obbeel
@obbeel@lemmy.eco.br
- Comment on How would an anarchist society work? 4 days ago:
Military? Who would act militarily against a community? How do you figure slums survive? People could act “militarily” against them. Yet they survive and thrive.
- Comment on How would an anarchist society work? 4 days ago:
I think it’s important to denote that some people categorize anarchism as a distant dream regime, for convenience of course.
You can see anarchism in action in the punk movement or other community efforts. People building bridges on their own, living in a gridless community, sharing art using their own methods like cassette tapes. That’s all anarchism.
I’m not at the heart of anarchism. I’m not occupying an abandoned building to help the poor, for example. But I’ve read a couple of books on it.
- Comment on If you're sexually frustrated & can never find a mate & decide to live a life of "nofap," what are the effects that buildup of sexual frustration has? 6 days ago:
You’re a woman who wants to “NoFap”?
- Comment on Google's Gemini will make its way into Dragon Quest X to power a "Chatty Slimey" AI companion, Square Enix has announced 1 week ago:
Everyday I stray further from the path of mainstream gaming.
- Comment on Scientists create 3D images of ant morphology with particle accelerator that captured high-resolution images of internal anatomy in seconds; the library, spanning 792 species, may inform robot design 3 weeks ago:
This is really interesting. I actually think that’s better than theory. We live in a data-centered world now, right? That means hard experimental knowledge has high value. So, in theory we keep speculating what the math means, or you can tell a computer to try to figure it out. But in experimental you get hard facts.
This is a scientific exercise of hard experimental work. I think it’s valuable. We’ll get to understand insects and their morphology better. At least it’s money spent not on health issues only. It broadens science; we get to actually understand the world and not focus on insects for safety/health issues like “Why is a mosquito a vector for Dengue?” or “How can we eliminate invasive insect species from crop fields?”. This is science beyond the obvious.
- Comment on Copying Is Not Theft 1 month ago:
I think it’s important to understand the philosophy also. The free software movement traces back to being able to transform any software in order to function on hardware as intended by the user. This is necessary and is its base philosophy.
So you have a hardware that is unusable without property software. That is what is unacceptable by free software standards. And I agree.
- Comment on Native Americans? 4 months ago:
That’s common culture/knowledge. But I don’t know, seems like rubbish to me. If English colonization has different methods, what can you say about Trinidad & Tobago? And the English Guyana? Let’s not go to Africa and Asia. It doesn’t seem to be their “modus operandi” to me.
I don’t think there is some big extermination plan for America and Australia. I think there’s just something different to those places, but that requires more study. Not of the common knowledge kind. Why would you want some kind of extermination colonization strategy for Australia? It’s weird. It’s more of a “counter-study”, but I believe there are people fighting the good fight out there. I’ll put it on my list and research it.
- Comment on Native Americans? 4 months ago:
That’s good. It’s similar to Brazil in the sense of recognizing and preserving tribal cultures. That’s important, but it doesn’t extend to all native people. There are movements here advocating for the recognition of the urban indigenous—people who live in the cities but aren’t officially recognized as having native ancestry.
Even more, it’s increasingly expected that there were big cities in the Amazon, featuring complex trade routes. However, this topic still needs to be studied more profoundly for various reasons.
It all depends on History, specifically how groups like the Aztecs in Mexico and the Inca in Peru dealt with the Spanish. Their elites were often made kings (or viceroys) in the early post-colonization period. That makes a significant difference in the subsequent social structure.
- Comment on Native Americans? 4 months ago:
Not children. People of any age. They’re dark skinned, sometimes slightly dark skinned. They look like japanese, sometimes they don’t. Sometimes they’re hispanic without a spanish surname. They’re not told they’re hispanic, they’re just marked as hispanic by the demographics. They don’t need to be told what they are for people to oppress them.
That’s how it works: you mark someone as something and don’t give a shit about what they think about it. Sometimes, the person just thinks: “This is how I look like, and this is what my family looks like, so I’m correct and don’t know anything about this heritage thing.”.
They don’t need to be told anything, that’s how it works.
- Comment on Native Americans? 4 months ago:
I think the french are more pasty? Any child of a frenchman had lots of rights. That’s how Haiti got to rebel, no?
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- Comment on What options of resistance are programmers creating to not submit to AI culture? 5 months ago:
Guess I’ll just pull the Terry A. Davis here and say it’s God.
- Comment on What options of resistance are programmers creating to not submit to AI culture? 5 months ago:
I mean, agentic AIs are getting good at outputting working code. Thousands of lines per minute; talking trash of it won’t work.
However, I agree that losing the human element of writing code is losing a very important element of programming. So, I believe there should exist a strong resistance against this. Don’t feel pressured to answer if you think your plans shouldn’t be revealed, but it would be nice to know if someone is preparing a great resistance out there.
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- Comment on Wall Street’s AI Bubble Is Worse Than the 1999 Dot-com Bubble, Warns a Top Economist 8 months ago:
The progress of OpenAI since february has been pathetic. The other major AI LLMs have surpassed it a lot. I want to see how they will justify the investment.
- Comment on Mark Zuckerberg Already Knows Your Life. Now He Wants His AI to Run It 8 months ago:
I got nothing to hide. Or so the saying goes.
- Comment on The Elder Scrolls: Arena remake gets Jolt Physics and big new features 10 months ago:
Looks so good. I hope it’s ready soon. TES Arena has a really good endless exploration idea, where you can wander and find new things to do, it’s its best point in my opinion.
- Comment on Big Tech Wants to Become Its Own Bank 10 months ago:
Imagine using Meta money at your local store or convenience store. It doesn’t stop there, you need a Facebook account to “login” into your wallet.
- Comment on AI hallucinations are getting worse – and they're here to stay 10 months ago:
ChatGPT is worse. The others not so much.
- Comment on College Students Are Sprinkling Typos Into Their AI Papers on Purpose 10 months ago:
In a culture where people just want to make the cut, chatbots are really perfect.
- Comment on Showing your ID to get online might become a reality 10 months ago:
This would fit “A Boring Dystopia” well. I think protecting data isn’t the way to go. The effects of it can already be seen:
All the burocracy for common people, no burocracy at all for Big Tech. No IP, no robots.txt. They are trusted and can do whatever they like, starting on your phone. It honestly looks like another form of aristocracy.
- Comment on Do you know any software development philosophy books? 10 months ago:
I’ve just finished reading “A Hacker Manifesto” by McKenzie Wark. I recommend that as well.
- Comment on Do you know any software development philosophy books? 11 months ago:
Thank you!
- Comment on Do you know any software development philosophy books? 11 months ago:
Thank you!
- Comment on Do you know any software development philosophy books? 11 months ago:
Thank you!
- Comment on Do you know any software development philosophy books? 11 months ago:
Thank you!
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- Comment on The Endgame of Edgelord Eschatology - Truthdig 11 months ago:
I don’t think being afraid of it is the right way to go. But that is really convenient for Big Tech isn’t it? At least as of now, being online (or a digital being) means you only see what Google or the LLMs want you too. There is a complete detachment of local culture to give in to this global vision, but as envisioned by Big Tech.
I’ve searched for local newspapers using Google Maps localization, which is far from perfect, just to see if my local culture is still there. If people actually live like they lived 10-15 years ago. And they’re the same. It’s just that, as incredible as it may seem, the local physical culture of the city is getting superseded by digital realities. The people are the same, but they’re more or less invisible now.
It’s crazy the way things are going, but I think the response should be technological also and not avoiding knowledge or the effort necessary for it.
- Comment on Crawl 8-bit catacombs with a glowstick in first-person horror Repose 11 months ago:
I like it is trying to add to the gaming experience with something like save codes.
- Comment on Bubble Trouble - An AI bubble threatens Silicon Valley, and all of us. 11 months ago:
I can ask AI things and then check if it is correct somewhere else. It’s very good at guiding you towards knowing things. Sometimes it will avoid giving information, but it is always useful at answering things. It’s like someone you can bother without having to resort to forums or other boards. It advanced my knowledge a lot. I already read a lot, but you can’t ask a book to clarify things.