I’ve been talking about this “CEOs should think as parents” thing for years now. It was seen in a good light back then.

Maybe Linux is considering prioritizing consumer hardware (safety, less room for human error)? Android is already a thing, so maybe there is pressure for prioritizing consumer hardware?

Seeing China (Tencent) and the US (Lightspeed LA) working together really gives me hope that everything will turn up alright.

I think the exact opposite. Saying that “democracy isn’t for us” banishes any kind of democracy that could happen in the country. It even bans the possibility that there is a right way of democracy for the country.

The current crimes linked to western democracy are just connected to the current state of democracy. That Burkina Faso shouldn’t buy into a democracy that kills, that doesn’t build hospitals, and so on. That doesn’t mean the concept of democracy cannot change for implementation on the country for the future.

Anyway, exact opposite.

I pay for Ollama Cloud. As for the training of the big models, big companies do it using who-knows-what resources.

I hate that “no health benefits” is added just to compare with the supposed “health benefits” of circumcision, even though I would never like to get rid of my foreskin.

Edit: I’m moderately sure a guy with no foreskin has less pleasure when masturbating than me.

Tool usage is very important. Qwen3.5 (135b) can already do wonderful things on OpenCode.

I would like to inform that in the Finnish article mentioned (which can be accessed via Google Scholar) the authors use the word “Fire” and not “Dismiss”, so it’s even clearer.

Link: https://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:2ee3a3c1-9c57-4c27-bf90-da54bb935706/download_file?safe_filename=Adams-Prassl_et_al_2022_Violence_against_women.pdf&file_format=pdf&type_of_work=Working+paper

Sending male abusers away is the right thing to do. I’m glad women in positions of power are doing that.

I’m tolerant of jank if the game is well-structured or made by a small team. It doesn’t mean it has to be cheaper, but the price really helps and shows how greedy those big AAA titles are.

Some AAAs fill the game with functionalities or characteristics. It creates intricate stories supposed to please everyone. Gaming is becoming a culture asset.

I feel the same way about indie books. The “AAA” books tell stories about worlds that I really don’t care about. It doesn’t matter how much money you put into it, they were just not made for me.

Indie titles (and books) fill this gap. I feel welcomed by some games and this matters more than any attention-locking they could put into their games for gameplay, or stories they construct.

Books (and therefore stories) are Supposed to reach just some people. How the heck could you create a story that satisfies everyone? It just doesn’t happen. It’s culture.

As an article that was published here on Lemmy talks: “When you read a book, you’re conspiring with the author” for a reality. So it is with some videogames. And as I said, videogames are becoming culturally relevant, so all the big companies got their claws on it, you can’t expect it to be untainted.

it’s probably very important to her in an age where Facebook was dominant and the equality measures weren’t really out there as mainstream. There were no mainstream movies, no general consensus about the female leading role in equality and so on.

If you’re a designer in 2015 and Facebook gives you a role to overhaul the looks and put women-first, I think I would be really starstruck too.

Everyday I stray further from the path of mainstream gaming.

Banks, government apps and main apps (Whatsapp, etc.) are on Google Play. It’s clear governments will stick with Google. What is left to know is how seriously democratic governments take civil liberties.

Well, it’s clear Linux is getting a lot of attention on the desktop side of things. So it’s important that all organizations involved make the right decisions for the public interest and the environment of Linux.

That means a community level of compliance that matches Big Tech capacities.

It doesn’t make sense to stay locked into the Mac environment unless the hardware is incredible or you need to develop iOS applications.

Controlling people in the way you mean goes all the way back to “Revolta das Vacinas” and the higienistas. That’s not what I mean. What I mean is digital control over what people do. You think Brazil doesn’t have the US technology to control what people do over the web, but look at all the Amazon and Oracle datacenters that keep appearing on Brazil.

It might not be direct technology transfer, but it is at least licensed to process brazilian info and, if with Bolsonaro, to help the government with direct knowledge against public interest.

CPF, fingerprint, photos,… that’s all well knowledge of fingerprinting the citizen. But what about the digital fingerprint? That could be much larger: what you do, your psychological profile, and what you do on your free time.

Can you imagine; all those companies in contract with the government. Suddenly they have access to your profile and how you respond to everything. I’m not talking directly about the democratic government here, since it doesn’t matter if it is Lula or Bolsonaro on this. But you have to keep in mind that the personal interest, by which I mean the interest of the peoples initiative, association and expression, is defended by the left, not the right.

You’re in for a surprise if you think the government doesn’t want absolute control. In an age where people use their phones, are constantly online. Maybe you will find out there people who “just want to get in peace to their homes”, or “just want to be left alone”, or that the basic for life is “being able to walk carelessly on the streets”. It’s the complete reversal of what is human and what we need to be human: connection, food, water, development.

People need education and knowledge, but more than that, people need the right to build, the right to tinker, the right to find out who they are, the right to find out what’s best for everyone in society and for their own groups, the right to participate democratically.

None of which are guaranteed in Brazil right now, and certainly won’t be with Bolsonaro. Don’t be surprised if Bolsonaro talks trash of the Fediverse or of what the radical left thinks is freedom of expression and association.

India is heading for IT centric jobs in large corporations, planning to be “the brain of the world”. With many IT consulting systems all over the world going through India. That’s the plan. And that will be done by large Indian corporations, like the Tata consulting mentioned on the article.

https://www.ft.com/content/b3c0b486-07a2-11dc-9541-000b5df10621

It’s government trying to control people all over again.

Bolsonaro (Flávio) will probably make an argument saying that under him people will be free from control or something like that, but it’s just bullshit. What we would get under him is brazilian ICE (Internal Customs Enforcement - isn’t that funny).

MidnightBSD chose to be out of Brazil, like it happened with Rumble. This law will be enforced.

If you live in Brazil and probably South America for some time, you’ll know that it is hard to get hardware from Europe even from Ebay. It simply “does not ship to your destination”. Now with the Mercosur + EU agreement that may be easier, but if software keeps leaving, the hardware and hardware culture won’t be able to make up for it.

It’s just software leaving the margins, and it will get worse if Google keeps pushing Android and Mobile culture further. Brazil may just become as corporate-centric as India.

Didn’t hear anything about it in Brazil. It’s being done under the radar. Can’t even find articles about it.