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⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Say Hello to the World's Largest Hard Drive, a Massive 36TB Seagate⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:
Data hoarders could be happy, but otherwise it’s mostly enterprise use.

I personally hold about 4 TB of files, and I know people holding over 30 TB.

As soon as your storage needs exceed 1-2 games and a bunch of old photos, demand for space raises quickly.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Japanese researchers broke the fiber transmission record with 1.02 petabits per second⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:
Speeding up the Internet will speed up Tor as well.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Star Wars is an ode to the stupidest use of battle lasers⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:
Lol
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Can somebody please explain why the world hasn't gone nuclear yet?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:
Yes, storage is complicated - but it can be done. Pumped hydro and other technologies exist to make storage cheaper than it would be in batteries, and sodium-ion options become cheaper and cheaper to serve as buffers.

As far as I know, the power outage in Portugal and Spain did not start with renewables, those were disconnected to protect the equipment later, when the voltage already dropped, along with other power stations. Moreover, they were the first to recover, and they handled some of the load during the blackout: euronews.com/…/did-renewable-energy-cause-spain-a…
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Can somebody please explain why the world hasn't gone nuclear yet?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:
Up until quite recently, nuclear has been decently economical as it is - but indeed, a lot of nuclear investments of the previous century were made with obtaining weapon-grade plutonium in mind. It’s one part of why countries went with uranium cycle to begin with.

Modern research into thorium-based reactors that could be cheaper and not produce nuclear weapon material is too little too late. Renewables already took over the game.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What would remain for a future species if humans were to vanish tomorrow?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:
Earth the planet is totally alright with everything we do. It’s been through much tougher times.

We only endanger ourselves and other living creatures.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Can somebody please explain why the world hasn't gone nuclear yet?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:
Initially, world war very nuclear-positive

Then, Idaho, Chernobyl and much later Fukushima happened, slowly turning the world against nuclear as a dangerous energy production option. Association with nuclear weapons and Cold War didn’t help, either.

In the meanwhile, renewables like solar and wind, which were initially prohibitively expensive, got more traction and investment, and as a result of new developments and economies of scale, they eventually managed to become cheaper than nuclear in most areas of the world, rendering nuclear power financially inefficiny and thus generally obsolete.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Tesseract is shutting down⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:
Photon is solid and nice
Star Wars is an ode to the stupidest use of battle lasers
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⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Shitsharing⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:
.ml, hexbear and grad up left

Rest down left

Solved.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨PieFed.World is now open⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:
Fair. But standards need to be made eventually, or Fediverse will fail to deliver on its promise.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨PieFed.World is now open⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:
I’d rather see feature parity so that Fediverse and Threadiverse in particular won’t EEE itself.

(Longer translation without commonly accepted terms: I’d rather see Lemmy/PieFed/Kbin/Mbin have the same features overall, so that there wouldn’t be one of them trying to extend on others and then make it standard so that others die out because they lack something important)
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YSK that apart from not having a car, the single greatest thing you can do for the climate is simply eating less red meat⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:
Makes sense, thought about this.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YSK that apart from not having a car, the single greatest thing you can do for the climate is simply eating less red meat⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:
Ocean travel us very fuel efficient, and also bananas don’t seem to have the same effect despite also coming from afar.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YSK that apart from not having a car, the single greatest thing you can do for the climate is simply eating less red meat⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:
True, but still Why is it so much worse than other plant-based foods?
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YSK that apart from not having a car, the single greatest thing you can do for the climate is simply eating less red meat⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:
Woah, didn’t know about cheese (although makes sense), coffee and chocolate.

Why do coffee and chocolate have such an impact?
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anubis, The Opensource Defender Against AI Bots: I fight bots in my free time⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:
Thanks!
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anubis, The Opensource Defender Against AI Bots: I fight bots in my free time⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:
Lol
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anubis, The Opensource Defender Against AI Bots: I fight bots in my free time⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:
Interesting, thanks!

Guess it’s the same kinda thing as amd64 on Intel lol
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anubis, The Opensource Defender Against AI Bots: I fight bots in my free time⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:
Why does default config check Mozilla specifically?
```
{
"name": "generic-browser",
"user_agent_regex": "Mozilla",
"action": "CHALLENGE"
}
```
Guess that’s why I’ve seen Anubis check screen quite a few times.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Let’s Encrypt Begins Supporting IP Address Certificates⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:
Yay!
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Let’s Encrypt Begins Supporting IP Address Certificates⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:
Yay!
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Let’s Encrypt Begins Supporting IP Address Certificates⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:
Can’t it automatically be renewed?
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is anyone else not feeling that patriotic for July 4?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:
Right as we speak, the US assists Israel in its genocidal mission to destroy Palestine - one condemned by nearly the entire world. So much for “global benevolent police”.

Sure, there needs to be some updates to ensure UN has what it takes to establish an actually useful peacekeeping force. Guess who’s gonna veto it before anyone else, though, and for what reasons. It’s so so profitable to declare yourself a world police without asking anybody, and ravage any place on Earth on demand.

Cheers.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is anyone else not feeling that patriotic for July 4?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:
So, bring in security by initiating wars?

My point is, these interventions have never been about democracy, or freedom, or security for that matter. They were about forcibly creating dependent puppet states acting in the economic interest of the US and reinforcing its hegemony, locals be damned. And it’s what every “successful” invasion has provided.

Take something like Chile as an example (it’s a particularly black-and-white one, but there are plenty more). It was a liberal democracy ran by an elected President, who just so happened to be socialist. The reforms he has introduced threatened foreign capital within the nation, including the American one; as a result, CIA has first launched a propaganda campaign, and when this failed, sponsored and armed a coup that led to the instatement of a brutal and bloody authoritarian regime.

Did the country become more democratic? No. Did it become safer? Hell no. But it suddenly became very dependent on and friendly to American capital, which this entire operation was all about.

If we want some real world police, we should extend the scope of the UN Peacekeepers, instead of relying on a country with a hundred year history of arbitrary invasions and covert interventions. We need the peacekeeping force to be globally recognized and supported.

I don’t know why do some people feel their country is entitled to carry world’s justice. It’s not better or more just, it’s just properly defended against retaliation.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Let’s Encrypt Begins Supporting IP Address Certificates⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:
F I N A L L Y

Now tell me it supports IPv6 and I’ll be the happiest man alive
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Made Ya Look...⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:
I’m not sire MAGAs are intelligent enough to know what it is
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is anyone else not feeling that patriotic for July 4?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:
For what it is in what respect? You tried to argue that Cold War is a good vs evil situation, I argued that it is very much not.

I fully admit Russia is and always was (I told you why nineties don’t really count) an autocracy, and that actions of Russian rulers have caused a lot of misery and suffering. This doesn’t stop me from admitting the US is a deeply flawed democracy, that American rulers are known to take plenty of unpopular decisions (including wars that no one asked for), and are generally known to not care about lives of people outside the country, causing even more misery all around the globe up to this day.

And this is exactly why I want the governments to have less power, and advocate for direct democracy. Any power is potential for abuse, and Russia and the US have likely proved it the most. Curbing the power of all governments, big and small, has great potential to reduce violence and abuse. With direct democracy and independent media, Russia could have never attacked Ukraine, Israel could never attack Palestine, and US wouldn’t threaten to enter Iran yet again. Russia also wouldn’t have opposition in jails or abroad, US wouldn’t send immigrants to Alligator Alcatraz, and level of human misery would be so much less.

As long as we lead ourselves to believe that this misery and suffering is righteous or “not that bad” to any degree, we empower the tyrants all around the globe.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Might be time to put your life in perspective⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:
Oh, I see!

But then again, same can be said of anything but matter, and even matter as we know it is just a set of reflections and electrostatic repulsion.

You never truly touch a single object - you just reach the force equilibrium - and all things you see around you, as well as yourself, are 99,99999% emptiness, or rather a few tiny electrons being everywhere and nowhere at the same time. Even if we could compress our entire bodies to a grain of sand, it would still be mostly that - an emptiness filled with uncertainty. So, does it even matter?
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is anyone else not feeling that patriotic for July 4?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:
Oh, Connect is still out there? Thought it is dead.

Annexation by USSR touched Baltics and parts of Poland. The rest was more of puppet governments - something the US has practiced extensively all around the globe.

Part of it was ex-Axis powers (like Japan), the other part - just about any government thinking of socialism or economic independence from the US or having oil (Vietnam, Cuba, Chile, Iran, Iraq, Indonesia, Brazil, Bolivia, Cambodia, Syria, Guatemala, China, Egypt - you name it). After the Cold War, there were barely a few years US was not involved in some conflict or the other over its “national interests” or “national security”, suggesting that it was never about rivalry with USSR. Needless to say, local population was commonly not very happy about it.

So, I cannot in good faith agree that US was any better in this respect. Both sucked a lot, and same is likely to happen to any grand military power - if anything because military needs experience to stay efficient, and with great power comes great desire to use it to your advantage.