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Re: on Friday September 11, 2026 @02:43PM (#49663274)
do you have 18 million on hand
Re: on Friday September 11, 2026 @02:42PM (#49663257)
i dont think its actually important if DHH is really, in his heart of hearts, is a fascist --- what he is doing is spreading white supremacist, anti immigrant, nativist literature -- in combination. i think if you think liberalism (as in american revolution, the english bill of rights, modern democracy, etc) is valuable, you should probably oppose fascism, the ideology of those who reject liberalism and would like to go back.

https://world.hey.com/dhh/wolves-sheep-and-gypsies-ba44af6a

https://world.hey.com/dhh/three-sacred-cows-that-must-die-so...

Re: on Friday September 11, 2026 @02:31PM (#49663080)
fascist

noun

fas· cist also ˈfa-shist

or Fascist, plural Fascists : a person who advocates or works to further the aims of fascism : an adherent of or participant in a populist political philosophy, movement, or regime that exalts nation and often race above the individual, that is associated with a centralized autocratic government headed by a dictatorial leader, and that is characterized by severe economic and social regimentation and forcible suppression of opposition

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/fascist

Re: on Friday September 11, 2026 @02:27PM (#49663036)
i dont believe tech projects have a right to talk about "heritage is duty" and certainly not when the creator has made a point about being a white supremacists. i wonder when he says unity, if he means the non-white he complains so much about explicitly in his article "as i remember britain"
Re: on Friday September 11, 2026 @02:24PM (#49662987)
you should probably read the article

> And that is why Omarchy matters. Sadly. Not because of its technical merit (even though those fascists love to use the “merit” argument to fight human rights) but because of its leader, his connections and his ability to accumulate financial power. Without anyone in that ecosystem saying anything about how that leader operates and talks. And you might know the saying: If there’s a Nazi and 10 folks sitting together at a table and nobody says and does anything? There’s 11 Nazis at that table.

> Running Omarchy means contributing to this dynamic. It means willingly integrating oneself into a fascist community. Legitimizing it. Supporting it. Omarchy is a fascist project that normalizes fascist thinking for everyone entering that community (even unknowingly). The baseline has to be not to use that system. And as people who believe in human rights and dignity, in community and a tech world that can be better we need to oppose Omarchy. Need to make sure it gets no seat at any table.

Re:Qwen 3.8 follows GPT-5.5 Pro reasoning prefills on Wednesday September 09, 2026 @04:53PM (#49634107)
distillation results in a worse product than the actual teacher model iirc
Re:Qwen 3.8 follows GPT-5.5 Pro reasoning prefills on Wednesday September 09, 2026 @04:51PM (#49634081)
patched with gpt 6
Re:No constitutional right to clean water, federal court finds on Monday September 07, 2026 @03:50PM (#49602255)
this happens all the time anyhow. "originalism" is ironically a pretty new strain of thought
marxism (a materialist ideology) is incompatible with post-modernism, a post-truth ideology
Re:Kids These Days on Monday August 31, 2026 @05:12PM (#49514894)
a lot of attention given to phones, somewhat rightly so, but little to the rest of society. class -- can we think of any current events might lead to children being despondent about their future? anything at all going on in the world?
Re:U.S. Sanctions Against the a/I Collective on Friday August 28, 2026 @02:57PM (#49482877)
> violent attacks

> on energy infrastructure

that's not violence

Re:OpenAI launches ChatGPT desktop app for Linux on Wednesday August 12, 2026 @12:55AM (#49267944)
the desktop ui is considerably nicer to use if you ever find yourself switching between terminal tabs
Re:The Nixpkgs core team has disbanded on Saturday August 08, 2026 @10:44AM (#49222325)
silly. without the anime avatars and the furries nix is dead in the water.
Re:Advertise in ChatGPT on Wednesday July 22, 2026 @03:04AM (#49002850)
It's a trial
Re:I love LLMs, I hate hype on Sunday July 12, 2026 @08:22PM (#48886340)
he's biggest larper of all time
Re:How to Earn a Billion Dollars on Sunday June 14, 2026 @08:07PM (#48534626)
you're right to point out AOC is not the arbiter of truth and justice, and has no right to point out that stealing is bad
I'm still unsure why programming jobs haven't mostly been outsourced to India. Sure the contractors suck but people at IBM, India tend to write decent code for IBM, US.
in a post gun warfare world where the state has weapons far exceeding what is legal or really possible for a organized militia to hold this is a pipe dream. muskets used to be state of the art.
didn't MIT, like most other schools change this only in wake of COVID? A pandemic resulting in a significant amount of your potential applicants from applying is pretty good reason.
Re:Omarchy Is Not A Distro on Sunday May 24, 2026 @03:04PM (#48260061)
ubuntu has its own packages from Debian and a different release cycle
Re:Omarchy Is Not A Distro on Sunday May 24, 2026 @03:01PM (#48260033)
it's upsetting as money goes to a dotfile config rather than the underlying projects. arch linux is a phenomenal project
to vote you have to be a citizen i think you've forgotten
vaultwarden (self hosted)
Re:New York to tax luxury second homes in NYC on Tuesday May 19, 2026 @01:06PM (#48196097)
democratic socialist isn't inherently interchangeable with social democracy. the DSA defines democratic socialism as explicitly at odds with capitalism, and aims to achieve socialism by going through and past social democracy (where european social democracy is plenty capitalist). Mamdani himself has actively disavowed capitalism.

> Capitalism is a system designed by the owning class to exploit the rest of us for their own profit. We must replace it with democratic socialism, a system where ordinary people have a real voice in our workplaces, neighborhoods, and society.

> We believe there are many avenues that feed into the democratic road to socialism. Our vision pushes further than historic social democracy and leaves behind authoritarian visions of socialism in the dustbin of history.

> [...] We want to win “radical” reforms like single-payer Medicare for All, defunding the police/refunding communities, the Green New Deal, and more as a transition to a freer, more just life.

1: https://www.dsausa.org/about-us/what-is-democratic-socialism...

Re:AI is a technology not a product on Sunday May 17, 2026 @03:19PM (#48172315)
can you not just do this with most local models nowadays? the qwen series is quite capable
Re:AI is a technology not a product on Sunday May 17, 2026 @03:17PM (#48172296)
do computers harbor evil? the thing AI runs on? the thing that has kind of facilitated all the bad things you mentioned with normal boring algorithms?

does electricity harbor evil?

cracker award
Re: on Wednesday May 13, 2026 @06:37PM (#48128519)
> Footnote 2: ... [DHH] also does not want to be called a fascist, in which case he should probably stop being so fucking faschy.

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