jaschop

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[–] jaschop@awful.systems 2 points 1 hour ago

I'd be looking forward to it!

[–] jaschop@awful.systems 4 points 11 hours ago* (last edited 10 hours ago) (2 children)

The writing is far better than what I might produce, so I won't talk about that. I do have a comment about the themes/politics.

I can totally understand the theme of handicap/neglect as a feeling that the marketing would evoke. What goes mostly unexamined is that these guys know what they are doing when they are "optimizing" fetuses. I agree that the first stages of gene editing would function like expensive new healthcare, and equity of access would be an issue. But once as much money as you're describing is circulating in the system, it would have to turn into fetishizing arbitrary shit. (You kind of touched on this with the million dollar retina color.)

I would love to read a story about how the creators of this tech don't understand what good they have created and immediately start circling around their incoherent conceptions of human perfection. I want to read about biohackers getting sued for using Evolve's proprietary lab techniques to develop inexpensive personal gene therapies. I want to read about self-help groups for rich kids whose parents followed a gene-editing fad and effectively gave them a man-made niche disability.

If we grant gene editing to be transformational for human life, I would want to work out why different people want to use it. On one hand by engineers who want to make available remedies to common suffering. On the other hand capitalists and pundits who have used genetical deficiency to explain away every failure and irritating opinion in their life, god forbid they have to do some actual introspection.

I suppose my suggestion as a partisan hack is: I want my enemies mocked harder.

[–] jaschop@awful.systems 7 points 2 days ago (6 children)

I was going to shitpost that Trump is the least neo-colonial president cuz he cut all foreign aid, but I realized I kinda believe that unironically. I'm in the anti-death-and-suffering camp of course, but a hundred kinda self-serving national aid programs might just not cut it.

(This might be inspired by the Merz government planning to roll the special development aid office into the foreign affairs ministry, partly to tie it more strongly to national interest.)

Maybe we need to bring back the UN bigly.

[–] jaschop@awful.systems 3 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (1 children)

Ja geschenkt, ist nicht wovon ich hier rede. Sie hat 2024 ein Buch Gute Energie veröffentlicht.

Was wenn Depression, Ängstlichkeit, Unfruchtbarkeit, Alzheimer [...] haben die selbe Wurzel Ursache? Die Wahrheit ist, sie haben.

Darin hat sie erzählt dank "pflanzlicher Medizin 🍄" die Liebe gefunden zu haben, und alles mögliche andere Geschwurbel.

Hat für mich auch was kooptiertes: "Ich glaube dass wir mit guten Vibes die Welt heilen können, bin rechts btw ☺️"

[–] jaschop@awful.systems 20 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (3 children)

Rechte lieben es die Ästhetik von Linken zu kooptieren. Funktioniert leider auch oft, weil eine Ästhetik von den meisten nur oberflächlich verstanden wird.

Etwas verwandt: die neue Sanitätsinspekteur Generalin von Präsident Trumpf ist ein Hippie und wirbt für Magische Pilze Therapie.

[–] jaschop@awful.systems 20 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Wer mit Software arbeitet, weiss dass 10mal mehr Code nichts ist was als Firma sehr erstrebenswert ist. Und dass ist ungefähr alles worin LLMs gut sind. Unmengen an gerade-so-nutzbarem slop.

[–] jaschop@awful.systems 3 points 1 week ago

Alles in allem ist es recht angenehm, aber beim Modulimport hat FF einen Fall wo's ohne vernünftige Fehlermelldung abraucht. Ich schreib vielleicht einen Bugreport...

[–] jaschop@awful.systems 6 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

Ich iel wenn ich nach 3 Tagen 0 Features gebaut habe, aber dafür obskures Firefox-spezifisches Wissen über modulbasierte Worker-Threads gesammelt habe.

[–] jaschop@awful.systems 13 points 1 week ago (6 children)

The comment section seems to be 50% that dude by word count. He must be a perfectly healthy amount online.

[–] jaschop@awful.systems 9 points 2 weeks ago

I'm interpreting your phrasing as you believing that the non-profit "taking over" is somehow good, because profit motive bad presumably. But regardless of incentives, everyone involved is trying to flood the world with slop by incinerating cash and processors on industrial scales.

But so far the cash incinerator has been running on speculative financial products issued by a club of esoteric computer scientists trying to awaken the robot god. Investors are slightly uncomfortable with this, so Sammy boy is trying to offer them a more traditional vehicle to incinerate their cash (while indulging in his personal profit motive a bit).

 

I haven't watched it. I don't know how well she will cover the subject or how deep the rabbit hole she will venture.

All I know is she's delightful and I sure as hell won't read that bilge myself, so I'm looking forward to an entertaining summary.

Edit: I watched it. I had a good time.

 
 

archive of the mentioned NYT article

 

So I recently got an excuse rant about my opinions on federated tech. I think it's pretty much the best we can hope for in terms of liberating tech, with very few niches where fully distributed tech is preferable.

Needing a server places users under the power of the server administrator. Why do we bother? "No gods, no masters, no admins!' I hear you shout. Well, there's a couple reasons...

Maybe using software is just an intrinsically centralized activity. One or a few people design and code it, and an unlimited number of people can digitally replicate and use it. Sure, it may be free software that everyone can inspect and modify... but how many people will really bother? (Nevermind that most people don't even have the skills necessary.)

Okay, so we always kind of rely on a central-ish dev team when we use tech. Why rely on admins on top of that? I believe the vast vast majority of people doesn't have the skills and time to operate a truly independent node of a fully distributed tech. Let's take Jami as an example:

"With the default name server (ns.jami.net), the usernames are registered on an Ethereum blockchain."

So a feature of Jami is (for most users) implemented as a centralized service. Yikes. You could build and run your own name server (with less embarrassing tech choices hopefully), but who will really bother?

But say you bothered, wouldn't it be nice if your friends could use that name server too, and gain a little independence? That sounds a lot like decentralized/federated tech.

Keeping a decent service online is a pain in the butt. Installing SW updates, managing backups, paying for hardware and name services... nevermind just the general bothering to understand all that mess. And moderation, don't forget moderation. I'm saying it's not for everyone (and we should appreciate the fuck out of [local admin]).

I believe that servers and admins are our best bet for actual non-centralized tech. A tech-literate person tending a service for a small- to medium-size community is much more feasible than every person running their independent node (which will probably still depend on something centralized).

And maybe that's just the way we bring good ol' division of labour to the Internet. You have your shoemaker, your baker, your social media admin. A respectable and useful position in society. And they lived happily ever after.

 

Apparently a senior SW engineer got fired for questioning readiness of the product, dude must still be chuckling to himself.

Found the story here https://hachyderm.io/@wesley83/112572728237770554

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