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- Comment on UK datacentres to be designated critical infrastructure 1 month ago:
This move, at least on the face of it, seems to privilege the cloud giants over say, a company that maintains its own servers. That’s effectively a handout of public resources to those already fabulously wealthy and powerful corporations.
That’s where I drew the conclusion from
- Comment on UK datacentres to be designated critical infrastructure 1 month ago:
Isn’t technofeudalism great?
- Submitted 2 months ago to technology@lemmy.world | 0 comments
- Comment on Raspberry Pi Pico 2, our new $5 microcontroller board, on sale now 2 months ago:
Lol, and just immediately downvoted. Lemmy needs that essay more than I thought! Too easy to be reactive without accountability on this platform, sadly
- Comment on Raspberry Pi Pico 2, our new $5 microcontroller board, on sale now 2 months ago:
How is this not considered spam?
This is literally just an ad for a product. It even has the price in the title for crying out loud!
And to top it off, it’s posted by an account that I’m pretty sure reported me for spam, because I posted a tech-philosophy essay where the site mentioned at the end that the essay was also published in a zine.
- Submitted 2 months ago to technology@lemmy.world | 0 comments
- Comment on Designing Friction 2 months ago:
Well, thanks for not incorrectly calling the post spam and downvoting it at least lol
- Comment on Designing Friction 2 months ago:
Huh? This is a link to an essay, unless I’m entirely missing something
- Submitted 2 months ago to technology@lemmy.world | 7 comments
- Comment on Bitcoin is Stupid and Does Not Deserve an Emoji (blog post) 3 months ago:
Thanks. Although to be honest I’m not sure what their edit was - does Lemmy not have a way to view a post’s edit history?? Seems like a problem…
- Comment on Bitcoin is Stupid and Does Not Deserve an Emoji (blog post) 3 months ago:
Uh oh guys, we got a salty bag holder 😂
- Comment on Bitcoin is Stupid and Does Not Deserve an Emoji (blog post) 3 months ago:
normalizing scams, by laundering their image via standards organizations, pollutes our communications environment. Both an emoji and a petition are symbolic - and our symbols are in fact important.
- Comment on Bitcoin is Stupid and Does Not Deserve an Emoji (blog post) 3 months ago:
I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again:
True bitcoiners 🤝 no-coiners “Bitcoin should be illegal”
- Submitted 3 months ago to technology@lemmy.world | 86 comments
- Comment on The Slow Fedi Movement: Toward a Green, Independent, and Equitable Fediverse 6 months ago:
Low bandwidth mode - what a great idea, thanks for pointing it out!
- Comment on The Slow Fedi Movement: Toward a Green, Independent, and Equitable Fediverse 6 months ago:
Thanks! Yeah tbh the gemlog is really just a mirror of the blog, but for the record it’s gemini://gemini.patatas.ca
- Comment on The Slow Fedi Movement: Toward a Green, Independent, and Equitable Fediverse 6 months ago:
I hear you on this - Akkoma does this by default, but the issue there is, let’s say someone on a tiny server posts an image, even a relatively small one - if it gets boosted by an account with 10k followers, that small server will effectively get DDOSed, assuming enough of those clients are online.
- Comment on The Slow Fedi Movement: Toward a Green, Independent, and Equitable Fediverse 6 months ago:
That’s a good question. The best answer is, I don’t know!
But if I had to guess, based on the small amount I’ve learned:
larger servers most likely benefit from economies of scale. They’ll be using CDNs, and will often have several people on their server following any given remote account, rather than just one. So the per-client energy use is almost certainly lower than for small servers.
But it’s still tough to know whether it’s the client or server using more energy. IIRC with video streaming, the end user’s device was the biggest factor in overall consumption - but it’s not like the server is chugging away 24/7 fetching media for you like a Fediverse server is.
For single-user servers, or servers with only a few accounts, I expect the server (and all the network infrastructure in between two servers) is doing a lot more work than the client(s) - unless it’s like, the server is on a raspberry Pi and the client is running on a powerful desktop for a lot of the day, or something. Again, many factors at play.
Really though, the question I start to ask in all this is more about, which parts of the system are the most difficult to justify?
- Comment on The Slow Fedi Movement: Toward a Green, Independent, and Equitable Fediverse 6 months ago:
Nice. Yeah Gemini is pretty cool, and that actually reminds me, I have to publish this piece on my gemlog as well ;)
Haven’t tried tootik either but thanks for pointing me to it, will check it out!
- Submitted 6 months ago to fediverse@lemmy.world | 25 comments