providing so many features for free makes it very hard for any chess business to charge for its services
good, fuck off lol
If there’s no artificial scarcity and digital enclosure, people won’t need my services! Why can’t communists understand this?!
Still, if you put the benefits aside
This framing is so bad lol
Just put aside all of the good things and it’s actually bad
checkmate Lichess defenders 😎
The focus of every ounce of my career that isn’t put towards money for survival is to undercut these fuckers with FOSS. I want to do a shitload of exactly what this loser is complaining about
Any interesting projects in the works?
Yes, but I used a bunch of LLMs in it and that’s cringe.
Just this weekend I put the finishing touches on an ERP/workflow/database system that uses python, SQL, and JSON to store any schema you design. You can even put in scripts to automate taking raw data and turning it into good data at the click of a button.
It’s FOSS as a means of trying to cleans myself of my sins.
But basically during my time at Langley monitoring leftists who post too good to inject them with cringe takes and nanobots I saw people pay out the ass for software that wasn’t exactly awe inspiring. Even before that when I was working at the adrenachrome factory they had paid hundreds of thousands of dollars for a lemon of a database system. So now, forget it, you can make it yourself in an afternoon[1]. Not in a regulatory environment unless you want to pay me or recreate the nodes+modules yourself, but generally it should lower the bar for a billion different kinds of databases everyone’s using. Use it on your phone, upload pictures from your phone. Use it in firefox. Use it as a exe file. Use it as a linux app. Connect to the same database from all of them. Host it somewhere yourself. Use it over LAN.
I need to make sure I know what I’m doing before I provide a github link for all the stuff I mean to share. For example, I had to make sure I have an AGPL license on that thing.
My dream project is to create RuneLite for smart glasses so people can use quest helper and hold down space bar at work to skip all the text then highlight the next step in bright cyan. Again, dork technology created by tech bros. But it would be cool and funny
[1] I could make it myself in short order because I spent months developing it. It’s a pain to get anybody else to mess around and try pressing buttons without first declaring they don’t understand it.
Yes, but I used a bunch of LLMs in it and that’s cringe.
doesn’t seem cringe to me at all tbh! It’s a cool project that you’re looking at providing free of charge and if you’re using LLMs to make that process faster/easier/more pleasant then that seems like the ideal use case of LLMs in coding imo. to be fair though I was using LLMs for some personal projects recently to get them off the ground for similar purposes (sharing with others for free), so maybe I’m a little biased.
I can guarantee with every shred of confidence I have that this shit was not going to be created by me unless I got what is basically a powered exoskeleton doing syntax for me in 4 different coding languages (python, SQL, javascript, HTML), helping me with libraries (docker, WASM, electron, fastAPI), and instructions for hosting on AWS. In the best case, this project was dying on the command line the second I needed unit tests to make sure everything was working. So not only was it faster/easier/more pleasant, it was possible.
I can’t tell you what that means ultimately, but that’s what happened to me. Thank you for being supportive of me.
Your project sounds interesting and useful af.
It’s a pain to get anybody else to mess around and try pressing buttons without first declaring they don’t understand it.
I’d be happy to have a play with it if you want a bit of testing and feedback before you make it public. Feel free to DM me about it, I have relevant experience and stuff.
NOOOOO you can’t just make things and give them to people, you’re supposed to make things and then hold the things hostage for money noooooThe opportunities that never get built because it stops making economic sense to try
Less concerned Einstein’s brain, lived and died in sweatshops etc
The problem with Wolfenstein 3D is someone already made it and I DESERVE TO BE THE ONE WHO MADE IT what the hell guys. I can’t believe you let woke do this to me. I was going to be a millionaire.
AKA, the Johnny Turbo gambit.
Woah what a chad.
With our innovative pay-per-move system, we incentivize players to win matches faster, thus encouraging them to get even better!
You don’t have to pay tho! Every match you play will give you a free token so you can play the slot machine and win FREE moves and EVEN MORE TOKENS! Enough tokens can pay for new board-skins!!! 
I hate when nerds reinvent medieval enclosure and pretend it’s more innovative now than it was when they were just starving peasants to feed sheep. Cool, he’s paywalled chess and turned it into an exclusionary game that deters people from learning it. This is good for chess and isn’t just him being a parasite copying the work of the community he’s stealing from.
The funny thing is that at its core, this argument isn’t even that wrong if you applied it as a criticism of the structure of capitalism itself. Capitalism trends toward monopoly and monopolies will make it impossible for new competitors to get started and do innovation. It’s also true that when something is available for free it stifles growth in the relevant industries, another example of this is how countries that receive food aid will develop their agricultural industry around growing cash crops because farmers won’t be able to compete with the free aid.
But all of that is just an argument against having market forces decide everything in the first place. If society has the capacity in both technology and in productivity to make great services and enough goods for everyone, why would it be necessary for these things to be competed for in the first place? We can just… have free chess and food for everyone, because we have the means to do that and compensate the people who make it happen. There is literally nothing to be gained from it being a competive process.
The “politics” is lgbt people btw
Woah. Really? I thought it was just because the founder was a commie. Interesting to know this person is a queerphobe as well.
https://x.com/durarbayli/status/1680916086731030533
Should have posted the link earlier. Also sounds like he’s mad they acknowledged a country his country was genociding (although I haven’t looked into that claim at all, which is why I didn’t include it)
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Holy shit he’s actually complaining about chess being invaded by woke culture
What a massive dork this guy is.Thanks for mentioning this btw. I would have never known he was this much of a reactionary shithead.
It’s a major issue in the chess world, sadly. Just look at the reactions any time the concept of mixed-gender high level competition is brought up. They will absolutely seethe at the very idea of having to compete against a woman. Even worse if the person who wants to be included is trans.
I don’t play or follow chess literally at all. I knew there was a huge misogyny problem with men claiming that women are just fundamentally worse at chess, I didn’t know this was controversial, though. I thought the competition categories were already “open” and “women” and I’ve definitely heard the usual whining by transphobes about letting trans women compete in women’s events. There are even chuds who object to the open category? Bizarre.
they
banned trans men from open lolstripped pre-transition titles earned in women’s divisions from trans men too
chess especially notable because they
banned trans men from competing against their gender too lmaoooooowent the extra step and fucked with trans men tooWTF is wrong with chess heads
Holy shit we need to study this person’s brain in a lab
Preferably all of it, the sooner the better.
brb going to make an exclusive paid chess platform only for twitter bluechecks and beat this guy to the punch again.
with the tone of that tirade I’m surprised he even sees lichess as a competitor, given it’s obvious flaws.
I contributed to Hexbear with like 5 (five) subpar original memes. I am still waiting for someone to pay up. I suggest reinstituting downbears on a Pay-Per-Bear model, it’s just econ 101.
That’s a wonderful idea! If you’d like me to boost it with an upbear, please send 0.0000001 bitcoin to my wallet address
I remember the days of tip bots on Reddit…
I can’t believe these people are out here playing chess without a profit incentive.
Dude is complaining about capitalism weeding out inefficiencies in the market… The one time it does its job he hates it, amazing. I would frame this if it didn’t mean I would need to rent a printer in one way or another.
“Lichess sucks because i can’t rent seek on it” piss baby loser
- Really good chess app exists for free
- This disincentivizes tech bros from developing data-scraping chess apps that use AI to “revolutionize” chess
- ???
- The professional chess scene which had existed for decades before any of this falls apart
As if modern Chess wasn’t already built on the shoulders of generations of Soviet citizens
I mean, when you think of a stereotypically commie board game, if you know anything about Soviet life, you’re going to think of chess. Continuing to be Annoyingly Communist about it is just one more way Western commies are stuck in the Soviet era, in the best way.
The main game I played with my dad as a kid was chess LOL, and yes, my parents are from the USSR
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Please don’t fetishize nonwesterners or people with such ancestry like this. I’ve gotten this type of thing offline and it sucks. Her point about intergenerational trauma is a big one too, you don’t know what you’re wishing for, and the lack of understanding of the problems that come from it sucks to encounter too
TBH it did feel kinda icky but I didn’t take it as an offence really. Thx for putting it in words like this.
As for my fam coming from an AES (if corrupted) country making me being a Marxist any more or less valid, IDK.
Of course I’m happy to have this heritage, the glimpse of culture and society, the vast world, and masterful pieces of art and culture that are opened to me thanks to said heritage and it’s language is wonderful. I seriously appreciate it, and me being trilingual (I grew up bilingually obvsly, but I’d developed quite good English I’d say in my preteens), but my childhood was far from nice, in no small part thanks to that heritage…
Though my immediate family had the opportunity to move away before the complete and utter collapse of the 90s, a lot of my relatives, granted most of them were in Moscow and partially academic, so it didn’t hit them too hard, but still, it’s one of the most traumatic events in the last few decades there.
Imagine your whole life being swept upside down, a caste of betrayer bureaucrats doesn’t even begin to describe it. At least China’s caste of parasites managed to pull the restoration of capitalism and national (Han in the "P"RCs case) chauvinism off without any such breakups and upheavals (but with the suppression of leftist and actually ML opposition ¯\_(ツ)_/¯)
It doesn’t make me lucky. Just means my closer family is full of Russian nationalists (read: my grandparents like Putin because of the Soviet nostalgia mumbo jumbo Russian state ideology is partially made of and my father despite of it LOL) and an apolitical mom.
Also I was born and raised in Germany (early 2000s), which materially is privileged, but the political landscape and climate here makes me wanna KMS NGL). Was also raised with OFC watching the victory day parade and Putins new years speeches KEK.
The only good thing my father taught me politically was a fiery and passionate hate of the USA 🫡
+ it doesn’t make any of your positions more or less valid
Edit: oh and generational trauma from the GPW 😁 (and of the collapse). My great grandma specifically somehow survived one of the targeted genocides and largest sieges in modern history (Leningrad), she did a good chunk of raising my mom and is the reason why my grandma (mothers side), mom and finally I have shitty dry skin /lh
(At least that’s the family theory that she caught something during the siege and then passed that symptom on or smth)
The “generational trauma” thing is very real, I talk with people who grew up where I am and whose parents did too and they don’t know shit about what’s like coming from a 3rd or 2nd world background. Which is not a condemnation of them, but sometimes it gets gross, like a partner made some comment about wishing their family’s history was as cool as mine because it produced a very interesting person (me), and I got kind of upset because it’s a history of suffering due to the west’s colonial actions, and between intergenerational trauma and firsthand trauma I and my siblings are utter wrecks of humans in ways that we wouldn’t have been had we been white westerners. Sure there’d be other problems, but I would trade for those problems.
I was lucky to have the privilige to have no material wants, but the cultural and psychological shocks of Soviet history I did still feel.
Those scars are not cool and quirky, I personally don’t know if I would get rid of them, they are part of me, of what defines me.
But I would swap my parents NGL (though a lot of the issues they have are personal, IDK in how large a part due to their history).It’s still hard to fathom that my (technically step-) grandpa was born during the war, played in collapsed ruins as a child and still remembers having had to eat acorns or rather bread made of acorn flour to get by (despite his family being relatively well off for the times); I can’t even properly process that…
Edit: I’m also sorry for your personal history having been plagued by colonialism, I can’t even imagine what that baggage must be like, sorry… :/
Raw acorn flour or rinsed acorn flour?
Tbh I’m hoping to set up appropriate tech installations to make a whole bunch of the latter, like the rightful stewards of this territory did for millennia.
Oh and all relevant communists movements in the RF have been outlawed as in their parties, or broken up from the inside with government help.
The KPRF is an imperialist succdem joke
Also no, one accidental US-prodigy doesn’t negate any of that; fuck off Fisher stans ;3
Another thing that’s a bit off topic: around two years back I had a discussion with a German acquaintance of mine, where he actually claimed that the Poker world championship was somehow more culturally relevant than the world Chess championship; naturally I just laughed at that.
(And since this year he has been very active on chess.com and hasn’t even mentioned Poker once :p)
