One of the worst and most predictable outcomes of Marxist-Leninism is the meshing together of the post-revolution counter-revolutionary force, with the single-party state.

Marx never intended for there to be a central government wielding authority to combat counter-revolutionary backlash, this was supposed to be a continuation of the proletariat revolutionary movement, that served both to prevent society from sinking back into top-down control during peacetime complacency, and to keep the productive, positive, unifying spirit generated in a freedom-seeking revolutionary movement from dying out once the revolution was complete, and seeing the proletariat become divided.

When Lenin (and drawing on Lenin, Mao) murdered the whole “stateless” part of Communism, that counter-revolutionary force became a tool for justifying suppression of the proletariat by the State, because the state was (not actually, of course) the revolutionary force. This also insulates the state against ever dissolving into the actualized stateless society that MLs still claim to totally be moving towards, because anyone seeking to dissolve the state to that end is, in the state’s eyes, indistinguishable from other counter-revolutionary forces seeking to dissolve the state to return to Capitalism/ Feudalism/ Monarchy/ etc.

*After all, how can the single-party State know if the proletariat are actually good Communists, or whether they’re actually counter-revolutionaries? Only by maintaining constant surveillance and vigilance (and continuing the State)!

Haha, yeah I just updated my answer a second ago after realizing this was c/foss and not c/technology.

Check out MusicBee. It’s my go-to for Windows now, and it has most if not all the things you asked for.

(Note: upon looking into it, MB is not OSS, if that is a deal-breaker for you)

This is for people who want (and can afford) at least 4K with ray-tracing in the latest games and all of this at triple-digit frame rates

Sure, but are there really enough people who fit into that category to justify these cards? Based on the 4080 series sales, it seems not, but they’re still coming out with even beefier, more expensive cards anyways.

I know this is going way off-topic

In a similar vein, I grew up around IT because my mom worked on mainframes. I remember lots of nights of sitting under her desk at 3am because she got called in as Production Support when jobs would ABEND. When I was in high school, wanting to learn more about mainframes I set up Hercules, a mainframe System3xx emulator (looks like it supports z/OS now as well), and managed to find boot media for System370 and MVS. The desktop computer I was running the emulator on (a Gateway, showing my age), was more powerful than the original mainframe hardware.

I’m running a 2080 in my desktop, and I haven’t run into a game yet that I need a better card to run (at least, not with my 1080p monitors, which I prefer over higher-res ones). I also got a Framework 16, with the discrete Radeon 7700S GPU, and everything on it runs butter-smooth.

Point is, I can’t see justifying something that is $1600 just so I can run Starsector at the same 60 FPS I already get. It would take some truly groundbreaking game to come along to force me to consider upgrading to these ridiculous cards, and I don’t see that happening given the current consoles out there.

One thing I’d push back on in the article is:

That cost-per-user doesn’t decrease as you add more customers. You need more servers. More GPUs.

This is assuming constant use, which is not the case. If I have a server handling LLM prompt requests, and for illustrative purposes each request uses 100% of the single discrete GPU in it, and I only have 1 customer, but that one customer only uses it 5% of the day (which would actually be pretty high in real terms), I can still add additional customers without needing to buy additional servers. The question is whether the given revenue of a single server outweighs its cost to run.

And when it comes to training, that is an upfront cost, that you could (if you get a model to where you want it) stop having to pay whenever you want. I’m pretty surprised they haven’t been really leaning into training models for medical diagnoses, because once you have a model that can e.g. spot a type of tumor with n% accuracy beyond a human, you don’t really have to refine it further if you don’t want to (after all, it’s not like the humans can choose to do it better themselves at that point, like they can with writing prompts).

Directly killing several million people with bombs is actually pretty tough. Killing many millions with famine is much simpler.

Israel manufacturing their very own Holodomor as the world looks on…

To me, it’s why Right to Repair laws are incredibly necessary. Repair parts, manuals, everything needed to operate and maintain a sold product should be mandated as “must be available to buy from the patent-holder, or the patent expires and the part is legal for anyone to manufacture”.

Netanyahu just full-on pushing Israel into a regional war to stay in power. Sadly, the US is probably going to help him.

Can’t wait to see the Israel apologists start arguing that Israel flattening city blocks in other countries is justified, but other countries attacking Israel in response at all, is evil and unjust. Looks like at least one is already here…

I think that it just makes it super easy to condemn anyone you dislike. Anyone can be matched to one or more of the behavioral indicators for NPD, individually, because many of them are just regular human behaviors. Selfishness, callousness, anger, egotism, not taking criticism well, etc, are all normal things to experience, and everyone does them, so if you want to condemn someone you can just subjectively and selectively label instances of that behavior as being an indicator of NPD, ignoring any absent or incongruous patterns or criteria.

MS doesn’t realize how close they are to being disposable to gamers. If a few more game companies made their catalogs linux-native, they’d be toast.

Lots of people would be shocked just how many games offer linux-native binaries, not just windows ones that work with proton.

My cyberdeck components are far less important than workers’ rights. Strike!

Armed with more of his infamous maps of the Middle East, the right-wing leader went on to claim that “Israel seeks peace,” while also pledging to wage war on Hamas-governed Gaza until “total victory” and telling “the tyrants of Tehran” that “if you strike us, we will strike you.”

Shockingly, they are real.

You think that their cruelty only manifests towards women, LGBT people, children, POC, and migrants? Nope! They also relish the opportunity to inflict pain on animals. It’s also much more legal to kill animals, so when they get that hankerin’…

I mean, obviously? It’s over. You don’t leave your Christmas decorations up until next time 'round either.

I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: plastics are going to be the leaded-gasoline of our generation(s)

I’m glad it sank, because no one needs to have attack submarines, but hopefully no one was hurt.

It seems odd for it to be out of dry dock if it wasn’t complete?

Nice to see a court get it right for once, though I suppose they could ignore their advisor.

Cool? It was surfaced in a port.

Finding them when they’re docked in plain view isn’t the hard part, when it comes to submarine detection.

How can you have a “positive problem” with something? That seems like an oxymoron.