Evinceo

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[–] Evinceo@awful.systems 8 points 1 week ago

This is a massive loss. At this point we need specific legislation. Insane to grant fair use to a for-profit copier that provides no benefit to the owner of the copied item and competes with it in the market. I cannot overstate how shitty this is.

[–] Evinceo@awful.systems 10 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

He doesn't believe in Germ theory. He's utterly deranged. The grift is alternative medicine, but I don't know if he really understands that it's a grift. His bosses surely do, but they just want to inflict as much punishment on institutions as possible.

[–] Evinceo@awful.systems 4 points 1 month ago

Imagine if it was trying to build a feature for a client who needs to look at a demo every time.

[–] Evinceo@awful.systems 9 points 1 month ago

You can definitely learn how to code, I believe in you.

[–] Evinceo@awful.systems 3 points 2 months ago

Under no circumstances allow your US Citizen self to be illegally detained by ICE I guess.

[–] Evinceo@awful.systems 12 points 5 months ago

What's the Rationalist reaction to these developments? Are there any vestigial AI-fearers that haven't switched over to straight up Phrenology like Slatescott and are currently genuinely still worried about the apocalypse because of this?

[–] Evinceo@awful.systems 4 points 5 months ago

OSI is gonna mandate that we call it open source now, didn't ya hear?

[–] Evinceo@awful.systems 2 points 5 months ago (4 children)

Can't people run it locally supposedly?

[–] Evinceo@awful.systems 6 points 6 months ago (2 children)

I didn't think today was gonna be a day where I'd read about sounding then breaking glass rods but here we are.

[–] Evinceo@awful.systems 5 points 6 months ago

Fuck lmfao 🤣

[–] Evinceo@awful.systems 3 points 7 months ago

That was way back in 2007. Probably close to when I read his stuff... but even then he was clearly still clinging to the Halloween Letters and seemed extremely old school.

[–] Evinceo@awful.systems 3 points 7 months ago

Emphasis on used to. He worked fairly hard at becoming a household name, but ultimately his fame was pretty brief. Stallman achieved meme status, love him or hate him. Torvalds actually ships shit people use. There's just no discourse around Raymond these days, good or bad.

Every once in a while someone trips over one of the pitons he's driven into the wall of FOSS to try and climb it, discovers his abysmal takes, amd everyone promptly forgets about him again.

 

The actually not even really a hatchet job NYT piece on SlateScott that mostly just called him a weird little guy has nonetheless created a festering psychic wound that oozes to this day. Here manifests as an interview with the author on LW. See also: discussion on reddit.

My favorite section, talking about how people are mad that be brought up Scott's notorious race stuff™️:

CM: That's great. That's a valid position. There are other valid positions where people say, we need to not go so close to that, because it's dangerous and there's a slippery slope. The irony of this whole situation is that some people who feel that I should not have gone there, who think I should not explore the length and breadth of that situation, are the people who think you should always go there.

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