Assuming you're an anarchist or otherwise leftist radical, what radicalized your position?
For me it was a combination of seeing the rampart corruption of the Greek state and the sloth and hypocrisy of the KKE in my own family. Then afterwards it was the alienation of my own wage-slavery.
Man it would be so cool if there was a support network who handle all the stuff #ADHD people are incapable of doing which would cause massive impact to their lives. I spend almost all my free time coding #FOSS to improve the global commons. It would be great if someone who gets value out of my work would help me in turn with state paperwork. ๐ข
I'm facepalming so hard today. On the discussion of whether #lemmy should start supporting plugins in order for more developers to be able to inject the extra functionality they need, I have a rust fanboi insisting that no, the better approach is to make every admin who needs this compile lemmy from scratch to add the extra functionality. According to them this can be totally as easy as plugins.
My anti-spam #lemmy automoderator bot #Threativore is now available as a docker container and it is now fully enabled for reporting, removing, and banning. Here's my lemmy announcement: https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/15112791
Do we have a heuristic scanning service we can hook into with a REST API to tell us if a message/comment is spam or not, or is this another thing I need to build myself? Thinking of something like akismet but not available only for wordpress.
A ton of the successful FOSS projects I see have dedicated people doing social media all the time. @reduz from #GodotEngine is micro-blogging constantly (on Ex-Twitter) which is a great help for keeping people talking about Godot.
But when you're a small project, its a ton of extra work with a skillset a lot of us are not at all comfortable with.
Ugh, the naturally chaotic use of #hashtags on #Mastodon can make it very frustrating to use one of them for specific topics. I want to try and find other people talking about #GenerativeAI and particularly #AIArt like #StableDiffusion, but the last two are swarmed with just people posting images. How does one make a tag that is both easy to (think of to) tag with, and signifies discussion on a topic, instead of image-posting?
It's very much why things like #Lemmy are necessary.
As someone who grew up poor and with very little access to global culture, I shake my head sadly with those people who talk about #AIArt with the same moralism people were making against #piracy.
This didn't work then, it won't work now. People without money or time can't and won't support artists. If their only option is to use ML tools to create and share what is in their brain, they will do that instead.
All the arguments against this are privileged "you wouldn't download a car" territory
#LLM and #AIArt give incredible power to the underdogs who never had any money to pay someone to create some. Some many solodevs who had pretty much nothing to use except garbage clipart and a few public assets which usually didn't fit their style.
Sure the same technology will be abused by corpos to get rid of all those pesky humans, but we all know the quality of AI is not AAA. What works "good enough" for an indie, doesn't work for a multimillion production.
The recent Compare and Contrast by the Nexus of Privacy (https://hachyderm.io/@thenexusofprivacy@infosec.exchange/111605585059631601) mentioned as a detriment that potential problematic instances might use the #Fediseer. Other than the counter-arguments I've presented on this I want to posit that this might actually have beneficial effects.
You can monitor who they endorse, and use it as a reverse-blocklist.
You can monitor who endorses them and use it as a blocklist.
My take on #FOSDEM (and other conferences organized the same way) is that it's actively excluding some types of #neurodivergent#FOSS creators. Particularly, those who find it really hard to promote their work, and especially when they need to talk up what they have created.
By asking people to self-submit, they naturally exclude the shy ones, who would never think, or really struggle doing that.
This selection process self-selects for a particular type of developer.
