So this is why I’m trying to avoid using the term fascist, because it means something specific but nobody can really agree what that thing is. For the purposes of this discussion, I’d prefer to say “authoritarian”.

I wouldn’t call traffic cameras invasive because they’re only at (some) intersections. But it’s still kind of borderline.
A private citizen recording people in public and the government doing so are fundamentally different. I think that having the government subcontract away that responsibility to maintain privacy is an abdication of that responsibility and is an intentional act to move towards authoritarian on the part of the govt. Now if the private company intends to help the government do that, is immaterial; that is the only major use case for their product, so it is functionally a tool with an authoritarian purpose.

Is it such a dichotomy in reality? No.
But we need to be exceptionally careful when we see these gray areas

That’s a good point.

It makes me reevaluate how to categorize crime…
Does this mean burglary technically contributes to the GDP?

Like the fascist LLM example I gave, or a training simulator that is hard-coded to only present fascist ideology.

Right. That’s what we’re talking about.
But I think the bar is a little lower. I think it’s enough to be primarily useful for (eg) fascist goals. If it happens to have minor non-fascist uses, I don’t think that materially changes anything.
I don’t think that Lemmy is primarily useful for furthering tankie goals.

I think that privacy invading surveillance systems are primarily useful for furthering authoritarian goals, by intention or not. There are some nice alternative uses, but I think that the use case of primary importance is in service to authoritarianism, which makes it authoritarian software.

The genetic dynasty is one of the main reasons I didn’t watch the show

Just because a product has a plausibly deniable use case doesn’t really mean that it’s not functionally political.

If someone creates a super invasive surveillance system and initially uses it for a seemingly benign purpose, that doesn’t mean the intention all along wasn’t more nefarious, especially if the system was practically irresistible for power structures and it’s use directly lead to authoritarianism. Like giving someone their first hit for free.

In a case like that, I would discount the benign use as a red herring, and say that the software is functionally political.

The extension of the argument I’m making (and maybe them kinda?) is that it’s functionally the same as if the software were political.

You can make software that nearly exclusively benefits a particular political belief for family of beliefs.

So even if it’s not actually technically political, it can be functionally political, at which point the argument is splitting hairs.

It does, but it doesn’t handle encryption at rest. Everyone needs to be aware that the immich admin can see their photos on the disk.

You don’t even need reasonably powerful hardware, I do it on my raspberry Pi 5. It just takes a little longer, which isn’t usually a problem except for the first time you import your library.

The other person deleted their comment so I can’t really know what the argument was, but I would like to make a distinction:

While tools cannot be political themselves, tools can lend themselves to specific political purposes.

A tank cannot itself be fascist, but it can make fascism more viable. Surveillance software cannot be political, but it is easily abused by fascists to destroy political opposition.

What matters is the harm and benefits. Is the harm caused by the tool justified by it’s benefits? Or are the primary use cases for the tool to prop up fascism?
(I suspect that “authoritarianism” would be a better term to use here, but I’m continuing the theme of the thread)

Nextcloud is like Google drive, immich is like Google photos.
You’d typically prefer to look at your photo albums in Google photos instead of Google drive.

I’m running it on in docker and I’ve connected it to my NAS mounted as a network drive. I set it up a few months ago, do it’s better since then.

Don’t even worry about the hardware, I’ve got it set up on a raspberry Pi 5. It’ll take a while to do all the classification on your existing library, but new photos get classified fast enough. You’re unlikely to need to do a smart search immediately after you’ve taken the pic.

For clarity, I’m not on Windows (obv, raspberry Pi), and I’m not using docker directly; I’m running HAOS on my pi, and I’m using the immich add-on. I know it uses docker, but I can’t tell you the exact command to run.

I’ve been summoned

I don’t think I have a single clear memory of any news story ever. I have vague half-remembered snippets.

The best I can do is 9/11 but I was well into my teens at that point, and even then my memory of the news itself isn’t clear.

I remember what my local news anchor looked like. That’s absolute it.

It absolutely has 6 floors, and counting as the Americans do with ground floor being floor 1, then the top floor would be floor 6.

I can’t find good photos so I’m using Google Earth, but I kinda agree with OP, I find 16 quai de bondy bears more resemblance than 6 rue burdeau, even accounting for foreground. Rue burdeau is way too close to those points of interest.

But as you said, it’s all inspiration anyways. Interesting that there’d still be some identifiable landmarks in the background if the foreground is all just kinda made up.

It’s not unholy, it’s just less holy. There is still one hole.

Wrong.
It’s called swamp water, and as kids we loved it. Mixem all up!

They’re looking for local access network access only

I’m not sure how you measure if bait was successful, but it is indeed a sad state of affairs

I was just testing it out lol.
There is also a graph plugin for an obsidian-like view, but it’s kinda janky.

There is a beta AI plugin too, which (as much as I hate AI) is something I may try. The power of NotebookML is just too much, I wanna be able to ask it shit about my D&D campaign notes.

I was going to switch to trillium next, but in the end I decided not because it relies on a database even more than Joplin does.

I’m in the process of giving Silver Bullet a try. It seems to be pretty well designed. I don’t really like that folders are just cosmetic and not useful for navigation, but I like that it is open source, that the documents are saved in the file system, and that it’s self-hosted instead of synced.