I have found no indication that FreeBSD won’t accept LLM-assisted contributions… On their wiki there is a small section about rules for a summer of code event, where they forbid it being used for coding, but just because that event is intended to be about learning… That doesn’t sound like a clear “no” to all LLM contributions.
Man, I despise Vassiliadis and his union. He’s the worst the DGB has to offer, even though all of them (at the top) are bootlickers selling out the workers all the time.
Mh, I have an academic background in electrical engineering with focus on energy storage (primary), power electronics (and grids). I must say, in terms of academic knowledge the distinction made in that explanation is nonsense. MPPT devices also use pulse width modulation as an underlying technique but have another layer of feedback control on top. I also don’t think that you can say that the power electronic circuits are generally different between the two. But of course that additional control layer probably means there’s additional microelectronic circuitry.
HOWEVER, I know marketing people and maybe the distinction presented there makes sense when talking about actual products on the market and under which product categories they’re sold…
It really depends on what you actually need, how much setup the IT department can manage and how well the change is communicated and managed, I guess.
We use it (i.e. the Element client) mostly for chatting and another open source solution (BigBlueButton) for online meetings, but voice and video calls are possible directly with Element. Matrix lacks the out of the box office product integration for collaborating on presentations, spreadsheets or text files that Teams has. It can be extended via widgets though, which includes at least etherpad and afaik there are options for nextcloud (which has collabora) integration as well, so with a bit of setup, even that could be emulated.
So that would of course require some setup and maintenance and if the company used Teams before, some training and help for the users as well.
I’m trying not to dox myself, but it’s a university in Germany. :D
I’m so glad we use Matrix at work. Our IT department even tells us explicitly not to use Teams if we can avoid it.
That may be wrong though. Our societies are so propagandized into hierarchical thinking that many often believe that hierarchy and orders of command are the only ways to react to crises. This might be some sort of naturalistic fallacy, where whoever said/wrote what you wrote there probably has looked into how militaries and disaster response work today and concluded that’s the only way it could work successfully.
However, I remember there being a master’s thesis by an anarchist political science student who showed that a principled anarchist military could, in fact, work very well.
I even found it after a short search. If anyone’s interested in reading it: https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/chris-beaumont-defending-an-anarchist-society
Edit to clarify, because that leap might have been a bit too far: my head went to this topic because the argument that a tendency toward authoritarianism under duress is somehow human nature depends on that assumption. If the assumption isn’t true, that explanation loses most of its base. It might not be the natural response to duress, just the socialized one.
Hunter gatherers also had “socialist” lifestyles
That view may be outdated. I’m reading David Graeber’s and David Wengrow’s “The Dawn of Everything” where they review anthropological and archaeological evidence and argue that human societies were always very varied.
E.g. they show that this idea you cited came from contact with just three hunter-gatherer societies who already have had contact with western societies and at least one of them was started by a group of runaway slaves. Their egalitarianism was probably a reaction to western authoritarianism.
On the other hand they look at two indigenous societies on the north american west coast. Thos in today’s california were very individualist, valued personal wealth (when achieved through hard work and frugality) but hated slavery and had no rulers. Those more to the north were notorious slavers, had an aristocracy and a member of that aristocracy was considered superior if he organized the most wasteful parties.
A point they made at that point was that not only are hunter-gatherer societies not all the same, they might actually have developed important parts of their culture, including egalitarianism vs. authoritarianism in an attempt to be as different as possible from their neighbors they don’t like.
In the following chapter they then go on that the first cities in the middle east show no signs of hierarchy, including a patriarchy, and that patriarchy and a warrior aristocracy developed in that region as an answer to these egalitarian, rich cities widening their influence (trade networks, but also colonies). :(
I am too. Fun fact (you probably know if you support that message, but for everyone else): Dresden’s destruction is just so well-known because it was abused by Nazi propaganda to “show how evil those allies are”. Other German cities, and of course cities which fell victim to the Luftwaffe, saw much worse destruction.
And soviet russia could also have taken a less authoritarian road with Rosa Luxemburg and Karl Liebknecht still there to criticize such developments…
Strictly speaking, a normal distribution doesn’t cap, neither at 0 nor at 200. Maybe the scores achievable by standardized tests do, of course.
Let’s make anti-shit!
I doubt it’s exactly that simple, because the GDP is the sum of monetary values of all transactions in a region/country. The most important aspect is probably that a company’s costs are not subtracted from the GDP. And there’s of course more costs than just the workers’ salaries: materials, insurance, property taxes, sales taxes just to name a few.
might be as much as you can do as a single individual.
Therefore, do all of that but also: organize. Collectively, we have more power. Depending on one’s situation, e.g. a union, tenants’ union and/or mutual aid groups can be things that not only help your own life, but also build power against the oligarchy and gives the feeling you can enable change.
Oh, sorry for the late answer. I use a mobile client without notifications. ^^ From your other answer it seems you probably already know more than I do. ;)
Afaik they have their own repos but because of there being fewer people working on it, they often drop packages with systemd dependence instead of patching them, correct?
Oh, I tried Debian several times and it’s so much harder than CachyOS, especially concerning package availability. If Debian gave me headaches, Devuan will not be better, right? ^^
It’s definitely a me issue, but just to elaborate: A lot of stuff that’s in the CachyOS standard repos isn’t even available in Debian’s repos (and therefore probably the same is true for Devuan), so you have to add additional repos or compile from source (examples I ran into: julia programming language, Niri window manager, Noctalia “shell” (in the sense of a graphical desktop environment, it’s not a terminal emulator)). Don’t get me wrong, I can of course follow guides to get things done or settle for another software… But when I follow guides to force non-available software into Debian, I often have the feeling that I risk breaking things in the long term (e.g., how should I do updates of the stuff I compiled from source?) because I don’t really know that much about the system. Right now, sadly, I don’t have the energy to learn all of that. :'(
Absolutely. I was also thinking about trying a non-systemd distro. But I fear I’m not yet ready to hop into a system that I have to configure myself from the bottom up. If there was a well-configured “out-of-the-box” distro like Mint or CachyOS based on Devuan, Artix or Void, that would be so great.
That’s very reductionist. I’m no tankie but you have to admit the soviet leadership were no bad strategists. They were well aware that there would be war and they needed every bit of time to build up their heavy industry to be prepared. Without the masses of tanks they had by 1941, the soviet union wouldn’t have stood a chance.
And acting as if the Western Allies were any better is quite laughable. They were acting out of pure self-preservation as well, not for some great ideals or honor or something.
That’s why I told you. :) Sorry that it won’t help you because of systemd dependence.
What the actual fuck? This idiot may have his braindead opinions and do to his OSS project whatever he wants (so sag I wasn’t on the list), but that is just such a fucked up thing to do.