rako

I'd love to know what's really different between -communism, -collectivism, -syndicalism and -mutualism because they all sit well with me (I'm assuming "communism" refers to the end state of society and not the bolshevik autoritarism)

Be at peace with the mess. All the software you're using have beend developed on their own, each has a different setup, maintenance work, they don't fit with each other they just kinda not bother each other. Unless you're using all the software included in a bsd or 9front base install, where everything is made to carefully fit, it'll be crappy to look at.

Be at peace with the mess, which also means be at peace with burning some/all of it and starting fresh when something new comes up or you want to "simplify" a part.

The selfhosting, much like art, isn't so much in the output: it's in the process of trying, failing, succedding with a crappy solution, and then goind on with the learning. If you wanted a robust beautiful stack you'd be paying professionals to do that :)

Unfortunately many of the political issues with AI are left aside in this essay: the colonization of land for resources, for datacenters, the sociological aspects of a machine that trades truth for positive emotions, but one that is most important in an anarchism perspective is the active exploitation of non-white people for the benefit of white people:

https://www.404media.co/ai-is-african-intelligence-the-workers-who-train-ai-are-fighting-back/

AI, structurally, cannot exist without domination. It is impossible to have this technology work without a class exploiting another one.

AI is at its core a political project to anthropomorphize a machine, give everyone the illusion it is autonomous and independent so that it can take decisions for you, but when things are bad the machine is the one to blame, so you have to treat it with respect. This pseudo-human isn't independent of course, it is completely under the control of other humans. The domination is the project.

Whether those humans are fascists or democratically chosen doesn't change: at its core, AI is humans domination over another human form

Maybe LLMs are useful, in another form. Machine learning has been a damn useful machinery with practical applications. But AI is a political project, and this project is the exact opposite of self-determination

In France violence is legally defined as harming people. Burning a Tesla shop is technically not violence, so it's perfectly fine 🔥

Non-violence at best accomplishes one thing: make injustice public, force society to talk about it and position itself on a topic. It won't be enough to convice, unless you are a victim of publicized harsh violence (think blood is spellt, people get into a coma, or worse). Like all strategies revolutionaries will have, none should be discarded and they are all complementary. What matters is that everyone acts collectively and pushes in the same direction

what you want is Syncthing Lite: https://f-droid.org/packages/com.github.catfriend1.syncthinglite

While you are technically correct, you're implying that the "natural" state is a good enough state and nothing should be done about it.

My house has walls and a door; it doesn't mean anyone can do anything they want with this. Even if the windows are clear, you're not supposed to install a camera that watches my bedroom. Even if the door is open, you're not supposed to open. A a society it has been decided that we should respect each other, respect each other's privacy. We have created rules, some written down and some implicit, for how to interact with each other.

That is the point of OP. The "natural" state of whatever exists with the technical means, but that doesn't mean it's ok (or not ok): do we want to respect each other ? To take care of each other ? I very much want that, because the technical means should be only a means to an end, and in that end I want respect. The technical means, to me, must adapt to the end, not the other way around.

You didn't talk about self-hosting in your initial comment. S3 is not made for you, I guess it' ok to just move on to the next article

S3 is made for scaling. At an individual scale it doesn't matter. At scale, S3 moves maintenance time away from managing individual issues about something not working or slow here and there towards configuring and maintaining a consistent piece of architecture

No, it's made for entities managing data for thousands/millions of people. “overengineering" implies a specific scope, it's not the one you think about

S3 is not made for you. It's made for entities that need to store millions of objects, with thousands of different rules, reading/writing from hundreds of machines without coordination, and with consistent, low latency. Now that some software use that as a storage layer, having an implementation for you is useful

Considering how much of energy is used for heating, this might still be interesting. But probably not for electricity generation

if a craptp is useful it's not crap anymore heh