BlueMonday1984

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[–] BlueMonday1984@awful.systems 21 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)
[–] BlueMonday1984@awful.systems 9 points 1 month ago

Found a nice and lengthy sneer of Bluesky's dogshit moderation in the wild, focusing on how its repeatedly fucked over marginalised users.

[–] BlueMonday1984@awful.systems 21 points 1 month ago

I am so sorry to tell you this, but its the exact same Framework developing modular and repairable laptops.

[–] BlueMonday1984@awful.systems 9 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)
[–] BlueMonday1984@awful.systems 13 points 1 month ago (1 children)

VHS won in the end, in part because they allowed spicy mode 😉

That factoid isn't even true - Sony had zero control over what people put on the tapes, meaning both formats allowed porn.

VHS didn't win because of porn, VHS won because a standard VHS cassette contains a shitload more tape than Beta (meaning a much longer recording time), and because the format was much more open (letting anyone build a VCR player and driving down the price).

[–] BlueMonday1984@awful.systems 10 points 1 month ago

Because Omarchy is an open endorsement of fascism disguised as a Linux distro - like the takeovers of NixOS and RubyGems, its success would help to further entrench fascists in the FOSS ecosystem.

[–] BlueMonday1984@awful.systems 10 points 1 month ago (3 children)

The thread's made it onto r/framework - there's a lot of fash coming out the woodwork and getting downvoted, plus a lot of people deeply disappointed in Framework's Fash Turn.

Also found another thread on the forums, with multiple people jumping ship from using them: https://community.frame.work/t/withdrawing-all-financial-association-from-framework-until-further-changes/76005

[–] BlueMonday1984@awful.systems 7 points 1 month ago

Framework getting into the fashtech game.

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Framework had a perfectly good thing going - they were beacons of right to repair, they were making the best laptops on the market, and then they went and FUCKED it all up! Does working in tech destroy your moral compass or something?

After the revelation that their desktop machine was going to be aimed at ai bros and had soldered-on ram I was concerned that they might be abandoning the principles behind their laptops.

In retrospect, the fact they were happily aiming at AI bros should've been a major red flag - AI is arguably the ultimate fashtech, built to empower fascism and undermine democracy.

[–] BlueMonday1984@awful.systems 9 points 1 month ago (5 children)

Found a pretty good sneer against vibe coding: The Programmer Identity Crisis

[–] BlueMonday1984@awful.systems 9 points 1 month ago (1 children)

After kinda fence-sitting on the topic of AI in general for while, Hank Green is having a mental breakdown on YouTube over Sora2 and it’s honestly pretty funny.

I don't see much to laugh at here myself. Hank may have been a massive fencesitter on AI, but I still think his reaction to Sora's completely goddamn justified. This shit is going to enable scams, misinformation and propaganda on a Biblical fucking scale, and undermine the credibility of video evidence for good measure.

Got another bonus sneer from the comments as well:

Polluting human knowledge with crap, making internet useless, taking away jobs from creative people by making things that look creative enough. Governments are complicit, politicians are bribed. Like that suck-up youtuber [Two Minute Papers] repeats, "What a time to be alive" right ?

(Sidenote: It massively fucking sucks how Two Minute Papers drank the AI Kool-Aid, I used to love that channel.)

[–] BlueMonday1984@awful.systems 5 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Checked red site and orange site. No comments on orange site as of this writing, but there are a couple of comments on red site.

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