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Yup, another example is how *NIX systems typically manage 32-bit support. The kernel provides a 32-bit system-call layer that forwards to the 64-bit version, userspace runs in the CPU's 32-bit mode. Windows went for a much heavier approach where most DLLs are provided as 64-bit code with 32-bit thunks that run in a Windows-on-Windows layer, with a 64-bit userspace process that puts the legacy code in the low 4 GiB and runs it in 32-bit mode.

I think the problem with a lot of newer things is that they're not really programs, they're components in a distributed system. You may be able to run a ten-year-old Android app in an emulator quite easily but it will expect to connect to a bunch of online services that might not exist anymore. So now you need to write compatibility layers for them. And you need a network proxy because it has very old TLS certificates and so can't establish authenticity of remote systems. And it probably has a bunch of vulnerabilities so you need to sandbox it and its network access.

Most MacOS 9 (or Windows 95) apps talked to the user and the filesystem, not the network. Xbox games that talk to a network do so via a carefully controlled channel. The attack surface is much smaller, so the risk from running insecure systems is much less.

@technolass Oh, I'm so glad, Cara alerted you! That is really incredible. My cat is very intuitive and knows when I'm not feeling well and gives me extra snuggles. But to have a cat alert you to your blood sugar, that's awesome!

I am downloading the user manual for a robot and I particularly like that I have to check an "I am not a robot" checkbox before it will let me download it.

@yogthos @audunmb The Marxist position is to smash data centers, because the "means of production" is worker's brains.

LLMs mimic this, and badly, in an attempt to devalue the workers' outputs. "Seizing" them does nothing to change that.

Le gouvernement : pour le budget on s'attaquera aux retraités les plus aisés

LFI : c'est trop flou, on le sens pas, on votera la censure

Les plateaux télé : vous discutez même pas, c'est de la justice sociale, ils parlent des retraités LES + AISÉS

Le budget : Les retraités à partir de 1260€/mois

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Punaise on attends absolument rien et on est encore surpris de ce cirque 🥱

Another thing that convinces me WWIII is coming is a little more indirect: the fact that Ukraine drafts the old rather than the young. While Russia destroys its own future, Ukraine is using the war to kill off the people who are close to retirement.

I've wondered for a while how countries were gonna solve their demograpic crisis. Natalism obviously doesn't work, and it's hard to turn your population into fanatics like Israelis except via war.

@jens @yogthos I'm not sure what the proper "Marxist position" is, but the vulgar Marxist idea that "the problem isn't with technology itself" is rubbish.

Technology is a way to codify power relations in production. Technology is never neutral. Sabotage is of course one way to challenge this power, but changing the technology, and the power relations it represent, is how you "seize the means of productions". Just adopting the "master tools" won't be enough.

Marx' portrayal of the Luddites was built on the myths created by the English bourgeoisie which crushed them, so I wouldn't lend much weight to that part of his writing.

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