KillingTimeItself

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⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Has the USA turned into an oligarchy?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
it’s very close to turning into one.

It’s not quite there, but trump is definitely not one to shy away from it, so it mostly depends on who he appoints and interacts with. And how corrupt he will be.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Give us your best infodump.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:
thats part of the joke, unfortunately.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Give us your best infodump.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

Now-a-days, I want to have conversations about the merits of one routing protocol over another in various contexts, and see/build a spine and leaf network infrastructure that’s nearly infinitely scalable.

bro i just want screensharing that isn’t using the hell that is webrtc.

How hard is it to send video packets over IP, it can’t be that difficult. Half the job is already done, and i can’t imagine building a reliable networking protocol, even if you had to do it from scratch would be particularly hard.

everything is webrtc, it always has been.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Give us your best infodump.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:
benefits of what, grant money you can’t get anymore because there’s no more federal funding? Oops.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Give us your best infodump.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:
science makes me have faith in science.

Science is unironically one of the only things i ever trust because truth prevails, always…
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Calcrelatable⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
there are two big arguments for a denser layout, notably you move your hands less, which means you can type faster, statistically speaking. It makes it easier. Generally you see typing speed track roughly with this over time.

And since you move your hands less, it’s ergonomically better for typing, so you get less strain, you have better ergonomics in general, you can type longer, and even faster since there is less strain.

Different layouts optimize for different things, some optimize for efficient roll combinations, some optimize for switching between hands as optimally as possible. Some don’t really do any of that (qwerty) which also have a significant impact on typing.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Know thy enemy⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
you think i was saying they would manufacture hydrogen from natural gas?

ok.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Know thy enemy⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
yeah thats pretty much the TL;DR here. It’s complicated since oil is complicated and there isn’t really a “insert oil” oil to talk about, there are a lot of variations of it, and a lot of ways to refine it, and a lot of different resultant products from it as well.

The fact that the modern petro industry even works is kind of insane.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Calcrelatable⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
ah yes, wait until you find out about the qwerty keyboard. Or better yet, the fucking ABCDE layout for some godforsaken reason.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Know thy enemy⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
all freight traffic is a pretty significant dent, i think the net total for all of transport is something like 15-20% of total emissions, so.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Know thy enemy⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
actually, it’s already happening, why do you think LNG is such a massive export from the US right now?
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Know thy enemy⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
yeah, free market economies baby, making everything more efficient!
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Know thy enemy⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
the problem with tar sands is a fundamental energy conversion issue. It’s really hard to refine because you don’t get nearly as much energy out as you put in, compared to something like fracking.

It may become reasonable in the future with really cheap renewable energy and higher oil prices for example, but as of right now, it’s economically unviable.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Know thy enemy⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

bc local supplies would generally be sufficient for industrial, non-fuel uses

this is assuming that its not just cheaper to import that needed oil? This is always going to be a fundamental problem, though maybe we already happen to produce plastic with native oil idk.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Know thy enemy⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
it’s also to do with prices. There is a certain amount of this that is true, but the primary reason is oil prices.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Know thy enemy⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
to be perfectly clear, this probably wouldn’t help much, since we would likely just move to shipping something like hydrogen across the ocean anyway…
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Trying to reverse climate change won’t save us, scientists warn⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
well yeah, you can’t just try, you need to actually do it.

Stupid title, grammatically at least.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How did we move from forums to Reddit, Facebook groups, and Discord?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

I’m going to guess part of it is because for the things that matter to the people who do end up having to code, test and distribute stuff, something like “seamless screen sharing” or “video conference” doesnt really matter.

this definitely makes sense in the OSS community, but i feel like someone should’ve already done it as a semi pet project already. I know i would’ve done it.

And IMO, that’s good if we want to Recover the Web.

that’s an interesting take, but personally i think the web should stick to pretty much static web pages, the browser is turning into a secondary operating system, which is being run on an operating system, which is just, stupid.

Personally i don’t think any of this stuff should be done over the web, period.

The idea behind being in something like a jabber chatroom, or a web forum, is that I can pay attention to 12 channels (or whatever) at a time, read one or two, reply in three others, etc. Text is so un-invasive that I can just explore without bothering myself or anyone else.

yeah, my main complaint though is that we do have things like jabber, this is already incredibly accessible, there is almost no need for expanding the current landscape because it’s been around for like 30 years now.

In comparison, something like audio chat or video chat is more presence-encompassing. You can’t really “push to talk” three different things to three chatrooms at about once, and you likely can but won’t want to listen to three chatrooms full of people at the same time.

no but that’s not the immediate use case either, something like mumble is really nice if you’re playing games with other people and just want to VOIP so you don’t have to use a text chat, you can talk and play video games at the same time pretty easily. It’s also nice if you just want to casually hang around other people without having to be physically near them, or at a keyboard typing on it constantly.

For something like a videoconference you not only need a camera, but a good behind-you because not only who knows who or what will be showing back there.

i mean, you don’t need a camera, maybe in a professional setting, but in a casual setting, screensharing something to show someone else for example, you don’t even need a camera.

Not to mention: this is computer stuff. No one really likes to work on “debt”, which is what “Foo has to have ‘screen sharing’ because Discord has it” ultimately boils down to.

this is fair, and tbh i don’t even really want a discord clone, you could very easily just adapt one of the many existing text chat protocols IRC being the most obvious, and VOIP is basically a solved problem, that’s not hard either. Mumble has a pretty good low latency implementation of it, but you don’t always need low latency. Video sharing/video conferencing is harder, but we have things like youtube and netflix, so the actual video streaming part isn’t the hard thing. We have entire video manipulation libraries like FFMPEG as well, which will do everything you need it to do.

Mumble i think is the perfect example of a “minimalist” application, it does VOIP and it does it really well. I pretty much just want mumble but for video sharing and i’d be happy.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How did we move from forums to Reddit, Facebook groups, and Discord?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
yeah, and discord slack and basically everything based on electron is a fresh hell.

I love having three separate instances of chrome running the background while just using my computer, such that they all consume an entire gigabyte of ram for no particular reason.

TBF i wouldn’t do much if any troubleshooting over RDP or anything similar, i use SSH for all that stuff lol. I’m just confused that nobody has put together a “relatively” functional version of this yet, it seems like it would be prime realestate.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Octopus⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
what kind of octopus are we talking? How big?

It’s a known fact that as long as their mouth fits through the hole, the rest will follow, but it must be pretty small for it to move through your entire GI tract.

Now the spooky thing is that it’s probably intelligent enough to do it, assuming it doesn’t die somewhere along the way.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I'm going insane⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
this is an odd way to reference that one (theres probably a few) vsauce video on mirrors.

Not that i’m complaining.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Gender⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
idk dude i’m just here now, i didn’t sign up for this shit, i’m like a self replicating worm.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How did we move from forums to Reddit, Facebook groups, and Discord?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
it’s IRC but if it had all the features, and was monetized. It has a lot more features from what i understand, but aside from that it’s basically just a VOIP communication platform with video sharing. IDK why there aren’t any significant alternatives like we have with mumble tho.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How did we move from forums to Reddit, Facebook groups, and Discord?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
this is true, but for some reason i am rather optimistic about the future of this particular venture, idk why.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How did we move from forums to Reddit, Facebook groups, and Discord?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
obviously but VC funding is predicated on very slimy concepts and it’s pretty easy for the broad market forces to adapt away from it, as we see with current VC projects. We just need to somehow deal with that problem. That’s the hard part though.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How did we move from forums to Reddit, Facebook groups, and Discord?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
eventually people are going to have to wisen up to the VC funding strategy. It’s not going to last forever, i hope.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Gender⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
download HRT (the one trick governments don’t want you to know)
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Gender⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
well i mean, technically not as this is actually a post on a service known as lemmy. So from that framework you would just be a string of identifiable text.

nice root instance btw.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Gender⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
idk i just have it, it showed up with me. I just have it now.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How did we move from forums to Reddit, Facebook groups, and Discord?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

What do you need screen sharing for? This comes up so, so rarely for me.

it’s convenient, also it’d be nice if it had the feature capability.

Mumble is great, but if there was something like mumble, that implemented video sharing, that would be miles better, though a lot of people would probably still use mumble, as it’s fine.

From what i’ve dug into, basically every video sharing capable setup is based on web technology, and i simply refuse to go near web technology unless i WANT to use a web browser. It’s just, worse, in so many ways.