Waryle
@Waryle@jlai.lu
- Comment on I made a self-hostable frontend for instagram. 1 week ago:
No, once again you’re inventing definitions, please have a read
- Comment on I made a self-hostable frontend for instagram. 1 week ago:
Where do you even get the “media” part in it?
I’ll quote myself because I already answered that: « Media is the plural of medium, which means “intermediary” ». That’s the textbook definition of the word media, and the consensus about what it means.
Whatsapp is the middleman/platform, thus intermediary (= “medium/media”), between two people socializing. I don’t understand what you don’t understand.
A social network is social media that allows to form groups or communities. Two people communicating is not a network, the whole point of a network is interconnection between members of a group.
- Comment on I made a self-hostable frontend for instagram. 1 week ago:
totally made up definition from your part
You forgot the “from your part” that is quite important. Language is a consensus, you just invented your own definition and pretend that it is the consensus.
And anyways, if “social media” and “social network” is the same, why have two different terms for it?
They’re not the same, it’s the square/rectangle thing. A social network is a kind of social media, all social medias are not social network. You could argue that Whatsapp is a social media but not a social network (but the frontier is getting blurry with groups and these kind of things).
- Comment on I made a self-hostable frontend for instagram. 1 week ago:
That’s a totally made up definition from your part. Media is the plural of medium, which means “intermediary”. A social media is just the middleman that allows people to socialize. Lemmy is a social media, as well as a social network.
- Comment on China’s ‘artificial sun’ breaks nuclear fusion limit thought to be impossible 2 weeks ago:
my take is that 1. you don’t need equal supply year-through because big consumers should be able to sleep and reduce their energy intake in the winter. yes i know that is complicated, but sleep is also complicated in nature and evolution still pulled through with it because it does pay off in the long term.
So you’re trying to advocate we should put millions of people on virtual unemployment during winter to save energy? Who will pay for that?
Do you think it’s honest to compare nuclear price all-included LCOE to the solar and wind LCOE* (* = not accounting for the tens or hundred of billions of unemployment subsides each year to account for forced shutdown because of power drought)?
secondly, storage can also be renewable biomass. i have some napkin math sitting around somewhere on my disk that says that about 5% of the yearly energy demand can be covered with basically non-cost “waste” biomass that’s basically being burned to get rid of it today. I actually wanted to write a longer post about it in the !bathtubthoughts@discuss.tchncs.de community, i just couldn’t figure out how to properly present my calculations yet.
First thing: biomass is about 200-250g of CO²eq per kWh. Burning biomass is polluting, and thus is not a viable alternative to nuclear, hydro, solar, wind, and the other low-carbon power sources we should aiming for.
Even if your calculus are correct, if I take the example of a country like France which has a +30-50% increase in power consumption for 5 months during the coldest months than in the rest of the year. And it’s not because of industry, it’s because we heat up with a lot of electricity, even if we still need to convert a lot of fossil-based heating to low-carbon electricity heating.
But the solar production at the time has a -75% decrease. Wind is basically non-consistent through the year.
So when we need solar the most, to heat up in winter, a phenomena that will get even worse when we decarbonize heating, it just does not follows up. And wind drought during very cold weeks definitely happens regularly.
So we NEED interseasonal power storage to make full-renewable working, at least without huge capacities in hydro-electricity.
And we’re not even close to achieving this kind of gigantic power storage, which is why Germany, the biggest advocate for solar and wind with more than 40% of its electricity coming from it, and has no hydro, is still one of the dirtiest electricity in Europe. Because it still burns gas and coal to compensate for solar and wind lack of reliability.
- Comment on China’s ‘artificial sun’ breaks nuclear fusion limit thought to be impossible 2 weeks ago:
But will Fusion ever be cheaper than solar?
Will solar with interseasonal storage ever be even feasible?
People like to throw LCOE around, occulting that running countries with solar (and wind) power is plain science-fiction and nowhere close to change, while nuclear (at least fission) is empirically proven to work reliably, even for cheap, costing less than 200 billions of euros in the span of 60 years in France for example.
When you don’t have enough sun (or wind), you either have sufficient backup in hydro or solar, or you burn coal and gas.
- Comment on Electric motorcycles with solid-state batteries seem to be coming soon. 3 weeks ago:
Loud pipes save lives.
- Comment on I've never been in a situation where me having a gun would have made things bettter. 3 weeks ago:
Why the hell are they not raiding Texas and Florida where there are shitloads of immigrants?
They are, your assumption is false.
- Comment on Spotify vs. Anna's Archive 4 weeks ago:
And one of the highest payers, Qobuz, is missing
- Comment on This is Jared Birchall. He is the right-hand man of Elon Musk. He also manages his wealth. Jared hates when people see his face. 2 months ago:
You are so fucking dense. “Somebody did it first, it’s too late it’s already on the internet so now it’s open bar” is not an excuse. You use the same arguments as those who share revenge porn and child porn.
You all are repulsive fucks without any decency, and moron with the cognitive capacity and maturity of edgy teenagers.
- Comment on This is Jared Birchall. He is the right-hand man of Elon Musk. He also manages his wealth. Jared hates when people see his face. 2 months ago:
Don’t Post Children Faces On the internet Especially if it’s not yours
Don’t expose children to the internet, how is it that hard to understand
- Comment on This is Jared Birchall. He is the right-hand man of Elon Musk. He also manages his wealth. Jared hates when people see his face. 2 months ago:
This is clearly a post putting a target on that man, let’s stop being obtuse here. I don’t care about shaming him publicly as he is a piece of shit, but don’t expose children to this, or you’re a piece of shit too. For fuck’s sake, have some decency, even if their father have none.
- Comment on This is Jared Birchall. He is the right-hand man of Elon Musk. He also manages his wealth. Jared hates when people see his face. 2 months ago:
I’ve blocked Tiktok, Twitter and Instagram on my network and refuse to use them, so I won’t look at your link.
- Comment on This is Jared Birchall. He is the right-hand man of Elon Musk. He also manages his wealth. Jared hates when people see his face. 2 months ago:
Don’t post children’s faces, what the hell, what’s wrong with you all
- Comment on Framework supporting far-right racists? 3 months ago:
Wether you like it or not, some people don’t have the luxury to stop fighting, even more so right now with so-called democratic governments that brutalize, lock up and torture people for their opinions, their sexuality or their skin color.
Ignore these debates if you wish, and disconnect from social networks if you need to rest. But don’t call for people to stop fighting when their very existence is put at risk by people like DHH, that Framework decided to support.
- Comment on AOMedia Will Be Talking More About The AV2 Video Codec Later This Month 3 months ago:
AV1 is not an encoder. If you watch AV1 encoded videos, you’re using AV1.
- Comment on AOMedia Will Be Talking More About The AV2 Video Codec Later This Month 3 months ago:
That happens all the time. There’s no way to guarantee that it won’t happen with any codec or really with anything.
Yes, so there’s no reason to hold back on releasing updates, since it could very well happen on AV1.
It is very expensive to defend against even when the claim is bogus.
The principle behind AV1, once again, is to have a codec that is protected from patent trolls. Those who are part of the AOM consortium, which developed this codec, have all contractually agreed to unconditionally license all patents they hold that are necessary for the implementation of the codec.
And those who are not part of the consortium and who would like to claim patents relating to the AV1 or AV2 codecs would have to face the legal teams of the companies part of said consortium, meaning Amazon, Alibaba, Adobe, AMD, Cisco, Google, Intel, Microsoft, Mozilla Foundation, ARM, Huawei, Samsung, Tencent, Meta, Nvidia, Apple, Netflix, and other large companies.
The AV1 and AV2 codecs, after perhaps H264, are the most secure codecs available today in terms of patent trolls. Nobody has both the will and the means to attack it.
- Comment on AOMedia Will Be Talking More About The AV2 Video Codec Later This Month 3 months ago:
AV1 and AV2 are both patent free, that’s the point. Maybe you should start educating yourself a bit on the subject before ranting?
- Comment on [deleted] 3 months ago:
No, Jellyseerr is a selfhosted webapp where you request movies and shows, which will be searched and downloaded by your configured Sonarr/Radarr, which will populate your Jellyfin.
You can see it as a user-friendly Sonarr+Radarr front-end, that you can sync with Jellyfin users, so they can go and request content directly without you manually adding things in Radarr/Sonarr.
- Comment on Bonfire Social 1.0rc3 release 3 months ago:
This page explains the concept better IMO: bonfirenetworks.org/apps/
- Comment on 4 months ago:
Jacobson is a moron who’s work has been criticized by dozens of other scientists, that he kept suing because he does not like being contradicted.
- Comment on 4 months ago:
A country like France would need ~20 STEPs like Grand’Maison to provide for a single winter night (~60GW for ~14h). That’s 100-200km² to put under water, a massive ecological disaster, and a massive hazard.
And you must find a way to produce enough energy and find enough water to recharge your STEPs in the next 10h before the next night.
And that’s with the current France needs, with only 25-30% of its energy being decarbonized electricity.
Powering an entire country without hydro, geo, nuclear or fossils is just plain science fiction. And hydro and geo cannot be built everywhere, so realistically, you either go fossils, or nuclear to have clean electricity.
And you can verify it empirically: even with trillion invested in solar and wind, the only countries which have decarbonized their electricity have massive hydro/geo/nuclear.
- Comment on French lawmakers urged a social media ban for under-15s and "digital curfew" for older minors 4 months ago:
Which laws? There are none written yet.
- Comment on French lawmakers urged a social media ban for under-15s and "digital curfew" for older minors 4 months ago:
Private platforms owned by billionaires =/= Free speech
Protecting children from these cesspools is a matter of sanitary measures. I would even go further and just kill Meta, Twitter, Tiktok and the likes just for being major platforms for espionage, disinformation, and democratic destabilization, particularly used by hostile foreign powers.
- Comment on Plex got hacked. 4 months ago:
I already answered your second paragraph: Jellyfin holds no sensible data.
And there is no central server gathering data from all users, an hacker would need to find and break in multiple Jellyfin instances, to get useless data from 1 to maybe 10 users each time.
And Plex is not easier to install and secure than Jellyfin.
- Comment on Plex got hacked. 4 months ago:
My Jellyfin is behind a Crowdsec + Cloudflare proxy with geoblocking and other protections + Reverse Proxy with additional protections, in a rootless Docker container with no access to the Docker socket, and has only access to a mounted folder which contains just downloaded movies and shows. The effort to break in is high, the reward very low.
But the most important difference between Jellyfin and Plex is that neither Jellyfin devs nor Jellyfin instances have any personal or credit card information from their users, and therefore are way less a problem of hacked into.
- Comment on Solar panels in space could cut Europe's renewable energy needs by 80% 5 months ago:
but right now renewable energy is by far cheaper and faster to build than nuclear energy.
No. Building a solar or wind plant is cheaper and faster than building a nuclear plant, sure, but that’s not what we’re aiming for. The goal is to decarbonize electricity by phasing out fossils.
Replacing all fossil-based electricity production nationwide is quite cheap for nuclear when done right (e.g. France, planning for decades and multiple reactors at once, while actually politically supporting your industry, instead of throwing a project once in a while and letting it fight in courts by itself against NIMBY and anti-nuclears).
Replacing fossils with solar and wind power is science fiction. There is not a single country in the world that has decarbonized its electricity without significant decarbonized and controllable electricity capacities, or to name them: hydro or nuclear. Except that you just can’t build hydro anywhere, and most countries’ capacities are limited.
You can’t claim that solar and wind are cheaper than nuclear, because solar and wind just can’t do what nuclear can, and can at best be complementary to other controllable power sources.
- Comment on Solar panels in space could cut Europe's renewable energy needs by 80% 5 months ago:
Nuclear has never been cost-efficient, it’s just that the costs have been buried in state subsidies to the industry and its supply chain.
A lie repeated again and again.
French Cour des Comptes has released a report, back in 2012, the costs of the french nuclear fleet, everything included: 121 billions of euros between 1960 and 2010.
2,4 billions a year. To provide decarbonized and reliable electricity for decades.
To put in perspective, Germany is more than a trillion of euros in for their Energiewende, or about 40 billions of euros a year for ~25 years, and they still have one of the costliest and dirtiest electricity or Europe, while still not being close to stop coal and having no plan to get out of gas.
And for more perspective, EDF had 118 billions of dollars of revenues in 2024, mostly coming from nuclear, and 11 billions of net results, including the payback of the interests of the debt that the french government imposed on EDF.
Anyone claiming nuclear has never been or can’t be profitable or cost-efficient is either uneducated or a liar.
When done right, nuclear is profitable as fuck, that’s empirically proved.
- Comment on China's green energy boom could spell the end of the fossil fuel age 5 months ago:
Which is an ecological measure, not a technical one, and can be circumvented by existing technologies like cooling towers
- Comment on Spotify fans threaten to return to piracy as music streamer introduces new face-scanning age checks in the UK 5 months ago:
Nope, it’s a Spotify alternative made in France which emphasize on paying a fair share to the artists and providing a great music quality.