nyolfen

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The defeat of the Spanish Empire in the Dutch independence struggle meant that the culture of modernistic schism, or autonomizing capital, would not be stopped. No future foe would present comparable challenges, whether estimated in terms of the apparent balance of forces, or even the clarity of ideological decision. Globalization in the 'neo-liberal' sense was henceforth implicit, dominating the historical horizon of the world. All of its subsequent contestants would be compelled to articulate their resistance within a framework fundamentally shaped by the liberation of Capital, and benchmarked to it.

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Comment · 3 months ago

at least two of its funders were usaid-backed (internews, access now), wonder if that has anything to do with it

Comment · 6 months ago

i didn't have much trouble

    services:
      jellyfin:
        build:
          dockerfile: jellyfin.Dockerfile
        container_name: jellyfin
        group_add:
          - 44
          - 993
        environment:
          - TZ=<redacted>
          - JELLYFIN_PublishedServerUrl=<redacted>
          - DOMAIN_NAME=<redacted>
        ports:
          - 8096:8096
          - 8920:8920
          - "7359:7359/udp"
        volumes:
          - ./config:/config
          - ./cache:/cache
          - ./config/index.html:/jellyfin/jellyfin-web/index.html
          - type: bind
            source: /mnt/storage/Video
            target: /media
        restart: always
        devices:
          - /dev/dri:/dev/dri

the device and group_add were for integrated graphics passthrough for transcoding (very highly recommend if you're containerized)

i also recommend seerr to pair with jellyfin: https://seerr.dev/

my wife logs into the seerr ui with her jellyfin account, makes requests, they get grabbed by sonarr/radarr, which in turn place them in the correct library, and they're identified & labeled correctly on import

Comment · 10 months ago

great thinking, that must be why the ccp doesn't care about this policy

Comment · 1 year ago

the uk flew a refueling sortie out of qatar for the israelis supporting this strike. i will let you draw your own conclusions about who knew what

Comment · 1 year ago

if somebody defects against society very seriously, damaging others, i have no problem with stripping them of legal rights. this is in fact exactly the principle underlying imprisonment. constitutional rights are granted by men, not god, in service of shared prosperity; democracy is good insofar as it produces good results, not because it is the intrinsic source of good. there is no higher construct to appeal to, like this platonic ideal of democracy you're gesturing at

Comment · 1 year ago

> One of the strangest fixations of AWFL metaphysics is on a substance called 'trauma' that they believe is 'stored in the body' in small saclike organs where it constantly threatens to be 'triggered' and erupt out of its ducts. They assert life itself is about 'processing trauma'

Comment · 1 year ago

tech wages have stagnated since ~2010 despite being one of approximately three productive growth industries. ever wonder why?

> Well it's because by this logic we should just stop Americans from studying for computing jobs as well, that way those who remain will have higher wages.

generally speaking, the point of 'having a country' is not 'offering opportunities to talented foreigners at the expense of citizens'. major employers routinely violate federal employment law in the pursuit of wage suppression; cursory googling will show you the biggest names you can think of losing lawsuits for hundreds of millions of dollars for their h1b pipelines, and yet they continually do this.

Comment · 1 year ago

> No Silicon Valley company that I know of pays H-1B and citizens different wages on that basis.

larger pool means lower wages. this is so fundamental and obvious that it feels like i'm being gaslit when i see shit like this.

Comment · 1 year ago

he described an employee

Comment · 1 year ago

the problem is that this data exists somewhere where i have no control over it and was collected without my consent, in clear violation of my constitutional rights. perhaps you have perfect trust in the current and future good faith of the US federal government, but perhaps you can understand why others do not. i would not want the local police keeping copies of all of my emails "just in case", why would it be any better for unaccountable strangers to keep secret dossiers on me?

Comment · 1 year ago

yes, i absolutely believe we are less than two years from what you describe (aside from physically manipulating an instrument -- but robotics seems to be quickly picking up pace too). what you are imagining is only a difference in speed, not kind. this is the 'god of the gaps' argument, over and over, every time some insurmountable previous benchmark is shattered -- well, it will never be able to do my special thing

> thinking (ALL the thinking) on par with a highly trained human

you are mistaking means for ends. "an automobile must be able to perform dressage on par with a fine thoroughbred!"

Comment · 1 year ago

> LLMs are so, so far from being able to the thinking that goes in a real-time musical improvisation context it's laughable.

have you actually tried any of the commercial AI music generation tools from the last year, eg suno? not an LLM but rather (probably) diffusion, it made my jaw drop the first time i played with it. but it turns out you can also use diffusion for language models https://www.inceptionlabs.ai/

Comment · 1 year ago

no offense man but this is totally inexcusable and there is zero chance i am ever touching anything made by y'all, ever