RE: https://mastodon.social/@peterjelinek/117581738490140982
German chancellor Friedrich Merz won't participate in this year's Climate Change Conference that takes place from tomorrow until November 20 in Antalya, Turkey, because November 11 is his birthday and he needs to be home in Germany, to eat pizza with his family. 🤡
Last year, he insulted the entirety of Brazil. He'd only spouted empty words anyway.
RE: https://social.treehouse.systems/@ariadne/117579594140229264
GNU's answer "must" be yes.
GNU thinks that if someone keeps slaves and forces them to build him a computer, then all code typed on that computer "must" be accepted, provided the code is free, and free of bugs. Even if everyone knows that the person is a slave owner.
If someone forces his slaves to cook his meals, then GNU "must" ignore that the pull request comes from a slave owner who has his lunch prepared by forced laborers in his service, and accept the code, provided the code is correct. Even if they're fully aware they're dealing with a slave owner.
GNU's answer "must" be yes.
RE: https://cyberplace.social/@GossiTheDog/117571904052985607
In Paraguay, on average everyone of 60% of the country lost 37,600 USD because a Trump-associated bank went all-in on LLMs and then collapsed.
These people lost all their savings, they have nothing.
The rain season in Palestine has begun. 😔 This is how the next handful of months will look like in Gaza almost every day. It's going to be a very hard time.
Tents are flooding, people have to sleep in wet clothing on wet beds. Any personal belonging that isn't waterproof gets destroyed. The tents simply can't keep the water out, especially if they're torn and have holes.
And every week the weather will be colder until people are freezing to death. 💔 Like last winter and the winters before.
Please keep donating to help Palestinians repair their tents and buy what they need.
RE: https://hachyderm.io/@davidculley/117555132220905772
Can CEOs ever fail? Or do they only fail upwards or into safety nets, to continue failing and exploiting elsewhere?
The fact that you can name only like two exceptions (Elizabeth Holmes, Sam Bankman Fried) is a confirmation of the rule that C-level executives never have to face real consequences.
In a family, the parents will clean the kitchen or build a new shed in the garden, even if the child does not participate in the labor or pay the parents for their labor.
Because if everyone gets according to their needs, for free, then people will voluntarily work according to their abilities.
More Serbia:
Serbia right now: People are saying, just because we won the election doesn't mean anything if we don't also change something. And change begins with us, each of us.
Some people claim that #communism has never worked and will never work, and give some cult (like the "Manson family") as an example: the cult moved to a farm, lived like a commune, and communism is always bound to fail because the leader takes all the food for himself and everybody else starves. That is their reasoning for why communism never works.
Have they considered that cult leaders are almost per definition extreme narcissists, and in real life communism you wouldn't put sociopaths in sole control of the food distribution? And no, the dictatorships ran by Stalin, Mao, and others are no communism as Marx envisioned it (the classless society that follows once factories are collectively owned by those working in them, corporations are run by democratically elected coordinators rather than top-down corporate kings). Having a cult leader who commands everything, from who will have sex with whom to how much food exactly everyone may eat, with no way to vote out leadership or replace them, while an oppressor class exists, is not communism.
Every healthy family is proof that communism can work: a society without a hierarchy between those who do the work and those who reap the profits, nobody is above another; a moneyless society, the child doesn't have to work at all and still gets food and a roof above it's head, it doesn't have to pay before it may take a drink out of the fridge, the child may even bring its friends who get something to drink despite not having worked or even belonging to the family; each according to their abilities and needs. There is no state necessary for state welfare to feed and shelter those who can't work (the children), they are taken care of by their family members because a loving family has different values than profit maximization.
Communism entails that everybody does their labor voluntarily, not for fear of starving … because nobody is alienated from their work anymore…because the fruits of their labour don't go into the pockets of somebody else. Consider Serbia where currently entire neighborhood come together to clean the streets and underground stations from graffiti and stickers. To have a nice city again. Even garbage collection can be done voluntarily if there's no more exploitation.
RE: https://hachyderm.io/@davidculley/117562952502490161
Disney movies are literally propaganda made with GenAI at this point.
Seriously, please don't ever watch Disney/Pixar movies again. And I used to love Pixar movies.
I could take this post in a whole different reason and explain how Disney and romance-comedies fucked up our society's understanding of love and why everyone is so unhappy: every single one of the older (2D) movies teaches men to never accept a No as an answer from women, just persist until the woman eventually says Yes. Example: Aladdin. By contrast, it teaches young woman they don't have to be or do anything other than look good. Never be active, just passively wait for your prince to arrive. Examples: Snow White or Sleeping Beauty are literally just sleeping and looking good. Arielle the mermaid, robbed of her voice by the evil witch, literally doesn't say a single word. Disney movies have been fucking up women and men alike since over 100 years. But that's not the direction I want to take this post into.
I recently learned about the latest Pixar film: Hoppers. It teaches about corporate bootlicking, centrism, and the fossil-fuel industry's latest form of climate change denial, now that wildfires and the evidence of our eyes can no longer be denied.
The plot, in a nutshell, goes something like this: Evil mayor wants to destroy environment and some beaver habitat. The protagonist, a woman who is portrayed as always angry, wants to stop this. Disney already teaches us that people who care about the environment are hysterical and overreacting and nutjobs.
Then, kind of like in the movie Avatar (with the blue people), she turns herself into a beaver with the help of a scientist. Conversely, some animal whose habitat is about to be destroyed, turns itself into a human. I don't know the details. Spoiler: That animal (now in human form) is the film's villain because it wants to stop (kill?) the mayor and VioLenCe iS nEvEr JusTifiEd.
Finale: They all make some sort of "compromise" with the evil mayor. The mayor does not destroy *this* particular beaver habitat (just everything else). But the characters are all happy. The mayor is the good guy, not the villain.
What the fuck?!
The movie isn't even good. Don't watch such garbage. Especially not when Disney, the corporation, fires 20% of its employees and replaces them with GenAI.
RE: https://social.treehouse.systems/@dysfun/117554539112499094
The Haskell Foundation recently appointed Travis Whitaker as a new board member. Whitaker is a manager at the war crime enablers Anduril.
Whitaker apparently isn't even all that much active in the Haskell community, he seems to just use their forum to recruit for Anduril.
Anduril is of course named after The Lord of the Rings, like so many Peter Thiel connected companies.
Whitaker hates trans and gay people, and wrote on X that all trans people shall burn in hell. Interesting how their wealth and power shields gay people like Thiel or Altman from being hated by their own associates.
The Haskell Foundation has zero problems to hire someone associated with the war criminal Palmer Luckey. They only apologized for (allegedly, maybe they knew full well) not even looking at Whitaker's social media postings and missing that he posted he wants to see trans people burn in hell.
Fuck all centrists who hire war criminals and then have the audacity to say that all people and "trans people remain welcome" in their community. How do centrists think that can work out?
The Haskell Foundation also said in October, they want to be more active on X specifically, to make Haskell better known.
RE: https://furs.social/@Rycochet/117551752500627504
Failed CEO of bankrupt CharacterAI joins Disney as their new CTO while Disney fires up to 20% of its hardworking, talented artists to outsource their labor to less-paid contractors who-knows-where or replace them with GenAI, to have more money for building Disney theme parks where they can kill their customers with peanuts even though the customer explicitly said they're allergic to peanuts, and then victim-blame the widow because the now dead customer once tried Disney's streaming service and waived all his rights to ever sue Disney.
Please, stop watching Disney movies.
Regarding Proton:
Companies know that most threats that customers make, are empty threats. It takes work to migrate an email address, and many people are lazy and—when push comes to shove—not willing to spend that effort. So, in the end, many customers will not act upon their threats and companies will ignore their customers' threats.
As Jaime Lannister said in Game of Thrones, "Only a fool makes threats he’s not prepared to carry out."
Bad demand: "Either the CEO goes or I stop being a paying customer."
Better demand: "I just canceled my subscription. When the CEO is gone, I might consider coming back."
Bad demand: "I will cancel my subscription if there is no apology from the CEO." (The customer didn't even state a deadline.)
Better demand: See above.
Immediately put them in a bad position and make them work to get out of their bad position. Don't just threaten with putting them in a bad position while you let them stay in the good position until you act upon your threat. Which you might never do.
Also, when someone shows you who they are, believe them. Don't demand apologies from a CEO who is a notorious disappointment, demand a different CEO.
Especially if you don't even set a deadline, they will assume you're only bluffing. You're making a fool of yourself with empty threats, and they will accordingly play you for a fool. Make better demands if you don't want the CEO to laugh at you.
RE: https://ohai.social/@dramypsyd/117524464143629070
In Europe, Doctolib is a software that helps doctors manage their patients' appointments and sends the patients reminder messages for their appointments. A calendar software for doctors, basically.
Doctors can also add their notes to Doctolib, like the reason for the visit: depression, ear infection, warts, sexually transmitted disease, you name it.
Doctolib trains their own LLM on that highly sensitive data, and does all sorts of other disgusting shit with it. Recently Nvidia partnered with Doctolib.
Doctolib tries with all sorts of trickery to weasel out of the GDPR so that they legally may do whatever they want with your health data. It's disgusting.
Just today I went to have my blood checked, for my vitamins B and D values. (I'm a vegetarian.) And it was really hard to find a doctor who doesn't use Doctolib. I refuse to go to doctors who sell my data to "AI" companies or use it to become one themselves.
I don't know how IPOs work. I've never taken a company public.
Some commenters remarked that 72 billion USD of 80 billion USD are owed to Amazon. That may be. It was new to me. And I don't understand how it works.
None of that changes the validity of the claim that LLMs aren't sustainable.
One commenter attacked me, saying I love to bash Anthropic without even understanding how IPOs work. I never claimed I did? My understanding of IPOs and Anthropics own statements are independent? I only cited Anthropic's own SEC filings and then added a remark that doesn't require knowledge of the specifics of how an IPO works.
RE: https://tech.lgbt/@Natasha_Jay/117519819579484167
Person in disguise gets auto-rejected for their own current job, for the job description matching their expertise that they wrote themselves. Because the filter fails to understand punctuation.
If you're currently unemployed and can't find a job, try applying again, with slightly modified keywords in your resume. The filter might just be too dumb.
RE: https://eupolicy.social/@edri/117519094822570469
European values.
After undoing the GDPR and selling out every European citizen within the imperial core to the USA, the European Commission now doubles Frontex’s budget (the "European ICE") to nearly 12 billion EUR to murder those outside the imperial core at European borders.
Frontex is by the way operated by Airbus, who buys the Israeli drones currently used in Gaza from Israeli weapons manufacturer IAI. See below in the thread. Germany profits a lot from that. I'm sure Ursula von der Leyen still maintains some connections.
Fascism is when the "imperial boomerang" comes home, when a state treats its white citizens the same way it treats its colonies. Just look at France, how many teenagers lost an eye or hand to police violence in the past days, for protesting the neoliberal politics of France and the EU.
RE: https://infosec.exchange/@isotopp/117519392044491687
About RAM:
SK Hynix already sold all the RAM it will make in 2029.
There were only three RAM manufacturers that produce for consumers:
- SK Hynix
- Micron (under its brand Crucial)
- Samsung
Everyone else just buys from them.
Micron stopped producing for consumers entirely. Producing exclusively for datacenters is simply more profitable.
Only SK Hynix and Samsung remain.