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  • What happens if someone refuses to work in a socialist economy?

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  • "Socialism" is used in a variety of ways. Inferring from OP's question it seems like they are asking about a socialist mode of production, ie communism.

  • What happens if someone refuses to work in a socialist economy?

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  • What happens if someone refuses to do any chores in a shared household? There are already plenty of situations where people do work for free because it's in your own interests. In groups like households people take turns taking out the bins and cleaning. In a communist society people will take turns doing the necessary work. If someone refuses, maybe something is wrong in their life, and they need help. At the end of the day, there's no economic coercion in a classless society. If one in a million people don't work for no understandable reason (disability, depression, personal issues, etc) then let them. What else are you going to do? Work or starve? Incarceration? The point of the universal emancipation that communism brings is to do away with those evils.

  • How should a news article website financially sustain itself?

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  • Donations.

    I don't find subscriptions too offensive, however any kind of restriction of the flow of information (e.g. by paywalling it) implies its enforcement. What are you going to do about people bypassing the paywall? Even if you only responded by patching whatever allowed them to bypass the paywall, you're either going to have to let up eventually, or get into a protracted cat-and-mouse game with paywall bypassers. And you don't want to end up on the side of the people who want to gatekeep information.

    So that leaves us with the possibility of having a subscription that's not stringently enforced—in which case it is just a recurring donation anyway.

    Of course, this discussion is limited to the scope of "what would a news outlet do without changing anything about society"—but the decent news outlets do also try to change things about society. Within capitalism, things like UBI would make it much easier for free journalism to exist. And of course this problem goes away entirely with capitalism.

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  • Yeah tbf I only use Fedora for VMs and to recommend to non-technical people so I'm not the best judge of its quality. But my experiences of it have been smooth + no complaints from the non-technical folks I've recommended Fedora to who have gone through and installed it.

    The other OSes that come to mind when I think of well-crafted OSes are Alpine Linux, OpenBSD, and maybe Void Linux, but here "well-crafted" does not mean they appeal to the same audience or fill the same niche as Fedora haha. I guess I can see how Debian is doing these days for next time a non-technical person asks me for a Linux distro rec.

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  • A real shame. I do think there are other OSes with the same level of polish as Fedora, but not ones as "normie-friendly" to recommend to people.

  • What package manager do you use for arch based distros?

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  • Yay

    I only use flatpak for one Python program because it has a lot of runtime dependencies I don't want to bother with. I generally wouldn't use flatpak.

  • Why is all of Lemmy politics?

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  • Depends on what you define as "politics" but aside from "everything is politics", my Lemmy feed is mostly tech stuff. Just subscribe to communities that fit your interests. That being said, many interests will be under-represented on Lemmy as I think the user base skews either technical or political or both.

  • I predict by the year 2000, 99% of all Assembly will be written by compilers

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  • I don't agree. LLMs are by design probabilistic. Chainsaws aren't designed to be probabilistic, and any functionality that is probabilistic (aside from philosophical questions about what it is possible to be certain about, YKWIM) is aimed to be minimised. You're supposed to be able to give the same model the same prompt twice and get two different answers. You're not meant to be able to use a chainsaw the same way on the same object and have it cut significantly differently. You're inherently leaving much more to chance by using LLMs to generate code, and creating more work for yourself as you have to review LLM code, which is generally lower quality than human-written code.

  • I predict by the year 2000, 99% of all Assembly will be written by compilers

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  • Not comparable at all. Power tools work deterministically. A powered chainsaw is not going to have a 0.1% chance of chopping a completely different tree on the other side of the forest. Of course accidents happen; your hand can slip. But a proper comparison would be if you got a computer to look at a large number of powered chainsaws and then generate its own in CAD based on what it's seen, and then you use that generated power tool. Which, for something as potentially dangerous as a powered chainsaw, you most likely wouldn't want to do, and would want to have careful human oversight over every part of design.

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  • I also got LLM vibes. However, some humans do just genuinely write like that. It's particularly an issue with ESL speakers getting caught in false positives, although this author seems to be a white Australian guy who is probably a native English speaker.

    I suppose if you were really bothered you could go back and look at his writing before the dawn of the vibes and see if his writing style is about the same. I don't care enough to check.

  • Artemis II astronaut finds two Outlook instances running on computers, calls on Houston to fix Microsoft anomaly — puzzled caller describes ‘two Outlooks, and neither one of those are working’

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  • People have their preferences for UI and UX. I use Aerc because I like modal editing (ie being able to write my emails in vim) and keyboard nav. Using a desktop email client rather than webmail client from a provider gives me that freedom.

    Besides, I don't actually have a webmail client I can use lol. I host my own email and host the IMAP server but I don't host a web interface.

  • Jellyfin critical security update - This is not a joke

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  • If you haven't already, I recommend Watchtower (nickfedor fork—the original is unmaintained) which automatically pulls updates to Docker containers and restarts them. Make sure to track latest, although for security updates, these should be backported to any supported versions so it's fine to track an older supported version too.

  • How do you document your setup?

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  • Notesnook notebook with whatever info I need to be able to administrate the system. e.g. what different ports are used for and why the firewall policies are what they are, sometimes write-ups after a troubleshooting session, etc.

    The Notesnook instance is self-hosted too, but if the server goes down, the notebook will still be available locally.

  • Moving to rust

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  • I don't see where I said any of the words you just quoted. Impressive if Rust can suck a dick I don't have though, I'll give them that.

  • Moving to rust

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  • You can embed Assembly in Rust. A lot of low-level Rust projects embed Assembly.

  • holy shit holy shit holy shit holy

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  • A competing Forgejo instance

  • When is the last time you had actual conversations with friends?

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  • Over the weekend.

    I don't see small talk or whatever as a sign of a lack of interest in someone. Sometimes there's nothing that deep going on to talk about.

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  • The relevance for me personally is whether or not they can be useful for programming, and if they're accessible to run locally. I'm not interested in feeding my data to a datacentre. My AMD GPU also doesn't support ROCm so LLMs run slow as fuck for me. So, generally, I avoid them.

    LLMs consistently produce lower quality, less correct, and less secure code than humans. However, they do seem to be getting better. I might be open to using them to generate unit tests if only they would run faster on my PC. I tried deepseek, llama3.1, and codellama; all take like an hour+ to answer a programming question given that they are just using my CPU, as my GPU doesn't support ROCm. So really not feasible for anything.

    Depending on what you count as AI, I think some of the long-existing predictive ML like autosuggestions based on learning your input patterns are fine and helpful. And maybe if I get a supported GPU I won't mind using local LLMs for some things. But generally I'm not dying to use them. I can do things myself.

  • Foss Phone?

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  • Thunderbird is a K-9 reskin. They're the same app. People pick based on what icon and app name they want I guess.

  • Privacy @lemmy.ml
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    Open source laser microphone picks up laptop keystrokes

    www.wired.com /story/infrared-laser-microphone-keystroke-surveillance/
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    Has Mullvad ever been given a court order to reveal personal info about a user?

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    EasyEffects can change mic input live. Privacy option for people who need to use their voice in any public/insecure online setting & don't want to be easily identified.

    github.com /wwmm/easyeffects
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    Are there any google docs proxies, like how Piped is a YouTube proxy?

  • Open Source @lemmy.ml
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    Anyone can Access Deleted and Private Repository Data on GitHub

    trufflesecurity.com /blog/anyone-can-access-deleted-and-private-repo-data-github
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    What do you folks do for IRL privacy in terms of CCTV, facial recognition, etc?

  • Asklemmy @lemmy.ml
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    What bizarre misconceptions do people have about your field?

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    Is there any reasonable/not a huge pain in the ass way of paying for your phone contract without it being in any way tied to your real identity?

  • F-Droid @lemmy.ml
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    Are there any good FOSS TTS engines?

  • Asklemmy @lemmy.ml
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    What is a dish whose component parts you all like individually, but put together as a dish you think is nasty?

  • Linux @lemmy.ml
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    Are there any CPUs that work well with Linux that aren't made by Intel or another company on the BDS list/that supports Israel?

  • Unixporn @lemmy.ml
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    River

    WIP, just started. Pretty much just done the bar.