aReallyCrunchyLeaf

Push yourself to be better than them. Do not accept mediocrity. Win.

Being a racist loser has no relation whatsoever to being good at a skill, you can be just as good if not better than them. It's really common to feel like you'll never be as good as your senior coworkers but that's just your brain playing tricks on you. I felt the same way when I was just starting out as a cook. I went on to be a sous chef in several Michelin starred/James Beard awarded restaurants before changing careers, so I understand toxic, abusive, high pressure environments, which I understand programming to be.

Those guys are better programmers than you? Ok, tough shit. If you want to get better the only person who can do that for you is you. Prove to them that being a racist piece of shit has nothing to do with being skilled. Or don't, either way it's not a reflection on you as a person. But if you want it, you absolutely have the ability to do it, and there is no better vindication than winning.

edit: I fully expected to take downvotes for this, but I do want to add, someday we will have to actually FIGHT fascists and not by posting on the internet, or asking them to think of you as a person (which they do not), or what have you. The day will come that those people who see you as an insignificant worm will be unleashed upon you and they will have the full backing of the state and when that day comes, you will need to be better than them. Accepting mediocrity or losing is fine if you have no stake and winning doesn't matter. But I do not think that pushing ourselves to be better and ACTUALLY win is something that should be shunned or shied away from, and this is a real life situation where OP can take a personal W for themselves. Best of luck to you, OP, and I hope you take my message to heart!

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True, but anything running Bazzite could just as easily run Fedora atomic instead and basically no one could tell the difference. Fedora is sponsored by one of the largest tech companies on the planet.

The aggregator wasn't hacked, they essentially hacked the hackers and put together this list. This ain't a data breach per se, it's just putting together a bunch of past breaches and patching it up to HIBP.

Hey thanks, lol

Yeah. "AI" is marketing jargon. It's just a new, novel translation tool.

A big problem our society faces now is that the people who have the ability to shove a thing like AI into every corner of our digital lives are the same dingdongs that stand to gain from its widespread adoption. We essentially have no say in whether or not we want to use it, because we are locked into all their closed source platforms and if they want to make your phone into an AI slop bucket, they can and they absolutely will.

These freaks got too trigger happy though. They've been salivating for years for the next big thing after the cloud paradigm shift of the mid 2010's. That was the last time tech got a major marketing lift and they're pissed because they're stagnating. Hardware is slowing down, everyone's got a supercomputer in their pocket, everyone's on the cloud, and they can only enshittify so much before people swap products (something capitalists fucking HATE is when they're actually forced to compete on making a good product). This was the answer to their prayers. A shining star. A machine that steals what already exists and spits it back at you. Limitless ability to plunder with zero responsibility to actually build a product anyone whats to buy. It's perfect!

But they fucked up. A healthy society could have taken the time to let this thing breathe and realized this is not the next big paradigm shift that will revolutionize the world. Well, it will, but only because they're forcing it to. Cloud was genuinely a powerful tool. This is barely more useful than Google translate. Its widespread, forced adoption will mark the beginning of a series of deliberate self-owns that the tech industry inflicts upon itself in order to try and squeeze every last drop out of the internet and the people of the world until they enshittify their products so much that they will be literally unusable for their originally intended purpose.

As usual, I take solace in the fact that despite them being hailed as genius visionaries, these are truly some of the dumbest fucking people to ever live. Jobs was an abusive terrorist, but at least the guy had a cult of personality. These fucking dweebs are so comically repulsive, they are one hundred thousand percent guaranteed to fuck this up. If it didn't stand to literally ruin the lives of many people I know and care about, I would be giddy at the thought of pointing and laughing at their sniveling piss baby faces when they cry and moan to the US government after they blow up the economy.

Ultra Google search, textbook/tutor machine, boilerplate code generator, context explainer, etc. it's being wildly oversold, overvalued, and in classic capitalist style American companies are happy to trash the environment in order to make a buck, but those are issues baked into the system, not the technology of LLMs in general. It sucks for pretty much 90% of what it's being sold as so people are rightly recoiling from it, but it does have a use.

Naturally, China has figured out how to do it for 1/100th of the economic and environmental cost.

Also in my personal experience, most IT folks I work with are skeptical at best towards it and almost none of them are comfortable letting it anywhere near production. Pretty much as a rule the people extolling it's virtues are categorically the dumbest fucking slobbering morons you've ever met in your life.

Capitalism will steal the very foundations of life and sell it to you to make a buck. They will siphon the life force from the earth in order to benefit themselves. I honestly try and look at things dispassionately and put it all in perspective but DAM it's hard not to be emotional when you see what these fucking stinking pigs are up to on their mountain.

the internet fucking sucks so bad now oh my GOD

This is exactly where anyone who has an interest in actually changing someone's mind wants to be.

90% of these conversations, which are often shared between friends or at least acquaintances, can be "won" by listening to the other person and meeting them on their own terms. People are way more receptive to hear what you have to say when they feel like what you're actually saying is relevant to the points that they are making, etc. For example, if someone complains about immigration, it's likely that they want Americans to have those jobs instead and see immigration as a threat to their way of life. The way to handle something like this is always to address the problem radically, i.e. from the root, and say something like: "I hear what you're saying, but what if the countries that most immigrants are coming from didn't have so many issues that they feel like they need to risk their lives/livelihoods to come all the way here? Why is it that these countries in central/south America have so many economic problems relative to the US?" Now the conversation has been re-framed so that it's actually addressing a root cause, and this person will walk away at least having a thought provoked about US imperialism and it's consequences, which is an important concept to understand.

If you simply resort to shutting down topics like this, because you feel a person who holds this worldview is a racist, xenophobe, etc, and therefore morally inferior, you never allow yourself the opportunity to win. You've already given up the ghost if you follow your instinct and resort to ad hominem attacks, scolding and finger wagging, and you prove that you lack the rhetorical ability to actually SELL your project, something that is an absolute necessity if you have a genuine interest in the electoral gains of any kind of socialist/populist/proletarian project. My political platform is already popular. People don't need to be convinced that it's desirable, only that it is possible, so I am happy to debate and share my opinions with anyone who will listen.

I think the premise is missing a few key points. Namely, do we mean in the context of a one on one debate where I'm trying to either convince someone or others involved, or a dialectic where both parties are attempting to come to an agreed upon truth? How serious is my ideological opponent taking MY point of view, or are we just talking in the abstract, like can you imagine in your head tolerating the fact that others have differing opinions with you and living with that reality.

Basically, I'm a materialist, so for the majority of everyday folks especially including those in my life, I don't attribute someones political opinions to moral failings or rectitude on their part. 9 out of 10 times it's due to their upbringing, the material conditions surrounding their childhood and early development, as well as the things that happen to them throughout their life that form someones worldview. Morality might have something to do with it, but ultimately morality is subjective, so who am I to say that someones idea of right and wrong is better than mine. Everyone is justified and righteous in their own mind.

That said, if I'm actively engaged with someone who isn't taking what I say seriously (as fascists often do, whom I consider by definition non serious actors in a debate), or is simply using ad hominem attacks on my character, I pretty much am done talking at that point. I feel like I come off as very patient and try and empathize with most people, usually because if I'm actually having this conversation in real life, they're in my family or in my day to day life, and I try to present my opinion as something that's naturally compatible with their worldview, because I'm confident that my opinions are correct and I don't need to insult or demean someone to get my point across.

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What capitalism does to a mf