This seems like a good idea, but a related question I've been wondering about is, what is the best way to anonymously run a software project facing this type of threat model, when you also want that software to be accessible to people? Does anyone know about any tips or resources for this? Is there some kind of darknet github? How do you do social media or collect donations/payment? Also, are there any good examples of projects that did this right?
I feel like there are also other potential reasons to want to publish software anonymously though, even if monetization is not the goal. For instance, to keep it game related, there have been plenty of noncommercial fan projects that get shut down mainly just because the companies that own the IP are run by assholes.
“Instead, the disclosure claims that the memo was rolled out in a secretive manner in which some agents were verbally briefed while others were allowed to view it but not keep a copy,” Blumenthal said. “It was reportedly clear that anyone who openly spoke out against this new directive would be fired.”
Posed similar questions about communism in the past. I'm just trying to understand, I ask because I know there is a reasonable contingent of anarchists here. If you have any literature to recommend I'd love to hear about it. My current understanding is, destruction of current system of government (violently or otherwise)...
Violence is in fact unique among forms of human action in that it holds out the possibility of affecting the actions of others about whom one understands nothing. Any other way one might wish to affect another’s actions, one must at least have some idea who they think they are, what they want, what they think is going on. Interpretation is required, and that requires a certain degree of imaginative identification. Hit someone over the head hard enough, all this becomes irrelevant. Obviously, two parties locked in an equal contest of violence would usually do well to get inside each other’s heads, but when access to violence becomes extremely unequal, the need vanishes. This is typically the case in situations of structural violence: of systemic inequality that is ultimately backed up by the threat of force. Structural violence always seems to create extremely lopsided structures of imagination.
As I understand anarchism, the idea is a society where human culture becomes powerful enough to overcome and replace this sort of violently imposed top-down structure.
My current understanding is, destruction of current system of government (violently or otherwise) followed by abolition of all law. Following this, small communities of like minded individuals form and cooperate to solve food, safety, water and shelter concerns.
I think your main mistake is to get this backwards; the mere destruction of government and law doesn't by itself effect the formation of anarchism. You need a culture with enough utility and resilience to replace it and endure without falling back on the crutch of structural violence.
The book I linked goes into some detail considering what that might take, focusing on the example of the nearly-anarchist society of 1990 Madagascar, where technically they were under the rule of a formal government, but in practice almost all governance was independent from it and driven by their unique culture. To summarize a little from memory, ambitious people basically aspired to be liches, with living supporters conducting regular rituals involving their tombs and bodies to avoid getting cursed, because having a prominent place in a reputable tomb after death was the only path to be considered an important person. But the main way to get such a position was to provide for people enough that they would become able and socially obligated to maintain your place in the tomb. There's clear social utility there; achievement materially depends on positive contribution.
If it is the case that the concepts and relationships that define society and how we behave are essentially feats of imagination, then it should be possible for this force of imagination to itself be the basis for holding things together, rather than forcing it into artificial molds defined by violent hierarchies. What's needed for that to happen is to sufficiently develop cultural imagination as a technology that it can build systems that stand up to the pressures they need to bear, that currently get handled through destructive shortcuts that treat people as things.
I asked a question on a forum about why a command wasn't working. They said I didn't have an interpreter installed on my computer and were making fun of me. I showed them that I had one installed and that wasn't the problem, but they continued to talk sarcastically to me without explaining anything. Only one of them suggested...
This is one reason it could have been better for OP to not have deleted their question, as there are likely many people who would think to word their question the way OP did but don't know the more technically correct way to word it.
Even at a casual glance, it's not hard to see the similarities between Minecraft and Hytale, its latest block-based sandbox competitor. As Hytale's early modding scene flourishes, one modder is taking those similarities to their logical endpoint, deciding that if the games overlap so neatly, Minecraft and Hytale players might as...
So what is the alternative? A lot of artists and their allies think they have an answer: they say we should extend copyright to cover the activities associated with training a model.
And I am here to tell you they are wrong. Wrong because this would represent a massive expansion of copyright over activities that are currently permitted – for good reason.
He goes on to say that prohibiting AI works from being copyrighted and worker collective bargaining are better solutions, and I really agree with the arguments for this. I also liked this bit about how some of what remains past the bubble could be useful:
And we will have the open-source models that run on commodity hardware, AI tools that can do a lot of useful stuff, like transcribing audio and video; describing images; summarizing documents; and automating a lot of labor-intensive graphic editing – such as removing backgrounds or airbrushing passersby out of photos. These will run on our laptops and phones, and open-source hackers will find ways to push them to do things their makers never dreamed of.
Would the default instance be run by the app dev? Or in collaboration with some instance? It would maybe be risky to do with an unaffiliated instance because if they didn't like it they could disallow these types of accounts or signups.
All my new code will be closed-source from now on. I've contributed millions of lines of carefully written OSS code over the past decade, spent thousands of hours helping other people. If you want to use my libraries (1M+ downloads/month) in the future, you have to pay....
The idea of a "documentation moat" seems really gross to me. Like you're going to make it more difficult on purpose for people to interact with your software, unless they pay?
I'd been looking for Reddit alternatives for years, but most of them were full of sparse content I wasn't interested in and users who seemed like assholes. Lemmy meets a higher standard, and my interest in gradually moving away from Reddit and supporting others abandoning it has also gotten higher. The decentralized design is also a big plus, gives free network effects to potential new software efforts because they can freely plug into it.
I think the main idea is that it's an "agent" that runs command line commands and then considers the output. It definitely helps sometimes to show a LLM the errors its code generated.
Developers making mods and plugins for hentai games and sex toys say Github recently unleashed a wave of suspensions and bans against their repositories, and the platform hasn’t explained why....
“Perhaps most frustratingly, all of the tickets, pull requests, past release builds and changelogs are gone, because those things are not part of Git (the version control system),” Sauceke told me. “So even if someone had the foresight to make mirrors before the ban (as I did), those mirrors would only keep up with the code changes, not these ‘extra’ things that are pretty much vital to our work.”
Recently, my wife and I had a shouting match over piracy which went nowhere other than making me realize I couldn't back up my positions on anything other than the higher-level ethics stuff....
Assuming you are in the US, your wife's fears are totally baseless because lawsuits against people for consumer level piracy pretty much have not been happening at all since like 2010 (with the exception of porn video piracy copyright trolls, which still doesn't happen that much and maybe your wife would be unhappy with regardless). Even when they were, due to industry group backed lawsuit campaigns, it's civil law not criminal so nobody went to prison, and the few people who actually got stuck with massive fines eventually just declared bankruptcy to get out of paying them.
This is because said industry groups switched to trying to enforce copyright via ISP, getting ISPs to voluntarily forward people threatening letters, which are mostly empty threats with no associated legal action, so the ISPs are getting sued to try to obligate them to cut off people's internet access. They want a way of doing it where they don't have to take consumer level pirates to court, I'd guess because it looks really bad for them and is terrible PR to have regular people who obviously don't deserve punishment sued for huge amounts of money because they torrented some media.
You are totally safe if you have a VPN and bind it to your torrent client (which prevents torrents from working if the VPN is off or drops connection), but even if you get such emails from your ISP (I got a few myself) likely nothing will happen for now.
I had to deal with some guy at work trying to do some tiktok video and including me in it so I could complement his side gig or some shit (and likely only including me because women get views). And if I complain too much about being included in their grift everyone will shit on me for being a karen or for not helping him with...
Yeah but I sympathize, the way money rules your life and how you're allowed to live it is brutal and it's only natural to dream of overcoming that through financial success.
Also, they're sensitive to moving shadows. As with motion sensors, if you move slowly enough, they cannot sense you. Slowly circle behind them and they jump into your death mitts....
AI as a technology sure, Windows on the other hand I think there's a real chance people will stop using it as it continues to get worse and alternatives continue to get better.
The speed with which it happened prevented users from accessing their data, highlighting the risks of decentralized social media without backups. Its administrator ceased operations, causing confusion and data loss for many healthcare professionals who had signed up as an alternative to Twitter.
This event serves as a reminder: Wherever you are on Mastodon, back up your data!
WARNING: To help Med-mastodon users who have returned to the Fediverse, the Poliverso staff has created the Friendica group MedMastodon
If you follow this group, you can:
Follow it and mention it in your messages, and it will reshare all your public posts addressed to it (this only applies to an initial message, not a reply to another message).
Follow it only to read all the messages from fellow doctors who send messages through it.
If Mastodon is federated, why isn't this recoverable somehow? I thought federation involved making copies of content on other servers, does that just not happen often enough for it to work as a backup?
The company says that it believes this software will streamline the arduous task school libraries face when trying to comply with legislation that bans certain books and curricula
So are you saying it's literally impossible even with future technology to put a medically preserved brain in a new body and have that be a person that can do stuff and you could talk to, or just that it wouldn't be the same person or consciousness somehow?
The former seems pretty out there as an idea. There are people whose brains are cut off from the rest of their nervous system and are still alive. The other connection the brain has to the body is the bloodstream, but blood transfusions are a thing and doesn't kill you.
I think most of that is just because it's really tricky to get right though and there's a lot of medical complications, not because it's impossible for philosophical reasons.
So, it appears that PC vendors are no longer hesitant to hike prices of their products, and Corsair is a recent example. While PC price hikes are common these days, what's not acceptable is cancelling the already placed order without any valid reason. A Redditor just reported that he became a victim of such an incident after he...
Aren't they quitting the consumer market and only making stuff for companies now? Unfortunately I don't think a boycott will affect them, would definitely need some other consequences.
I didn't want to deal with choosing so I just went with Linux Mint and the default choice (Cinnamon) but it seemed glitchy and I couldn't configure it the way I wanted, so switched to xfce. Haven't felt the need to try other stuff since.
What is bad about it? What 'display features' are important here? My main problem with Cinnamon was lag spikes every second or so, though that was some years ago and might not be an issue now. Games seem to mostly work fine, except VR stuff still needs more troubleshooting, but I'm skeptical a different DE would fix those issues.
I don't have high resolution monitors so most of that isn't relevant to me but they are different dimensions and it seems to handle two of them fine.
VR issues are like, the headset speakers not being recognized, viewing the desktop from SteamVR shows a blank screen, and launching VR games does not actually cause the headset to switch to them, they just run in the background. Stuff like that. I guess it would be worth trying another DE just to see if it helps.
I was replaying Super Mario Bros a while ago and it was really striking to me how deliberate the game seems to be about trying to teach patience and impulse control. Games ask more from you than social media content does.
The problem is that only accounts for such a small percentage of AI output
Ban AI here and there can be another community for that kind of content.
If it's rare, then there won't be enough of it to sustain another community. An easy way to moderate for this could be to just ban outputs of the most popular, easy to use tools like Suno, and ask for an explanation of the process to be provided.
It doesn't have to, that could be disallowed (or at least require a link back to the artist who explains their methods). Also, a ban on generative AI would also apply to use of machine learning that doesn't involve text prompts, so this isn't just about prompt derived music.
So the main complaint is that Pixelfed clients don't display posts without images even if one has followed the poster? And thinks it incentivizes creation of using multiple accounts/apps when a single one to interact with ActivityPub would be better? That seems like a fair thing to criticize but it seems a little dramatic to paint it as entertainment killing communication.
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Sounds a lot like "how you feel doesn't matter, your right to exist depends on being useful to me."
Which calls for acquiring leverage and using it to set boundaries, more than it calls for a rational rebuttal. Just gotta systematically remove the power such people have over you, and then they won't be able to talk to you that way anymore.
A screenshot of Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup's in-game logs: "An orc wizard comes into view. The orc wizard casts a spell at you. The magic dart hits you! You redirect the orc's attack! The orc wizard points at itself and mumbles some strange words. The orc wizard appears confused and falls into the lava! The orc wizard is incinerated."
Aura of Power - Any enemy that attacks you may instead falter or redirect its attack to itself or another target. The chance of this rises linearly with piety, reaching a 10% chance of faltering and 5% chance of redirecting at max piety. (Passive)
Confuse is a monster-only spell that attempts to induce confusion in a single target from a distance. It requires a clear line of effect and must overcome the target's willpower.
The following enemies cast Confuse:
...
Orc wizard
Confusion is a status condition that causes the victim to move and act randomly until it wears off. Confusion can be extremely dangerous: the victim may attack empty tiles or even allies when they attempt to fight, and may fall into deep water or lava if they attempt to move.
I just accidentally clicked the "clear all" on the browser URL and wished that it was a bit harder to click but was still there. If it took three clicks to make happen, its still useful in most circumstances but would drastically drop the mistaken clicks...
Cyberpunk 2077 VR Modder Hit by Another DMCA Strike, Pauses Patreon, Pulls Access to All His Mods, and Declares He's 'Under Attack' ( www.ign.com )
Looks like the Ghostrunner developers also have an issue with paid mods running off their IP.
ELI5 How is this legal? Doesn't the constitution give us the right to tell them piss off? ( www.yahoo.com )
Is anyone making a frontend player for the music Anna recently archived from Spotify?
How would anarchism work?
Posed similar questions about communism in the past. I'm just trying to understand, I ask because I know there is a reasonable contingent of anarchists here. If you have any literature to recommend I'd love to hear about it. My current understanding is, destruction of current system of government (violently or otherwise)...
Why are programmers so rude to beginners?
I asked a question on a forum about why a command wasn't working. They said I didn't have an interpreter installed on my computer and were making fun of me. I showed them that I had one installed and that wasn't the problem, but they continued to talk sarcastically to me without explaining anything. Only one of them suggested...
'What the f***': Modding arch-sorcerer casually invents Minecraft x Hytale crossplay, defies laws of god and man alike ( www.pcgamer.com )
Even at a casual glance, it's not hard to see the similarities between Minecraft and Hytale, its latest block-based sandbox competitor. As Hytale's early modding scene flourishes, one modder is taking those similarities to their logical endpoint, deciding that if the games overlap so neatly, Minecraft and Hytale players might as...
AI companies will fail. We can salvage something from the wreckage | Cory Doctorow ( www.theguardian.com )
I don't usually keep the author's name in the suggested hed, but here I think he's recognizable enough that it adds value....
What should we be doing, individually, to increase Lemmy's userbase?
First and foremost, before the usual argument happens, I know that more is not necessarily better....
YSK: You can use uBlock Origin to filter Lemmy posts based on certain words
You can use uBlock Origin to block certain keywords in posts!...
Lemmy's active userbase has been stable since September 2025
A post from 2 days ago presented a graph that showed an important variation in the active userbase:...
Epic Games Store Users Have Grown by 173% in Six Years, But Revenue Only by 1.6% ( www.eteknix.com )
we need more users
I've been one of the people saying "we don't need more users. we need quality over quantity" and i was wrong....
All my new code will be closed-source from now on - Marc J. Schmidt ( www.linkedin.com )
All my new code will be closed-source from now on. I've contributed millions of lines of carefully written OSS code over the past decade, spent thousands of hours helping other people. If you want to use my libraries (1M+ downloads/month) in the future, you have to pay....
Why did you decide to join Lemmy?
I'm just curious why some people come here; in my case, it's because it's not the same as on centralized platforms. I love these kinds of forums.
Was not able to find programming_horror
If this ain't bad enough, their philosophy is cherry on the cake...
Github Banned a Ton of Adult Game Developers and Won’t Explain Why ( www.404media.co )
Developers making mods and plugins for hentai games and sex toys say Github recently unleashed a wave of suspensions and bans against their repositories, and the platform hasn’t explained why....
What are my rights? Just realized I don't know basic shit about the legal aspect of piracy
Recently, my wife and I had a shouting match over piracy which went nowhere other than making me realize I couldn't back up my positions on anything other than the higher-level ethics stuff....
Does anyone else hate how everyone is trying to make money all the time?
I had to deal with some guy at work trying to do some tiktok video and including me in it so I could complement his side gig or some shit (and likely only including me because women get views). And if I complain too much about being included in their grift everyone will shit on me for being a karen or for not helping him with...
YSK: House flies always launch backwards, no exceptions. Creep behind them and they'll jump into your crushing hand.
Also, they're sensitive to moving shadows. As with motion sensors, if you move slowly enough, they cannot sense you. Slowly circle behind them and they jump into your death mitts....
Good riddance to bad rubbish
source: https://www.instagram.com/cartoonmonkeystudio/p/DTG_Uc3ARZv/
AI Is Supercharging the War on Libraries, Education, and Human Knowledge ( www.404media.co )
YSK that your gut is connected to your brain. Bacterias in your gut can naturally create serotonin and dopamine. If you have happy gut bacterias, you will feel happier ( lifestylemedicine.stanford.edu )
The Way to Better Mental Health May Go Through Your Stomach...
Corsair Reportedly Cancels User's PC Order, Hikes The Price By $800 — Raising Ethical Questions ( wccftech.com )
So, it appears that PC vendors are no longer hesitant to hike prices of their products, and Corsair is a recent example. While PC price hikes are common these days, what's not acceptable is cancelling the already placed order without any valid reason. A Redditor just reported that he became a victim of such an incident after he...
Ignoring the internet bill itself, how many paid online services do you have?
Zero for me. No Netflix or anything here, I'm not into subscription based services....
I love choice. I hate choosing.
Do you make a grocery list, or do you just go to the store and wing it?
Social media, not gaming, tied to rising attention problems in teens, new study finds ( theconversation.com )
ChatGPT could prioritize sponsored content as part of ad strategy — sponsored content could allegedly be given preferential treatment in LLM’s responses, OpenAI to use chat data to deliver highly personalized results ( www.tomshardware.com )
Meta: disallow AI-gen posts?
I noticed that AI posts tend to get reported so I figured maybe we just make them officially disallowed....
How We Lost Communication to Entertainment ( ploum.net )
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Nvidia GeForce Now’s Time Limit Will Stop Gamers After 100 Hours Each Month ( uk.pcmag.com )
The game streaming service will make almost all of its users pay extra for extended access.
My mom says that people who don't have "value" don't deserve to live and that "depression" is just an excuse for laziness. What's is your rebuttal for it?
Please don't tell me "see a therapist" I know that already.
[DCSS] An unusual way to one-shot an orc
Ru my beloved
What's an unpopular UI opinion you have?
I just accidentally clicked the "clear all" on the browser URL and wished that it was a bit harder to click but was still there. If it took three clicks to make happen, its still useful in most circumstances but would drastically drop the mistaken clicks...
r/privacy doesn't let people say "Peter Thiel is involved with Brave"
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