i’ll never understand how discord became the standard for gamers. Back in the day we used to use Teamspeak + IRC and that was great. Decentralised, low latency, etc. I still use teamspeak occasionally. Still works great. The discord app was just a mess from the very beginning. Resource hogging electron nightmare. Still everybody thought it was great. And now all sorts of communites, even open source and maker communities are on there. Makes 0 sense to me.
Ah i see then we were talking about different things. When i think of communism, i think of Karl Marx’s definition. A stateless, moneyless, classless society. According to him, socialism is the transition phase between capitalism and socialism and if socialism is implemented correctly, the concepts of class, state and money just vanish over time. As far as i understand it, anarchists and communists completely agree about the end goal there.
That’s why i purposely talked about socialism, not communism. Those former projects were socialist projects as well (or at least tried to be that, however you wanna see that).
I think this newer definition of communism vs. socialism largely stems from red scare anti communist propaganda and politicians with progressive agendas that try to distance themselves from those failed socialist experiments due to said propaganda. After all proudly proclaiming yourself to be a communist completely disqualifies you from any kind of political career. I would assume the label “anarchist” would have a similar affect 😅 . Even saying you are a “socialist” is still difficult. That’s why the term “democratic socialist” emerged. I think that term is completely redundant. Socialism cannot be socialism if it is not democratic.
About communism 2.0 and protections against bad leaders. Supposedly that is what china is doing with their concept of promotions in the party purely based on how well they do on different objective metrics. If that is actually what is happening there, i don’t know. At least in theory that seems better than being able to get into a position you are wildly unqualified for purely based on populism.
i’ll never understand this take. Socialism doesn’t work because of corruption and greediness so the best thing we can do is capitalism, which literally is based on corruption and greediness.
What about laws against corruption and greediness on top of a democratic system designed around production for human needs instead of the profit motive?
I mean on the one hand you have a system that breaks and ruins lives for most people if people work against it and corrupt it and on the other hand you have a system that benefits only a few and fucks over everyone else when it works as intended.
Saying socialism doesn’t work because of a few failed attempts is like the coyote dismissing every single of his ideas immediately after the first try and directly going to the next one except in this case the “solution” is to keep the system that has been shown for hundreds of years to work so badly that it is literally driving humanity towards extinction.
I meam you are not wrong in principle. What you mean with “capitalism with a shit ton of socialism” IS socialism. there is no capitalism with socialism because those two contradict each other. It is all about who controls the means of production. It is either a few rich assholes control production or the production is democratically controlled by society as a whole. The latter is socialism.
If you want markets and commodities etc on top of that, thats cool, can still be pure socialism though.
edit: outed myself as german “usw” == “and so on” 🤦
and of course 100% agree regarding fuck borders fuck states fuck fascism … that is communism btw 😁
you know there are weight classes right?
the 27b model fits completely on the gpu so ram and cpu makes no difference.
For the deepseek model you need a fast ssd because no matter how big your ram is that model won’t fit there since it is almost 300gb.
I’ve got a ryzen9 5900x and 40gb ram. I don’t know how much of an impact the cpu actually has because i think most of it is evaluated on the gpu but could be that the router that selects the experts is executed on the cpu.
in any case the main impact will probably be vram size, pci-e throughput and ssd read speed (and maybe cpu speed).
qwen3.8-ridge-gguf runs great in ollama on the 9070xt in 4bit kv cache quant at 35t/s. You can also run deepseek 4.1 flash in strata if you have time. both models are very capable.
have been using a suri for half a year now. Awesome device. Doesn’t do anything useless like bluetooth or “smart” features. Just brushes teeth. And that perfectly well, while being super compact and with an enormous battery capacity.
And it is not ridiculously expensive either.
The weight isn’t all that bad. I’ve been running around with it all day on vacations and wasn’t bothered by it. The size imho is more important. I paid ~1400€ used. All the cameras with interchangeable lens systems are in similar price ranges unfortunately. The more compact ones are even more expensive. There is a very compact sony one with integrated zoom lens i forgot the name of that goes for more than 2k€ The ricoh gr iv is similarly priced and has a fixed zoom lens and no EVF and in sunny daylight no evf is a no go imho. The displays on cameras are usually much darker than smartphone displays so you really need an evf.
If you want to safe a bit of money you can go for the a6400. it has a couple of compromises but isn’t all that much worse purely for photography.
But yeah cameras are expensive. But they last you much longer than smartphones and the retail price is fairly stable. There is 10 year old ones that still go for a significant chunk of the original price on the used market
i bought a used sony a6700 with a sigma 18-50mm for that very reason. Not that pocketable but small enough and i actually shoot more because i usually keep it in my hand when i am travelling. An the creative styles + white balance bias means, i barely ever manually edit the raws and i can transfer them wirelessly to my phone and sync them automatically with my immich server.
I have anothet compact ttartisan 25mm f/2.0 as a fun/more compact lens for when i want it a little more pocketable.
Probably one of the best purchases i’ve ever made.
The comic just points out the irony of buying into the personal responsibility narrative while participating in the hyperconsumption which is the real driver of pollution.
Therefor it still works imho, because the car is a ridiculous toy for rich people and stands for over consumption and over production due to capitalism. And the whole carbon foodprint thing was a PR stunt by the fossil fuel industry to shift the narrative away from the systemic issues towards individual responsibility. Obviously the bottle cap is not about the carbon foodprint at all. It is to reduce plastic pollution. But imho that confusion makes the joke even stronger because most people gobble up those pseudo-band-aid solutions to real issues without questioning their effectiveness in the slightest.
homelessness is not a price to pay. It is a tool because it incentivises people to subject themselves to wage labour
there is valid reasons to use generative AI. Making stupid, low effort, but high quality memes is absolutely one. I also enjoy the YT channel that cranks out AI generated videos of movie trailers. My favorite is still harry potter but in berlin. “One does not simply walk into the berghain” is just way too funny
i wish i was backed by anyone. I am open to sponsorships!
enshitification always makes sense. Hear me out.
dwayne johnson and chris rock do not look happy to be there. Chris rock has a total “wtf is going on” look and Dwayne has the slightly more subtle “dude, wtf” look
Wouldn’t it be funny if Musk and Trump were actually purposefully playing the most extreme idiotic parody of an evil capitalist to actually spread class consciousness?
i think pickles predate capitalism. Just an obvious idea, because it is delicious! Also, there is an area in germany close to Berlin called Spreewald, which is famous for its pickles and it is part of the former GDR!
slightly off topic:
as a german and a software dev, i have to say QWERTZ sucks. Everyone should just adopt the english international layout.
i seriously don’t understand the strong emotional reaction some people have against posts by “tankies”. Everything i have read here and in other .ml communities usually comes from an honest place as far as i can tell. Most if not all communists/marxists identify as such because they’ve identified issues with the prevailing system and try to find alternatives to improve the material conditions for everyone.
Even if every tankie is completely wrong about the history regarding e.g. the soviet union and what is happening in china right now, why the strong emotional reaction to it? Every single person reacting that way is not impacted by it in any way or form no matter what is true. So they could just as much react by saying “if what you are saying is true, that would be pretty cool, but i don’t see the evidence for it” or even “the good doesn’t outweigh the bad in my opinion”.
Instead, every single time it is “china propaganda!!!” or “ah so you like that stalin killed all those people and let even more starve to death”. No honest discussion can ever happen that way and i seriously don’t understand it. Can’t we just discuss what might be good for society and what might be bad and talk about the validity of different kinds of sources and evidence without a strong emotional attachment to anything either way?
Funnily for me it’s like “oh no shit … oh well whatever”