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Trying to start Debord’s Society of the Spectacle, however it’s been going very slowly due to New Year’s.

I have always felt a bit more ambiguous towards “cultural” PoVs of capitalist society compared to analyses more focused on economics, however I remember someone recommending this book in Lemmy and I am trying to give it a chance.

Once I am back home I’ll try picking up Capital v3 and finally finish it. I tried following the study group here but life got in the way, unfortunately.

I’d also like to summarize my (precarious) understanding of it, and ask a few questions that might sound a little “baby marxist”, but these will require a bit more effort and social courage than I have right now

Yes, definitely. Since this is lemmygrad.ml I wonder what communist-themed SF people here would recommend?

Read There is no antimemetics division, wondering why I slept on it for so long. Would like recs on similar SF books.

Currently reading Axiomatic by Greg Egan.

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I’d like to know your opinion on https://opencode.ai/ and/or https://charm.land/ if you have tried them - FOSS competitors to tools like Claude code.

The curl project has been dealing with this for a while, and it seems like their main problem is the increasing volume of low quality submissions.

They wrote something very similar to your suggestion: https://curl.se/dev/contribute.html#on-ai-use-in-curl

In addition to the other comments, AI has enabled drive-by contributors that do not disclose their AI use, and it either increases the maintenance burden or leads to non-trivial bugs when such code is merged without a thorough review.

I am not as biased against AI as others, so my view on this is that this is more of a social / cultural issue than any problem inherent to LLMs.

Another potential problem for FOSS is legal liability regarding licensing. I am not well versed on this so I’ll leave the subject to those who can further expand on it

I think I had a much more exploitative relationship working in one of the big Brazilian public sector tech companies than I am doing right now in a private company.

Fellow Brazilian IT worker here. Always felt the same regarding cultural differences between Brazilian countries and US companies, even though the sizes of companies I worked for were different (mostly bigcos in the home country, startups when I started working remotely).

When I was less politically literate I listened more to arguments about decentralization of power that are usually in that line between liberalism and anarchism. Lots of people here do the same.

The directors of the public state-owned companies are actually indicated from outside (politicians, top level bureaucrats and executives from the private sector) based on a neoliberal agenda that seek to provide services to provide data and public information for private companies

Most of our fellow citizens already associate the state with “corruption” due to that agenda, unfortunately. There is a cultural barrier to be won here. Tech has always branded itself as “revolutionary” and utopianistic, we could and should use that for good.