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2025-01-28 14:25:16

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Undermining big tech through FOSS*

2025-01-28 14:23:01

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Deepseek probably sells your data to data brokers. I can't help but admire DeepSeek's tactic of undermining through FOSS, though. DeepSeek opened Pandora's box for LLM innovation. If deepseek wasn't there, OpenAi would've kept hoarding GPU's and inflating prices. Yes they still collect your data and don't care about the customer but that's the baseline for tech brother.

2025-01-28 13:34:06

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People are celebrating the fact that 200 engineers from China were able to undermine and expose OpenAi and the stockmarket at large with a side project. This is a huge win for people who care about FOSS. You can run deepseek on your personal computer if you don't want to send data to China/if you don't want deepseek to abide by Chinese law.

2025-01-27 20:15:29

"And Paul, for better or worse, in my considered judgment, is the most influential European. Neither Constantine nor Aristotle can compete with the enduring and potent legacy of Paul’s life and actions. The Apostle Paul of Tarsus made the Semitic temperament in religion an integral part of the European temperament in general.
Pauline Christianity is the nursery of the European character for some one and a half millennia. Even secularized, post-Christian Europeans—especially Marxists and secular liberals—are messianic in outlook. They zealously spread their message to the whole world, though they mistake a fashionable Eurocentric cosmopolitanism for an authentic universality, confusing their own local affluence and good fortune for a global condition."
— Dr. Shabbir Akhtar (God rest his soul)
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2025-01-26 11:36:25

Al Qadi Iyad said: “What increases me in honour, so much so that I’m walking on the Pleiades is that you(Allah) refer to me as your slave, and that you made Ahmad my prophet ﷺ”
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2025-01-26 11:36:25

2025-01-09 23:58:14

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I was doing a more general critique of Bolsen's rethoric, so not specifically this video. In one of his videos he said that the west "can't possibly teach us anything" in the context of western thinkers of the last 3 centuries. Bolsen usually repeats his points and makes enough videos about the same topic to the point where it's hard to pin down what is in a specific video if you want to look it up again. I also agree that bolsen leans a little too much into leftist tropes, whether pan African or Asian.

2025-01-09 23:58:14

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2025-01-09 23:21:21

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I sympathise with a lot of Shahid Bolsen's takes but I believe ignoring the belief systems of those who have more power right now is foolish. Instead of acknowledging and interacting with western thought, he closes his eyes and pretends Islamic revival is guaranteed because of Saudi and Malaysia. Yes decolonization can be important beyond leftwing virtue signalling, and yes we hold the objective truth, but has the final prophet ﷺ not commanded us to retake our lost property(knowledge) wherever we find it?

2025-01-09 23:21:21

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