Its frustrating to be told no how you're saying what you're saying is incorrect, when what's being said is pretty important. If you can ignore what I'm saying then you're also justifying what happened, cause the medium is more important than the message. I hope that clarifies why I'm frustrated.

Fair, but you lashed out at me directly, you referred to my reaction specifically, and I have the responsibility to take seriously criticism that is a priori directed at me, lest I say "heh, they're not talking about me" when you do mean something I, specifically, said or did wrong.

I think your frustration over the "form over content" concern trolling is completely legitimate and justified, but I also think that you are wrong at underestimating the massive problem that generative AI entails, which other comments were concerned about. Is this post not the place to do so? Yogthos has been spamming this community lately with AI slop memes, and making fun of anyone displaying any concern at all. OP has also contributed a fair bit to the spam. The content of those memes themselves are pretty reasonable and they tackle issues that need to be talked about. They can all be talked about without contributing to AI companies burning the world faster than it ever has burned before.

Where is the place to talk about this? AI slop is not moderated against, so it needs to be discussed somewhere. I understand that your ideology is one such that imperialist damage on the Global South takes priority over generative AI, and I think that is reasonable, but you need to respect that the damage caused by generative AI is also a genuine concern (that also disproportionately affects the Global South!) and people have a right to be angry about that in the space they have available for it.

I hope we have reached a common understanding.

I think you are greatly overstating my reaction here. All my comments are relatively long because I suck at being concise and I don't want to be misunderstood, but I maybe should have been a bit wiser and notice that there are literally no good intentions or good faith in your attitude. It is after all required to act in bad faith to get this defensive about AI slop and get this far assuming other people's intentions.

Also, literally told to my face that it was good Indians were colonized cause at least that brought capitalism there, as tho free trade never existed in the region before. 🙄

I'm sorry about this, I guess? I quite literally did not mean this and it came to me as a surprise that you got this from my comment, and it's the reason why I am replying once again. I apologize if I said something that implies this or results from colonial bias implying this. I want to make it clear that this claim is very much not in line with my world view. It is also not clear to me what I said that led to this misunderstanding.

That said, this apology is certainly half-hearted. I have enough reasons to assume that you are acting in bad faith and pulling the most inflammatory accusations you possibly can.

The miku meme is cool, though. I wish it wasn't accompanied with such an incendiary caption.

so that the Fuck AI crowd can care about the brown people

How can you possibly make such a vile distortion of the general reaction? The comments have been very clear in explaining the problems of using AI slop. It's not even a particularly challenging meme given the community we're in. The British Empire being a plight upon the Global South and capitalism killing millions of people are largely agreed upon here.

Here is a meme from a year ago, that roughly makes the same point, from this same community, by Yogthos no less: https://lemmy.ml/post/36383656

Capitalism being bad, and especially so towards the Global South, is not a point of contention here, as both things have been extensively said and discussed. The reason why people are reacting like this now is because, this time, a corporate service with extremely serious societal and environmental consequences has been used to repeat this already well-established point, and OP is acting a bit weird and defensive when being called out about it.

I don't think it is bad to repeat already established points, especially as libs keep overflowing every thread slightly critical with the status quo with propaganda, but comments calling OP out for doing an extremely low-effort, problematic iteration of this point are completely legitimate.

Are you the author of the recent issue about bringing back the reload button from earlier this week? I share your sentiment entirely.

In my case, I often invoke Freetube from scripts or from the browser extension, which cause the back button to obviously not work. Because videos randomly don't load, I find myself having to close Freetube and running the script again, or navigating Firefox's context menu to try again. And even if I don't need to leave Freetube, some video lists reset their scroll position when you go back to them, causing you to need to look for the video again. Their workaround of going back and then forward just to reload is completely unreasonable.

I also get plenty of frustation out of Freetube, although most of it is because YouTube keeps breaking compatibility, but there are some problems such as the lack of reload button that are entirely Freetube's fault.

I'm sorry I don't have any alternative for you. YouTube's web client is so bad, even on incognito with ublock, that struggling with random compatibility errors on Freetube is preferrable to me, even if unexplainably bad decisions by the Freetube team make that struggle unnecessarily worse.

While we're at it, I have also been completely unable to find a single Invidious or Piped instance that works at all? I've only ever managed to watch a single video at most on any given instance before having it break, and most of the time not even that. How is it possible for them to have near zero reliability when even Freetube and Newpipe are at least somewhat usable?

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OP's landlord is threatening with eviction. Are you aware how fucking serious that is? In the current climate, this alone can single-handedly ruin someone's life and future. Eviction shouldn't even be on the table, and it wouldn't be, if it wasn't because of scalpers hoarding the entire housing market, and then holding working class people hostage if they don't play by the landlord's petty rules (which includes paying a fuckton of money monthly!)

The instant that the landlord threatened with eviction, they positioned themselves solidly in the wrong. For such a disproportionate threat to be justified, there should be reasonable suspicion that the tenant is going to commit homicide or plant a bomb or something over that level. Anything below that is an abuse of power, and said power is only as legitimate as scalping the market is.

I literally couldn't care less about AC or the window, and you are either being dishonest or acting like a shitty human being if you unironlically claim that the way OP uses AC warrants a threat of eviction. Even if OP were 100% in the wrong regarding AC (which is, in turn, not something I agree with, but I'm not getting into that), there is a whole world of difference in scale. By equating these two levels of magnitude, you are definitively siding with the landlord, even if you don't explicitly claim to do so (and you are, thus, also positioning yourself solidly in the wrong).

Also, y'all should be ashamed to call OP 'insufferable' for replying in a slightly mean tone after continuously being told that akshually maybe the landlord is right, and that they're oh such a troublesome tennant, after being threatened with fucking eviction.

Yeah what the fuck is all this siding with the landlord about? I thought we were leftists lmao. If I were OP I would stay out of Lemmy for a bit, the replies in this thread are probably just making the panic attack worse.

I don't care about the nitty gritty details of the issue with the AC or the door or whatever, I don't know why everyone is paying so much thought to that. The major problem is that the landlord is abusing an authority that is barely even legitimate to begin with, and is threatening OP with eviction if they don't obey; the specific circumstances in which such abuse has materialized is irrelevant. They are especially irrelevant if you are going to play lawyer with them to uphold the landlord's authority.

I think that we as a community should avoid this kind of behavior.

Sending you strength, OP

Semantic file systems are very much not tree-shaped. The idea of a semantic file system is that files don't have a single parent or container, like a folder in a traditional hierarchical file system, and instead a file's location is represented by a combination of tags. As expected, you don't traverse a path to reach a file, but rather, you perform a query not unlike operators in a search engine.

I'm replying to this comment because it seems as good a place as any to join the conversation.

I'll concede I'm not very well read on theory, but as someone who has been curious with anarchist works, it seems to me that this problem is at least partly semantics. It makes sense to me that epistemic authority/hierarchy is an entirely different concept from power structures, and it's unfortunate that we use the words authority or hierarchy for both. I don't think any anarchist rejects the notion that some delegation needs to be done in some circumstances where it isn't reasonable to take every decision by committee, such as with the classical bus driver example.

From what I gather, the oppresive aspect that anarchists refer to when talking about hierarchy is when people are forced to delegate to someone else against their will, the important part here being that consent is required in order for said delegation to be appropiate. In the bus driver example, you are not arguing every tiny traffic decision with the driver because it's unfeasible, but you are allowing the bus driver to take you somewhere you want to go. The anarchism I understand would only have a problem with that if the bus driver were to unilaterally decide where it is best for you to go and you had no way to get off the bus.

It is interesting that organic hierarchies have been brought up in another comment, because I am not entirely sold on the idea that they are unavoidable or even desirable. Sure, a child needs to submit to a parent so the parent can take care of the child, but also our current model of family allows a parent a lot of unchecked leeway to act against their child's assumed best interests, and it's not uncommon to come across people who have suffered parental abuse because of this. Surely there must be a better way? It's not reasonable to expect a child to be able to make autonomous decisions and their bests interests can only be assumed, but it is a situation that is ripe for an exploitative power structure that is certainly a reality now, and should be understood as such. To an extent, same with the teacher-student relationship.

A doctor "forcing" vaccines on patients also comes to mind. I don't really have a solution for this, but I'd argue that it should be required anyway that the patient consents to it. If a patient doesn't want to take the COVID vaccine, it is a problem, but my understanding is that it should be solved at the "convincing the patients they need it" level, not the "strapping the patient and administer the vaccine anyway" level. Now vaccines already work like the first option, but it turns out that especially as the system deems you insane, other medical operations quickly devolve into the second option, and the fact that it is possible for a power structure like this to form means there is something to be examined at the very least.

I am just sharing my thoughts without intending to reach any conclussion. I'm not an anarchist myself but I'm sympathetic towards anarchism.

Too many people here are saying that ads don't work.

Whether they work or not doesn't matter. The problem is that ads are literally designed and optimized to manipulate you out of your money, and to cause you to make decisions on emotion rather than reason. This is unethical at its core. How most people are ambivalent towards companies manipulating us is beyond me.

What the fuck? I already knew that Piefed defederates Hexbear and Lemmygrad by default, but other than that bruh moment I assumed it was a respectable Lemmy alternative. That's some incredibly cringe behavior right there.

I thought this was a bug of Summit, the app I use.

Sometimes I see an interesting top-level comment, I tap on it to expand the replies while still reading, and suddenly the top-level comment is gone. Removed. I assumed it was a bug because it does not make any sense to me and I keep seeing this happening everywhere.

To be fair, I read it correctly the first time and didn't occur to me that it could be interpreted in any other way until I went into the comment section.