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True GNU/Linux moment.

Doubt all you want, I’m not sending you an ID.

It changes everything, I didn’t have a problem with what was being said, just with the use of this word.

I have extensively explained why I find the use of this word problematic, including links that explain this word’s origin and the reasons why it’s controversial, feel free to read my other comments.

I am not. It is fine if you don’t feel like reading the comments entirely, but then you shouldn’t be answering to what you assume it says either.

Thank you!

There are reasons to regulate machines that can harm human. There are reasons to ban heavy robots, and perhaps all robots from places where that kind of things could happen. There are reasons to ban some machines altogether if their existence is a threat. All rules of this sort apply not to the machines themselves, but to the manufacturers and/or users plus any person with agency in this matter. Just as if someone drove a car off road into a children’s park, it is the driver who is at fault.

None of this requires or justifies recycling racist tropes or rhetoric. Even if you chose to burn a delivery robot in protest, which could be justified, there would still be no need to call it a clanker. And doing so in advance sounds like you’re yearning for a victim that is acceptable to oppress and to call slurs.

You using terms of apartheid means already projecting yourself into a hypothetical future where robots are similar to humans and the separation between them and us is artificial and enforced. Such a future isn’t desirable, creating such a machine would be cruel for the machine first and foremost; and if a machine truly had human consciousness, I believe we should either shut it down and destroy it immediately or give it the same rights as humans; any other option would be literal slavery. But we are far from this point. I kinda think many of the current “AIs” should be shut down and destroyed, but not for that reasons. These robots aren’t aware, have no agency, and there is no reason to talk about them as if they were humans who somehow deserved subhuman status.

On the very page you link to:

People use the term clanker both online and in person to comment either seriously or lightheartedly on the rise of AI. Some oppose using the term, however, because they say it perpetuates other slurs throughout history.

There is also this text shown as an example:

…with the upsurge of AI and AI-related technology (robots, for example), people have been going around calling said technology “clanker” as a slur… I know it’s probably [just] a joke […] but I can’t help but feel like it’s incredibly tasteless. @Informal_Radish_1891, r/blackladies subreddit, August 1, 2025

Now that’s interesting isn’t it ? Wonder what Informal_Radish finds so tasteless about it ? Here, I found the post in question. Unsurprisingly, she and some of those who replied echo the same concerns I mentioned.

What do you not get when I say it is NOT on AI’s behalf that I’m getting offended? if anything, it’s you lot that anthropomorphize it. Because talking about a non-human thing you hate doesn’t require a slur. In fact a slur only makes sense for something you treat as a human.

I can understand that the use case for “clanker” intended here is just a dismissive term for talking about LLMs. But that is not the way it is used in many of the memes that popularised it. These memes are not about LLMs. They are set in a future where robots act like people and are treated like black people in a segregated state. Memers are roleplaying segregated US or some other racist society, just switching black people for robots, in what is clearly as thinly veiled exercise at racism. You don’t have to trust me or watch the video essay, just look at tghe knowyourmemes page that describes it in a neutral tone. That is what this specific word is tied to. I don’t mind other equally dissmissive words like “slop-machine” or “slop-generator”, because they aren’t used in this way. These are words actually made to refer to LLMs by describing what they do.

But using the word “Clanker” will always conjure up thoughts of the type of content that popularised it, even if that is not the intention.

Not every opinion you disagree with is a troll. What I say is well documented. Even if you look at the examples of “clanker” memes on knowyourmemes, it’s clear they’re just roleplaying racism.

And the point I’m making has been made multiple times by multiple people. here in a 34 minutes video essay Here in the magazine Reveille (which I didn’t know about before searching just now, but I agree with what they say on this specific issue)

You don’t have to agree with me or with them, but you can’t dismiss it as “trolling”. it’s a genuine view held by many and defended by arguments, some of which I’ve mentioned and none of which you’ve answered to.

No.

I don’t care about AIs, I care that in many of these memes they appear to be used as stand-ins for black people, witg Clanker taking the role of the N-word. I am not offended on behalf of AIs, which I hate, else I wouldn’t be here. I am offended on my own behalf as a black person.

Please let’s avoid the term “clanker” here, it’s part of an awful meme that applies racist rethoric and trops to robots. I assume you have no such intention and are just using it as a derogatory term for AI, but please use a term that isn’t tied to these communities.

Only if you have a very long arm, like Monkey D Luffy.

You sound like that cartoon rooster.

No, this is wrong, Linux can run on an HDD.

I started selfhosting recently ! Yunohost makes it really easy, especially if you want to have several applications on your server that may or may not be on the same domain. But you can always go classic with Debian (any other linux distro could do, but Debian’s stability makes it ideal. Yunohost is also based on Debian).

Yeah, that’d mean you need some type of source accessible license. Not sure which specific one tho, you’ll have to look deeper into it’

NYes, I can go into more details! In the early manga, Yugi solves the puzzle in chapter 1 and transforms into Yami Yugi after both him and Joey (Jono-Uchi in the manga) are threatened by a guy who was at first pretending to be defending Yugi against Joey who was bullying him but then immediately demanded money from him. Yami Yugi challenges him to a game where they put the stack of money on their own hands and start picking bills with a knife (they must each take at least one per turn but lose if they stab their hands). When the other guys tries to cheat by stabbing Yugi, he uses tge power of the ouzzle to drive him insane as a punishment.

The rest is along these lines for a long time, a new villain and a new game every two chaoter. Sometimes they’re plugging actual games, I think some chaoters might be sponsored, lie the tamagochi one.

But interestingly, the first one with the card games isn’t. I think it’s strongly implied to be a reference to Magic: The Gathering (hence why they say it’s from the US, for example). But since they didn’t use the actual name or monsters and didn’t get into details of the rules, there was potential for monetization, which was realized a but later.

Kaiba is already the villain of the first chapters featuring the card game, but the first episodes of the anime are really a mix of the two first Kaiba encounters, which are many chapters apart (and the card game doesn’t come back until Kaiba does).

In the first encounter, Kaiba doesn’t have the Blue Eyed White Dragon, he steals it from Yugi who borrowed it from his Grandpa and Yami Yugi defeats him. We have the first idea of “the soul of cards” whith the BEWD refusing to fight for Kaiba. But we’re not really told that cards have an inherent soul because they’re from a sacred game, that’s all invented later. It’s more that this card was given to Yugi’s grampa by a precious friend and he treasures it because of it; and objects that are precious to someone become imbued with their soul.

Second encounter is after Kaiba beat Yugi’s grandpa and ripped his dragon. Yugi and friends actually have to climb a tower full of deadly games and traps to get to him, and then it’s the first duel from the anime.

Extra elements that are explained by this is that the inspirations for the hollograms Kaiba created is the traumatizing hallucinations Yami Yugi made him experience during his first duel. The reason why Yugi’s grandpa was unwell and in danger after the duel is that Kaiba, immitating Yami Yugi, subjected him to holograms of monsters attacking him after defeating him, which gave him a heart attack.

Shahdi and Bakura both appear a bit before the manga shifts completely to card games, hence why Bakura’s introduction in the anime was pretty rushed. In the manga, the first game he plays is a ttrpg.

You’re on the open-source community, of course we’ll be biased in favour of open source. One thing to point out is that open-source and closed source are both pretty broad categories that cover several licenses. Source available means people can see the code, but there are restrictions to how they can use it. Is there a specific thing you don’t want people to do with your code? Do you not want them to edit it for example? Or you’re fine with them editing it, but not for commercial purpose ? Any restriction of this type will make it source-available. If you’re fine with them doing anything, it’s open source. If you want them to mention somewhere that their code is based on yours, it’s still open source. And if you want any code made by editing yours to also be open source, that’s still open source (that’s the idea of the GPL). But other restrictions might make it not fit that category.

I personally usually default to the GPL3, I’m fine with people doing anything with my code except making it non-open source. Well “my code”… It might be a bit presumptious of me, I’m not really a programmer, I’ve just made a few small and not very useful things. There may be legitimate reasons for not wanting your code to be open source sometimes, but for me the stakes have always been low.

As for whether using Github creates an expectation for Open-Source… Not so much at this point. It’s very used by the Open-Source community, but not only. Plus, it’s not really open-source itself, so the most purist prefer other git platforms like git-lab, forgejo or source-hut.

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