hendrik

Correct. We currently have some sentiment against liberal spaces and DEI programs and so on. And some people think it's the war against straight white men. But having a men's groups or women's groups or safe-spaces to talk freely about whatever topics isn't authoritarian. The opposite of it is equally true. You can't discuss certain topics without the correct space for it, and not allowing them to discuss how they like is authoritatian as well!

Interesting study. Also similar to my own observations. I've tried AI coding to some degree. Some people recommend it. And it definitely can do some nice things. Like write boilerplate code fast and do some tech-demos and exploring. And it's kind of nice to bounce off ideas to someone. I mean the process of speaking out things loud and putting it into words helps me think it through. AI can do that (listen) and it'll occasionally give back some ideas.

The downside of coding with it in real life is, I end up refactoring a lot of stuff. And that's just tedious and annoying work. I've had this happen to me several times now. And I think the net time balance is negative for me as well. I think I'm better off coming up with an idea how to implement something, and then just type it down. Rather than skipping the step and then moving around stuff, changing it, and making sure it handles the edge-cases correctly and fits into the broader picture. Plus I still end up doing the thinking step, just in a different way.

Oh man, I'm a bit late to the party here.

He really believes the far-right Trump propaganda, and doesn't understand what diversity programs do. It's not a war between white men an all the other groups of people... It's just that is has proven to be difficult to for example write a menstrual tracker with a 99.9% male developer base. It's just super difficult to them to judge how that's going to be used in real-world scenarios and what some specific challenges and nice features are. That's why you listen to minority opinions, to deliver a product that caters to all people. And these minority opinions are notoriously difficult to attract. That's why we do programs for that. They are task-forces to address things aside from what's mainstream and popular. It'll also benefit straight white men. Liteally everyone because it makes Linux into a product that does more than just whatever is popular as of today. Same thing applies to putting effort into screen readers and disabled people and whatever other minorities need.

If he just wants what is majority, I'd recommend installing Windows to him. Because that's where we're headed with this. That's the popular choice, at least on the desktop. That's what you're supposed to use if you dislike niche.

Also his hubris... Says Debian should be free from politics. And the very next sentence he talks his politics and wants to shove his Trump anti-DEI politics into Debian.... Yeah, sure dude.

Thanks. Yeah that was an omission in my comment. Back then (3months ago) it took some more effort for the average person to scroll through somebody else's votes but that has changed since. Everybody can look up anyone's votes. And they've always been handed out publicly.

Good question. I don't know when Lemmy got the feature that mods can see all votes, but looks to me someone is agitated/frustrated or something and goes through the logs. We had some discussion back then about people doing their thing in their communities and then some random people aren't even subscribed and do drive-by downvotes... Which is a bit frustrating. And AI is one of the many polarizing topics here. People tried discussing it in peace but it's not very easy. Maybe OP got caught in the turmoil of this. Or they pissed off that person and then the next downvote was one too many... I don't really know. And the person calling out people by name sounds a bit agitated. I'd say someone with that state of mind is likely going to react a bit more extreme. And they're concerned with voting fraud and brigading in general.

Ah right, maybe that was it. I remember seeing the post as well. You got "called out" by name publicly. For supposed "brigading". And told to F off. That must be the reason for this?! https://discuss.tchncs.de/post/34853477

How can you tell what you downvoted while randomly scrolling through the all feed or your subscriptions 3 months ago? I certainly couldn't remember.

And the communities you were banned from aren't necessarily the ones you downvoted in... That's just the realm of the admin or mod who banned you. But they could have based the decision on other behaviour or downvotes of yours.

You're a bit more easygoing with the downvotes than the average Lemmy user. Those rarely downvote, while you do like 30% downvotes. Maybe that triggered someone if you did something like scroll through a community and hand out several downvotes consecutively. But I don't think you're doing anything wrong here.

Hmm... Would be interesting to find out what kind of effect that has on the average marriage or relationship 😅

Likely everyday stuff... Meeting minutes, phone or video conferences and such...

I think a dual-channel system with DDR3-1600 isn't what we call fast any more. So you should try to avoid offloading with that. But I'm not an expert on the numbers, and it depends a bit on the specific use-case whether it makes sense to invest in old hardware, or buy a new machine along with a graphics card, since that's quite some money.

Right. I'm not sure if I even disagree with that. I completely agree the manufacturer is responsible for their products. And we definitely need guardrails and regulations in place. I'd go even further than current lawmakers and mandate watermarking etc for AI services. And content filters for example for this specific case. I've already reported face-swapping services which violate law (sadly nothing ever came of it).

My main point is: It's very important to get it right. I've linked the best blog article I know about the subject in my first comment. Addressing it by removing open-source is (in my opinion) not going to help much, and it makes the overall situation with AI severely worse.

I can't come up with good analogies here. But I think the solution has to be to address the specific issues and make the tools more safe. Not turn them into a plaything for certain people only. That's likely going to have the opposite effect. And it might not stop the criminals either, depending on how it's done.

I mean a car manufacturer also shouldn't stop you from being able to replace the light bulbs or learn how a car works, just because someone used a car in a crime once. And we don't remove the knifes from my kitchen and replace that with pre-sliced food from the grocery store, so only big companies have knifes available... Or outlaw personal websites and user generated content, so only trusted companies can upload stuff to the internet. Or outlaw Linux so Microsoft and Google/Apple spying is on all our devices. I think it's just not the right means to address the issue... Sure we could do it this way, but that's mainly harming regular people even more.

But I really don't think these are opposites. We still can address issues. (And we should!) It just has to be a sane approach that doesn't do the opposite of what it's trying to do.

Edit: I think what this does is make the robot apocalypse (if we ever get to that) be shaped by Sam Altman and what he likes. We just reinforce Skynet (from Terminator) with that. Plus today people are going to use it, and it'll have the biases and stereotypes that Elon Musk etc like in the answers. And they're going to change the world with their propaganda and perspective. As long as AI is disruptive and has an impact on society, that's really, really bad. And we're stripping anyone else of any capability to take part in it or shape it differently. Or do research that contradicts their bussiness motivations.