thegrimmest (u/thegrimmest)

thegrimmest commented on StarDict sends X11 clipboard to remote servers lwn.net/SubscriberLink/10... · Posted by u/pabs3

jacquesm · 15 days ago

Such responses to me are proof of malicious intent.

thegrimmest · 15 days ago

Why can't reasonable people disagree here? Surely if the utility of some features might outweigh the security concerns for some people. Making features opt-in instead of opt-out significantly changes their discoverability and usage metrics. On the whole, a translation system that has a feature to translate selected text seems hardly surprising. Similarly, using an online service to improve translation quality and reduce local resource usage also seems reasonable.

Fundamentally, always-online, home-phoning features are the norm, and it should be up to OS distributions to manage security postures such as allowlists for network access. Think something along the lines of "StarDict wants to connect to dict.cn. Allow/Deny?".

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ileonichwiesz · 19 days ago

> We made approximately the same progress in the past 100 years as the prior 1000 as the prior 30,000

I hear this sort of argument all the time, but what is it even based on? There’s no clear definition of scientific and technological progress, much less something that’s measurable clearly enough to make claims like this.

As I understand it, the idea is simply “Ooo, look, it took ten thousand years to go from fire to wheel, but only a couple hundred to go from printing press to airplane!!!”, and I guess that’s true (at least if you have a very juvenile, Sid Meier’s Civilization-like understanding of what history even is) but it’s also nonsense to try and extrapolate actual numbers from it.

thegrimmest · 19 days ago

Plotting the highest observable assembly index over time will yield an exponential curve starting from the beginning of the universe. This is the closest I’m aware of to a mathematical model quantifying the distinct impression that local complexity has been increasing exponentially.

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iancmceachern · 3 months ago

What about art,Mozart, the Dead shakespeare, south park and everything in-between? Those aren't science, but are some of the most vital components of education.

thegrimmest · 3 months ago

Education describing what cultural artifacts exist and how to produce them isn’t ideology. These are objective areas of study. Though lots of cultural education is ethnocentric, where minority cultures are less represented, making the education less well rounded.

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iancmceachern · 3 months ago

These are most certainly left up to the individual. None of these things were part of my, and most folks' public education.

thegrimmest · 3 months ago

I would disagree. Many ideological worldviews are taught in the curriculums of the public education system. For instance, the idea that homosexuality is wrong (not a view I personally hold) is not tolerated. Students are taught that homosexuality is a valid, normal, way to live (and I happen to agree).

However, whether it is right or wrong, valid or invalid, is an ideological argument. Schools should simply teach that it occurs in humans, and leave the question of whether to accept or reject it to parents (there are plenty of other natural behaviours many of us reject on ideological grounds, polygamy for instance). There are countless other examples where ideology is taught as curriculum.

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iancmceachern · 3 months ago

What is ideological education and why do you think it is all of education?

I'm saying flowers smell good.

You are saying flowers smell bad because of that one flower that smells bad.

thegrimmest · 3 months ago

Any conclusion that cannot be arrived at cannot be arrived at by a scientific process is inherently ideological. You’re saying flowers smell good. I say they smell bad. Neither of us is any more right than the other, since these are entirely subjective takes. The closest you could get is that flowers might smell good to x% of the population, which is what schools should teach. Not that they smell good or bad.

The distinction is small but important, since the latter conclusion doesn’t make any judgements about people with a legitimate minority opinion.

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compfingers · 3 months ago

what moral conclusions?

thegrimmest · 3 months ago

For example: What’s the right way to live? How to relate to others? On what basis do we cooperate? What are/are not the overall goals of society? What’s the meaning of life? What is it to be a good person?

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iancmceachern · 3 months ago

I get it, I'm not trying to chat about that.

I am saying if you can convince enough other people that this makes sense you can effect change. And im wishing you good luck with that.

thegrimmest · 3 months ago

> No, education is not brainwashing.

I’m directly responding to your point. Ideological education is brainwashing. In fact “brainwashing” is usually just another way of saying “an ideological education I disagree with”, also known as “indoctrination”.

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iancmceachern · 3 months ago

Fortunately our system is setup such that passionate folks like you can work to effect change. Go do it - volunteer for your local PTA, run for school board positions, show up to public hearings. Be the change you want to see in the world. God Speed my friend.

thegrimmest · 3 months ago

Having the ideology of the majority taught in schools is the outcome of a strictly democratic process like the one you’re describing. I’m suggesting that the separation between church and state be extended to any ideological teaching.

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iancmceachern · 3 months ago

No, education is not brainwashing. These terms have different definitions. One is by definition good, one bad. Words matter, definitions of words matter.

thegrimmest · 3 months ago

I’d love an education system that only teaches scientific consensus, and leaves moral conclusions to parents and households. However I’m sure you’d appreciate that’s not what we have.

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sausagefeet · 8 months ago

> The entire line of enlightenment liberal thought that gave rise to our society fundamentally disagrees with your position. The right to liberty is not bestowed by the good graces of society, but is fundamental and unalienable

You're quoting a document that is defining what rights it will give to the people. Whatever language you want to add around it can't get past the point that the document is giving rights to people and we as a society are agreeing to follow that document.

And please, this document is written in a time where many of its signers were holding slaves. Clearly not every man was considered equal.

thegrimmest · 8 months ago

The document does not give any rights to anyone. It is a piece of paper. What it does is describe an idea. The idea is that there are certain unalienable rights. You may disagree with that idea, but you cannot deny its existence.

> many of its signers were holding slaves

I can separate the idea from the people that held it. Can't you? I think this idea of liberty was a very good idea, and I support the expansion of those who qualify to be as free as described. What I'm arguing against is the erosion of the definition. We are not nearly as free now as free people were when the document was written. We are subject to much more authority.

It seems as though in your view, anything "society" does is legitimate, is that so?