IRL what of my ideas can be called fascist is usually expressed by leftists, mostly anarchists. Systems of laws and influences with time become too complex for a society to not be constrained with them, and also dominated by negative selection of authority figures, which means you need violence to allow them to evolve further. I don’t mean mass executions and dictatorships, just things like copyright and patents being bad, but not always, things like freedom of speech being good, but not always, and in general no absolutes being true.

At the same time anarchist and leftist arguments don’t seem to explain those parts and seem to keep them as pure emotion, while fascism has explanations (by its own rules, of course).

So I’m hetero and, by American measure, of a not hated racial background. But suppose I’ve liked some absolutely amazing girls who are, unfortunately, not hetero (or I’m not cool enough to transcend that barrier), and the guy who’ve introduced me to the concept of aerodynamics (when I was a kid) using frisbees as example was an African student, but I have some ideas that might be called fascist here, so can we please be more nuanced with what sucks?

I mean, OK, I’m not automated, but how do you know.

Psshhhh mixed into normal sound, wrong output devices choice, right devices not appearing in choosers, that kind of thing. Honestly the psshhh part I’ve encountered quite often, if under FreeBSD only one program is playing sound, that sounds as if it were bit-perfect, or at least I can’t tell the difference. Under Linux it’s still remixed somehow (or it was last time I was setting up a new installation) with PA or Pipewire, but with ALSA it did sound properly.

That’s not already patented?

Anyway. Just means that now voices of authority are just voices (again). Some things about Victorian ideas of law and authority were good. Some bad, like that these things don’t extend to barbaric areas of the world, those are to make money selling stuff and growing cotton.

This is in some sense feedback to radio, mass media and the internet, as devices of propaganda.

Provided, of course, everyone knows that such things can be done, but honestly they already know.

Already

I really like the idea of home users renting out compute.

(But I don’t like that only being specialized scam-connected compute.)

What they were doing to ThinkPads could only be explained by being hostile to the idea in principle. Not making them cheaper to produce or better sellable, but just worse preserving some obscene resemblance in looks.

What’s interesting is how up until relatively recent time Lenovo was considered one of the better ones, despite more than a decade having passed since them having shown it all.

As if everyone were seeing what they’re doing, their quality, their business practices and so on, but just because of subconscious association with IBM and claimed good Linux support just ignoring that.

Anyway. I’m starting to understand Apple fanboys. That kind of thing it doesn’t do.

Except I don’t understand how something about OS functions reentrancy and memory allocation seems to evade their developers, because I sometimes encounter bugs in my hobbies that are reminiscent of Windows or Linux or *BSDs or even Haiku like 20 years ago.

People criticize how sound works in Linux, while in MacOS a userspace program can make a sound device or a network device stuck till reboot. I mean, the only piece of software that kinda bugs me on this, pun intended, is TCL/Tk, but it can’t possibly be a TCL/Tk bug if no process survives and it only happens after a TCL/Tk script has been run and interpreter abruptly ended. I’m also not blaming the OS for one problem with my hobby project, I’m a crappy C programmer after all, but the way this reproduces or doesn’t makes me also suspect an OS bug.

And what’s the most amazing, I’ve been reading about such terrible bugs for like 10 years, some of them are the same.

And it’s still far more convenient than Windows and probably than Linux or some of *BSDs for me. That is, compared to Windows it’s just more convenient. With other Unices the problem is that they are too convenient, that can waste time that I can otherwise waste half on arguing with people and ranting and half on hobbies. Sometimes it’s time that should be spent working.

Bugs or not.

If you mean the book, then the moment when Dubois talks about Johnny’s sports award. If you mean AI bots, then the part where the user doesn’t do most of the work. That’s not necessarily a problem, say, while for bodybuilders doing physical work required to get somewhere is important, for house builders that’s not quite so and power tools are not considered something dishonest. But most things generative AI is being used for are where some form of art and culture could coexist with useful practical outcomes.

It’s like people who, during conversations on niche interests, use Google so fast that they seem erudites. Like with Turing test, that might be good enough for others, but if they themselves are not interested enough and just relay things they hear to Google, what’s the point?

I sometimes write like that when I shouldn’t write.

Actually what young people want is the connection between their struggle and their achievement. It’s mentioned in Heinlein’s “Starship Troopers”.

So, that kind of products seems to not be very tall in that regard.

I think that’s what they wanted from the very beginning, to accelerate projects that are socially convenient for them, but not those that are not.

There’s that issue with universal machines that some people don’t like that others are allowed to make universal decisions.

That also can lead to different conclusions. It’s like half a year of me using MacOS instead of Linux or FreeBSD with FVWM and everything set up how I want it. It’s inconvenient and not customizable, but at the same time I’ve had a bit of progress with hobby projects.

That’s before being told that Apple released one, then it’s new.

I still fall for “that shit” if you mean libertarianism and not Ayn Rand (of that author I have the same opinion I had when first reading her book, it’s hongweibing levels of intelligence).

Libertarianism is very strictly based on personal responsibility for one’s decisions. And someone playing with a “young nuclear physicist” set near others is being pretty much violent even when no accidents happen. Combining these two, it’s pretty direct violence.

That’s not allowing even for a moment the thought that a person who turned on a machine that made an effect on the world loses one bit of responsibility for that effect because they used a machine.

And then one can think one step further and realize that western nations are not very far from similarly detecting dissenters before they do anything useful, and they don’t need camps, just subtly directing them in life onto paths not harmful to the establishment and unlikely to bring offspring. Big data and social media magic.

Except nothing in this is plausible, just plenty of people who are not company executives want the same thinking they’ll get their shot at doing something with no responsibility.

Only if that costs as much as generating a UUID and making a request, because they already can make laws for themselves with no resistance.

Otherwise a parent company has their butt in peril just because of that “parent” word. Pretty similarly to managing a database for some website.

Ayn Rand is just a bolshevik inverted, but this aside, maintaining responsibility of a person for what they do with a new tool is not regulation.

If you drive drunk, that’s an offense even without causing road accidents. These people not only think this shouldn’t be so when offloading decisions to a text predictor with different patterns of mistakes, they also seem to seriously mention possibility there should be no responsibility when those mistakes happen.

Cause the way UIs look when you want to do a job are discarded as “by programmers for programmers and not normal people”, and UIs making an illusion of things working by themselves by intuition of the user and hiding specific actions are considered “user-friendly”.

UIs intended for people to do their jobs look, as an extreme, like ed . Less extreme - WordPerfect. XEphem, XGrace, Lisp environments. Those are what you come up with when you want a kiosk, but with a clear idea of a workplace supported by it, or an expert workplace where you do a job.

While things like MSO, Telegram, today’s web browsers, and so on - they are intended for people who don’t want specifics. They want the illusion of fuzziness of what they are doing.