My gender is my concern, but you may use any pronoun to refer to me
Just, like, all of it. No more practicing chess against a computer. No more computer vision. No more single player Street Fighter. Fuck it all. It’s inherently evil, we’ve decided for some reason. Clearly a nuanced and well researched position.
Nah. Fuck IP raiders. There’s nothing wrong with GAN. There’s nothing wrong with LLM. There’s nothing wrong with gradient descent. There’s nothing wrong with diffusion models. There’s nothing wrong with markov chains, with expert systems, with fuzzy logic, with PROLOG. Not on a moral or ethical level, for certain.
To me, Linux is the almost unbearable compromise to the mainstream, coming from BSD.
No, it has never even once bothered my why people install Linux on their own hardware. Not even now that you have brought it to my attention. What is on my mind right now is why you care so much.
Orrrrrrrr fuck the American AI investor bubble. Fuck the American tech tariffs. You know what? Just fuck the USA.
How is this any sadder than just closing your eyes and thinking really hard while you crank one out
There is a personal element to this, somehow. The developer’s relationship with Linux took a weird turn at one point and there’s been a will-they-won’t-they tension ever since.
There was a “we” that produced the first public licenses – amateur and enthusiast software developers, who previously were simply publishing things to the “public domain”. And “we” had clear goals in doing so, which we often wrote directly into our ad hoc self-written licenses. They weren’t handed down by God, there is a mortal history, and living people here were part of it.
I agree that the GPL should be viewed as a cultural artifact, not a legal one. It’s just the spirit of shareware, but without money involved.
In context of the many failures, I don’t think this establishes anything.
So, it all reduces to a prior problem. The sewers are a red herring.
The original intention of public licenses was never to prevent code from spreading in any circumstance. Rather, that’s the “innovation” of copy-left. We just wanted a way to share our code without putting the people who used it into legal hot water. We didn’t want to control or manipulate people, using our code to extort a particular behavior out of them. We just wanted to share our code. I think copy-left makes sense in certain situations but I don’t think it should be the default option of a person wanting to contribute to culture.
okay but I say fedi-verse (deceptively) like a normal person
like the GPL successfully enforces
I’m not aware of the GPL being legally tested to where you can claim that; there are a lot of open questions, and it has failed to protect works from AI companies, for example.
You’re taking an incredibly slanted position. There is a whole world of vibrant, viable, meaningful FOSS outside copyleft licenses. Even when one philosophically and politically prefers copyleft licenses, sometimes there are cases where the humanitarian or practical argument favours permissive licensing. But there are many who simply don’t share your interpretation of the philosophy and politics.
Dogs are able to casually identify the individual who produced the most minute sample of shit, tell you their last three meals, what they are going to die from, and when; and dog society didn’t fall apart. We’ll manage.
For the last two years, I’ve been running my own mail server, ready to cut over the moment google wants to fuck around again. I’m happy NOT depending on my own mail server as long as possible, but it’s clear the free lunch is going to end one day. I’ve started backing my way out of Android and I’m surely not going to be buying another iOS or Android phone.
Hatred of the poor can be found in every society and culture. It’s so pervasive, it’s ridiculous it doesn’t have a proper name. The closest thing is “classism,” but this is something different.
There have been 60hz interlaced displays, that displayed alternate fields and so did a complete refresh 30 times a second. Actually, I guess that’s what NTSC broadcast TV was. It looks like ass in every other application, though.
What I really want is an Atari Portfolio or a Blackberry
That’s why I initially brought up all those forms of AI that are perfectly fucking fine. But you’re like, NOPE. So don’t throw that in MY face. Perhaps you didn’t understand what I was saying. But you were STILL like, NOPE. Which leads me to believe YOU don’t even know what you mean when you say, “AI”. “Generative AI” isn’t a specific thing. It’s any software that outputs something a human might consume as content. You just mean, “bad shit I don’t understand” I suppose.
The problem is not the technology, it is that entrenched capitalists are leveraging their wealth and power to steal culture from all of us, and cynical investors engaging in the largest pump and dump in history. And if you can’t make that distinction, your voice doesn’t have a damn thing to contribute to this conversation other than “Naw, fuck AI.”
I’ve been on the receiving end of a lot of moral panics and it’s not okay. Naw, fuck pearl clutchers.