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I was a car guy, more or less. I enjoyed driving them, I enjoyed tinkering with them. I like going fast, I like shifting gears. I did some incredibly cool road trips, I did some autocross, I did some commercial driving too and enjoyed the challenge of finding the most efficient routes across the city.

But there are too many cars on the road, designing our cities around them was a potentially civilization-ending mistake, and we should all stop burning fossil fuels like right now and also stop spreading microplastics, oil, and road salt all over the land. There are better ways to commute. These days I’m more of a “fuck cars” guy.

I got to install Mint for a couple of people, which was fun. Haven’t done much of that since the heyday of the Linux User Group circa 2002.

Interesting news, but I’ll just stick with F-Droid.

I like the A Fire Upon The Deep version where Earth is in the “slow zone” but the speed limit gets faster in other regions of space. It makes enough sense that you could easily imagine a universe working that way, at least if you don’t know too much about physics.

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Well I dunno, I just watched their demo video and otherwise know nothing about it, but it looks like an interesting experiment. Maybe some day — if they keep throwing hundreds of billions of dollars at it for another decade or two — it’ll get good enough to justify however much it costs to run.

That one is not at all unclear to regular readers of phoronix. Would you expect them to spell out what a “GPU” is as well? No harm in explaining it for others, but don’t blame the author.

“This is a turning point when we see emissions plateauing.”

That’s a pretty depressing way to sum it up. It’s consistent with what the IEA reported in July:

[coal] demand declined in China and India due to weaker growth in electricity consumption and strong increases in power generation from renewable sources. By contrast, coal use grew by around 10% in the United States as robust growth in electricity demand combined with higher natural gas prices drove up coal consumption for power generation. In the European Union, coal demand was broadly flat, with lower consumption by industry offsetting higher demand from electricity generation.

Despite these short-term variations, the report notes that the underlying structural drivers of the world’s coal use remain broadly unchanged.

Automatic removal for repeat URL posting

That seems like the best of these ideas. But it would be better for the originating instance to warn the poster that their url has already been seen and stop them posting it unless they really really want to.

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It’s just that around my part of the world, not actually doing it is way more common than not thinking you probably should be doing it.

If you’re in a place where that opinion is unpopular you may not be in the real world.

white radio (noun, uncountable): (espionage) Radio broadcasting propaganda whose source and motivation are apparent.

Coordinate term: black radio

Because… gestures at wikipedia. It’s a long story.

Yeah I would prefer to move my data from the cloud to my personal computer. With fully automated cloud-based end-to-end encrypted backups, of course. Even web apps have good access to local storage now. If I want to share my personal data with someone, I can send it to them.

I’m sure there are a few applications where something more complicated is required. Neither lemmy comments nor biometric data from a “smartwatch” are among them.

You opened with “I mean mbin is just Reddit + Twitter” which is just ridiculous. However important the precise nature of the algorithms used to generate users’ feeds might be (mine shows only things I follow and is sorted by “new” most of the time), such qualities as being decentralized, standards-based, openly interoperable, and advertising-free are more so.

Well, you’re using “Social Media” as some kind of proper noun which apparently means something other than what most of humanity means by social media, hence my doubt. Sorry I was slow to understand. “Social network” on the other hand usually refers to networks of social connections in general, mediated or not.

My social media feed in 1989 was pretty good. Kibo was a guy who was famous for a thing that demonstrated to everyone the power that Usenet users had to generate their own views of the network according to whatever algorithms they chose. More often we had what I suppose you’d call a more reddit-like experience. Although I guess it’s so far unclear if your personal definition of Social Media would include Reddit.

Your odd capitalized notion of “Social Networks” seems like a typical LLM hallucination, but on the chance that you’re human and came up with it yourself, I suggest starting by reading up on the history of Usenet in enough detail that you understand how Kibo would be relevant to that statement.

That’s not to say that Facebook didn’t do anything novel. Their algorithms for matching up advertisers with their targets are well beyond what we had in the old days.