TLDR:

Reification is when capitalism makes social relationships look like natural laws. It starts with Marx's commodity fetishism, where the value of a product seems like a property of the thing itself, hiding the labor behind it.

Lukács expanded this. He showed how this logic spreads to everything. Under reification, the system we built starts to rule us. We become objects to economic forces. Our lives get reduced to numbers like wages and prices. Capitalism starts to feel like the weather, an unchangeable fact of life instead of something people made.

This messes with our heads. It makes us passive. We see society as a bunch of disconnected facts we can't change, which stops us from seeing our own power as a class. Alienation is about feeling disconnected. Reification is about that disconnected world hardening into a fake reality that controls us.

The point is we forget we built this. Overcoming it means achieving class consciousness, seeing through the illusion that capitalism is permanent, and realizing we can change it.

Prefacing with: Yes yes yes, we know, you hate AI. You are truly unique and that joke about removing all previous instructions is just as funny today as it was two years ago.

Moving on.

I... honestly thought this was a joke while watching the youtube video. That said, I think this is simultaneously an excellent use of the fuzzy search/human language capabilities of LLMs AND has absolutely no good use case? And I am very wary of the input training data.

For the first part? There is a lot of value in being able to communicate what is broken without actually being an expert. That is honestly a big personal use of chatgpt et al for me. List symptoms as I understand it and then get that translated into domain expert language so I can know what terms to search.

But... I question the audience for that. How many people who can only say "sound don't work" are going to be comfortable jamming spudgers into seams and working on technically live electronics because the battery is ten layers deep? The youtube video uses an example of not being able to find the oil filter after taking the plate off and.. I would very much suggest paying to get that replaced if you are in a situation like that since you can cause a LOT of long term issues with your car if you screw that up.

Which has always been the dirty secret of Right To Repair. The vast majority of what those activists are asking for... aren't for the end user. It is for the repair shops. End users are not going to be swapping out their mac heat sinks or whatever because that requires special tools and a lot of expertise. But repair shops have done that for decades. And, in theory, that will be cheaper for the end user. In practice... there are a lot of reasons to know how to change your own oil filter, if you catch my drift.

And this is VERY much targeted at that end user.

And the last part is the training data. I've used a LOT of the ifixit guides over the years. Some are good. Some are... better than nothing. There are a lot of cases where I would have loved to get more detail on an intermediate step. But... where is that detail coming from?

So... yeah.

cross-posted from: lemmy.world/post/39939276

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In my area the Galaxy a56 was cheaper than the Cmf phone 2 pro at times. Online sale. For me the A56 gives the most value. The A56 olive has been prettyyyyyy.

https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2025/12/09/trump-interview-europe-john-harris-column-00682363

On a recent immigration raid, a Border Patrol agent wore a pair of Meta’s Ray-Ban smart glasses, with the privacy light clearly on signaling he was recording the encounter, which agents are not permitted to do, according to photos and videos of the incident shared with 404 Media.

Previously when 404 Media covered Customs and Border Patrol (CBP) officials’ use of Meta’s Ray-Bans, it wasn’t clear if the officials were using them to record raids because the recording lights were not on in any of the photos seen by 404 Media. In the new material from Charlotte, North Carolina, during the recent wave of immigration enforcement, the recording light is visibly illuminated.

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2025-12-09 14:02:09

Border Patrol Agent Recorded Raid with Meta’s Ray-Ban Smart Glasses

On a recent immigration raid, a Border Patrol agent wore a pair of Meta’s Ray-Ban smart glasses, with the privacy light clearly on signaling he was recording the encounter, which agents are not permitted to do, according to photos and videos of the incident shared with 404 Media.

Previously when 404 Media covered Customs and Border Protection (CBP) officials’ use of Meta’s Ray-Bans, it wasn’t clear if the officials were using them to record raids because the recording lights were not on in any of the photos seen by 404 Media. In the new material from Charlotte, North Carolina, during the recent wave of immigration enforcement, the recording light is visibly illuminated.

That is significant because CBP says it does not allow employees to use personal recording devices. CBP told 404 Media it does not have an arrangement with Meta, indicating this official was wearing personally-sourced glasses.

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Border Patrol Agent Recorded Raid with Meta’s Ray-Ban Smart Glasses

New videos and photos shared with 404 Media show a Border Patrol agent wearing Meta Ray-Bans glasses with the recording light clearly on. This is despite a DHS ban on officers recording with personal devices.

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Hey everyone 👋
I’m working solo on a small side project called BiteWise — it helps people understand what’s really in the food they eat 🍎
You can check it out here: bitewiser.carrd.co/

I’d love your feedback! Here’s a quick 2-minute questionnaire if you want to help shape it:
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Not selling anything yet — just testing if this solves a real problem 🙏

BiteWise

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The Supreme Court is considering a Republican-led drive, backed by Donald Trump’s administration, to overturn a quarter-century-old decision and erase limits on how much political parties can spend in coordination with candidates for Congress and president.

A day after the justices indicated they would overturn a 90-year-old decision limiting the president’s power to fire independent agency heads, the court is revisiting a 2001 decision that upheld a provision of federal election law that is more than 50 years old.

Democrats are calling on the court to uphold the law.

https://apnews.com/article/supreme-court-campaign-finance-republican-spending-limits-0381e78b1e8a8da0e49f5b55b543894e

Today I released a new version of SSH Pilot, a user-friendly SSH connection manager.

SSH Pilot packs some useful features:

• Built-in terminal
• Dual-pane SFTP file manager
• SCP file transfers
• SSH Key generation and transfer
• Secure storage for SSH secrets using libsecret and automatic login
• Server grouping and color taggings
• and more

It is available for major linux distributions, and there is a Flatpak that should run on any distro with Flatpak support.