A 50-something French dude that’s old enough to think blogs are still cool, if not cooler than ever. I also like to write and to sketch.
Just do it, because it’s wasting your time and effort, and possibly also material if it’s failing in ways that a better tool would not. It’s preventing you from doing better work.
I know you’re right. It’s just me being… me ;)
In France, we don’t use craiglist but we have a similar thing called Leboncoin (for anyone wondering). Maybe that’s jsut what I will do, taking this as the opportunity to also look for a good deal on a better model for my own use, using that same website ;)
Go fuck yourself.
Did that help you feel any better or any righter? Not that it matters much. Have a nice day.
Almost Impressive demonstration of proud(hon) ignorance. Enough with that.
I wish I had read your comment (and asked the op question) a few years ago when I purchased my own sewing machine (I decided to learn in my early 50s to mend my spouse and my clothe): it’s a rather weak machine that can’t handle denim that well, if at all… Looking very much like the first picture you shared. But since IO also don’t want to create too much waste, I try to make do with it… up until I can find a used model that will work better and someone willing to use mine.
Will do if I have to, but like I told the person I’m more than willing to give them an opportunity to keep this a real discussion, not an ideological pillow fight ;)
If you read it, so far it is still perfectly correct with barely a few hints at… anger, or not even that: a mere desire to trigger some emotional reaction on my part maybe.
And don’t do mod task if you only wanted to do the wiki or something else. ;)
Oh don’t worry about that ;)
It just happened I considered the OP post oddly interesting to comment on it (even though I still think this is not the best place to discuss that kind of questions, it also opened a few very interesting perspectives worth exploring) and I also wanted to make it clear to the person that 'reported it that it had been dully noted by a mod (ie me wearing my mod hat, in my first reply) and that said mod saw no real issue in the OP post.
After that, the few feedbacks I received had promises in them. I tried to reply as openly and as usefully as I could. Alas, it seems we’re quickly moving towards a more ad hominem type of discussion around the classical “you’re doing it wrong or you must be dishonest if you don’t agree with us/me” type of exchange that I won’t contribute much more to if that doesn’t change. Will see.
Instead of telling myself and others that we couldn’t possibly be anarchists because our view on the subject are different to yours and suggesting someone read a 270 page book, why don’t you summarise your reasoning?
Have you noted the many words I put in italics in previous reply? Maybe there was a reason I insisted so heavily on those. And, once again, don’t waste your time (and mine) trying to put words in my mouth that I’ve not said. The only reaction this might end up triggering (you’ve got some leeway) is in me deciding to ignore all your messages from that point on.
As for why I don’t summarize the book for you and expect you to “read a 270 pages book”? Thx a lot for asking.
We live in the age of “summaries”. People, old and young, don’t want to read anymore. They want an instant summary of those books so they feel like they know it without having to actually put any effort reading it. So they feel confident they can get good grades when there is an exam on that book (the only ones to blame here being the educative systems and the teachers, not the kids abusing the system as they’re acting quite smart by doing so). Or feel like they can knowingly talk about that book with their peers.
People who want to use that shortcut are more than welcome to go that road if that’s what they really want, you are more than welcome to go find yourself a summary of the book, even though I think it’s a sad mistake. You can even ask one of the many AI to do summarize it to you (maybe this could give you enough motivation to start reading it?)
Just don’t expect me to summarize the book for you for the simple reasons that I think one must be willing to read a book not just act like if they had (it’s sad but it’s ok to not read at all), and then because I think most of the value one can get out of reading lies in the act of reading the actual book, taking the required time to read it and not in the act of getting a ready to memorize summary of it.
Instead, what I’m willing to do, if you ever decide to read it and put in the work, it is to take time to discuss it at length with you, discuss any question or objection you might raise… to the best of my own limited abilities.
Obviously, that is just my opinion, feel free to ignore it.
My apologies, I must have misread or skimmed over a part here.
Alas, it has become the norm, to skip ‘a part here’.
There is nothing un-anarchist about using such a piece of technology, especially when it’s being deployed to catch genocide deniers.
Don’t waste your time throwing slogans at me, I’m like made out of some kind of ideological teflon and no slogan will stick with me (even the ones I may agree with).
Instead, of telling me what I should think (to be right) about AI and anarchy, have you even considered opening the Proudhon book I mentioned? It’s in the public domain, easy to find. And maybe try to understand why an obviously out of touch old fellow like myself may have hinted at the possibility that, maybe, using AI-powered tools could not sit that well with an anarchist ideology and the way it supposed to stand against some very fundamental notions? Or is it simply that I must be wrong given the fact that I dare not agree with you or with someone you agree with? If that is so, that’s fine by me all I have left to do is to wish you a nice day.
Oh, now I understand. Well I would say that’s OK then. Just be aware I won’t do night watch ;)
It’s a collective of PC tech enthusiasts offering a free alternative to the big corporations.
By using a corporate owned AI?
I understand it’s fashionable to hate on AI,
Allow me to quote my own message:
I don’t mind people using AI
Where do you see any hate in that statement, or in the rest of my comment for that matter? Also, not minding something (AI, or not AI-related) should not forbid me, or anyone else, to look at its in a critical manner, right? Or did I miss the episode explaining us they, for some reason, should/could not be criticized?
Whatever, thx for considering old-me as fashionable. That had not happened in many decades.
I’ve not followed along all the various threads and, in all honesty, I’ve only read this very post because it popped up as being reported while I was trying to drink my morning coffee. Also, don’t ask me how I ended becoming a mod either, I have no clue.
Imho, and I say this as someone only minding the meaning of words, if those people really see themselves as anarchists I would suggest they urgently:
I don’t mind people using AI: it’s a new tool and it is to be expected that some real stupid shit will be done using it. But, like any tool, AI is not neutral. By and in its very design AI has a purpose and if I was to define myself as an anarchist, which I would not if there was still any doubt about that, I would seriously and very urgently question my desire to use AI despite its intrinsic design, despite its very purpose.
Now, if you don’t mind, I will pour myself a fresh and hot new cup of coffee. And maybe later today I will pick up my copy of Proudhon ‘Qu’est-ce que la propriété?’ (‘What is Property’, which was first written in French) which, imvho, any wannabe anarchist should read before deciding it’s ok, or not ok, for them to use AI, and what type of AI. And yes, that is a book worth reading for discussing AI despite having been written in the first half of the 19th century. The answers they might get out of that book may very well… unsettle them and their apparently very unchallenged certainties.
A very stimulating and healthy read, even for non-anarchists like myself.
Your question is one of the two reasons I love GNU/Linux so much, and will not go back to proprietary tools ever again :)
Even tough as a very average user myself I would never feel like compiling my own kernel, and would even less know how to do such a thing, I know it’s a possibility and I know other users are doing it. And that is a possibility only because of the freedoms we the users are given by the GPL to do… what we want. To me, as an ex-lifelong Apple user (I started being their customer in the early 80s and only switched full time some 7 or 8 years ago to GNU/Linux) this is amazing and wonderful freedom.
Sorry if I have not replied precisely to your question but reading it I realized it was a great demonstration of what freedom is supposed to mean, and I felt like sharing it.
I don’t know if it (nor what) is a DPGA but it kinda is NPTBIALITS (1).
1: A Nice Place To Be In, At Least I Think So.
Imho, you should develop your question a little more if you want to get more constructive comments ;)
With the two recent posts and my long day keeping an eye on these, i decided to update the community’s rules.
I was a bit out of the loop (preparing our move from one apartment to another) but I’ve noticed a few… angry posts and some comments too.
We need more nuances.
This, 100%. Which is closely related to what I’ve be saying for a while now: we need to be more… open to whatever/whomever we disagree with. That is if we want the fediverse to become… more than a niche thing. We need to be fine with the fediverse not being ours, not being a perfect reflection of whatever our own values and preferences are.
Thank for reading this long post,
Thank you for working hard to make this space a better place. Much appreciated :)
or go to System Settings -> Printer -> Add? I mean, that’s all I had to do and not even that as a matter of fac as Linux Mint detected the printer the moment I plugged it into the network (B&W Network/USB laser printer)
A sample journey when trying to install software:
I guess it mostly depends the type of apps one wishes to install.
On Windows: find the msi or exe and be done with it.
Linux is certainly not perfect but:
sudo apt install list-of-all-the apps-I-need makes it so easy to install all my apps on a new system. And for the rare few apps I need a more recent version than the one that is provided through the official repos, I can just flatpak install list-of-the-few-flatpaks-I-want. I don’t even have to type those commands, I keep a text file listing them and all the apps names.Well, that plus the freedom I have to do whatever I fancy with my OS, without its maker having anything to say about it, make it so much better in my eyes than the proprietary OS I used to use (I was a Mac user more than I ever was a Windows user, but it’s no secret Mac apps were even simpler to install than on Windows)
I also use a PPA for a rather niche app, never had any issue with it.
Tldr: the Western neoliberal “neutral state” has no higher value than tolerating each other’s values, and no higher goal than promoting free market capitalism.
Not entirely correct.
The idea was to recognize richness and strength in diversity but also to recognize it for what it is: we’re different, we’re not all the same. And then to realize that these difference were a source of strength and growth. For this realization to work, we also had to learn not just to accept differences but to welcome them. That’s what it should have been about… and that’s exactly not what happened, and not what we’ve been taught, alas.
The problem for me is woulda-coulda-shoulda. I’d love for human habits and human behavior to be tweaked and improved in certain ways, but reality is reality, sadly or not.
meaning there is no way trying? That’s not what I want to think. Because if that was so, there would be no way to try to correct what is not going fine, ever.
That is what typically gets the most votes and engagement.
I don’t care much about votes. And I say that as someone who doesn’t post much put comment a lot more ;)
An image can help sell / explain the concept,
They do, you’re right. But I think that is something we should try to resist. We should encourage people to put back some values into ‘mere’ words. Not suggesting images are bad, bu they’re only one leg, the other being words. And it’s not just a personal feeling that words are being… neglected, for images.
The same with YT and TikTok: I see a lot of people that won’t read a book when asked to, they will watch someone talk about the book, making a summary and some comment about it. One can replace ‘book’ with any other type of content that require some reading. That video maybe excellent and fascinating in itself it still is not the actual book. Reading matters. Or it should.
The same bunch that persuaded way too many of us that reading/writing were not required and useful skills to teach kids anymore?
This is the question we should all be asking ourselves, at least all of us the adults that, supposedly, are expected to be educating those younger generations.