@glyph Did you quote post something?
Uncategorized
903
Posts
312
Posters
0
Views
-
I never perceived it as that sort of revolution, but did notice a few years ago that almost everything that I work on[1] was some variant of redressing technology tending to confer power on capital.
1: GDPR etc., amateur radio, Internet Society, FOSSASIA
-
> We are never going back to a world where general-purpose computers are exclusively reserved for the military or billion-dollar corporations.
A staggering amount of capital is being bet at present on the assumption that this is precisely what's about to happen. Sure, we'll still have microcontrollers, but the bet is that kilo-GPU datacentres are what will matter.
-
Right. See also:
- A global coloniser suddenly gaining control of a continent-sized chunk of thinly-occupied land in the 18th century.
- Sudden shortage of people (or equivalently: surplus of land, equipment, and other capital) in 14th century Europe.
- Etc. -
@glyph having wandered away for a few hours, and coming back to this I'm remembering an observation that I think meshes well with what you're saying: the dot com bubble put a lot of money into improbable everything-websites that made a lot of us go "wow the internet is amazing!" but they were the kinds of things that require a massive burning money pile as fuel (deviantart was the specific example) and are not an inevitable natural emergent consequence of the internet's structure
-
@glyph more broadly that discussion was about how hard it is to perfectly clone and replace silos like deviantart and twitter without a money pile, because you run into scalability and moderation problems really fast.
so I feel the question looking forward is less how do we keep personal computers as a tool of liberation going so much as how do we liberate the internet from capital and build suitable alternatives to things we loved about the internet that aren't already low cost to replace
> how do we liberate the internet from capital
I suspect that this just a particular instance of: how do we liberate society from capital?
(I don't have a good answer. It occurs to me that the US founders' aversion to kings likely did not imply great enthusiasm for an aristocracy/oligarchy, but keeping the latter at bay is hard.)
-
@glyph
Years ago I went to the hardware store with my wife and she went to the wallpaper department to check out wall tattoos. She bursted out laughing, pointed ad a set of wall tattoos and went "Who does stick this to their living room wall? This is the kanji for 'cheap'..." -
@glyph order of operations vs. order of preference 🤷
-
@glyph I just saw a little instagram video about this! Is she in insta? Major laughs! 😹🖖🏼
-
@glyph I would prefer to believe that bad translation was exactly what the person wanted 😅😅
-
@glyph literally doing this first thing tomorrow
-
@glyph everybody’s different, but I can’t help but feel you might recuperate slightly more effectively seated or reclined, instead of standing? 😌
(Hope ya feel better soon!)
-
@glyph everybody’s different, but I can’t help but feel you might recuperate slightly more effectively seated or reclined, instead of standing? 😌
(Hope ya feel better soon!)
@bitprophet You can t-pose horizontally!
-
@bitprophet You can t-pose horizontally!
@glyph @bitprophet more comfortable to A-pose horizontally, though
-
@bitprophet You can t-pose horizontally!
@glyph whoa, TIL!
-
@glyph @bitprophet more comfortable to A-pose horizontally, though
@SnoopJ @bitprophet I feel like the T-pose more effectively communicates the spirit of vacantly surrendering to the void
-
@drwho no need, they're advertising it themselves
-
@drwho no need, they're advertising it themselves
@drwho I mean, feel free, if you like (with the understanding that this is hyperbole, not a precise measurement of energy costs)
-
it's truly amazing what LLMs can achieve. we now know it's possible to produce an html5 parsing library with nothing but the full source code of an existing html5 parsing library, all the source code of all other open source libraries ever, a meticulously maintained and extremely comprehensive test suite written by somebody else, 5 different models, a megawatt-hour of energy, a swimming pool full of water, and a month of spare time of an extremely senior engineer
@glyph LLM as Dave the Barbarian's megaphone
-
@stuartl fair enough :-)
-
@GroupNebula563 @glyph that's how cooling works, yes
Gli ultimi otto messaggi ricevuti dalla Federazione
-
@Lucatermite @colpam @brozu @Paoletta1908 @IlCava @uz il risultato del pomeriggio è ottimo: pareggio con l'ultima in classifica!
-
today my mac prompted me to update my OS to Tahoe.
I don't like liquid glass, anything else worth having?
-
@colpam @brozu @Paoletta1908 @fucinafibonacci @IlCava @uz hahaha ... allora non concentrarti anche staseraaaaa 😀 buon pomeriggio sventuraaaaaata 😀
-
@Lucatermite @brozu @fucinafibonacci @IlCava @uz io mi sono concentrata sul pomeriggio e non è andata bene. Totalmente insoddisfatta. Bah. ⚫🔴 😩
-
@brozu @fucinafibonacci @IlCava @uz concentriamoci su staseraaaa 😀 buon pomeriggio amici ⚫🔵😀
-
@mora
Fu un grande del suo tempo, fece cose mirabili, ma sapeva dove viveva e in che epoca.
Provare a tirargli fango mi pare davvero ingeneroso.
-
