Call me ignorant if you want, but I did not know the Barclays bank was founded by literal slavers. Not surprising in hindsight but definitely something I'll keep in mind. Always thought finance was a sophisticated way of enslaving people (especially after reading Debt), but this makes it even more obvious.
Personally, while I find LLMs valuable for a certain subset of tasks I also do not think they are able to entirely replace people in their current form. This won't stop capitalists from trying, unfortunately.
In addition to the other comments, AI has enabled drive-by contributors that do not disclose their AI use, and it either increases the maintenance burden or leads to non-trivial bugs when such code is merged without a thorough review.
I am not as biased against AI as others, so my view on this is that this is more of a social / cultural issue than any problem inherent to LLMs.
Another potential problem for FOSS is legal liability regarding licensing. I am not well versed on this so I'll leave the subject to those who can further expand on it
I picked it up and couldn't take my eyes off the page. Maybe others here are better acquainted with this development framework, but Rodney put it so eloquently, I'm still awed.
The book is obviously focused on Africa but IMHO the framework from chapter 1 applies (in different degrees) to anywhere in the imperial periphery.
Story time: a former coworker told me the story of when he decided to leave business consulting for anything that did not involve corpos. He did a lot of extra hours into a supposedly important report that was to be read in a meeting over the weekend. Upon delivering it, his boss read it for 10 seconds and put it in the shredder right away, with a malicious grin.
Most of corporate "work" is basically corporate courting, with its own set of meaningless rituals. Unfortunately Graber isn't here to expand on it, but for whoever feels like it, IMHO this idea would be a nice follow-up to BS Jobs.
I think I had a much more exploitative relationship working in one of the big Brazilian public sector tech companies than I am doing right now in a private company.
Fellow Brazilian IT worker here. Always felt the same regarding cultural differences between Brazilian countries and US companies, even though the sizes of companies I worked for were different (mostly bigcos in the home country, startups when I started working remotely).
When I was less politically literate I listened more to arguments about decentralization of power that are usually in that line between liberalism and anarchism. Lots of people here do the same.
The directors of the public state-owned companies are actually indicated from outside (politicians, top level bureaucrats and executives from the private sector) based on a neoliberal agenda that seek to provide services to provide data and public information for private companies
Most of our fellow citizens already associate the state with "corruption" due to that agenda, unfortunately. There is a cultural barrier to be won here. Tech has always branded itself as "revolutionary" and utopianistic, we could and should use that for good.
Gotcha, seems like a similar trajectory to many comrades who were more liberal - when they figure out the end result of "free" market competition it's almost a straight line towards Marx
there was this weird phase in US anarchism, where a whole lot of anarcho-capitalists finally started becoming anti-capitalist (which is good of course) and they wrote a whole book about it like they just personally came up with the idea capitalism is bad for the first time ever
Can you give more details on these people and this book? I always found ancaps very ideologically incoherent, wondering how they got around to reinventing Marxism using their own theory
Capital volume 2 is such a change of tone and pace that almost made me give up. Volume 1 is very readable, especially after the hard first chapters. Volume 2 feels like it's back to that style, but for the entire book.
Also using Emacs. If you are a dev magit is another must have. Even if there was a decent substitute for it (which I doubt - saw a lot of IDE churn and Emacs was very capable of keeping up with the times) I'd still use it just to use it and Org-mode.
Yes, no problem