Notices by LisPi (lispi314@udongein.xyz), page 2
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LisPi (lispi314@udongein.xyz)'s status on Sunday, 16-Mar-2025 10:50:53 JST LisPi
@icedquinn You might also observe that this means that consequentialist ethics *cannot* provide direction on their own.
The axioms used to determine direction must come from something else. It is not a standalone system of ethics.
So in effect consequentialism is useful mostly for rule of thumb judgements and little more.
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LisPi (lispi314@udongein.xyz)'s status on Sunday, 16-Mar-2025 10:49:20 JST LisPi
@icedquinn @pup @adiz That's a rather wild misrepresentation of consequential ethics or alternatively you've interacted solely with ones that call themselves such but are completely incoherent in truth.
Untold evil in the pursuit of a good is /by virtue of its consequences/ evil (regardless of the original intent, the consequences are the point), particularly when the net outcome is vastly increased amounts of suffering rather than any amount one might consider "equivalent or lesser".
The dev is clearly a hypocrite refusing the accept the true extent and impact of their actions for whatever reason, yes.
> the everything is political crowd tends to oxidize people that want to just make tools (because the tool isn't being designed specifically to *their* own ends.) they also tend to be completely blind and unwilling to acknowledge what they are.
Only the impractical fools. For the very same reason I consider dual-use technologies regulation idiotic. *Everything* is weaponizable with enough imagination & stubbornness. Everything is dual-use. It is *meaningless* (and impossible) to make tools that cannot be weaponized.
One can most certainly favor a design that reduces harm and makes harmless uses the easiest path, but anything else is nonsense.
A tool also has as many uses as one might manage to find for it, for the same reasons, and if an author creates a tool for their own purposes but which do not suit others? Then that's fine, that is part of why Free/Libre Software (and Libre Hardware) exist, the user can adapt, modify and share the tools as they see fit. -
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LisPi (lispi314@udongein.xyz)'s status on Sunday, 16-Mar-2025 10:09:28 JST LisPi
@icedquinn @pup @adiz Everything existing in society is in some amount political (the extent is very often insignificant).
How does that have anything to do with making technology into malware that abuses the user? -
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LisPi (lispi314@udongein.xyz)'s status on Sunday, 16-Mar-2025 10:01:49 JST LisPi
@icedquinn @pup @voltrina And yet identity is in significant part socially-constructed. Which is it? -
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LisPi (lispi314@udongein.xyz)'s status on Sunday, 16-Mar-2025 03:01:01 JST LisPi
@inthehands > They burn people alive on a regular basis.
They also poison people around with hydrogen fluoride when they burn. This is why using fire to vandalize them is a horrifying idea.
Yes this also implies that if they catch fire in one's garage for no reason whatsoever, one can *still* end-up with crippling long-term problems from the fumes.
Those things should never have been allowed in residential or public areas. -
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LisPi (lispi314@udongein.xyz)'s status on Saturday, 15-Mar-2025 20:23:17 JST LisPi
@Paradox @prettygood It's insane that API just has blanket access, instead of needing to query the user every time or being restricted solely to the same page/domain.
In its current state it isn't absurd solely on Qubes, and that only if one uses a qube per GUI application. -
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LisPi (lispi314@udongein.xyz)'s status on Saturday, 15-Mar-2025 05:27:53 JST LisPi
@sun @paninid Indeed, which is at least helpful to notice that the LLM output is usually wrong and frequently says something quite different from its references. -
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LisPi (lispi314@udongein.xyz)'s status on Saturday, 15-Mar-2025 05:25:08 JST LisPi
@sun @paninid Wikipedia usually has references.
(Shitty) Journalism and chatgpt usually don't. -
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LisPi (lispi314@udongein.xyz)'s status on Friday, 14-Mar-2025 06:16:20 JST LisPi
@dalias @hipsterelectron The first one is the objectively correct one. (This doesn't prevent POSIX-specific libraries.)
POSIX's ambient authority is an awful sight. -
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LisPi (lispi314@udongein.xyz)'s status on Monday, 10-Mar-2025 08:59:57 JST LisPi
@anemone @mischievoustomato That looks more like a dumping site than part of a city. -
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LisPi (lispi314@udongein.xyz)'s status on Monday, 10-Mar-2025 08:59:55 JST LisPi
@anemone @mischievoustomato Reminds me of the pictures of New York an acquaintance brought back.
The garbage bag stacks were higher in New York though and more plastic. -
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LisPi (lispi314@udongein.xyz)'s status on Sunday, 09-Mar-2025 21:58:43 JST LisPi
@dalias @armando @hacks4pancakes Way easier to move around too.
A single pigeon can easily carry a 2TB microsd card, which can fit quite a few books & archives.
Attempting to move trainloads of library books is neither subtle nor cheap. -
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LisPi (lispi314@udongein.xyz)'s status on Sunday, 09-Mar-2025 18:40:29 JST LisPi
@Suiseiseki @david It does.
"Free" as "free of cost" (i.e. gratis) is very common parlance.
Russian doesn't have this issue. Ukrainian doesn't have this issue. Neither does Polish. Nor French.
It's just English doing it wrong. -
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LisPi (lispi314@udongein.xyz)'s status on Sunday, 09-Mar-2025 18:34:53 JST LisPi
@Suiseiseki @david This is just English being an awful language.
Few other languages have any ambiguity between gratis and free/libre. -
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LisPi (lispi314@udongein.xyz)'s status on Saturday, 08-Mar-2025 22:01:26 JST LisPi
wtf, why would you sell an SSD and not include *anywhere* even in its manual or spec sheet that it actually implements deterministic zeroed TRIM properly? It shouldn't be something I only learn by checking the smartctl output of it.
That would actually go a *long* way to justifying its price, since that makes it properly compatible with most SAS HBAs. -
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LisPi (lispi314@udongein.xyz)'s status on Saturday, 08-Mar-2025 10:03:47 JST LisPi
@anemone Might be more competent, since they wouldn't purposely hamper eachother through corruption. -
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LisPi (lispi314@udongein.xyz)'s status on Friday, 07-Mar-2025 22:24:04 JST LisPi
@dalias @broadwaybabyto @froge @ErickaSimone @aral I don't think they've considered what happens when the population goes hungry. -
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LisPi (lispi314@udongein.xyz)'s status on Friday, 07-Mar-2025 21:20:26 JST LisPi
@dalias @broadwaybabyto @ErickaSimone @aral @froge How do they expect to make a sale instead of having it shoplifted? -
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LisPi (lispi314@udongein.xyz)'s status on Friday, 07-Mar-2025 13:26:14 JST LisPi
@Suiseiseki @lxo @quasi @tennoseremel @LorenzoAncora > That should be native software like GNU Jami.
Yes.
> I am posting to the fediverse without JavaScript with BloatFE.
Emacs for me.
> Most of such sites are static sites, except instead of implementing them in FastCGI, they are implemented worse in JavaScript.
I miss when they weren't Javascript, they were legitimately superior and performed better.
> Static HTML pages with maybe some images and videos are best for learning, as that way there are no distractions.
There are actually some legitimate use-cases for interactive environments.
Consider Lisp CLIM, Smalltalk & their potential for various things. Computational notebooks are useful educational tools.
Active engagement's positive effects on memorization and learning are well researched by now.
They could also not pretend to be using HTML and could be fully Free/Libre Software (environments) distributed as such, rather than abusing HTML & web-based technology.
> None of them need JavaScript and should NOT have JavaScript.
Correct. They should be using Lisp.
But most of them also don't need a dynamic interactive code environment at all.
> Working without JavaScript is the minimum acceptable quality standards for any website.
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LisPi (lispi314@udongein.xyz)'s status on Friday, 07-Mar-2025 13:00:54 JST LisPi
@Suiseiseki > I'm not sure about Li-Fi, as I reckon many manufacturers couldn't help but to crank up the TX power and blind people.
It'd clearly need to be adjustable, because risking the triggering of seizures or blinding (whether temporary or not) would be unacceptable.
I think infrared signaling would be a potentially interesting option there. It doesn't need to be particularly powerful for electronics to receive it and very few user-oriented items emit it in a way that couldn't be fairly easily filtered out/tolerated as noise.
> It could be a device-to-device meshnet, with many base stations, provided all the devices are in visual range (with maybe a backup wireless link), but sensitive enough detectors that can pick up for example a stream of single photos are patented up the wazoo and such sort of bandwidth and connection sharing arrangements are prevented as much as possible.
Basically all of those patents should be invalidated for prior work (of which there is quite a bit online), but mostly I think they should all be invalidated because the entire patent office should be invalidated as harmful to scientific and societal progress. (A lot of energy/resource efficiency improvements that we *need* with the climate crisis are locked away by patent rentseeking.)