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  • Rosa is the author of "The Accumulation of Capital", which was called something like "theory of the automatic demise of capitalism" and opposed in the USSR.

    The book basically says that capitalism is impossible because equivalent exchange of value means there's nobody to buy the products, and survives by appending more and more regions to the capitalist system, which allows unequivalent exchange. Lenin (and later Soviet Marxists) opposed it for being anti-revolutionary. It downplays the internal contradictions of capitalism in favor of the nominally anti-imperialist external contradiction analysis (which in itself is bad for framing it as a matter of fairness), and that devalues the revolutionary class struggle, even if that certainly wasn't the intention ("automatic demise of capitalism" implies there's no historical need for that), ironically it was also used for opposing national liberation movements under the pretext of it being impossible to strive for national interests without having to become an imperialist (this is basically KKE's "Imperialist Pyramid" line).

    Sadly, this means there's plenty of "Luxembourgist" social fascists.

  • Founder and CEO of Telegram messaging service arrested in France
  • Russia banned Telegram, everyone (incl. the government) continued to use it, Russia unbanned Telegram - that's how it looks from here. A government official told me Telegram being unbanned was just a matter of time when it was still banned.

  • Llama 3.1 is out!
  • the code is FOSS, the weights aren't, this is pretty common with e.g. FOSS games, the only difference here is weights are much costlier to remake from scratch than game assets

  • China's Xi accused the US of trying to trick him into invading Taiwan, but said he won't take the bait
  • The right of self-determination means that a nation may arrange its life in the way it wishes. It has the right to arrange its life on the basis of autonomy. It has the right to enter into federal relations with other nations. It has the right to complete secession. Nations are sovereign, and all nations have equal rights.

    Stalin, Marxism and the National Question

  • I asked duckduckgo chat whether duckduckgo respects the privacy of their users...
  • again, !bang is for searching using a specific search engine, !!bang is for redirecting to a search engine's page

    !g will search with google

    !!g will redirect to google

    all ddg bangs are supported to my knowledge, but obviously !bang will only work with the search engines searxng supports

  • AI will capture carbon through reverse buzzwordolysis
  • different neural network types excel at different tasks - image recognition was invented way before LLMs, not only for lack of processing power, but also because the previous architectures didn't work with languages. New architectures don't appear out of thin air, they are created with a rough idea of what we could need to make the network do a certain task (e.g. NLP) better. Even tokenization isn't blind codepoint separation but is based on an analysis of languages. But yes, natural languages aren't "parsed" for neural networks, they don't even have a formal grammar.

  • AI will capture carbon through reverse buzzwordolysis
  • While I agree that LLMs can achieve human-tier efficiency at most tasks eventually (some architectural changes will be necessary, but the core approach seems sound), it's wrong to say it's modeled after the human brain. We have no idea how brains work as they're super complex, we're building artificial neural networks from the ground up. AI uses centuries' worth of math, but with our current maths knowledge the code isn't too complicated. Human brains aren't like that, they can't be summed up in a few lines of code because DNA is a huge mess that contains so much more than just "learning", so many inactive or redundant bits and pieces. We're building LLMs with knowledge of how languages work, not how brains work.

  • Mozilla Firefox Blocks Add-Ons to Circumvent Russia Censorship
  • it might work with obfuscation, in general my preferred solution is VPN+proxy, the proxy is used for bypassing the DPI and doesn't have to adhere to particularly high standards and can be easily swapped, and the VPN is used via the proxy for actually routing L3 traffic

  • Mozilla Firefox Blocks Add-Ons to Circumvent Russia Censorship
  • Well, Tor (with bridges) still works just fine, I don't really know any other "crowdsourced" proxy networks. Telegram isn't blocked (it used to be, but everyone used it anyway, including people in the government, so they unblocked it), so any info there is freely available. Wireguard and OpenVPN are blocked (even within Russia for some reason), shadowsocks is throttled on certain connections but works fine, and I haven't extensively tested anything else.

    Also, mobile networks are used for testing stricter blocking measures before rolling them out to landline connections

  • NixOS on OnePlus 6 with Extra Steps, or the Diary of my Descent into Madness
    pavluk.org NixOS on OnePlus 6 with Extra Steps, or the Diary of my Descent into Madness

    Mobile Linux is here. Love it. Fear it. Sacrifice yourself to it. There is no escape.

    My biggest blog post yet, and it's about running (almost) vanilla NixOS on a (formerly) Android phone! This was 50% fun and 50% exhausting... you solve one issue and another one crops up right away... it was certainly an interesting educational experience.

    I'm not explaining any basic technical concepts here, as I'm not a complete noob in phone ROMs and Linux.

    Ask me any questions if you have them!

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    Where do I report AMD microcode issues?

    After commit 0bc3126c9cfa0b8c761483215c25382f831a7c6f in linux-firmware my system stopped booting (due to being unable to mount root fs). The bug isn't occurring all the time even with this commit, but I've still successfully tracked it down to this specific commit. Now I'm not sure where I can report it, as I could find info about maintainers of certain Linux subsystems, but not of linux-firmware or its constituent parts (like amd-ucode).

    Edit: I've sent it to the person who authored the commit for the time being

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    Königsberg - a cross-platform open-source Steam DLC unlocker
    github.com GitHub - chayleaf/konigsberg: steam_api with unlocked dlcs

    steam_api with unlocked dlcs. Contribute to chayleaf/konigsberg development by creating an account on GitHub.

    GitHub - chayleaf/konigsberg: steam_api with unlocked dlcs

    This is a lightweight alternative for Goldberg for the single purpose of unlocking DLCs. Just rename the game's steam_api.dll to steam_api.orig.dll, download steam_api.dll from releases and put it in place of the original steam_api.dll, the game will keep interacting with Steam as usual but it will consider all DLCs installed. Of course, you also need to download the actual DLC files from somewhere.

    I've actually only tested it on Linux, so I'm curious to know if it works fine on Windows and MacOS.

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    nixos @lemmy.ml chayleaf @lemmy.ml
    nixos-router: a NixOS router framework
    github.com GitHub - chayleaf/nixos-router: A NixOS router framework

    A NixOS router framework. Contribute to chayleaf/nixos-router development by creating an account on GitHub.

    GitHub - chayleaf/nixos-router: A NixOS router framework

    Example config linked in readme! My ISP doesn't offer IPv6, so it might not fit your use case well, but it's a setup with multiple routing tables (one for vpn, one for direct internet access, one for no internet access)+multiple network namespaces (default namespace has the vpn interface, wan namespace has the vpn socket)+configured dnat/port forwarding which is hard to get right in such setups. It also takes port forwarding rules from another system's config, which was always my dream before even starting this project lol

    "framework" is really the right choice of words because while it's well integrated with itself, it forces you to use itself, it doesn't integrate with networking.interfaces because it itself is a more featureful variant of networking.interfaces.

    In my experience, this let me focus on writing the router itself, while previously half the time I felt that NixOS just doesn't provide enough customizability for routers. However, I don't offer many features right now, only device config/network namespace management/bridge creation/veth pair creation/dhcp/router advertisement/wireless access point creation. Obviously, there are many cases for which this won't be enough. If this isn't enough for you, open an issue and I'll try to add what you want (or better yet, do it yourself, as I probably wouldn't be able to test it).

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    nixos @lemmy.ml chayleaf @lemmy.ml
    notnft - write nftables rules in nix
    github.com GitHub - chayleaf/notnft: Nix DSL for nftables

    Nix DSL for nftables. Contribute to chayleaf/notnft development by creating an account on GitHub.

    GitHub - chayleaf/notnft: Nix DSL for nftables

    Honestly I don't know why I made this, it clearly isn't worth it lol (Jesus, 5000kloc for this), but it was interesting to learn more about nftables (I also found a bug in Nix in the process). I will contribute to nftables docs some time later, as I found many undocumented or poorly documented parts, and some documentation that's flat out wrong.

    Currently this can only export rules in json, but it shouldn't be too hard to write a transpiler into the nftables language.

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