What is Hackers' Pub?

Hackers' Pub is a place for software engineers to share their knowledge and experience with each other. It's also an ActivityPub-enabled social network, so you can follow your favorite hackers in the fediverse and get their latest posts in your feed.

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... scarcity, in which - by whichever proof scheme - those who participate early in the system benefit off those who come later (aka pyramid schemes). The proof algorithm guarantees scarcity; it's the whole point of blockchain vs. any other distributed system that there is a chokehold on resource creation somewhere.

AI is doing much the same thing, but it doesn't advertise this artificial scarcity as part of the solution. Instead, it simply guarantees that those who already own the most...

... compute resources have the edge. And that is not you or me.

In short, AI is a system which a) aims to replace human labour, while b) shifting the means of production into the hands of the few.

This would be "fine" if nobody used it. What matters for this to succeed is that everyone depends on it. At that point, "means of production" becomes the digital equivalent of a "natural resource".

Marx matters, folk.

You can still argue that this makes AI a weapon of capitalism or tyranny, but...

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Toddler meltdowns are becoming more iconic. Yesterday: I made the wrong kind of mac and cheese. Today: we don't possess a wardrobe of traditional Irish dress.

He's still the absolute best, but navigating the realities of the real world is an ongoing disappointment for him. The trick is helping him understand what's possible without letting his horizons and imagination narrow.

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락님이................................................................................................................무노즈를.............그려주셧음..................................................................................이분의 손에서 무노즈 너무 섹시하게 나와서 넘 당황스러우면서도 와중에 알렉스가 죤섹시그자체라모니터액정에얼굴붙이고한참보는중임이럴수가...

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Did you know, if you are using @cartes_appCartes [🤖] as a web-based map on your phone, you can now also move your route planning from there right into CoMaps:

amicale.net/@cartes_app/116138

And, if you're not francophone: the team has started to improve its support for more languages recently!

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