Added to my watchlist, thanks!

Absolutely! If you haven’t watched it yet, Dark Days is also harrowing, if not as much as The Act of Killing.

Thanks for these. Will add them to my list.

I love documentaries. There are so many amazing ones and I regret that they don’t get as much attention as the biggest fiction films, even though I love those too.

Here are two documentaries that immediately spring to mind because they made a big impression on me:

Dark Days (2000)

The Act of Killing (2012)

If people can code better, faster, cheaper, safer (more secure) that will surely apply to open source as well.

I’m not European, but I understand that there’s an old European (German?) saying that basically goes: “If I had wheels, I’d be a trolley.” I understand that it’s been pretty well-established that AI coding tools routinely underperform compare to humans in terms of “better” and “safer”, which indirectly would also lead to it failing at “cheaper” too.

On top of that, there is another major issue with using AI for open-source code: copyright. First, you don’t know if the code that you’re adding through AI may be copying license-incompatible code verbatim. Because everyone has access to open-source code, it would be trivial for anyone to search and find copyright-infringing code to attack projects with. Second, the code that AI produces is also not-copyrightable, so that is another line of attack that this would make open-source projects vulnerable to. These could be used in combination as a one-two punch combination to knock out an open-source project.

I think that using AI-generated code in open-source projects is a uniquely ill-advised idea.

According to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fediverse:

The majority of Fediverse platforms are based on free and open-source software, and create connections between servers using the ActivityPub protocol. Some software still supports older federation protocols as well, such as OStatus, the Diaspora protocol and Zot. Diaspora* is the only actively developed software project classified under the original definition of Fediverse that does not support ActivityPub.[5][6]

You would have to look at those citations to see how authoritative they are. This may also still be open to interpretation?

Thank you!

Oh, I was more thinking in the context of a centralized service, although technically it should be possible to do this in a federated manner too. I don’t think the resources would be an issue, but the liability of holding this data would be. I don’t know how that works on sites that currently do this though.

You don’t need a blockchain.

Solvable by requiring verification of every user by government ID?

This group sounds great. Unfortunately, I don’t read Finnish. Is there an equivalent group in English anywhere on Lemmy?

I don’t watch sports much, but I think I’ve heard multiple times of certain games being played locally not being available at all on TV due to black outs. I could be wrong though.

Good point!

Sure, I agree with that, but I didn’t say they were socialist sports leagues, only that that they had “socialistic policies”. Perhaps if I had written ‘“socialistic” concepts’ it would have been a bit more clear.

Absolutely! Those corporations also love hobbling or getting rid of any honest competition through mergers, acquisitions, regulatory capture, non-compete agreements, and endless other mechanisms.

That’s a lot more understandable and less controversial though. I don’t think you could properly operate a military force without having a level playing field for everyone.

Come to think about it, it’s almost like no complex system involving humans is bound to work well without having a level playing field for everyone. 🤔

Yes, thank you, that’s the quote I had in mind!

Wait until you hear about how you cannot pay to watch all the NFL/NBA/MLB/NHL games in your market on a streaming service. Unless something has very recently changed, there’s no method of legitimately paying where you won’t still experience blackouts.

Yikes, I hadn’t even thought of that! There are some local games where the only way to watch if you live in that city is to buy a ticket to go to the stadium, right?

Good point!

Good point!