Stalin wouldn’t want to either. as I recall, he wasn’t too fond of gay people.

if you’re waiting until Empire falls to try communism, then you’re going to be waiting a long time. empires rise and empires fall, but one thing that never changes is there’s always another one to replace the old. that chain isn’t going to break if you’re just going to sit around waiting.

that apostrophe is bugging the shit out of me

that’s because it’s a nonsensical take.

if you’re talking about Kudzu, it must have some value in that regard, it was introduced in the US during the Great Depression as a way to feed people. turns out though, when they aren’t starving, people won’t eat just anything.

you guys make a lot of fuss about a plant that is tasty and you can eat.

I just wish Kudzu tasted half as fun.

good, every fascist deserves to lose their power

cops protecting neo-nazis from old people on bikes. truly the heroes we need.

if I recall correctly, they’re the person who banned me from lemmy.ca on request of MrKaplan when he got butthurt, so the fact they used fascism and genocide apologia as a reason is rather amusing, since they don’t seem to mind supporting it themselves.

I’ve been running Qwen3.6 35B very easily. but that’s because I’ve got a ASUS Z13, which is one of the newish laptops that have the AMD Ryzen AI MAX+ 395 in it. you can get that chip with 128gb of unified memory, 96gb of which I have dedicated to be VRAM. I can also run Qwen3 Coder Next 80B. I’m not sure how many tokens per second I’m getting with Coder, but it’s fast.

honestly I think this unified memory might be the future of mobile chips, because the things I can do with it are pretty crazy. it’s not just useful for AI either, it’s in a few gaming laptops because it also works really well when gaming. but the things you can do with LLMs or diffusion models is amazing. I donate compute to AI Horde, and I’m finishing image generation jobs for people in like 4 seconds.

I think the CCP describes it as the preliminary form of socialism or whatever, but how much of that is serious, and how much of that is just propaganda to distinguish themselves from the decadent western nations? most scholars would probably call it state capitalism.

just because the major corporations like China Tobacco are state owned, doesn’t mean they aren’t exploiting the population for profit though. keep in mind that most of the unethical consumption under capitalism in the west is powered by orphan crushing machines in the east.

china is a capitalist state, so no.

push a narrative of UK decline

well, the UK is in decline

Also I think that if more instances then switch away from piefed to your version that his fragile ego wouldn’t be able to take it and he’d ragequit the whole project leaving you all to maintain it.

well, judging from the conversations we’ve had, our end goal is a software diverged enough that we’re the ones maintaining it because he has nothing to do with it. some of us have unused servers lying around the house, so we’re setting up platforms as we speak for testing. there’s currently several people who are planning to take part in the development, but that number might go up when we “officially” announce the fork later.

Yes, a hard fork would entail maintaining a codebase ever-more divergent from PieFed over time. Anyone serious about forking should consider how much work it would be embark on an independent path.

nothing worth doing is easy.

same, but make it three things for me. I also hate stepping in water on the bathroom floor while I’m wearing socks. that’s the worst.

hey now, I run infrastructure and I’m…

oh

well I was working on one and called it pievolution, but I’m mostly versed in design and HTML/CSS, not in Python. so I’m gonna table that and instead help out Mia with her fork instead. hers is called pylova.

if we’re gonna make a serious push for a fork away from mainline piefed that doesn’t depend on manbabies, I would rather somebody with more Python experience be in charge.

we’re actively working towards a fork right now in certain private chats. and by we, I mean the FAF and some allied admins and users. we’ve been discussing how that would be organized atm.

the intention is to first remove problematic shit Rimu added, then begin adding features we want to break away from his influence at all.

were you offering to help them, or just bragging about how you understood something they didn’t?