Notices by Alexandre Oliva (moved to @lxo@gnusocial.jp) (lxo@gnusocial.net), page 46
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Alexandre Oliva (moved to @lxo@gnusocial.jp) (lxo@gnusocial.net)'s status on Wednesday, 27-Sep-2023 04:06:25 EDT 
Alexandre Oliva (moved to @lxo@gnusocial.jp)
you don't seem to have appreciated my attempt to lighten things up with an attempt at humor about LLMs :-(
the first-hand video evidence shows there was more than one standing ovation without any speech. was the speech you listened to before or after the 2-minute video I linked to? -
Alexandre Oliva (moved to @lxo@gnusocial.jp) (lxo@gnusocial.net)'s status on Wednesday, 27-Sep-2023 04:01:37 EDT
Alexandre Oliva (moved to @lxo@gnusocial.jp)
começa fazendo o estado funcionar do jeito que capitalistas administram suas empresas (isso seria socialismo ou comunismo, em sua opinião?), depois muda pra capitalismo de estado, é isso?
agora fiquei com dúvida sobre o que você esceveu sobre a china antes
você parece saber bastante sobre um sistema de organização econômica que jamais foi sequer tentado. posso perguntar de onde vem toda essa experiência? -
Tinker ☀️ (tinker@infosec.exchange)'s status on Monday, 18-Sep-2023 19:04:56 EDT 
Tinker ☀️
Reminder to go to your local library and volunteer to speak on their behalf. Let them know that if folks try to come and ban books that you'll speak publicly against them.
We found out folks were going to be commenting at our library calling for banning books.
So.
We all went and spoke out against them.
Only one person got up and called for a ban. She went first. Everyone after her started calling out her behavior and telling the library staff to keep the books.
The first woman and a couple others soon left before the end of comments.
Drive them out. Protect our libraries.
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Alexandre Oliva (moved to @lxo@gnusocial.jp) (lxo@gnusocial.net)'s status on Wednesday, 27-Sep-2023 03:06:44 EDT
Alexandre Oliva (moved to @lxo@gnusocial.jp)
batch processing is usually a lot more efficient, and the latter doesn't make it possible to unsend emails that could have already been sent out anyway, so even with additional overhead of live updates, people could still receive emails after the fact. why bother? -
Alexandre Oliva (moved to @lxo@gnusocial.jp) (lxo@gnusocial.net)'s status on Wednesday, 27-Sep-2023 02:03:33 EDT
Alexandre Oliva (moved to @lxo@gnusocial.jp)
There doesn't seem to be any speech by Mr Hunka here, it seems to be just as reported everywhere I read about it:
https://invidious.snopyta.org/watch?v=LbuWNyyo7qI
could you please share the link to the nice speech you have listened to? was that before or after the standing ovations depicted in this video? or is this video (and the other similar ones all over) a deep fake made by Putin to seed dissent among the Westerners? or was the whole thing hallucinated by stochastic parrots? :-) -
Alexandre Oliva (moved to @lxo@gnusocial.jp) (lxo@gnusocial.net)'s status on Wednesday, 27-Sep-2023 01:52:28 EDT
Alexandre Oliva (moved to @lxo@gnusocial.jp)
https://diasporabr.com.br/posts/6080722
is there any truth to these reports?
https://www.newsweek.com/yaroslav-hunka-alleged-nazi-justice-poland-1829892
https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/yaroslav-hunka-poland-minister-extradite-1.6978266
neither report mentions a speech by the former soldier. are you sure there was one on this occasion? -
Alexandre Oliva (moved to @lxo@gnusocial.jp) (lxo@gnusocial.net)'s status on Tuesday, 26-Sep-2023 19:03:47 EDT
Alexandre Oliva (moved to @lxo@gnusocial.jp)
the revolution will not be televised, but the celebration is expected to be live-streamed starting about 8 hours from now. check out https://www.gnu.org/gnu40/
IIUC times are UTC+2 on that page -
Alexandre Oliva (moved to @lxo@gnusocial.jp) (lxo@gnusocial.net)'s status on Tuesday, 26-Sep-2023 18:55:03 EDT
Alexandre Oliva (moved to @lxo@gnusocial.jp)
wheee... it's already Sept 27 where the founder of GNU is currently located. this means we can already start celebrating GNU's 40-year anniversary! happy birthday to GNU, and may you all receive the gift of software freedom! bring on the next 40 years! -
Alexandre Oliva (moved to @lxo@gnusocial.jp) (lxo@gnusocial.net)'s status on Tuesday, 26-Sep-2023 07:54:44 EDT
Alexandre Oliva (moved to @lxo@gnusocial.jp)
with that piece of advice, I disagree a bit. publishing noisy results enables others to aggregate and filter out noise. had I not interacted with you on this matter, I wouldn't have learned anything other than what was in the report.
but yeah, reacting and most of all *deciding* based on incomplete information often leads to mistakes. ironically, that is precisely what I was criticizing the canadian representatives for. -
Alexandre Oliva (moved to @lxo@gnusocial.jp) (lxo@gnusocial.net)'s status on Tuesday, 26-Sep-2023 07:43:17 EDT
Alexandre Oliva (moved to @lxo@gnusocial.jp)
that is reasonable advice. but unfortunately I can't find the speech or other first-hand reports on my own. and then, even first-hand reports may have undisclosed biases and interests. that's why I find "my" dialectic technique to seek truth out of conflicting reports so useful: it is like science, in that it progressively filters out noise and converges on truth, regardless of the motivations behind the noises. I can't control the amount of noise in the random sources that reach me, I can resist only so much the triggers that intentional pieces of propaganda try to inflict on us, but I can learn something by contrasting conflicting reports, if they find their way to me, or if I manage to find them on my own, which is getting harder and harder in the increasingly toxic web -
Alexandre Oliva (moved to @lxo@gnusocial.jp) (lxo@gnusocial.net)'s status on Tuesday, 26-Sep-2023 06:27:28 EDT
Alexandre Oliva (moved to @lxo@gnusocial.jp)
or maybe you're right, I was misinformed and misled. the reports I read said nothing whatsoever about his even having a chance to speak, and focused on the house speaker's apology for labeling him a hero for having fought in WWII.
now I look forward to listening to his speech. I expect he will have denounced and repented his youth's mistakes, and called out the propaganda that drives peoples to invariably unjust and dangerous but very profitable wars.
but then, what would the house speaker be apologizing for?!? for having given voice to someone who made a mistake and learned better?
please do share your sources instead of arguing from your position of privileged information with others who don't know better. don't assume I've seen all you have, or know all you have. I'm happy to be corrected when I'm wrong, and I thank you for calling out my incorrect assumptions and my mistakes, if that's what they turn out to be.
for as long as I only have reports that support each other, I have little reason to doubt them. now I have your conflicting report. it's not enough to establish a different certainty, but it does cast doubt (thanks), and if you can back that up, that's an even stronger case. and if the reports conflict, I can then use my technique to find common ground (and likely truth) out of conflicting reports, so I welcome your links to your sources about the matter. thanks -
Alexandre Oliva (moved to @lxo@gnusocial.jp) (lxo@gnusocial.net)'s status on Tuesday, 26-Sep-2023 05:32:01 EDT
Alexandre Oliva (moved to @lxo@gnusocial.jp)
I'm not doing that, though I think I can see and believe that you think I am. we are miscommunicating at a level that makes it very hard to overcome. you go back to debating whether or not the alleged former ukranian soldier was or wasn't something, but that *completely* and *deeply* misses the point. my qualm is with the representatives who chose to honor someone as a hero for having taken part in a war. let me show you how fscked up that is with a mix of fictional and real people taking the place of that specific former soldier, to show you how it's not about him
1. this man is a hero, he fought at WWII. (*applause* without even knowing what he fought for or against)
2. this man is a hero, he was born in Austria, he was friends with my grandfather, and they both fought together at WWII
(same man as in 1; his name was Adolph)
3. this man is a hero, he was born in Ukraine, and he fought at WWII
(is this the canadian man we're talking about? my nazi grandfather? someone else? can't tell; would the parliament honor and applaud them anyway?)
4. this young man is a hero. he was born in ukraine, he dreamed of fighting fascists like his great-grandparents did, and so he jumped at the chance when war knocked on his door: he became a volunteer soldier
(*applause* without even knowing what army he joined; note: both sides have soldiers who believe to be fighting fascist enemies)
see what problem I'm getting at? it's not about him at all! -
Alexandre Oliva (moved to @lxo@gnusocial.jp) (lxo@gnusocial.net)'s status on Tuesday, 26-Sep-2023 05:09:44 EDT
Alexandre Oliva (moved to @lxo@gnusocial.jp)
que eu saiba, a china é capitalismo de estado já faz tempinho -
Alexandre Oliva (moved to @lxo@gnusocial.jp) (lxo@gnusocial.net)'s status on Tuesday, 26-Sep-2023 04:56:51 EDT
Alexandre Oliva (moved to @lxo@gnusocial.jp)
we're on the same page. the AI revolution won't lead capitalists (or rather technofeudal lieges) to share the loot or stop charging rent from the rest of us.
but
your post, that I responded to, makes IMHO a fundamental strategic mistakes of basing arguments on such capitalism-reinforcing notions as "earning a living" or "people are only worth the value they provide to their capitalist masters". that was what I objected to.
but yeah, we have to be alert to the false promises of techno-utopias as to who will benefit from the promised abundance -
Alexandre Oliva (moved to @lxo@gnusocial.jp) (lxo@gnusocial.net)'s status on Tuesday, 26-Sep-2023 03:11:50 EDT
Alexandre Oliva (moved to @lxo@gnusocial.jp)
no, sir, I'm not accusing the alleged war veteran of anything. for the third time, my concern has nothing whatsoever to do with him. for all I know, he could have been an actor, and his history entirely invented.
the fact I'm worried about is that people in the Canadian congress honored him and treated him as a hero for having allegedly fought against the Russians during WWII. that, meaning, honoring someone for that reason, is what I find profoundly damning and concerning
whereas you are still accusing me while clearly not getting my stance. not cool, man, not cool. -
Alexandre Oliva (moved to @lxo@gnusocial.jp) (lxo@gnusocial.net)'s status on Monday, 25-Sep-2023 15:18:09 EDT
Alexandre Oliva (moved to @lxo@gnusocial.jp)
agreed. I tried to make it clear that my concern was not with what he was, but rather with why other(s?) decided to praise him. that's a symptom of the present and dangerous propaganda machine at work, strong enough to drive westerners to celebrate an alleged nazi, and even to defend an alleged nazi as if it was about him -
Alexandre Oliva (moved to @lxo@gnusocial.jp) (lxo@gnusocial.net)'s status on Monday, 25-Sep-2023 15:07:41 EDT
Alexandre Oliva (moved to @lxo@gnusocial.jp)
eu sem querer fazia livrestream de gameplay entre 85 e 87. a saída pra TV do computador ia pra um transmissor de baixa potência que emitia o sinal no canal 9 ou 10, aí a TV podia ficar um pouco mais longe. aí um dia um vizinho passou lá em casa, meu viu jogando e falou "então é você!" e que passava um tempão assistindo àquele canal ;-) -
Alexandre Oliva (moved to @lxo@gnusocial.jp) (lxo@gnusocial.net)'s status on Monday, 25-Sep-2023 14:39:54 EDT
Alexandre Oliva (moved to @lxo@gnusocial.jp)
not (just) grub, no. it's a new gnu project, still release candidate, a distribution of boot firmware for motherboards, the stuff that loads the boot loader. the flashable images contain grub though, because it's convenient.
https://gnu.org/s/gnuboot
https://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/gnuboot/
you may have heard of GNU Libreboot before. it used to be free software, but it left GNU and then forked things up to embrace, expand and enable binary blobs to take away the freedom from its users. GNU boot is the continuation of what Libreboot should have never ceased to be, and thus the deserving recipient of all the praise and recommendation we used to place on Libreboot back when it deserving of that name, before it became Lie-breboot -
Alexandre Oliva (moved to @lxo@gnusocial.jp) (lxo@gnusocial.net)'s status on Monday, 25-Sep-2023 14:14:09 EDT
Alexandre Oliva (moved to @lxo@gnusocial.jp)
I meant first victim of a war, alluding specifically to the current conflict between Russia and USNato/Ukraine. whatever facts you bring up from WW2 are AFAIK part of a different war, so the inferences you suggest are not correct. unless you're suggesting the present conflict is still WW2, which I'm not ready to outright reject, but I'd require plenty of evidence to take at face value. are you saying it is the same war, although allies then are now fighting each other, and enemies then are now supporting the same side? -
Alexandre Oliva (moved to @lxo@gnusocial.jp) (lxo@gnusocial.net)'s status on Monday, 25-Sep-2023 14:06:34 EDT
Alexandre Oliva (moved to @lxo@gnusocial.jp)
I accept your criticism WRT fact checking. I haven't checked the facts thoroughly. that someone was regarded a hero for voluntarily fighting the forces that ultimately defeated the nazi was evidently damning enough for me. in my reasoning, it's not relevant whether he was or was not a nazi. I'm not judging him. I'm judging those who mistook him for a hero over the allegation that he fought along with the nazi. at least one person has done just that, and I welcome any rationale you can provide in this person's defense. I understand others may have just been misled by him. I wish the "hero" had had the courage to tell them all right then that he didn't deserve that honor, that he was still ashamed of either choosing that side, or of not having resisted the imposition of fighting with that side, whatever it was.
but that he was celebrated as a hero for fighting the current enemy back when they were an ally... but wait! oceania has always been at war with eurasia! damn eurasia and its infiltrates and propaganda for confusing us so!
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