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- Comment on Imgur is now geoblocking the UK 6 days ago:
Each county’s authority has its priorities… and UK isn’t Europe anymore so there’s no necessarily any spreading of this specific issue. I share you feelings about the fragmenting of the Internet as we knew it. This is a very big problem for everyone’s freedom in my opinion. But also a very tricky issue with how it conflicts with the notion of territoriality : this was honestly bound to happen sooner or later. I wish we could be another layer outside the reach of isps and countries.
- Comment on Climate goals go up in smoke as US datacenters turn to coal 1 week ago:
I’m not into gold panning… though it’s not like all companies are using AI so much that it will transpire in their ESG. Now I now a couple that were so far very happily ignoring this source of carbon and, as far as I remember, it was not reported by the cloud providers either.
- Comment on Climate goals go up in smoke as US datacenters turn to coal 1 week ago:
Looking forward the 2026 ESG reports of large companies that are so happy to embrace AI :)
- Comment on Senate report says AI will take 97M US jobs in the next 10 years, but those numbers come from ChatGPT 1 week ago:
I put my money on AI act here in Europe and the willingness of local authorities to make a few examples. That would help bringing some accountability here and there and stir a bit the pot. Eventually, as AI commodities, it will be less in the light. That will also help.
- Comment on Best Synology Replacement? 1 week ago:
How does that compares with a ds220+ on electricity consumption ? Would it be relatively similar ? The specs are way better so it would be appealing but not if it doubles the maintenance costs.
- Comment on Crunchyroll Faces Cancelation: Why Anime Fans Are Choosing Piracy After Latest Update 1 week ago:
You’re right about comments and reviews… I miss some of that. You’re also right quoting the old Gaben. But still… it seems we can’t keep any nice things for long :-/
- Comment on Crunchyroll Faces Cancelation: Why Anime Fans Are Choosing Piracy After Latest Update 1 week ago:
I am paying for it… it becomes tricky when the disagreement isn’t on price but on replacing fellow human with AI from a country with genocidal tendencies. That’s where I draw my line I guess.
- Comment on Crunchyroll Faces Cancelation: Why Anime Fans Are Choosing Piracy After Latest Update 1 week ago:
I was doing usenet more than 10yrs ago… not that straightforward, needs a subscription anyway… and the whole NAS + plex or something similar is still needed. I get the idea but there’s a point in life where 10€ per month for the ease of use is very appealing.
- Comment on Crunchyroll Faces Cancelation: Why Anime Fans Are Choosing Piracy After Latest Update 1 week ago:
The whole point is not to do any setup and maintenance just to watch anime… I already have a job where I have to do that and I was hoping that it would pay for the convenience. My passion is watching anime, not setup downloading pipeline for them.
- Comment on Crunchyroll Faces Cancelation: Why Anime Fans Are Choosing Piracy After Latest Update 1 week ago:
There’s always torrents but it was very convenient to just go to crunchy and start something… torrenting and putting it in plex and all… it’s just less convenient
- Comment on Crunchyroll Faces Cancelation: Why Anime Fans Are Choosing Piracy After Latest Update 1 week ago:
Ha fuck… that was my last personal sub… any alternative beside the high seas? I’m seasick…
- Comment on Imgur is now geoblocking the UK 2 weeks ago:
That’s unrelated to porn at least from what the ICO has disclosed. They are concerned about how Imgur handles children data’s. When a child subscribes and uploads data to their services. Which is obviously SFW. But one should take special care about those data which apparently Imgur doesn’t do. Like about everyone else though based on what I see around me… But sometimes regulatory bodies like setting examples and sending messages.
- Comment on Security camera recommendations? 2 weeks ago:
Synology ds cam plus a whole lot of Chinese HIK vision Poe cameras. Some inside some outside. The whole thing coupled with HA. It’s been working for years now so no complaint. The one time a camera died on me the vendor replaced it free of charge which I appreciated.
- Comment on European banks to launch euro stablecoin in bid to counter US dominance 3 weeks ago:
Well honestly I’m not quite sure I would not welcome the removal of some of the influence the banking sector has on us all. It is very predatory in nature all the lending and such. Additionally money is a limited resource so it is maybe not the worse thing to « nationalise »
- Comment on 3 weeks ago:
Whoever exhibits that mentality you describe hasn’t waiting for meta to be a creep.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
Here’s our usage in kWh last year. In summer we use the heat pump in reverse to cool the house.
- Comment on Delta moves toward eliminating set prices in favor of AI that determines how much you personally will pay for a ticket 2 months ago:
Depends of a lot of factors. Best case that’s enough. VPN isn’t generally doing much beside obfuscating network of origin and that’s not accounting for leakages. There’s stuff of the nightmares with pixels and cookies cross feeding data from a session to another… And tools like kayak might themselves have incentives to profile you as well. I don’t know that one particularly but in the end if you’re not giving money you’re likely giving data to someone…
- Comment on Delta moves toward eliminating set prices in favor of AI that determines how much you personally will pay for a ticket 2 months ago:
That’s a field in data science / marketing that’s been active forever… assume that companies at large have a rating of their prospects & customers & ex-customers alike which includes a notion of wealth. Either derived from consumption habits or acquired through data brokers or both usually.
- Comment on 7,818 titles on Steam disclose generative AI usage, or 7% of Steam's total library of 114,126 games, up from ~1,000 titles in April 2024 2 months ago:
No you crazy person… but should it bring you peace of mind whatever…
- Comment on 7,818 titles on Steam disclose generative AI usage, or 7% of Steam's total library of 114,126 games, up from ~1,000 titles in April 2024 2 months ago:
What disprovable information ? You took wrong figures and entirely ignored anything related to costs beside wage… you sidetracked any point on what constitutes a fair wage beside you general « double an engineer’s wage »…
What’s settled here?
- Comment on 7,818 titles on Steam disclose generative AI usage, or 7% of Steam's total library of 114,126 games, up from ~1,000 titles in April 2024 2 months ago:
First, thanks for the doxxing.
Second, using statbel instead of the cancerous google AI gives another figure of 104k yearly for engineering positions (in IT but other industries aren’t so far behind).
And that still has fuckall to do with what would be a fair wage… and still doesn’t account for costs accounting on top of the salary which they would incur on top of the salary…
Are you so insisting because you deem artists needs a shit wage? Are they less deserving than engineers?
- Comment on 7,818 titles on Steam disclose generative AI usage, or 7% of Steam's total library of 114,126 games, up from ~1,000 titles in April 2024 2 months ago:
Double an engineer’s salary?! Man… My brut is riiiiight below that… but musicians would not be employees so they would need to add other costs to their incomes so that they reach a similar net revenue… Locally we consider that 47% of what you invoice reaches your pocket - not accounting for expenses like equipment which is crazy expensive in the music industry… is 4.7k an outrageous salary ?! For an engineer ?! Or even an artist?
- Comment on 7,818 titles on Steam disclose generative AI usage, or 7% of Steam's total library of 114,126 games, up from ~1,000 titles in April 2024 2 months ago:
That’s a new way to discuss… nice…
- Comment on 7,818 titles on Steam disclose generative AI usage, or 7% of Steam's total library of 114,126 games, up from ~1,000 titles in April 2024 2 months ago:
That « just » carries a lot…
- Comment on 7,818 titles on Steam disclose generative AI usage, or 7% of Steam's total library of 114,126 games, up from ~1,000 titles in April 2024 2 months ago:
with 1000 supporters you need them to shell a monthly €10 to be viable. That’s unrealistic. I’m not going to individually support every individual creator to that extent.
- Comment on Solar + Battery (covering 97% of demand) is now cheaper than coal and nuclear 3 months ago:
I read not so long ago that someone tried to leverage human walking / steps. Now raindrops. I love it :)
- Comment on Solar + Battery (covering 97% of demand) is now cheaper than coal and nuclear 3 months ago:
With 2 electric cars… Belgium here so it’s not the tundra either but the house is sizeable and doesn’t share walls. Hot water alone was 150/200 kWh a month. It all adds…
- Comment on Solar + Battery (covering 97% of demand) is now cheaper than coal and nuclear 3 months ago:
Using rain for electricity sounds like too fun to be efficient enough xD I’m gonna look into that :)
- Comment on Solar + Battery (covering 97% of demand) is now cheaper than coal and nuclear 3 months ago:
I feel you… I got a nice 3k€ to pay for electricity just for winter months and that’s with a quite performant heat pump. But at least zero emissions here…
- Comment on Solar + Battery (covering 97% of demand) is now cheaper than coal and nuclear 3 months ago:
Yeah but that would not account for the electricity need: in winter we need between 1000/1300 kWh mainly for heating / domestic hot water. Other months under 250 even if we use air conditioning. So if you cover the 7 nice months you still get absolutely wrecked by the dreaded 4 in the winter cost wise…
