@thomasfuchs@hachyderm.io2026-02-14 14:54:02
RE: https://hachyderm.io/@thomasfuchs/116069487677173731
Now I'm playing with power.
@thomasfuchs@hachyderm.io2026-01-14 18:11:16
RE: https://hachyderm.io/@thomasfuchs/115883445350346364
A quote from Computer Lib (1974)
@thomasfuchs@hachyderm.io2026-02-14 14:00:19
RE: https://hachyderm.io/@thomasfuchs/116069203522678131
Note: obviously not everyone is doing this, and some people can hold their sand.
@thomasfuchs@hachyderm.io2026-01-14 13:18:39
RE: https://hachyderm.io/@thomasfuchs/115893624389376718
As for this setup, it handles all the most important audio-visual physical media: VHS, DVD, NES and GameCube.
@thomasfuchs@hachyderm.io2025-12-14 15:04:37
RE: https://hachyderm.io/@thomasfuchs/115718470244854807
I didn't learn in school that a free market economy is about the suppliers installing fascist regimes to force demand and fix prices, but maybe I understood it wrong.
@thomasfuchs@hachyderm.io2025-12-15 13:47:27
Not to be alarmist, but VHS will be FIFTY YEARS old next year.
https://hachyderm.io/@thomasfuchs/115723856261738924
@thomasfuchs@hachyderm.io2025-12-14 23:46:27
That CD Walkman was like $5 or $10 at a thrift store btw. https://hachyderm.io/@thomasfuchs/115719341759043316
@thomasfuchs@hachyderm.io2026-02-13 18:43:34
RE: https://hachyderm.io/@thomasfuchs/116064770547880143
today, 25 years later, you can put a thing in your pocket that needs Wi-Fi or 5G to access your entire music collection that's stored in a datacenter the size of several city blocks and you must pay rent to your cell phone provider and to your music datacenter landlord to access it!
now that's called progress!
@thomasfuchs@hachyderm.io2026-02-13 15:32:02
RE: https://hachyderm.io/@thomasfuchs/116063916168328402
It should also be noted that LLMs do not write code.
They assemble code from bits and pieces of a tokenized text corpus based on how they are statistically interrelated.
LLMs do not think, anticipate, cognize, abstract or have any theory of mind; they do not currently and will not ever have this ability.
@thomasfuchs@hachyderm.io2026-01-15 14:20:43
RE: https://hachyderm.io/@thomasfuchs/115894798045761296
It should be noted that Ted Nelson here has a bit of a naive viewpoint, as the reasons for how a machine is designed and why it exists are because people made it and people literally always have an agenda.
In other words, a machine exists because it does something that a person actively decided it should—it is the embodiment of non-neutrality.