My comment is too short to fit the required nuance, but my point is clear, and it's not that absurd false dichotomy. You said you're warming up to some AI because of how some people criticize it. That shouldn't be how a reasonable person decides whether something is OK or not. I just provided an example of how that doesn't work.
If you want to talk about marginalized groups, I'm open to discussing how GenAI promotion and usage is massively harming creative workers worldwide—the work of which is often already considered lesser than that of their STEM peers—many of whom are part of that very marginalized group you're defending.
Obviously not all AI, nor all GenAI, are bad. That said, current trends for GenAI are harmful, and if you promote them as they are, without accountability, or needlessly attack people trying to resist them and protect the victims, you're not making things better.
I know that broken arguments of people who don't understand all the details of the tech can get tiring. But at this stage, I'll take someone who doesn't entirely understand how AI works but wants to help protect people over someone who only cares about technology marching onwards, the people it's hurting be dammed.
Hurt, desperate people lash out, sometimes wrongly. I think a more respectable attitude here would be helping steer their efforts, rather than diminishing them and attacking their integrity because you don't like how they talk.
No one who uses Mozilla software wants more cloud shit or online services from Mozilla.
I don't think that's unanimous. I'd like to use Firefox Relay, myself, and I'm willing to give thundermail a chance.
Used to think I'd go full Proton eventually, but leaning more towards a diverse set of service providers, nowadays. It's also my hope that these services allow Mozilla to depend less on companies like Google, and more on the users they ought to serve, which would be healthier for the org and better for users.
I wonder how true that is. Maybe they were considered left in their time, but something we see differently today, then. I really should hit the books on this one.
It's a bit of a tangent(!), but Parrish gave a talk I think is relevant here. In Programming is Forgetting (transcript, watching optional), she analyzes a book about hackers from the eighties and dissects the ethics of hacker culture—a very loose definition, mind you.
This is all beside the point, because while interesting throughout what I'd really like to point to is the section on the rewiring of the PDP-1. Agree or disagree with any other, that part made me rethink how I saw older generations of programmers. I consider the dignity of all people an important tenet of my leftist values today, and women then were second-class, even in computing. Even when excelling.
So I feel like things have actually improved overall, but it's difficult to say how much. That really is a shame, it ought to be a lot clearer.
Whenever I post such things, I get a small wave of displeased people. Rarely get thanks, though. Even if it takes a bit of effort, and I inevitably find yet more stuff. That's ok, praise obviously isn't the point.
But it demoralized me a little, how there's always downplaying. It's never enough. I can say Brendan Eich is homophobic, ideally you shouldn't support him, and someone will tell me he invented javascript, and that makes it ok (my entire point is thus null, I am overreacting).
Your thanks encourage me to uselessly annoy and present no arguments a bit longer. Thank you.
Maybe I'm the odd one out, and do tell me if you think that's the case, but when I can, I don't support homophobes with my wallet nor my words.
It's like voting with your wallet, but for free. Image is a tool, just like capital, and I feel that contributing to theirs is a form of (albeit minor) support. Maybe I should've used supporting, or another word. Point is, Andreas does that, and I think it's because he likes Brendan. Thinks he's great, shouldn't have joined the people decrying him for being a homophobe.
People who care about LGBT folks don't usually like homophobes, and aren't usually against decrying them. I don't think this is a good sign for Andreas. That's the kind of thing that you need to keep in mind when you see that first PR.
Are you trying to convince me that making a neutral meme about a shitty person's success is equatable to supporting/being a nazi?
No, I tried to make that clear. I actually don't get how you read it that way. Also, the meme isn't neutral when you consider how he views Eich, just like it isn't originally neutral towards Gaben and Steam when gamers use it.
You're defending him—intentionally or not—because you're giving legitimacy to the idea that, somehow, the party that kicked him out is in the wrong, not the guy that defends genocide. It's likely there would be complaints regardless of their official reasoning, because Vaxry's problem is beyond reason.
I feel it all comes to the same unhinged idea that because someone is a bad person, everything they touch, create or any person engaging with them is also a bad person.
Not at all? There's a chance I edited my comment after you replied. I've made many edits, and I'm not exactly keeping track. Please reread the end of it:
For all its issues, I do hope Ladybird succeeds as a new browser engine because the internet needs more of those. But I'm not touching or otherwise supporting it unless they get their shit sorted.
I hope the project succeeds, that it helps the internet. Doesn't mean I must like or support the person behind it, specially when they're acting this way. I believe there are others like me. I would like them to be informed as well.
The idea that I am not allowed to praise Brave browser features because of something unrelated its founder did is ridiculous.
Good news: I never said that. Go on, praise Ladybird. Someone asked about details on "Andreas' gender issue," I replied with details. Because I'm tired of people defending it in isolation, I brought more details. Any criticism is of Andreas actions, based on Andreas' own actions.
Parent comment says "a user." Reading the docs, it clearly wasn't referring to a man, but any user, as in "the average Lemmy user interacts with many instances, and they have the option to block those they're not interested in."
Recently, a thread cropped up about indie devs putting "No GenAI used" stamps in their pages, and the amount of people questioning the value of the initiative or outright criticizing it is absurd.
People saying disingenuous things like "It's just another tool, I didn't hear anyone complaining about the brush on photoshop", and "games already used AI, are you also against procedural generation?" or the ridiculous "I need AI to make things. Why are you all against me learning and growing as a person?"
There is a vocal, often severely technically-uninformed crowd that strongly likes GenAI, doesn't care about and refuses to understand the harm it causes, and needs everyone to be like them so they can stop receiving backlash for contributing to creator exploitation.
Yeah, it's an English-speaking majority platform, so English chart it is. Can't remember non-English pronouns being relevant in any recent discussion. This one solves the (most) relevant problem (for most users).
That said, we have a similar problem with language limitations here and all "solutions" sound ridiculous.
That's a different thing, and I don't think bigger character limits would help with a culture of not reading past headlines, not verifying and sharing sources, lacking moderation, and so on. Bigger issues.
Glad he brought up Discord's quality.
I'm a bit tired of people saying e-mail/IRC work just fine. Yes, they do, but that's not the point. Discord works better for way over a hundred millions users, many of whom rarely ever send mail and aren't interested in learning how IRC or whatever alternative you use works.
It's like instead of collaborating to solve this issue half of the open source community decided they want to die in IRC, while the other half just straight up gave up. Metaphorically. I get why, but it saddens me a little.
Will have to check out Zulip later.