Marxist-Leninist (relatively novice) with an umbrella ☔

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  • I thought Umatrix was unmaintained?

    Anyway, I used to use it till a few years ago. It’s a really powerful extension, but it breaks some sites with the default settings and it can get tedious reenabling scripts one by one to find the bare working minimum. I have since switched to uBlock of the same developer and it seems to me an adequate compromise between privacy, better performance and working sites.

    Unfortunately the modern web has turned into tihs so you can’t even browse without an ad blocker anymore.



  • People who make fun of LLMs most often do get LLMs and try to point out how they tend to spew out factually incorrect information, which is a good thing since many many people out there do not, in fact, “get” LLMs (most are not even acquainted with the acronym, referring to the catch-all term “AI” instead) and there is no better way to make a precaution about the inaccuracy of output produced by LLMs –however realistic it might sound– than to point it out with examples with ridiculously wrong answers to simple questions.

    Edit: minor rewording to clarify











  • I like the simplicity of openrc and runit, they are as stable as a rock and their functions are easy to grasp. Systemd, on the other hand, while I can understand some of the motivation behind it, it still seems like a bad idea and an even worse implementation. In my experience –and I do understand that this might not be the case for many users– it and its modules has been the cause for some really cryptic bugs that took me valuable time to resolve, and which would not have occurred if it was just a init/service management system. On the contrary, openrc just does one job, and does it well. Haven’t much experience with BSD but heard they are rock solid too.








  • Throughout all of the time that I’ve been online and offline, I have seen far more Hitler/Stalin comparisons and equivalences than I have seen actual, direct references to these events from the Eastern Front…ponder that for a moment.

    Such comparisons are a handy propaganda tool. Presenting Stalin as a bloodthirsty dictator just like Hitler and socialism/communism as “red fascism” has been normalised by decades of McCarthyism and the political Centre trying to justify its existence. Many people uncritically take those as a given, since the media have also normalised such views, incl. by giving less air time to actually leftist views.

    It is interesting to note how various history “documentaries” made in Western Europe also present Stalin as a dictator akin to Hitler, using what is considered an “objective” medium to misrepresent the deeds and intentions of historical figures, making them into mere caricatures.