The entire Donald Trump arc is proof that God exists and wants to punish humanity.

You really want every post you’ve ever voted on archived forever by every instance on the fediverse? You don’t see any deeper security or privacy concerns with that?

The user agent approach currently used by piefed still makes it easy to detect brigading because the agent is static in the short term. You can ban the agent and you basically deny the user the ability to vote. With a few simple modifications to the activity pub protocol, all individual actions can be cryptographically authenticated without the need for plaintext user strings at all.

The reality is that the plaintext user agents doesn’t even prevent abuse by a rogue instance, since such an instance could just generate infinite users anyway. Piefed actually makes this easier to identify by tracking other metrics for individual user agents, like vote ratios.

You heard me.

The thing is, I’d rather spend the time discussing the code and algorithms and design choices with someone who has had time to actually think through a problem. The reality is that I don’t care if you generate boilerplate code with the AI as long as you can explain it. I am mostly hiring for DSP roles so there’s plenty of theory to talk about above and beyond the code to ferret out the phonies.

My beef with live coding interviews is that you end up with the exact opposite experience. You get a nervous, scatterbrained engineer who is locked into panic code generation mode and there’s just no time to have a deeper discussion.

Please get rid of the trusted instance concept for private voting. Or at least let me lick which instances I trust.

This is precisely why the fediverse needs private voting, and is the number 1 reason to support Piefed.

To be fair, most real time coding interviews are complete bullshit anyway. If you want to see code samples ask for a portfolio, or give longer term coding homework. “Do three leetcode puzzles in 45 minutes or less” is about as useful as asking a candidate to shit in front of you.

“I drink 4-6 beers, jerk off, take a shower and then go to bed.”

Honestly if this kills coding interviews then it will be the best thing LLMs will have accomplished.

I’m just confused over the idea that a bunch of middle schoolers are begging their mom for a perm.

Get some help

I don’t buy this “increased potency” argument as it sounds like the same anti-weed shit they’ve been saying since the 90s. We had concentrates and hash and vaporizers in the 2000s. Potency of the flower doesn’t matter much when you can rip volcano vapes from dawn till dusk. All these “CHS” stories also always mention the dumb “hurr Cannabis psychosis” shit which is the other Hallmark of old anti weed propaganda that makes me skeptical.

Idk, it kind of feels like hysteria or some related comorbidity with munchies. I’ve definitely known people who make themselves sick over and over again from eating too many Doritos

Nutomic said trans liberation is bourgeoisie pink washing. When pushed on it, actually by your instance admin, he basically avoided the topic and gave a half hearted “I’m sorry you’re upset” style non-apology and went back to lying about where Lemmy donations go.

The literal server isn’t the problem. The problem is the power tripping, transphobic assholes who run it. “Supporting Lemmy development” is directly paying those assholes, Nutomic and Dessalines, regardless of how much they want to obfuscate and mislead what actually happens to “Lemmy development” funds. It literally pays Dessalines to have the free time to make a hundred shitty mod actions per day.

Support piefed instead. It’s fine for the Lemmy devs to have their opinions, but if they are going to be assholes about it then they can deal with the fallout. I’ve been around open source communities long enough to know that this quickly becomes a sunk cost fallacy, and the fediverse will be better off ripping off this bandaid as soon as possible.

Mom, can we have political agency?

Is any idea which emerges from the west imperialism? Is my brother, who stands on my shoulder and demands my rights as a human be respected, an imperialist because he was born in the United states? Am I to see him as less of an ally than a Russian nationalist who will lay down his life to oppose “globohomo” western ideals.

This is the structuralist shit I’m talking about. I thought the bourgeoisie state created the tools of its own demise! Or have we come full circle to where there ultimate sacrifice of the imperialist is to subrogate a lesser imperialism for a greater… non-socialism? Is progress counter revolutionary if we use the wrong words? Are we in a cartoon where Karl Marx has a flower for a face and a triangle flag running up his tail? We’ve transcended man versus author and have become man versus 19th century philosopher?

Like, nobody is making the normative argument that Russia should be a vassal state of the US. We are focused on the descriptive premise that Russia is not a symbol of leftist virtue. It’s just wild to me that this is controversial.

I mean sure, the PRC might tolerate me for a bit because you can call “harm reduction capitalism” fringe degism if you really want to squint. China is still quite skeptical of queer people though. I actually speak the language (not super well) and have family there so I am pretty familiar with the culture and politics.

But Iran would absolutely shoot me for being outspoken and queer. In Russia, the state might or might not shoot me, but a bunch of neo nazi thugs might mutilate my genitals and post it on the Internet and get an award for it. Like if you actually want to have this conversation, as you claim, then let’s get on the same page. Russia and Iran are no friend to the oppressed by any definition of any of those words. China is borderline liberal and its leftist trajectory is arguably held back by its vestigial Maoism.

Like my human being you are clearly thoughtful and knowledgeable so why die for the sins of someone else’s father, instead of extending the boundaries of this philosophy into something which actually speaks to people? Speak to first principles, not hackneyed dogma.

Is it really a huge leap to state that because you defend autocrats who would have me shot, out of an ideal which essentially reduces to a purely theoretical geopolitical convenience, that you’d have me shot? I actually didn’t intent to really lean into this conversation much, but I think this is an interesting thread the pull. Surely that might suggest that we’ve wondered into a gray area which validates some revisionist thought? You are quite firm and outspoken on this particular topic all over Lemmy, so if you do see even a minor philosophical conundrum then you don’t reveal it. Is that because of a broader insecurity (and I don’t mean that as an attack, but a normal human trait) or is the abundance of assurance a desire to support a specific narrative? Do you feel like uncertainty is weakness or somehow anti revolutionary? I just find it hard to believe that someone broadly versed in leftist theory could actually be so confident.

I agree we are unlikely to get anywhere because this is a communist com and I am not a communist. You are quite taken with your modernist ideals so I will leave you to them, but the notion that Lenin’s imperialism is axiomatic geopolitics without wide debate on the left is either ignorant, naive, or argued in bad faith.

If anything, the struggle between post Soviet reactionary influence and the rise of western postmodern idealism has shown these concepts to be simplistic at best. Some sparks create infernos but most fizzle out. We have seen where the spark of ML thought takes us, and it is not setting the world on fire, regardles of excuses. Rather, it has twisted itself into a scheme of autocratic apology which too often insulates itself from introspection. Again, this is extremely basic libertarian left and post left theory which arguably traces itself back to Kropotkin, so pretending like these statements only exist as some ignorance of leftist knowledge is what makes me question your motivation. But it’s really a tale as old as time. Time, of course, being modernist chauvinism.

Yet we aren’t really enemies. Except I’m pretty sure you’d put me up against the wall if given the chance. But my final words would still be “To will oneself free is also to will others free.”