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PabloDiscobar, hace 11 meses

It's totally useless as long as you don't shut down plants that are running on coal. Otherwise it's just adding up with other sources of CO2.

Google is still closely associated with California to many people (and to a lesser degree New York), but it's determined to change that reputation. The company is launching a $13 billion expansion in 2019 that will give it a total US footprint of 24 states, including "major expansions" in 14 states. The growth includes its first data center in Nevada, a new office in Georgia, and multi-facility expansions in places like Texas and Virginia. This is on top of known projects like its future New York City campus.

This plant is used to power up an expansion of google, which means it's just adding up CO2 to what we already emit. It's creating a fake impression that we are reducing our carbon footprint.

There is a simple solution: shut down the datacenter. No more power needed, no more water needed. The problem is not about CO2, it's about us refusing to let go our previous way of life.

And if you refuse this solution ask yourself why.

PabloDiscobar, hace 11 meses

They are expanding and are going to continue expanding regardless of how their power needs are met.

And this is exactly the problem we should focus on. They should not be allowed to expand like that. Either we are in a situation of emergence or we are not. Just stop them, make the political decision to stop them.

I would much rather we switch 100% to wind, solar, geothermal rather than ditching the internet.

Run the numbers, everything we don't do now to reduce the CO2 emissions will be paid a hundred times more later. Megafires, megadraught, etc.

PabloDiscobar, hace 11 meses

The waiting list is on a google page?!

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1xSpGcBc0TP3GpfNgo3F0pV86OQYiEwUcsWBu3-RtfiU/viewform

It's 3 years old

https://old.reddit.com/submit?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.reddit.com%2Fcommunity-points%2F

PabloDiscobar, hace 11 meses

First, most of the people I saw discussing it support flatpak, not packages. They support flatpak like they support a football team. example here: "Mostly because they're uneducated fools".

It's all about reputation. There are people I trust, like Steam and there are perfect strangers from the internet. Who do you trust the most between "debian VS mastakilla_51"?

Wake me up when a flatpak app is thought with clear boundaries and doesn't just request access to my whole home directory. Until then I much prefer to have a team of packager maintaining a reputation, dedicated to their job and producing fine, reliable apps.

The Audacity fiasco was a perfect example of that. The apps was bought by someone, then telemetry was introduced into the flatpak and no one saw it. Instead, the distro maintainers noticed it and deactivated the telemetry. This is how we saw the thing.

Be very careful of what you lose when you say goodbye to distro packages, don't take it for granted. If you walk the flatpak way you will have access to a mountain of unverified software built by a random person of the internet having access to your full homedir. It's like installing freewares on Windows, you end up with a lot of crap on your computer. A packages repo is not like freewares for Windows.

Yes, I know, you think flatpaks come with sandboxing. It does not, because most of these packages use /home as the sandbox anyway and people click yes. Pick some flatpaks and see the access level their require. Most of the time it's /home. This is a terrible trend and I wished more of the flatpak supporters mentioned it when they praise the tool. Some people don't care. I do.

Cryptocurrency does nothing to help you since it gives a very strong incentive to criminal to scan your homedir. Scammers will use shiny software, flatpak it, add their "secret sauce" and publish it. If you had to install a cryptowallet, would you install the one from the debian repo of the one from mastakilla_51?

Until this whole jungle is sorted out: thanks, but no thanks.

PabloDiscobar, hace 11 meses

Let's all use snaps then!

"No, I didn't mean Snaps, I meant Flatpak"

Annnnd we are back at square one. flatpak is just another distro, with the limitations of a distro. You are basically asking for a unique distro to rule them all.

PabloDiscobar, hace 11 meses

ouch

This thread is closed, but I'm going to make a final reply before I ban you and your associate from our organization for your inflammatory, incorrect, and downright rude comments. Actions have consequences. Any time anyone asks us why we don't support AppImage, I'm going to point them to this thread, and how it was you, personally, who irrevocably burned all bridges with our development team.

And then he harassed the OBS team claiming that "users want appimages"

PabloDiscobar, hace 11 meses

I already posted something on the subject

https://kbin.social/m/linux/t/207700/Question-Why-does-everyone-seem-to-dislike-containerized-packages#entry-comment-901794

PabloDiscobar, hace 11 meses

I still have coins. Do you have any advice on how to use them? Is there any word out there about it?

PabloDiscobar, hace 11 meses

Or give all your gold to a [deleted] account

Or give is to u/spez, so he can enjoy all the features of his own platform

PabloDiscobar, hace 11 meses

This uncontrolled rush killed magazines. For example /m/hardware. I wanted to start something, but it was already reserved by someone who never posted anything in a month, not a post, not a comment anywhere. There is no link to other mags on the page, no rules, no nothing.

I messaged the guy to get the magazine back but never got any answer.

PabloDiscobar, hace 11 meses

The name hardware was kind of a "catch all" to answer generic questions and to give exposition to other smaller niche magazines like monitors, memory, ssd, motherboards, datahoarders, homelab, you name it. Calling it something else would have defeated the purpose.

PabloDiscobar, hace 11 meses

No one will type pchardware. But we could have added links to other non-IT magazines.

PabloDiscobar, hace 11 meses

It is reserved to people living in the USA.

PabloDiscobar, hace 11 meses

It's a war for content. If you have ever written a comment of more than five coherent lines then you have been working for free all this time.

We are the value, we fill the websites, we create the distraction between two ads and we teach the AI.

PabloDiscobar, hace 11 meses

Food for the AI. This is where the money is.

Look at a big sub of reddit: today it's made of one liners that we collapsed. This is worthless to an AI.

Would you ask questions to an AI if it gave you a reddit like answer? No.

They want the content creators, and the content is in the comments.

PabloDiscobar, hace 11 meses

Haem...

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PabloDiscobar, hace 11 meses

So clearly on the same page? Yes.

PabloDiscobar, hace 11 meses

Is it supposed to reassure me or somethin'?

PabloDiscobar, hace 11 meses

Oracle is this priest who will try to convert you to christianity when you are in a hospital on your deathbed.

Oracle has been part of the Linux community for 25 years. Our goal has remained the same over all those years: help make Linux the best server operating system for everyone, freely available to all, with high-quality, low-cost support provided to those who need it.

Fuck you

We want to emphasize to Linux developers, Linux customers, and Linux distributors that Oracle is committed to Linux freedom. Oracle makes the following promise: as long as Oracle distributes Linux, Oracle will make the binaries and source code for that distribution publicly and freely available. Furthermore, Oracle welcomes downstream distributions of every kind, community and commercial. We are happy to work with distributors to ease that process, work together on the content of Oracle Linux, and ensure Oracle software products are certified on your distribution.

Oracle is one of the biggest personal data broker out there. Fuck you

By the way, if you are a Linux developer who disagrees with IBM’s actions and you believe in Linux freedom the way we do, we are hiring.

The russian army is hiring too.

Finally, to IBM, here’s a big idea for you. You say that you don’t want to pay all those RHEL developers? Here’s how you can save money: just pull from us. Become a downstream distributor of Oracle Linux. We will happily take on the burden.

Devour each others please. Thank you and fuck you.

PabloDiscobar, hace 11 meses

Xandr

https://datawrapper.dwcdn.net/6N8gA/plain.png

edit: to whomever is interested in privacy, the downvote is from a troll, mass downvoter called @DarkThoughts. The link is good and the source as well.

PabloDiscobar, hace 11 meses

"This is profiteering, not innovation."

Says the youtuber with an arrow in his thumbnail.

PabloDiscobar, hace 11 meses

"This is profiteering, not innovation."

Says the youtuber with an arrow in his thumbnail.

PabloDiscobar, hace 11 meses

About dialog/sciencex.com

A press release is structured like a traditional news story. By contrast, Dialog seeks a direct level of engagement with the audience—imagine that you are writing a TED talk and speaking to professionals and students who may not be experts in your specific field.

PabloDiscobar, hace 11 meses

The tornado falls into the category of "the figure of Jesus in the crust of a pizza". It's 100% subjective and it's not news anyway.

What matters is who is talking to you. It's the " about us" tab at the bottom of the website. Thaty why http://ground.news is useful.

PabloDiscobar, hace 11 meses

"Please keep working for us for free" --reddit

PabloDiscobar, hace 11 meses

Not morons, greedy.

The message of "global warming is not real" is not sent by morons, it is sent by industrial groups who want to keep making a profit. They do have the marketing machinery to push this narrative. The "morons" have zero pushing power for any narrative.

PabloDiscobar, hace 11 meses

Don't go against the flow. RH has clearly expressed their hostility to the project, it's time to work with people who want to work with you.

PabloDiscobar, hace 1 año

Be patient, if you want your content deleted you will have an efficient way to do it soon. Don't count on reddit to do this for you. It seems we have enough access to the API to do it ourselves.

PabloDiscobar, hace 1 año

For reddit and twitter it's also induced by the threat of AI. Twitter and reddit host a lot of content, organized, sorted, coherent. It's invaluable for training an AI and these companies don't want to let it go for free. They want control over it, therefore they are making it very hard for AI companies to farm their content. The fact that it's happening now is because AI companies are probably rushing to copy as much data as possible before laws are voted to put a limit over them.

It will be the same for the fediverse, our content will be scanned by AI's. Our content is freely visible, organized, sorted and scored. We should be careful about that. If you are not a professional publisher or a public person then you should probably think about rotating your username as often as possible.

edit: But also, with the rise of tiktok, a lot of countries are now suspicious about the soft power of those apps, and are ready to legislate against them. The EU already did, they did vote fines against them and are regularly getting money out of them. The taboo is gone, you can attack those companies, it works. They were supposed to be out of reach, but they are not.

Also there is no genius in Twitter, as far as I know they have no patent over anything. If someone manages to become more popular than them on the same principle then twitter is done. Gravity will do the rest and users will move to a different platform. People are using it because people are using it. So the model is fragile and the value is questionable.

PabloDiscobar, hace 1 año

What’s so bad about giving AI models something to learn on?

From a user point of view? A lot. So far the AI has made itself the champion of the creation of fake. Fake news, fake pictures, fake videos, fake history, fake identity. Do you think that the AI will be used for your own good? Do you think that your private data are farmed for you own good? I don't.

I posted an example about fake identities and fake posters on Twitter. This is the end goal. This is where the money generated by the AI will come from.

That way you could detect and address rogue scrubbers while still working with LLM creators who are open to an honest training integration. And if your company can’t really detect the difference between users and LLM crawlers after implementing something like this, well, then those crawlers don’t really affect the company as much as the CEOs would like to pretend.

Twitter and Reddit probably want to be their own LLM creators. They don't want to leave this market to another LLM. Also it doesn't take a lot of API calls to generate the content that will astroturf your product.

Anyway the cat is out of the bag and this data will be harvested. The brands will astroturf their products using AI processes. People are not stupid and will realize the trick played on them. We are probably heading toward platforms using full authenticated access.

PabloDiscobar, hace 1 año

The instances of the fediverse are necessarily smaller than the reddit server, therefore you will have to search for remote communities on specialized servers. Or start your own.

If meditation concerns 0.1% of the population, then you will need 10000 accounts for each 10 meditation members, that would be 40 people on kbin. So you have to search on different instances, and maybe move to a different federation. Your main instance should be located where you live and then you search elsewhere for your niche interests.

PabloDiscobar, hace 1 año

If we want the fediverse to replace Reddit then either

We don't want the fediverse to replace reddit. Specially in term of popularity. What made reddit collapse in quality is the amount of people on the platform. The 3rd party app thing was only a trigger for many people. Many others have seen the quality of the content of reddit nosedive with time. The festival of memes and one liners has been described again and again. We didn't have this during those few weeks here. We will have it if the platform becomes too popular. How could it be otherwise? How can you picture a popular platform without the popular content? The platform filtering through some hurdles is a good thing.

Even now you can already see the bad behavior of redditor being reflected in the content. And it's only starting.

People have to come out of interest. Otherwise your platform will be filled with 1-click meme posters, and that's probably not what you want.

PabloDiscobar, hace 1 año

But the API won't be open to us forever, right? I thought that it would close today.

PabloDiscobar, hace 1 año

100 per minute is faster than the speed at which I deleted my history. So I guess we can still help people deleting their history.

I used the archive which is shared around and extracted my posts to get the id of my comments and deleted those, like 30 per minute. But I guess that if we rebuild a database with the author as a key then we can pretty quickly return a list of id's based on an author. Then the user can feed this list to a python script by himself and delete himself.

What I couldn't do in time is edit the posts as I ran in some weird index errors that I couldn't bypass.

PabloDiscobar, hace 1 año

I agree that a lot of politicized content is shit. Yesterday I checked reddit and an article was titled 'ultra-rich reminded of pitchforks if they don't share' or some asinine bullshit. I would enjoy not having this relentless ragebait spam here.

@news is like 50% american political news. The newcomers are reproducing what they did on reddit. It's news material to them.

I do however think, that I can just block them right?

You cannot block the content they upvote. You can block a magazine, but why would you block @news? Why should it be the de facto american political channel? Also the content induces a type of comment. If the frontpage is made of rageclick then subscribers will be rageclick consumers.

So we have reenacted the reddit process. Except we did it way faster.

I think you are right to caution but maybe a little over the top.

It's only the beginning, the worse is yet to come as today is the last day for apollo and co.

PabloDiscobar, hace 1 año

The US crowd is a specific crowd. Only in the US could the pizzagate be a thing. Don't equate the USA as "another country but bigger". The weaponization of the american media is perfectly visible and understood and honestly I expected better from people who left a platform like reddit. I was wrong. Only a small minority was able to produce interesting conversations before Jim interrupted the finer things club.

Also just because you are american doesn't mean that you have to post about american politics. There is a whole world out there and american would be well inspired to look at what is happening beyond the ocean. I was talking about https://ground.news a few minutes ago. Great tool to find foreign stories in english from all around the globe.

PabloDiscobar, hace 1 año

Are you sure that you are answering to the right post or are you just jumping on the bandwagon of another post? You address nothing of what I mentioned about the federation system and the solution I've given.

I don't think you quite realize how much craziness is in the world at large. There are have been instances of pizzagate levels of craziness in my home country, as well as in the other countries whose news I follow.

Give some example which show the magnitude of the pizzagate. I'm not talking about a follower of qanon making noise for views, I'm talking about the pizzagate with everything that it includes.

You also don't seem to grasp how discussions on the Internet work. People will post about things that interest them. Telling people not to post things that are of interest to them because you don't like it is counterintuitive and borderline offensive.

I thought that you were serious for a moment, I was wrong. Or you answered to the wrong post.

PabloDiscobar, hace 1 año

Don't. The last thing we want is to associate the fediverse with some kind of anarchist world where everything is trash and everyone insults everyone. Leave the memers to reddit.

PabloDiscobar, hace 1 año

Doesn't matter. For one person like you there are 20 other who will just spam/downvote.

PabloDiscobar, hace 1 año

I don't want to be "this guy", but what we have here is a screenshot of a Tweet post without even a link or a date. It's the best way to go back to the same old system that we have left behind us. This is whitepeopletwitter in a nutshell.

Edit, seriously it looks like you framed a "motivation speech". Just post the link to the text, don't screenshot a text, we cannot do anything with it. We have the tools now, use them

PabloDiscobar, hace 1 año

No. Look at the image again, we don't have the instance of the user.

also it's just a comment with someone's opinion. what is the issue exactly

It's a motivation speech. Add a parrot and you have an "advice animals". Have you not noticed how reddit became this repository of snapshot of Tweets and tiktioks? That's what you want?

PabloDiscobar, hace 1 año

But look at what we lose in the process of screenshooting a post:

• We cannot write an answer to the OP
• We have no follow-up of the conversation started by the original post
• OP cannot edit his screenshot
• OP cannot answer our discussion
• OP doesn't even know that his post is discussed elsewhere
• We have no connection with OP between our instance and his.

In short, we have lost all the advantages of the fediverse, for what? For the graphics, for the white on black background which reminds of Twitter. It's a terrible trade.

That being said, there's been instances (especially with regards to certain politicians on Twitter) where having the screenshot has been paramount, as the original post gets deleted.

Editing what you said is a right. You have the right to change your opinion. It's in fact a virtue. If you see something interesting in the comment, use the symbol and edit your post, and say that you changed your mind.

Link the original post and be done with it. Risk of the original post being deleted, making your post useless.

I like it. If you think you posted by mistake, if there was a misunderstanding or if you fucked up..... well, I think it's a good idea that the fediverse allows you to make things right.

Link a screenshot. You could add the link to the original post in the comments

Forget the screenshots. It's like using binary with git.

Just make it live, use the fediverse as it is supposed to be used and see where it leads us. We'll see how Ernest & Co can make something based on the fediverse which makes the process way more fluent and intuitive.

PabloDiscobar, hace 1 año

These instances are like pirate ships pursuing us.

But they don't write from their original instance name... nonono, I'm sure that they are popping up here with a fresh duplicate account:

"Hello, let me explain some politics to you, but first let me nuke your reputation with a few multi accounts".

And you end up discussing with a whooping 5 downvotes as a starter. It gives the tone for the other people who want to discuss and see you as "this guy".

PabloDiscobar, hace 1 año

Each has become a testbench to make karma in the other two.

PabloDiscobar, hace 1 año

What happened to antiwork was fantastic. It was created by someone who was lazy and did not wanted to work. Then it got co-opted by people who wanted to work. Finally he was kicked as a mod for sticking to the name and spirit of his sub. He had his cosy sub and he was invaded by workers.

How can you seriously claim to be pro-work but follow the banner of someone who claimed long ago to be antiwork? Why were they all shocked? Just read the sign, antiwork, it's the name!! Don't you listen to the people you chose to follow?

watches the TV --> "Ho no, our leader is antiwork!"

Just create your own thing.