Iceblade02
@Iceblade02@lemmy.world
- Comment on Infinite Suffering 5 weeks ago:
Programmer asks: how many bits for the integer?
At 32 bits it’s “just” a Thanos snap
- Comment on "Skip ad's" YouTube and "Skip Intro" on Netflix take the same amount of effort but I only hate the former. 1 month ago:
I didn’t mind ads on YT back in the day when skipping was available right away, or after 3 seconds. That was a long time ago though.
- Comment on Solar will get too cheap to connect to the power grid. 2 months ago:
Where I live (Sweden) our grid has been essentially fossil-free since the early 90’s, thus we haven’t had the same need. Particularly since our electricity prices (excluding grid fees) already dip into the negatives in the summer, and solar is useless in the winter (<3hrs of light and snow cover).
Unfortunately though, recent politically motivated shutterings of nuclear plants during the 2010s combined with higher volatility in continental Europe has led to the volatility of our own electricity market skyrocketing, and more decentralized electricity production has led to huge increases in grid fees (state monopoly).
During a recent winter we had prices (when accounting for taxes and fees) in excess of 1$/kWh. This, in a country where almost all heating is electric, is disastrous. For context, we live in a small villa with a geothermal pump, and despite keeping indoor temps as low as 12°C at times we ended up with 1000s of USD equivalent in power bills for the winters 22/23 and 23/24.
Quite sad really.
- Comment on Solar will get too cheap to connect to the power grid. 2 months ago:
From the calculations I’ve seen in recent scientific reports, that doesn’t seem to be the case, barring major economic changes on a global level.
Even the cheapest grid scale storage solutions are an order of magnitude more expensive than constructing more electrical generation capacity.
Particularly closed cycle fossil gas thermal plants have a massive advantage in markets where variable renewable electricity generation (wind, solar…) achieve high degrees of market penetration due to the volatility they cause in the grid.
Hydro, transmission and nuclear are currently the most accessible non-fossil options to counteract the disadvantages of solar & wind.
- Comment on Solar will get too cheap to connect to the power grid. 2 months ago:
Grid scale storage will be built en masse the moment it becomes economical, or when governments decide to use tax payer money to do it or subsidize it.
- Comment on Lemmy devs are considering making all votes public - have your say 2 months ago:
I agree that it would be better if people used votes as a marker of quality, but strongly disagree on moderation action based on voting.
Personally, there’s three scenarios when I use downvotes w/o commenting:
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Someone has already voiced the reason
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I don’t have time/energy to comment
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The target is a censored echo-chamber that will ban anyone who disagrees (can’t vote/show disapproval if you’re banned) - example would be .ml communities having moments about how stalinist USSR did nothing wrong.
Anyway, once a post from a community rises sufficiently to pop up on all, it becomes a part of the larger discussion, and voting will shift towards the opinions of the larger fediverse. This is also usually when communities get discovered by more people. If a community doesn’t want the engagement of the wider user-base, a closed blog may be more suitable as a forum, or alternatively have an instance w/o downvoting.
When browsing all or new I do so both to break out of my bubble and to vote on content (usually stuff I find interesting).
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- Comment on Lemmy.World's !News sides with Mark Zuckerberg in Censoring Palestinians 2 months ago:
Oh !worldnews@lemmy.ml does have moderation. The mods there are very deliberate in the things they do(n’t) allow. Woe betide you if you ever criticize certain historic (or current) authoritarian genocidal regimes.
- Comment on Lemmy devs are considering making all votes public - have your say 2 months ago:
Expectations of what is part of the discussion, not expectations of privacy.
As for doxxing, that’s a problem with all social media - but possibly worse on the “regular” ones (people having mobs attacking their houses etc., being arrested in countries with censorship laws etc.)
- Comment on What games popularized certain mechanics? 2 months ago:
Minecraft for the fully breakable/buildable procedural open world.
- Comment on Lemmy devs are considering making all votes public - have your say 2 months ago:
Admins and moderators can already take care of these sorts of problems.
- Comment on Lemmy devs are considering making all votes public - have your say 2 months ago:
That’s because it’s supposed to be. I was on Reddit for a decade until their management shit the bed, and these kinds of problems weren’t a thing there.
For the record, to me it’s less about privacy and more about setting expectations. I’m not anonymous online, I’m pseudonymous, I’ve had this handle for a long time. I am my online identity, and when I post and vote I don’t feel anonymous, even if I’m relatively protected from someone knocking on my door or messaging my boss about a statement.
If voting “ledgers” aren’t presented in the discussion, that’s because they aren’t intended to be part of the discussion. This reduces the value of influential individuals votes (ooh Bill Gates liked X, Kamala Harris disliked Y etc.) and shifts focus to how the community values of the content. It’s the same reason that we follow communities rather than individuals. We get an internet “hive mind” of sorts without cult of personality.
- Comment on Lemmy devs are considering making all votes public - have your say 2 months ago:
Votes already are presented to the end user in an aggregated fashion, as opposed to how it is on kbin/mbin. In any case, even in the current implementation manipulation is relatively easy, as an admin can just spin up extra accounts. The fediverse relies on trust.
- Comment on Lemmy devs are considering making all votes public - have your say 2 months ago:
I like the idea - if the lemmy devs do implement public voting I’d definitely move over. Not only does it maintain the (current) state of voter visibility, but it also protects from the frequently cited admin and kbin/mbin exploits. Trusting one admin is far easier than trusting every admin.
- Comment on Lemmy devs are considering making all votes public - have your say 2 months ago:
We’ve already seen that kind of harrasment on major platforms including X and those owned by Meta.
- Comment on Lemmy devs are considering making all votes public - have your say 2 months ago:
This kind of sentiment is exactly why votes need to not be visible. As soon as the general expectation is that votes are public information free to be used and abused, it will be used and abused.
- Comment on Lemmy devs are considering making all votes public - have your say 2 months ago:
If we look at any of the big social media platforms with public votes, that has not prevented voting abuse through bots and the like. Rather it has served to fuel online harrassment campaigns and value of influential individuals votes (ooh Bill Gates liked X, Kamala Harris disliked Y etc.)
Aggregating votes rather than having individually visible votes serves the purpose of shifting focus to how the community values of the content. It’s the same reason that we follow communities rather than people.
- Comment on What’s a game you can 100% without hating by the end? 2 months ago:
Helltaker - I got hooked on the awesome music and fantastic silliness. (It’s free btw)
- Comment on Solar Photovoltaics with Battery Storage Cheaper than Conventional Power Plants 3 months ago:
Definitely interesting for countries closer to the equator where seasonal effects on on PV energy production aren’t particularly impactful.
- Comment on Why are people downvoting the MediaBiasFactChecker not? 3 months ago:
Well for the most part if we want to have a less context-dependent measure, with some caveats
The “left” vs “right” dichotomy is inherently context-dependent though. Objectively, it’s a terrible way to compare ideologies without context. Personally I find 8axis to be pretty decent instead. Unfortunately, the world on average is more authoritarian & conservative than the US, your scale may be an accurate representation of the lemmy overton window.
What’s fucked is most people think of prominent historical figures…
Because they think that the changes they achieved were good, and they see themselves as good, and they consider themselves american liberals.
Either way there is no chance that democratic socialists are as extremist as national conservatives.
In the global overton window? Yes way.
What pushes democratic socialists a full point towards the fringe compared to social democrats?
From wikipedia:
Democratic socialism is a left-wing set of political philosophies that supports political democracy and some form of a socially owned economy, with a particular emphasis on economic democracy, workplace democracy, and workers’ self-management within a market socialist, decentralised planned, or democratic centrally planned socialist economy.
Unlike social democrats, democratic socialists want to do away with private ownership and market economies. For the record, the US democratic party are not social democrats.
I’ll finish off with my take on the infamous “what’s a liberal?”. In hindsight it was probably a poor choice of words as there is no such thing as a “pure” liberal. The basic liberal value is freedom. To me, that includes freedoms of thought, speech, press (i.e writing, possibly also digital), organization, bodily autonomy and lastly ownership. Everything else is a product of how to interpret those freedoms and how to implement them.
“Pure liberals” would most of all strive to uphold these individual freedoms, though their solutions when different peoples rights clash may be different. A “pure” liberal strives for a balance maximizing freedoms of individuals whilst simultaneously minimizing infringements from both government and private actors. To me, neither ancaps nor libertarians are liberal. Libertarians prioritize small government to the point where it is incapable of protecting individual rights from abuse by third parties whilst ancaps prioritize property rights over individual freedoms.
Soclibs and libcons both limit freedoms somewhat in favour of other values.
- Comment on Why are people downvoting the MediaBiasFactChecker not? 3 months ago:
Oh for sure. You’ve got to look at the ideology under the hood.
Party names are really just names. In Sweden, vänsterpartiet (left party) are communists (former name vänsterpartiet kommunisterna during the soviet era). In Denmark there’s venstre (left) which are liberal conservatives.
Even our most economically right wing party (the moderates) are to the left of the US Democrats in that area.
- Comment on Why are people downvoting the MediaBiasFactChecker not? 3 months ago:
That has more to do with the fact that centre-right/right/far-right sources are seldom posted to lemmy.
Here are some examples:
mediabiasfactcheck.com/goteborgs-posten/
- Comment on Why are people downvoting the MediaBiasFactChecker not? 3 months ago:
As an outsider, the Dem party is in a funky spot politically. Whilst it economically is to the right, many of its social policies it endorses are leftist. Their emphasis on equality of outcome rather than equality of opportunity is a large part of that, regulation of expressions and policy of migration.
Where I live, most of our political parties are left of the dems economically (basic welfare is not even a debate), but many would clearly be right of them (though usually not even close to the republicans) in social policy.
- Comment on A boomer gets just $1,056 a month in Social Security and works as a bus driver: 'I don't see myself being able to retire, but I'm grateful and healthy' 3 months ago:
Bringing retirement age down really isn’t feasible when people live longer and longer. It’d likely be better to find a middle-ground, where folks can slowly reduce the hours they work as they age until retiring completely.
- Comment on Japan introduces enormous humanoid robot to maintain train lines 4 months ago:
These are the sort of things that ought to be automated. It’ll be interesting to see how Japan handles their demographic crisis going forwards. If they manage it without significantly increased migration, that’ll be a standard for the rest of the developed world to follow.
- Comment on 3D technology has gone too far 4 months ago:
Yeah, if the road in front is clear on both sides it’s generally safer to swerve than to slam the brakes.
- Comment on Are Tetra Paks actually recyclable? 4 months ago:
In Sweden, where I livr, 78.5% of paper packaging put into the market was recycled for materials (as opposed to recycled for energy a.k.a burning it in a power plant)
- Comment on Are Tetra Paks actually recyclable? 4 months ago:
At least where I live even the interior lining and lid are now made from cellulose fibers and as such the packaging is (a) fully renewable and (b) the materials can be reused for other paper-esque products.
- Comment on BBC News - Stonehenge covered in powder paint by Just Stop Oil 5 months ago:
So you mean the Tories are also assholes? Tell me something I didn’t know
- Comment on How to opt out of the privacy nightmare that comes with new Hondas 6 months ago:
Our government will forcibly insure you if you don’t have one, so technically you don’t have to buy anything. It’s just more expensive than anything on the market.
- Comment on How to opt out of the privacy nightmare that comes with new Hondas 6 months ago:
Basic traffic liability insurance sorta makes sense - it’d suck you had your car wrecked by someone broke and were SOL.