a similar understanding of history rooted in religion rather than communism. I think this is plain wrong - things very well might just get worse, and there is no end of history. But that’s me.

Of course one shouldn’t focus only on Marx, but I feel like he’s important enough that it’s worth taking him seriously. And with all the stupid takes people have on his work, I think it’s a good idea to go straight to the source.

Well, she has changed.

I would of course love to see ladybird succeed, but it has seemed problematic from the start in my opinion. Servo seems much more serious.

I also like that Servo is developing an engine, not a browser as such. Seems like a good idea to keep the two separated.

I can imagine he has access to crazy surveillance of them and their mothers.

Bandwagon.FM lets you filter music by license type.

Archive.org is a great resource for music that has entered into the public domain, if you’re looking for some proper classics.

De er i sidestolpen på Lemmy, det er mulig de ikke vises i friendica. Jeg klarer faktisk å bryte både regel 1 og 2 med denne posten.

1. Brug artiklens titel
2. Brug ikke tekstfeltet (“body”)
3. Kun nye artikler
4. Debat-indlæg og andet skal markeres

Oops!

Baklager det - jeg leser for det meste norske nyheter, så gikk til DR for å finne en dansk kilde. Deres overskrift “Ville vise det på verdens største scene: ‘Det gjorde jeg nu’” er fantastisk intetsigende.

Skal være mer forsiktig i fremtiden! :)

I don’t fully understand this shit out of a lack of really caring, but wouldn’t it be fully possible for an “AI agent” to create a crypto wallet on its own, scam some people to get money into it, and then just lose access and have the money pretty much just lost?

And if that happens, where does the money go? Into crypto “stock” in whichever coin it invests in?

What a stupid future we’re building.

I was talking about users, not developers.

I’m under the crazy opinion that developers are free to develop whatever they want, and users are free to use whatever they want. If they are unhappy they can use something else or become developers.

If I develop something you do not want to use I do not restrict your freedom. GNOME developers are not restricting your freedom by creating a product that’s according to my preferences. They are giving us both freedom to choose what we prefer. The fact that GNOME is so different from KDE increases freedom of choice.

I don’t get what is so hard to understand here.

I don’t know of a package manager with a GTK filter.

This I could agree with, but the problem here is a lacking feature in package managers, not the fact that apps that you don’t personally enjoy using exist.

I don’t particularly enjoy using KDE apps, but thankfully the K-centric naming convention make them really easy to avoid.

So apps look the way they are made?

When I use KDE apps in GNOME they also look like KDE apps. Obviously - that’s the way they are made. If I want something else than what someone else created I will use something else, not complain about how they didn’t create it the way I personally prefer.

Oh yes, I forgot about that time they tracked down and kidnapped KDE contributors never to be heard of again, depriving the poor FOSS community from their freedom of choice.

I’m happy I’m not the only one to experience KDE like that. I’ve had far better experiences with XFCE than with KDE, but I keep going back to GNOME because of the user experience. I’m happy people enjoy KDE though, so I don’t generally feel a strong need to trash it online. But my god can the user base be insufferable at times.

As a GNOME user since forever, I find it fascinating how much time KDE users spend thinking about GNOME. They seem so obsessed with customization, yet seem incapable of understanding that people could have preferences different from their own.