I've just realized what this family of technologies is - it's an attack at capitalism.

That word is hated here, but it's generally a good thing, with one condition.

When things marketed are something possible to supply an instruction for and to teach the customers basics of telling good stuff from bad stuff, sort of good lightbulbs versus bad lightbulbs, good radio receiver versus bad one, not very deep knowledge, but high school understanding of electricity, mechanics, chemistry, stuff like that.

So most of all it's a family of technologies good for generating "something" that looks plausible for a person about things they themselves don't do. Meaning - deceiving laymen.

So, for the commie types, it's partially good news - it's their part of history finally, and partially bad news - cause the flood wall they were trying to break because they thought it spoiled the view is being finally broken from the other side by a stream of sewage.

Just a random passing thought.

That just means 100 people are making this decision fully aware that others have to cross roads.

BTW, what's about able adult males who use cars instead of a 30 minutes' walk?

I suppose there are horrible places where you can't just walk to such distances, though.

Quality control was there because competition and customer agency were there.

Now your typical customer is an ape. They are less brain than what Apple stuff was intended for in the 00s. By far.

Quality and competition are reliant upon customers with agency. While customers are now the kind of people who are secretly thinking they are almost there in inventing a warp engine, because Claude told them so.

Sue them.

I mean, should if you can defend your rights. Anyway, posted from Moscow, Russia, so I'm stopping.

That's the eco-friendliness we deserve, and from Japan no less.

There are two parts to this:

1. Ethics, a doctor would be expected to know better,
2. Reality, where eventually such things will just stop being 100% percent visible, and thus will happen again and again with impunity.

So, first, doctors shouldn't do that, second, ban or not, this will be happening all around us, no exit.

Isn't Skillet kinda fine?.....

Watch lists are so 1937. The whole point of building datacenters for that kind of thing is to not have the separation between people on watch lists and people not on watch lists.

So nobody should be ashamed by your measure. We live in a wonderful time when, instead of selecting few suspicious individuals to monitor, you can monitor everyone automatically and don't have that risk.

It's like lossless encoding, like FLAC, versus lossy encoding, like MP3. It's better to have the former if your resources allow it.

Watch lists have that downside of being a Russian roulette, what if your watch lists give you a wrong impression of the society outside the watch lists? You might think you have it under control, while you don't.

With everyone being monitored if you think you have it under control, you really do.

That just was a bit too expensive, but times they are a-changing.

That's really nice, isn't it?

Cool. Proper devops like in ads. Just those people I compare myself to when having impostor syndrome trips.

I mean, these things happen, that's just bitterness.

And that's one example of how one progressive goal (of reducing emissions, ecology, regulating industry etc) and another (of right to repair and tinker) can require a compromise.

OK, from where I am your problems in US are cool to read about, here that kind of customization is in the "fuck around and find out" territory with huge fines, but I see no concern about ecology either.

Self-critique is good, but as someone living in Russia I take issue with this claim.

I've just realized that this is much like having multiple identities.

A way to deceive market reputation mechanisms.

Should be made illegal, there should be one main brand seen on everything, then whatever secondary brand they want is possible, but you should clearly see that those 3 niche-optimized goods are from one corp.

So that the choice were, eh, real.

I mean, the article actually says that they are not lying.

But the truth they are telling is that this kind of tools is like Yuuzhan-Vong assistants in Star Wars NJO era. It's just further in the direction of auto-complete and recommendations.

That's good. It also means that a real job can't be "done by AI".

It's another kind of data compression, in a very fundamental and general way.

It accelerates the most things that shouldn't be done at all. Boilerplate code that's written again and again because of wrong processes, which are taught as standard way of thinking and doing development. Other things that could be a higher-level programming/markup language or a library. Just a frontal way of solving things that were done by hand.

That's useful, one can't do everything by hand.

Just - things that require real human decisions, understanding, responsibility, choice, or semantic and semiotic context that has formed in the course of one's own life for like 20 years - that they can't do. And that's what forms a professional. They can extrapolate stuff that doesn't matter.

... lost in recent like 20 years, in my childhood dissent was far more normal than now. I think it's social media, but also the commonly pursued concept of what's socially respectable, solid and real.

And dissent is, by normalization, what allows peace in society.

So here in Russia there's such a thing as dachas, it's small plots of land with non-winterproof (sometimes not) small houses (sometimes more like a chickhouse for a human) on them, people go there at summer to have barbecues, grow stuff, have fun.

We have that, it's on a place with a lot of clay (good for growing apple trees, too) and I have always felt weird from eating and drinking anything with local water (from the well, boiled).

That is, I have ASD and BAD, and my mental condition is always different when being there a lot with that water, it's both more intense emotions, but also less like BAD symptoms. Also that somehow makes me feel full faster. And stronger.

Honestly it's as if in the city I had BAD, but there I had BPD. I become more touchy-feely there. Still it feels good and human, just not very safe.

But I've also read that water with such contents is not too good for one's kidneys, shouldn't overdo it. Better use filters.

The point is, I do feel as if my nutrition were better when using that water. Even a few portions of rice a day with lots of tea feel quite different there. But might also be the cleaner air, it's a relatively low place, though not a swamp, and a very pretty one.

It's group identity shift conflicting with memory, I think. Group identity did allow agreeing with "you guys" 20 years ago, but now it doesn't. It's hard to choose in favor of things you liked and against your group.

I'm from a completely different country and all, but 20 years ago my sister had a friend from such a family that she mostly was interested in Christian versions of all the same art, Christian fantasy, Christian rock, it's strange. At the same time Harry Potter was allowed, and, eh, USSR nostalgia too. Now the former wouldn't be, I think, and the latter has turned into something almost national-socialist, nothing cool there, in such groups. (OK, this might seem more contrast than it really is, honestly for such people USSR nostalgia even then had such traits, even a bit before I was born probably.)

Electricity you can expect to always be there, and computers too, they are a staple technology by now, it's like paper. I'm talking personal computers, because with microcontrollers and specialized signal processors and so on nobody even thinks about them.

Food and shelter and medicine - by the measure people had 100 years ago, it'll never be bad in developed countries.

The last point, about discerning truth from fiction, is the important one, because for that purpose things are and are going to be just the same way as they were 100 years ago and 200 years ago and so on back. There have been a few decades when it seemed that we can do that without authoritative chain of proof, from, in case of a criminal investigation, police assembling facts following due process, them being registered and vetted and verified following due process, everything being documented following due process, then court proceedings and so on. Eh, as someone from former USSR, I feel funny typing this. Well, not entirely, for non-political things this was followed very rigorously even there.

So - we've had a timespan of few decades when techno-optimism was misused to erode common respect for due process and following chain of trust in establishing facts.

That's also a problem with mass media, both with freedom of press and press neutrality and ethics and reputation.

We'll have a bit of a rough ride until, very slowly through collective experience, we'll have it as good as before the Internet (the Internet is fine, it's more about people being eager to believe that technology can remove deontological and social and other philosophical components).

Not even CEOs, you can see various (at some point failed due to low quality high expenses workforce, that can now be replaced with AI, you get the idea) entrepreneurs and non-techies on Facebook write long excited posts about Claude.

About a computer program and a dataset running completely outside their control and scrutiny. Like white colonizers selling rifles to natives, but not machinery to make those rifles. Or ammunition, but not machinery to produce it. Or colored glass, but not technical processes to make said colored glass.

CEOs are right to be excited, they might be able to afford the real thing - self-hosted and with the accompanying processes, like healthy datasets, experienced people, nuances of adjusting models, stuff like that.

But people who are being shown that they can be replaced sufficiently well by a machine, that has another little trait of being completely adjustable - that I can't understand.

Someone interested in humanitarian sciences and art being excited that there's a machine parroting them well enough to replace them, except that machine can also be made to produce those things to fascist ends, - I don't understand that.

I get depressed after long periods of remote work, go to office, then remember why I didn't particularly value the experience, get back to remote.

Ah, yes, the bigger the company, the more willing to save something negligible on tools its business depends upon.

Honestly that's why I wish more of FOSS were hobbyist like AROS, Haiku and such. FOSS projects shouldn't be too readily usable by businesses, that allows bullshit shops with arrogant pigeon management to keep existing without building proper processes.

I mean, there's some equilibrium here probably, but with what projects get from businesses bigger than nation-states using their work, - we're far from it.

At the same time there are things like Java, PostgreSQL, Redis, Nginx and so on. I don't know.

It just seems sometimes that FOSS breaks market mechanisms in favor of big businesses not giving back to the rest of economy, which seems the opposite of its intuitively and emotionally perceived goal.

But maybe archivers are not it. Not a fan of the idea of having a set of 10 different archivers all often needed, like people did in the 90s. OK, I was a baby in the 90s. Many people didn't have PCs in the 90s.

But can we just go back to weak connectivity (say, asynchronous message exchange of everyone to everyone via BT ; global cryptographic identities and message ids, sort of a global p2p cryptographically contracted Usenet), a zoo of common operating systems and hardware platforms, evolution, competition, geekiness, interesting things.