freemanon

Had they gone the route of open development, modder would have, and had been, developing a lot of functionality for the platform for free. Instead, they slapped Easy Anti-Cheat and killed the modding community.

Close walled platforms will always wither sooner or later. They had massive potential back in 2021, when VRChat felt like the start of a new internet. Instead of letting the communities flourish, they were tempted by VCs and their unsustainable business model.

It's not whether it works, but whom it appeals.

Trickle down economics is music to the ears of the rich. Despite people thinking that everyone's vote weigh the same, the rich has more influence than others, in the form of lobbying, or even through the sheer "legitimacy" that comes with wealth and fame, whether or not it's deserved. E.g. celebrities.

Politicians have more incentive to appeal to the rich and powerful, since those people hold the key to power. The vast majority of the populace are mere sheep who will fall in line.

I use Nix and NixOS and I didn't even know about this. Unless you want to become a maintainer I don't think it affects you.

Looking at the term "Ikigai" as if it's some sort of dogma or a way to improve one's life sorts of defeats the point. East Asian philosophies are not for achieving "meaning of life" and other mundane goals.

What is it exactly that you're trying to solve?

Are you creating a UI for setting up nix flake configs? What does it do beyond that?

And why is it coupled to geospatial tools?

It's maybe hard to fathom for individualists, but it's probably humans that are quite mediocre on average. These AI models simply represent that.

And on the value of generative AI, the same argument against new trends has been made on previous inventions. For decades, a typewriter was still more practical than using a word processor on a computer. For more than a decade, calls and SMS were more practical than online messengers and forums.

Well it was the same with the internet itself. It's prone to hacks, bugs, and outage, and yet today we all use it to manage our finances and make payments.

US companies have been doing the same thing all over the world. Outside the west, everyone can see the hypocrisy. Ban it by all means, but you will become just like China: a state that censors information and speech from its citizens because the government is scared of it.

I abhor capitalism as much as you do, but economic system and political system are separate although interlinked. Why shouldn't we count Singapore just because it's small? They have a parliament and all other branches of government just like any other nation. HK is different though as it is ruled by a CEO.

My point is capitalism itself is not necessarily the root of all evils; it is puritanism, dogmatism, and when it comes to the US, it's their puritanical approach to "freedom" that ironically makes the majority of the population less free and less democratic. A communist, planned economy is as much capable of creating an incompetent government and society if there were no political, ethical and cultural wisdom.

To summarise, capitalism is abhorrent, but there are other dimensions.

Yes but no. You can be capitalist without letting the rich 0.1% control the government. The US is a result of puritanism of the freedom of speech. Citizens United vs Federal Election commission case confirms that in the US, Money is Speech. That is, lobbying is legal. Huge donations to politicians are legal. It's as corrupt as governments go. Not to mention the role of the media in all this. There are many capitalist societies, e.g. singapore, that do not let their governments become corrupted by capital.

It's nothing to do with capitalism, it's all about installing regimes that are pro-US, and allow US enterprises to exploit these countries. Indonesia has a lot of resources, including the Grasberg mine in west Papua, that it leases out to US companies with very little benefit for the local population, instead pocketing millions in bribes. It's also a huge country of 200+ million of huge geopolitical importance.

The US is simply a thug. It has too much firepower for its own good. It's drunk on its ideologies of freedom or democracy or what have you, that it can never recognise its mistakes.