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chobeat@lemmy.mlOPto Technology@lemmy.world•Animation, Writers & Actors Guilds Hold “Historic” Anti-Generative AI Protest At Annecy: “GenAI Seeks Not To Support Artists, But To Destroy Them”English42·7 days agoThe market doesn’t reward quality.
chobeat@lemmy.mlto Asklemmy@lemmy.ml•They are officially known as string trimmers. Where are you geographically and what do you call them?4·11 days agodecespugliatore (debusher) or tosaerba (grass shearing)
chobeat@lemmy.mlto Asklemmy@lemmy.ml•As far as I can ascertain, Peter Thiel* is the 103rd richest man on the planet, with a reported net worth of $20.5 bn US. How and why does his influence reach farther than so many others?5·11 days agoMoney is not a measure of power. Power is always relational, positional. You can position yourself better and build relationships using money, but you can also waste a lot of it to gain very little power.
It’s ultimately about what actions you enable for the people who side with you, and money is a great enabler, but if we are talking about private entrepreneurs, usually the vast majority of their wealth cannot be freely allocated to political projects, but it’s blocked to generate further capital. The portion you decide to spend to garner political, social and mediatic capital, and how you spend it, matters more than your total wealth.
chobeat@lemmy.mlto Asklemmy@lemmy.ml•Who's your favorite philosopher or religious figure and what is their key thought explained simply?41·20 days agoRodrigo Nunes.
There’s no self-organization, neither in politics nor anywhere. There’s no spontaneity. Political change is a function of environmental conditions and systemic decision-making.
Fascism is a symptom of chaos and lack of order. Political action is the creation of order (organization) towards coexistence.
Politics is a conflict of forces, not a conflict ideas: it consists in constructing the powers necessary to alter the existent (potentia) and deconstructing the power that keeps things the same (potestas). Anything that happens and doesn’t alter this balance of power between potentia and potestas is simply a reproduction of the present in a different form.
Contrary to most people, most of my thoughts are in the form of a dialogue. When it’s a monologue, it’s still a monologue delivered to a crowd. So the language basically depends on who I’m thinking to speak to. Sometimes the mechanism is faulty so I snap out and realize I would never speak English to a certain person.
For context, I’m Italian, living in Germany with an American partner.
chobeat@lemmy.mlto World News@lemmy.ml•Presidential election outcome a blow to Poland's government2·21 days agoMost people don’t study history. A lot of those that do, do want specific patterns to repeat.
Also humans don’t form their political positions through knowledge and reasoning, but primarily through relationships. If everybody around you is right-wing and you want to fit in, you’re going to be come right wing, rationalizing any knowledge of history you might have into supporting your right-wing position.
chobeat@lemmy.mlto Asklemmy@lemmy.ml•Berliners of Lemmy, could you help a first time visitor?2·23 days agoIt’s very poorly written anti-DDR propaganda. You must obviously expect to be fed propaganda in a museum like that, that’s the purpose, but it’s very… passive-aggressive. The tone is not very rigorous and after a few years it got pathetic because the things they use to make fun of the DDR, today would be considered middle-class privileges.
chobeat@lemmy.mlto Asklemmy@lemmy.ml•Berliners of Lemmy, could you help a first time visitor?1·24 days agoI live in Alexanderplatz and I work in food. The area is mostly tourist traps (bad ones at that, we are in Germany, not in Italy). If you want something very casual, Bahn Mi Stable is the closest decent thing from Alexanderplatz. If you want a proper sit-down restaurant try Trio (German), Soopoolim (Korean), or Pizzeria Standard on Torstr.
Ignore completely the reviews on Google Maps or tripadvisor, they are totally unreliable.
If you want touristic stuff, the city center is quite boring but you have a lot: museum island, branderburgertor, Gendarmenmarkt, Checkpoint charlie and all the surrounding areas. If you want something more interesting, the Soviet Memorial in Treptowerpark, Victoria Park, the various memorials in Hellensdorf. Also avoid at all costs the DDR museum, lamest waste of money you can think of. Other museums in the center are ok.
datus/data means “given”, as in the metaphysical sense of the word, since the word started being used for statistics in a period where measurements were considered an objective observation of material reality, which was in fact considered “given” and not interpreted.
I did in a shot. It doesn’t taste like egg.
Hermeticism is a gnostic esoteric system and like all gnostic forms, it implies that there’s an “unknown” reality that can be disveiled through revelation. You have a perceived reality that is fake and a “real” reality that is hidden from you. This already sets the ground for conspiratorial thinking.
The second element is that hermeticists in the 18th century were relatively rich and powerful men who met in secret societies, which was something everybody did, but they also had the money to build monuments and hide their symbols in plain sight. This created the trope of a secret congregation of powerful men into esoteric shit who plot to take over society.
the logic that sending messages alters political reality is part of the overall problem. Politics is a conflict of forces, not a conflict of ideas or opinions. A license is as powerful as the will of the state power behind it to enforce it. Otherwise, it is powerless.
If you want to make sense of the political world, I invite to move beyond the idea of “taking stances” or expressing positions as a political act, and reason instead of what incentives and powers you’re altering with your political actions.
What you describe just does not play out in real life: neither on a micro scale nor on a macro scale.
Baserow and n8n are good enough for me to use in a professional production setting. Nocodb could be good, but it has some very basic bugs and shortcomings that make it hard to use.
Appflowy is getting there, but I would give it some more time.
Appsmith is good, but complex. Worth investing some time into, but it cannot be picked up casually to play around.
On the long-term, none. In the short-term, FOSS no-code tools are finally allowing grassroot organizations to have self-hosted, customizable internal tooling without having to rely on devs or sysadmins. This has a lot of potential to overcome the failures of the last decades of hackerist unadoptable software.
chobeat@lemmy.mlto Asklemmy@lemmy.ml•Scientists of Lemmy, how would you standardize or improve cooking recipes?9·1 month agoCooking is not a standardized or reproducible process at home, because the variables outside of anybody’s control. Modern mass recipes give only the illusion of being reproducible algorithms, but they will never achieve that.
Grappling with the complexity of different tooling, supply chains, seasonality and so on, all within a recipe, is a futile effort. That complexity must be handled outside the recipe.
The first line of the documentation is pretty clear: “Bonfire is an open-source framework for building federated digital spaces where people can gather, interact, and form communities online.”
You’re making this comment in a community named after a specific software ideology.
Positioning the project. Putting the project’s value before the tool it produces or the problem it solves is a specific stylistic choice. Just not in the software projects you’re usually involved in.
protestantism for techbros. Boring. No machine will come and save you, just go to therapy instead.
Also the future is built, not predicted.