hendrik @ hendrik @palaver.p3x.de

A software developer and Linux nerd, living in Germany. I'm usually a chill

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With 12, she probably knows how the concept of jobs and money work. I'd say there is more to the question. It's likely a conversation opener regarding wealth, or what's important in life. I'd just ask some follow questions and see where this is going.

I don't think it's quite end stage yet. There is still some room left to become worse. Some freedoms left and some money in the pockets of regular people.

It's nice to see. I'd compare it to back when Lemmy was in the same situation and tens of thousands of users came from Reddit to Lemmy over night.

I agree, though I'd like to add that it really helps to learn it properly. I've also met people who learned everything by themselves in an unstructured way, and sometimes they struggle with the underlying concepts. And yes, it's art. But sometimes you want your customer data not to be stolen, and your software not to have any bugs and leaks. I think sometimes it't that kind of art that requires effort, dedication and deep knowledge about a topic.
It's really fun though, at least in my opinion. And it's a broad field. Some software needs mathematical precision and be provable and secure, other things are more design, there's so many different things...

Yeah and I agree, you can just try lots if things on a computer, and if it's not right, you just correct it. Mistakes are cheap while learning... And that's not the case in other professions. So you can just try and figure out things pretty much as you like.

Books are always a good source. And they're structured and teach stuff in the correct order. Something stackoverflow and the internet doesn't do. So if you can find proper books on the programming languages and frameworks you're interested in, I'd recommend to read those. And keep in mind there are libraries, if you don't want to buy books and they're not available online. Though, if it's a niche topic, it'd have to be more a university library than a public one. It's worth a try. Otherwise, you can always buy them. Just have a (quick) look at the content first, so it matches your interest and level of prior knowledge.

Wow. I did not expect to see the current amount of boot licking by big tech and practically all of the tech-bros. This can't be good. They certainly expect to get something in return from the current administration. Likely some dystopian end-stage capitalism?!

Hmmh. I believe the main reason why we don't have them is that the main developers didn't like gamification. So they skipped all of that. And they don't view this platform as a 1:1 clone of Reddit. And I mean ultimately all these awards and similar concepts on Discord etc are meant to make the users spend money. Other things are made to get people hooked, because they can brag with karma, awards etc and they'll spend more time on the platform. That's all good if you're trying to make lots of money, but not necessarily healthy for the users or the atmosphere on the platform. But it's complicated. Not everything is bad, either.

I'd like emoji reactions for example. That'd be practically the same thing... You could - instead of just up-/downvote, add a picture reaction to a comment or post - could be a medal or whatever. Some other Fediverse platforms have that kind of stuff.

(And btw: Lots of people here also donate time to moderate, foster communities, write program code, donate to the project, or are just particularly nice to people, so it needs to factor in lots of other things as well, next to money donations to the instance admins.)

You can put an emoji into your username. Or inside of a comment...

Sure, but we had the same thing with Alpaca, Llama2, Llama3, 3.2, Mistral, Phi... They're all getting smaller and/or more intelligent since a year ago (and more) when models at small size started to compete with ChatGPT, or at least claim to do so... If that's it... Shouldn't it have happened like a year ago? We definitely had those graphs back then, when some Llama or Mistral outperformed the current ChatGPT of the time in some benchmarks... I think precedent for that headline "... outperforms ChatGPT" or "... is better than ..." is Llama2 70B in summer 2023. And claiming that has been a pretty constant thing since then.

Edit: Computerphile covered Deepseek: https://youtu.be/gY4Z-9QlZ64

But I think I get it. If people really thought OpenAI was going to give trillions of dollars to Nvidia for hardware, and now there is some competition and more efficient AI available... That might come as a reality check. I just think the prospect of it all is a bit funny. AI is a big bubble especially since everyone thinks it's going to make progress and big advances... And now it does... And stock price drops... That's just silly. IMO. And I'd bet now is a good time to buy some stocks, since the better AI gets, the more it gets applied.)

I think that just works if you believe in reincarnation... ¯(ツ)_/¯

I still think this isn't connected to any facts. It's just some speculation bubble doing weird things. We've been improving AI models for the better part of the last two years. Until now that's been increasing the bubble. Now literally the same thing happens and they're all selling their Nvidia stock... Wtf!?... And by the way, we're talking about a Chinese company here. As such they're known to add unsubstanciated claims about how the political restriction on AI chips doesn't really affect them. They've also done that before. It might not even be true.

Understandable. We all have memories and triggers. Can be pretty much anything. Question is, whether you need to overcome it for some reason, for example to be more happy in your life. That might or might not be important. On it's own it's just you having a past.

I think collaboration is another thing that's missing in your answer. Of course synchronization would be one main thing for me to use a photo gallery or note taking app across devices, since I'm often accessing stuff from my phone and my laptop. But I also like to share photos with my relatives and friends, I have shared calendars with my wife to organize our lives. I collaborate on projects and collaborative edit text documents. And sometimes I keep notes and small snippets on technical details mainly for myself, but also share that with the internet, for other people to learn how to install some software or customize it to a niche use-case. And while some of that could be done by separate applications as well, I often use one generic self-hosted platform and have that do everything, disregarding if some of the job doesn't really need the features. It's a balance. I'm also sometimes wasting resources and in the end I realize I never needed a self-hosted solution and I would have been better off with a simple and local phone app.

This is a well-known issue. NSFW is colloquially used as a term to flag adult content, but that's not really what it's about. It means "not safe for work". So it's meant so you can safely browse and scroll through a feed at work, or on your phone while commuting on the train and there won't be any strange things showing up that make bystanders look at you.

Reading the news is considered safe. Pictures of dead people in a warzone are not safe for work. Naked people aren't safe to look at either. You wouldn't casually scroll through penis art while waiting for your colleagues to arrive to head out for lunch... So your art is NSFW.

(And on the other hand, if you're wrongly using NSFW to flag age restricted content, like many people do, it wouldn't be NSFW.)

Other than that, the lines are completely blurry. Some people mistake anime girls for porn and that'll get you unwanted attention. No one knows what kind of short dresses cross a line. And using NSFW for age restriction isn't the right thing to do in the first place. Learning about anatomy or asking questions regarding intimacy is a valid thing for minors to do and now they can't. The categories are completely subjective. And lumping together violence and mildly lewd things isn't useful.

I'd recommend you mark your pictures not safe for work. Because I frequently browse Lemmy while I'm commuting or waiting for the bus. And I'd like penises to be blurred and not have everyone look at me for looking at private parts on the train.

Thanks for explaining. That makes perfect sense. I was under the impression there might be something else.

I'm not interested in forwarding spam in the first place. I don't think I have any use of channels where messages just fly by... So I think I should be safe.

Thanks for explaining. I get that. Seems we're moving away from democracy and freedom these days. That's hard to tackle. And there's a multitude of reasons and dynamics at play. I've also learned at school we usually have reforms or revolution available. Plus a few successful forms of nonviolent resistance. Or civil war, war and a restart, continued oppression... We'll see. I hope for the best. But in my opinion freedom is a constant fight, even in "free" countries, it's not granted automatically or indefinitely.

Seems like you're talking past each other. That other person isn't getting what you say or they're distracted or not paying attention... You could point out that there is a misunderstanding and explain what you meant to convey?! I'm not sure, depends on the situation. Maybe they're uncomfortable around you and you should make them feel comfortable. If you want to hold a meaningful conversation. But you'd need to find out what type they are and why they're uncomfortable/paranoid in the first place.

Ideal to plug in some christmal lights and attach them to the window?

You're right, I'm not really sure if I understand what the article is about. And how it translates to the title and us, the people.

I'm aware of oppressive regimes, weapon systems, surveillance, misinformation and manipulation taking place all around the world. And all of that becoming very efficient by technology, automation, algorithms, etc.

I don't think we can rely on the government or the companies, though. The goverment itself is the entitiy oppressing the people. And since the article is talking about the Trump situation... I mean all the billionaires and tech-bros were present at his inauguration ceremony, kissing his ass... I don't think we can rely on them or their employees, either...

So my thinking is, if it's technology that's going to solve this, or the citizens have any influence in the first place... as the title implies(?!), it has to be something like Free Software. Or at least something independent. Or is there anything else left?

But I'd agree, me using LibreOffice and encrypting my phone is not going to change if some trans people get arrested somewhere... I really don't understand what the article wants to tell me... We could overturn the government? Or stop sending weapons or similar tech to certain countries... But that's all political. None of that is really related to technology in the sense that the answer lies within technology...

Out of curiosity: What kind of decentralized storage has been used before?