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New comment by selfhoster1312 in "If more than 50% press blue, everyone survives. Red pressers always survive"

selfhoster1312 — Mon, 27 Apr 2026 16:03:53 +0000

Well that's exactly how empathy plays out in real life. It's not an abstract feeling. People often put their lives at stake for others, which is something game theorists can't really appreciate.

New comment by selfhoster1312 in "If more than 50% press blue, everyone survives. Red pressers always survive"

selfhoster1312 — Mon, 27 Apr 2026 16:02:48 +0000

Somewhat true, though in my view ensuring everyone lives sounds like a fair advantage. An interesting variant would be if >50% vote red, only those who voted red die.

New comment by selfhoster1312 in "If more than 50% press blue, everyone survives. Red pressers always survive"

selfhoster1312 — Mon, 27 Apr 2026 06:45:23 +0000

Believe what you want, the numbers disagree with you. As for the sociopath label, assuming psychopathy and sociopathy are the same thing, egocentrism and impaired empathy are central traits.

New comment by selfhoster1312 in "If more than 50% press blue, everyone survives. Red pressers always survive"

selfhoster1312 — Sun, 26 Apr 2026 21:53:06 +0000

It is a dilemma because pressing blue or red reveals about your political orientations and your inner empathic responses (i'm assuming both are correlated). Not everyone is wired the same or agrees on politics.

Though in a sense, i agree it's not really a dilemma because only sociopaths pick red in real life. See also intense and spontaneous cooperation in times of crisis (catastrophe, war, etc). See also research on mutual aid as key factor in species development: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mutual_Aid:_A_Factor_of_Evolut...

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selfhoster1312 — Sun, 26 Apr 2026 21:49:02 +0000

Technically correct, which is the wrong kind of correct. That's an individual framing of a collective problem which fails to capture the social and political ramifications, and all the empathy and solidarity associated with the choice.

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selfhoster1312 — Sun, 26 Apr 2026 21:47:49 +0000

Because most people have empathy and collective consciousness. Apart from ultra-capitalist individualists, most people choose trust and cooperations, because we're hard-wired for that and that's how species develop and thrive (see also, science).

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selfhoster1312 — Sun, 26 Apr 2026 21:43:44 +0000

There's actually many scientific studies which tend to show that empathy is inversely correlated with wealth. That's popular knowledge as old as class war, but it seems there may be scientific evidence to support that.

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/277354081_Social_cl...

https://www.pnas.org/doi/abs/10.1073/pnas.1118373109

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S22141...

New comment by selfhoster1312 in "If more than 50% press blue, everyone survives. Red pressers always survive"

selfhoster1312 — Sun, 26 Apr 2026 21:32:42 +0000

I would personally assert it's foolish to pretend a species can survive without empathy and mutual aid. That's certainly not how humanity (or most, if not all, species) developed so far: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mutual_Aid:_A_Factor_of_Evolut...

New comment by selfhoster1312 in "If more than 50% press blue, everyone survives. Red pressers always survive"

selfhoster1312 — Sun, 26 Apr 2026 21:30:13 +0000

Same as with the original dilemma. Most people are not sociopaths and will choose to cooperate with empathy for everyone else. That's just how species survive and adapt. (1) Alternatively, some people believe that sustained cooperation is in itself a sustained equilibrium. (2)

Most of the world is not as individualistic as Silicon Valley engineers believe in their own ivory towers after decades of reading Ayn Rand.

(1) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mutual_Aid:_A_Factor_of_Evolut...

(2) https://www.optimallyirrational.com/p/the-true-story-of-the-...

New comment by selfhoster1312 in "French government agency confirms breach as hacker offers to sell data"

selfhoster1312 — Sat, 25 Apr 2026 23:33:08 +0000

French context: sécurité sociale exclusively means socialized healthcare. Sorry for the confusion.

New comment by selfhoster1312 in "French government agency confirms breach as hacker offers to sell data"

selfhoster1312 — Sat, 25 Apr 2026 23:32:21 +0000

It's hard to say otherwise. They were moderate left in the 80s when they were doing nationalizations and pro-worker reforms. They've embraced free market in the 90s which is arguably not very left-wing. Leaving aside same-sex marriage for a minute, Hollande's rule was well-known for social regressions for workers (Loi travail) and minorities (Déchéance de nationalité, taking 7 year-old children into police custody for thought crimes), and handouts for wealthy elites (CICE). That, and systematically continuing to destroy public services that Sarkozy already harmed. That can hardly be called left-wing in my book... unless you'd like to name left-wing policies introduced under Hollande?

New comment by selfhoster1312 in "French government agency confirms breach as hacker offers to sell data"

selfhoster1312 — Fri, 24 Apr 2026 07:34:39 +0000

Tough luck, i've never used any machine learning in my life (that i know of). AI tools are part of the same problem, the same techno-fascism i was decrying in my comment. I'm just curious how you could even think i was using AI????

New comment by selfhoster1312 in "French government agency confirms breach as hacker offers to sell data"

selfhoster1312 — Fri, 24 Apr 2026 06:57:27 +0000

Assuming this is a serious question, no. The database was compromised. Some people have the authoritative source of information. Any noise they will just ignore because they know it's not in the "real" dataset.

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selfhoster1312 — Fri, 24 Apr 2026 06:53:30 +0000

It's not just one head though. It's 3 different right-wing administrations (Sarkozy, Hollande, Macron) wanting to make everything digital, fighting against the unions, fighting against the users, and fighting against any common-sense administrator so they can destroy public services, close down local government service branches (La Poste, sécurité sociale, etc).

It was always an entire fuck up. There was no way it was anything else than an entire fuck up. The "highest level of security" (ANTS) leak is just the cherry on the top. Time to get the guillotine out of the garage i guess?

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selfhoster1312 — Fri, 24 Apr 2026 06:49:43 +0000

> this needs a very un-French form of government to get it to work

I'm usually not one to defend french culture, but i believe your interpretation is wrong. What went wrong in this case is the americanization of the french administration: make everything complex, remove all local government branches and workers who can help you, remove every sensical administrator from their position, ignore all the privacy laws that were passed after Vichy and the nazi/IBM databases, "just make all the NUMÉRISATION".

The french government didn't have a proper national ID system until the nazi administration (Vichy) who invented the CNI and the Ausweis. There was strong sentiment against this well into the 70s and the Loi Informatique et Libertés, and it's only the more recent startup generation that started undoing all our ancestors hard fought battles against data collections/centralization.

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selfhoster1312 — Fri, 24 Apr 2026 06:42:51 +0000

I agree with the premise that SSII audits are useless, but your solution sounds like bandaid on a cancer. The real solution solution is stop this surveillance machine madness!

I understand that identity is required for property deeds and bank accounts for tax reasons and that should 100% not be online. But for the rest, it should be entirely outlawed to collect personal information beyond what's necessary for the service, including for government agencies.

Make healthcare (really) free => no social security database to hack. Give me back humans in offices for taxes and drivers licences => no ANTS database to hack. etc.

New comment by selfhoster1312 in "GIMP 3.2 released"

selfhoster1312 — Mon, 16 Mar 2026 07:07:37 +0000

I don't use an IDE under the common definition. All my developer friends use neovim, emacs, helix or Notepad++. I'm not a student. The people i have in mind are not students.

Your ai-powered friends and colleagues are not statistically representative. The world is nuanced, everyone is unique, and we're not sociologists running a long study about what "most of us" are doing.

> forgoing wheels on your car

Now you're being silly. Not using AI to program is more akin to not having a rocket engine on your car. Would it go faster? Sure. Would it be safer? Definitely not. Do some people enjoy it? Sure. Does anyone not using it miss it? No.

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selfhoster1312 — Sun, 15 Mar 2026 10:27:03 +0000

I didn't say using different technology was cheating, and metal tools are certainly part of woodworking for thousands of years so that's not really comparable.

It's also very different because there's a qualitative change between metal woodworking tools and a laser cutter. The latter requires electricity and massive investments.

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selfhoster1312 — Sun, 15 Mar 2026 09:06:01 +0000

> I can find dozens of other famous people doing something similar.

The interpretation can be doubted, but you have to give credit to Elon Musk for being an actual techno-fascist coming from a family of pro-apartheid racists. Maybe it's not technically a nazi salute, but you can't argue it's not a fascist salute given his political inclinations.

> And the AfD isn't a neo-Nazi group.

Please read up on the AfD. They have nazi references in their propaganda, actual nazis in their ranks, and an actual nazi program. On that last point, when they plan secret meetings for deporting wrong-race german citizens, that's straight out of Hitler's playbook, and was his solution before the "final solution" (mass extermination).

I'll give you the benefit of the doubt that you're simply uninformed and not actually downplaying nazism. Happy to provide sources for a specific point if you can't find any.

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selfhoster1312 — Sun, 15 Mar 2026 06:37:12 +0000

This is insulting to our craft, like going to a woodworkers convention and assuming "most of [them]" are using 3D-printers and laser cutters.

Half the developers I know still don't use LSP (and they're not necessarily older devs), and even the full-time developers in my circle resist their bosses forcing Copilot or Claude down their throats and use in fact 0 AI. Living in France, i don't know a single developer using AI tools, except for drive-by pull-request submitters i have never met.

I understand the world is nuanced and there are different dynamics at play, and my circles are not statistically representative of the world at large. Likewise, please don't assume this literally world-eating fad (AI) is what "most of us" are doing just because that's all the cool kids talk about.