avidamoeba
@avidamoeba@lemmy.ca
- Comment on What features are missing from piefed, or, why aren't we reccommending piefed instead of lemmy? 2 hours ago:
Yeah, that makes sense for the defect class of performance problems. I’m more concerned with the inherent performance (compute) disadvantages of Python. Perhaps they wouldn’t matter, hard to know without load testing.
- Comment on What features are missing from piefed, or, why aren't we reccommending piefed instead of lemmy? 3 hours ago:
Yeah, this would be my concern as well if I had to run it. Sure Python apps can be fast and most time is spend in IO, not compute, and if you’re running a profitable operation the exact cost of compute might not matter much. However if you’re running a non-profit service and you want it to be as dirt cheap as possible so it can be free for most users, then the cost of compute very much does matter.
- Comment on What features are missing from piefed, or, why aren't we reccommending piefed instead of lemmy? 3 hours ago:
Sure but does the rate of growth matter? The post asks about recommending Piefed instead of Lemmy. I presume the point is that the number of Piefed users would grow if we did that. So whether a thread produces 10, 1000, or 10000 users in a day, the number of users would grow over time. Then I think the question remains, if my Piefed instance costs $10/mo to run today, would it cost $100 with 10000 users or $1000, or more, or less?
- Comment on What features are missing from piefed, or, why aren't we reccommending piefed instead of lemmy? 3 hours ago:
But how is that not a concern if you’re interested in attracting more users? You run an instance with 500 users. Some thread on Reddit explodes and you get 1000-10000 users. If Piefed has poor scaling you might be unable to pay the bills for your now much larger instance. That’s not gonna be great for you or the new users.
- Comment on What features are missing from piefed, or, why aren't we reccommending piefed instead of lemmy? 3 hours ago:
We have data on what it costs to run a sizeable instance of Lemmy and it’s not a lot. How does Piefed compare? Anyone starting an instance who envisions it growing large has to contend with this question.
There are now sizeable communities run on Lemmy instances that are reinforced by network effects. There needs to be a significant reason for them to migrate.
- Comment on Request for FPS recommendations. 4 hours ago:
It was so good, it made me cry. 🥹
- Comment on Request for FPS recommendations. 6 hours ago:
The Half-Life series
- Black Mesa instead of Half-Life. It’s an extremely faithful remake that’s absolute joy and I wouldn play it instead of the original now that it exists. Not only the graphics are updated, but also the last chapter of the original game which got rushed to meet deadlines is masterfully completed in Black Mesa
- Half-Life 2 and it’s subsequent episodes
- Comment on Tesla suffers worst quarter since 2022 as deliveries tumble 1 day ago:
Damn that’s not nearly as much as I thought it will be. How’re those spontaneous combustion numbers?
- Comment on In Warning Sign for Hollywood, Younger Consumers Are Choosing Creator Content Over Premium TV and Movies: Social Platforms are Becoming a Dominant Force in Media and Entertainment. 1 week ago:
Translation:
Big Social is unsurprisingly winning the competition for individuals’ attention.
- Comment on ^_^ I just think skibidibi sounds neat :3 1 week ago:
14 f TO
pic?
- Comment on Democratic Senators Team Up With MAGA To Hand Trump A Censorship Machine 1 week ago:
True but Big Social would have many orders of magnitude more lawsuits to deal with. I guess it might still not matter.
- Comment on Democratic Senators Team Up With MAGA To Hand Trump A Censorship Machine 1 week ago:
Isn’t this a death knell for Big Social Media?
- Comment on Justice Department asks judge to order Google the "immediate" sale of Chrome 1 week ago:
I meant that they no longer need Google’s funding, however if Chrome becomes Mozilla, Google would have a real need to pay Mozilla to stay the default engine in Chrome.
- Comment on Justice Department asks judge to order Google the "immediate" sale of Chrome 1 week ago:
They could sell it for $1 if they wanted to.
Also I think Mozilla is self sustainable from investment income from its endowment. Could be wrong.
- Comment on Justice Department asks judge to order Google the "immediate" sale of Chrome 1 week ago:
I somehow don’t believe this is going to happen. But if it does, sell it to Mozilla?
- Comment on China delays approval of BYD’s Mexico plant amid fears tech could leak to US [MAR 19 2025 | Gloria Li, Cheng Leng, Thomas Graham, Kana Inagaki | ft.com] 1 week ago:
Seems like it.
- Comment on Get your new PebbleOS watch 2 weeks ago:
You do you, but the OS is here.
- Comment on The Pebble Has Been Brought Back 2 weeks ago:
Some reasons:
- It’s a lot of work no one wants to do given there are half-decent proprietary alternatives
- Eric wasn’t sitting twiddling his thumbs
- The corporate landscape wasn’t nearly as hostile to users until the last few years
- Comment on The Pebble Has Been Brought Back 2 weeks ago:
I had a Pebble Time Steel and it was the best watch I’ve ever head. I want another Pebble. So does Eric. So I gave him money to make me one.
- Comment on Get your new PebbleOS watch 2 weeks ago:
I haven’t moved on. Pebble Time Steel was the best watch I’ve ever had. I’ve been using Fitbit since the death of Pebble and they never got as good as Pebble was. If Repebble hadn’t shown up, I’d probably be going Garmin after the inevitable death of Fitbit. But now that the choice is between Garmin and a hackable open source Pebble with 30 days of battery life… Repebble wins for me. ☺️
- Comment on Get your new PebbleOS watch 2 weeks ago:
Likely binary blobs from vendors like Debian non-free-firmware.
- Comment on Multiple Tesla vehicles were set on fire in Las Vegas and Kansas City 2 weeks ago:
Tesla has much higher output than the number of vehicles that spontaneously combust. So the supply shortage you envision won’t occur unless cars light up by the hundreds or thousands a day. And that’s before accounting for all the extra slack in production created by decreasing demand around the world.
Teslas combusting damages the brand. It’s a material risk of owning a Tesla. It would also mean higher insurance. In fact beyond some combustion threshold, Teslas would become uninsurable. Therefore Teslas on fire directly contributes to decreasing Elon’s purchase power.
- Comment on Get your new PebbleOS watch 2 weeks ago:
Absolute best. None of the Fitbits I’ve had were better. None of them detect when I’ve woken correctly in order to enable/disable notifications.
- Comment on Get your new PebbleOS watch 2 weeks ago:
It’s open source.
- Comment on Get your new PebbleOS watch 2 weeks ago:
30-day battery life
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- Comment on What are some old freeware PC games you've kept playing over the years? 2 weeks ago:
I play Shareware
- Comment on Nearly half of U.S. adults believe LLMs are smarter than they are. 2 weeks ago:
Just a thought, perhaps instead of considering the mental and educational state of the people without power to significantly affect this state, we should focus on the people who have power.
For example, why don’t LLM providers explicitly and loudly state that their products are just imitating human thought and make significant mistakes regularly, and therefore should be used with plenty of caution?
It’s a rhetorical question, we know why, and I think we should focus on that, not on its effects. It’s also much cheaper and easier to do than refill years of quality education in individuals heads.
- Comment on China will enforce clear flagging of all AI generated content starting from September 2 weeks ago:
When the dirty commies do the reforms we all know we need in our countries…
We’re so fucked. ⚰️
- Comment on China will enforce clear flagging of all AI generated content starting from September 2 weeks ago:
It doesn’t matter whether this is used against dissidents or not. Their speech is censured either way. It shouldn’t affect the way larger positive effect this will have on the majority of people.