Deme
@Deme@sopuli.xyz
- Comment on AI-QAEDA 1 week ago:
I get why one would call the companies that, though.
- Comment on AI-QAEDA 1 week ago:
Every car on the road today goes 400% over the speed limit.
Ok? And do you think the people making the cars don’t share responsibility for when people do stupid shit with the tools they’re given?
Guns have only one goal: kill people. AI has multiple benign applications. That’s why 99% of the world regulates guns, but not knifes.
Guns are also used for hunting, defence, sports, a variety of things other than shooting up schools. Every tool is a weapon and every weapon is a tool. The difference between the two is irrelevant. Architecture is politics, and politics is control. The way you build a system determines how it will be used. If you build a system optimized for mass surveillance, you will get a panopticon. If you build a system optimized for centralized control, you will get a dictatorship. If you build a system optimized for extraction, you will get a parasite. Modern centralized subscription service LLMs (so in effect AI as it exists in the current world, the self-hosted stuff is less than a rounding error in comparison), are a panopticon, a dictatorship and a parasite all in one.
Our whole system is run by capitalists. When people are building AI, who do they think will be using it? What do they think it will be used for? But sure the protein folding research is nice.
- Comment on AI-QAEDA 1 week ago:
A tool that excells at outsourcing thinking is going to be used in stupid ways.
- Comment on politic 2 weeks ago:
Oh, you’re talking about the post image and not the one in the comment you replied to.
- Comment on politic 2 weeks ago:
…and that makes them as close to the centre as any of the other three squares closest to the centre.
- Comment on politic 2 weeks ago:
The post image was way better. Using the political compass unironically is dumb because reducing complex ideologies onto a 2d plane is so insanely reductive that the whole thing is just stupid.
- Comment on politic 2 weeks ago:
That just depends on how the axes are set. I could see it being the case that the centre is defined by the current status quo, which neoliberalism definitely is.
- Comment on ugh 2 weeks ago:
I think everyone thinks that they are in some sense justified to do what they do. At the very least via post-hoc rationalizations.
- Comment on ugh 2 weeks ago:
Well, the prospect of a cyberpunk future is a lot more enticing if you associate yourself with the CEO of the antagonistic Evilcorp Inc., instead of the impoverished masses.
Then there’s also the hubris that rich fucks read every cautionary tale with. “Surely the powerful technology and the power it will give me wont corrupt me, I’ve read the cautionary tales about how power corrupts so I’ll know what to do to avoid that! Also I’m built different.”
- Comment on Anon learns about astronomy 4 weeks ago:
Unless they’re looking through the telescope at the same time of the night when he found the star. Previous night was a wider survey and the kid just wrote down when the star in question passed the field of view. How long there is time to hear the screamibg just depends on the magnification/fov.
- Comment on SBA #244 Sins and Virtues 4 weeks ago:
An antimeme? daring today, aren’t we?
- Comment on Happy Labor Day! 1 month ago:
Do you make enough from those investments to live off of them? If not, you’re not bourgeoisie.
- Comment on Happy Labor Day! 1 month ago:
No, I don’t think so. Just the subset of those which have no value for society and only exist to respond to and perpetuate useless burecracy. Unnecessary middle managers, hr, etc…
- Comment on Happy Labor Day! 1 month ago:
Just using email while also doing something important doesn’t make a job a fake job. Fake jobs are the kind of jobs that society would be fine without. Marketing, sales development, hr. Jobs which exist solely to peddle around useless emails like competitive reviews, social listening reports, messaging matrixes, research debriefs, etc., or responding to such bs in an ever escalating cycle of useless burecracy.
- Comment on Article: Meshtastic vs MeshCore: I Run Both, Here's the Honest Truth (2026) 1 month ago:
I haven’t seen that field show up for companion node settings, but for relays it’s there. I guess companions rarely transmit often enough to warrant it.
And it was at 50% default for me as well with the EU/UK narrow preset. And I would suspect that if you’re setting up a relay, you probably should’ve at least glanced at what’s allowed on the freq you’re using.
- Comment on found this helpful map of which countries are turkiye on turkiye's government website 1 month ago:
Sure but I still don’t get why they did that. Germans aren’t going around insisting that their country be called Deutchland in english as well. Or Spain => España. Or Sweden => Sverige. Or Finland => Suomi. There’s so many examples I could plug here. Languages have different names for countries, no need to throw a fit about it.
- Comment on Article: Meshtastic vs MeshCore: I Run Both, Here's the Honest Truth (2026) 1 month ago:
How is MeshCore setup “Steep, under-documented, decision-heavy”? It’s the exact same Flash => Select region => Go as with Meshtastic.
- Comment on Map of Beans 1 month ago:
Fazer is a finnish candy company. They also make some baked goods and stuff, but no beans as far as I know :D
- Comment on Bada Boom 1 month ago:
Your description makes it like they’re edible as well.
- Comment on That's just science 1 month ago:
This comment here had a much more grounded explanation
- Comment on That's just science 1 month ago:
My guess would be that plants optimize also for absorbing a significant amount of the light they receive from the blue sky, so they still get some when direct sunlight isn’t available.
- Comment on Don’t want your license plate to rust now. 2 months ago:
The cameras will track you anyways. You’ll just get tagged as “2003 Honda civic, gray, license plates unreadable…” along with a descriptive list of any stickers on the back of the car.
- Comment on Still waiting for my Donny dollar check, any day now... 2 months ago:
I think it’s about bootlickers who mistakenly associate themselves with the ultra rich who start crying when anyone suggests increasing taxes on the actually rich people.
- Comment on greeting a CEO 2 months ago:
I need to get me one of those bicycle accessories.
- Comment on I am so excited 2 months ago:
OOP isn’t having an anerysm?
- Comment on No Spoiler 👁️⃤ 2 months ago:
A teacher at a preschool, surely?
- Comment on No context provided 2 months ago:
why would anyone use a vpn to locate themselves in br*tain?
- Comment on Hey hey hey looks like I am in now 🥳 2 months ago:
I think I’ll test this theory. I also agree that fascists should perchance go fuck themselves.
- Comment on SBA #182 instant pudding 2 months ago:
Just woke up and at first glance I thought there was a massive wildfire behind him.
- Comment on It's always for your safety 3 months ago:
Data is a valuable commodity. I think one car company filed a patent not long ago for a system that listens to conversations in the car and then serves advertisements on the central console based on those.