Regardless of what you or I believe, most workers and even many comrades are still religious and the last thing we want is to be push them away, as long as they accept a materialist framework for organizing society and we work together to progressively reduce religious harm over time they can pray all they want imo. The only reason why reactionary religion is so powerful is because capitalists have overfunded them for decades, and even then you have examples of anti-colonial resistance led by priests and imams. We can and should work together as much as we can, of course without compromising analysis or praxis.
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While building more is obviously necessary, there’s still more than enough houses in the US to house all the homeless, but it’s less profitable, and in a profit driven system this is just the cost of doing business. Like, sure, people normally want to live in more urban places, but I don’t think many would want to stay homeless if offered an empty house elsewhere. Building more under neoliberal capitalism won’t do anything to fix homelessness, unfortunately.
Read communist leaders rather than accept whatever a school book that whitewashes colonialism and ignores Churchill’s genocide in Bengal tells you. You may disagree with them but you’ll notice most of them were fairly literate and understood dialectical materialism.
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Opensource@programming.dev•GIMP is gearing up for a massive upgrade
6·2 months agoRight? People who are familiar with proprietary software assume them being used to navigating that mess means the UI there is better
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Opensource@programming.dev•VLC is Wrongly Blamed for Microsoft Defender's Clumsiness
4·2 months agoAngry upvote
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Opensource@programming.dev•VLC is Wrongly Blamed for Microsoft Defender's Clumsiness
23·2 months agoVLC: I know that and I love you
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Rust@programming.dev•How to speed up the Rust compiler in July 2026
6·3 months agoIt’s a very common criticism
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Opensource@programming.dev•Codeberg Git Hosting Platform Bans Projects Mostly Written by Generative AI
6·3 months agoYou can disagree with my opinion, but at least point to where the fashy-ness is in the original statement or their policy so I understand what you mean.
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Opensource@programming.dev•Codeberg Git Hosting Platform Bans Projects Mostly Written by Generative AI
7·3 months agoHow on earth is taking a pro human stance for ethical reasons “fashy”?
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Opensource@programming.dev•China's 'open' AI is a terrible business, and nothing like open-source software
5·3 months agoThat’s pretty much where I’m at with this, whatever usefulness comes out from this kind pf tech will benefit professionals and end users so much more the more open it is.
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Opensource@programming.dev•[Opinion] China's 2026 pivot to open-source AI is a calculated geopolitical strategy to bypass US semiconductor controls, embed censorship, and dominate the global AI ecosystem
2·3 months agoYou do see how saying whataboutism to deflect accurate criticism is unhelpful regardless of whether it’s to defend your side or not, right?
You need evidence.
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Opensource@programming.dev•[Opinion] China's 2026 pivot to open-source AI is a calculated geopolitical strategy to bypass US semiconductor controls, embed censorship, and dominate the global AI ecosystem
12·3 months agoSounds like another edition of fearmongering about China because of geopolitical reasons rather than evidence. The bit about digital sovereignty is really funny to me, outside of China and sanctioned countries we’re all tied to US digital products whether we want to or not, but if the US want to remain the most powerful player there they can open source their own models and compete in the free market.
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Opensource@programming.dev•[Opinion] China's 2026 pivot to open-source AI is a calculated geopolitical strategy to bypass US semiconductor controls, embed censorship, and dominate the global AI ecosystem
5·3 months agoAdding to your comment, in social sciences it’s also much harder not to be biased as the resources used in training will have been produced in accordance to the dominant ideology of the institution producing knowledge, so even if/when we agree with a bias (ex: liberalism) we need to remind ourselves to be critical if we want to understand and/or produce good science.
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Rust@programming.dev•Rust Gets a Commercial Network with Microsoft, Google, AWS, and OpenAI Onboard
5·4 months agoHopefully not, if we take this at face value it’s about setting up the bureaucracy for dealing with issues related to using Rust in production, I haven’t been in the industry that long to know whether we should be alarmed but it doesn’t seem to be a move away from foss at least. The thing that worries me is that it may not just stop here.

If you don’t let them in they just break in and claim they own the place