Not sure why you were downvoted: this is an interesting debate!

Sure sure, i’m not saying it’s not the ultimate motivation, i’m just saying it’s important to note it’s not just about labor prices as is often explained by the media.

Why is this post marked NSFW? Am i supposed to get triggered that you talk about non-free software? :P

In all cases thanks for the comparison. Maybe we should have a dedicated board for software comparisons/reviews.

@k_o_t@lemmy.ml @TheAnonymouseJoker@lemmy.ml can we get this thread pinned? i didn’t read it all but it looks like decent advice and the question about what’s tor and how to use it best comes up frequently

I don’t think it’s just a matter of profit. There’s also a matter of social acceptability: industry is very polluting and has real bad working conditions. Outsourcing those major downsides to remote countries is a good way to make consumerism socially acceptable: think about it, if your cousins/neighbors were the wage slaves working and dying in the mines and factories to produce smartphones, you would even buy one? We would have massive boycotts and sabotage/expropriation campaigns.

Exactly

Money is a useless abstraction and this is proof of it. Without asian factories and african/asian mines global north countries can’t manufacture shit these days.

To be fair this is nothing new. Even during the 1930s/40s most governments were “not welcoming” of jewish refugees to say the least.

In the past decade in France the government has been condemned by some higher instances for deporting european citizens to other EU countries, as well as for deporting people before they could apply for asylum at the italian border.

If you’re from the USA, you can check out the history of IWW, or more recently the revolutionary movements of the second half of the 20th century (AIM, Black Panthers, MOVE, Young lords, Weather underground, etc). To this day egalitarian sentiment persists in revolutionary movements (such as on ZADs like Standing Rock) but there is no large scale organizing like there was in that day because:

• anti-gun laws have been passed to disarm revolutionary movements (which as you could see has zero effect on white supremacists taking guns to slaughter unarmed people)
• these movements have faced severe repression under government programs like COINTELPRO ; many leaders remain jailed to this day (such as Mummia Abu Jamal or Leonard Peltier) while others have been outright assassinated under government orders (such as Fred Hampton or the MOVE organization which was bombed by the FBI destroying dozens of home to eradicate it)

If you’re from France, i would recommend doing some reading about early CGT history, or more recently about Mouvement des Travailleurs Arabes, Main d’Oeuvre Immigrée, Front Homosexuel d’Action Révolutionnaire, Action Directe… Or even more recently Movement de l’Immigration et des banlieues or the ZAD movement. While not exactly an organized movement, autonomous forces are still present in France especially during major riot times (2005 suburbs riots against police abuse, 2006 student riots against CPE law, gilets jaunes).

I’ve heard that argument and i understand the technical reasoning, but in real-world experience i found that disabling swap was the best swappiness for me. Maybe i’m doing something wrong but “help my computer freezes sometime” is a common problem in my circles and “disable swap” has been the best recommendation i found so far.

Well it’s a shame because now the debate for the 2nd round will be as stupid as ever. At least if Mélenchon got here we may have envisioned to have a talk about capitalism and feminism and deep racism in the heart of our society.

Buuuuuuuut to see the positive side of the argument, at least we won’t have to argue against a tyrannical old man in a suit (who used to be from Parti Socialiste and is still an unashamed soc-dem who does not support revolutionary movements) and his hordes of middle-class bobos who get triggered any time you make a political critique that’s not aimed at a right-wing party.

So i guess we’ve got that going for us? :-/

Personal experience: on desktop i always disable swap. On a server it makes sense because who fucking cares if your email takes 10ms or 1s to send, but in a graphical context there’s so many memory accesses that the tiniest bit swapped to disk starts to make the whole thing sluggishly slow.

Of course that’s less of a problem if you’re using a SSD, but now you may be putting unnecessary strain on your SSD whose durability is bound by writes not reads.

So disabling swap + enabling systemd-oom/earlyoom (to kill the most gluttonous executable when really needed) is a good combination for me.

There’s also earlyoom that’s systemd-independent. If you have a source about the edge cases produced by such software i’m curious

Oh i’m pretty good at making stupid mistakes ;)

I’m not familiar with dbus, but i had a quick look. I don’t know the difference between a bus and a connection, btu apparently:

• dbus_message_get_sender method on a dbus message provides the unique bus name used for that message
• GetConnectionUnixProcessID function returns the PID of a given connection name

Not sure if the latter would accept the result from the former as a valid parameter, but this SO thread suggested so.

Just a nitpick: Le Pen ended up with 23.15% and Mélenchon with 21.95%, that’s 1.2% difference (the article says 20.1% for Mélenchon).

You’re precisely proving my point that you need a huge sample of voice from that person in order to “replicate” them ;)

EDIT: For example, in the case of Simpsons, they have 25 seasons of voice data to train the model.

I guess it works fine for very formal speech, where most voices sound alike. But i have strong doubts that it would capture the subtleties of popular/queer speech

The difference is “AI” took dozens of billions of tries to “learn” to play those games. More like bruteforcing into a problem not intelligence ;)

Well first deepfakes need to die. It’s a dangerous tech that should not exist at all and does not need any more research.

To be fair, i haven’t dug into deepfake models, but i assume you would train them on the specific person you’re trying to deepfake: i mean for basic video stuff going with a pre-trained model may be ok but for audio there’s no way you can get away with it ;)