So they’re distributing their data center into various neighborhoods and therefore are leeching on power lines and everything else there. Kind of clever but also sneaky an slimy.

It depends on your jurisdiction, but it is a GDPR nightmare. There is a difference between exchanging public posts between instances and building political profiles with AI for individual users without their consent.

And that is also one of the reasons why it is so infuriating that modern linux based Android systems or Windows wants to steer you away from the filesystem.

We have to be honest: Many people shouldn’t own dogs. Dogs shouldn’t be in small apartments while their owner is away at work. Dogs are social animals, they need company. Dogs shouldn’t be in an crowded environment where they have to pee in doorways, on cars or benches. Dogs need an environment where they can run freely and not only on a leash. If you can’t provide your dog with that, you shouldn’t buy one.

And if you buy one, you need to train it to ensure that the dog is not a danger to other people and will not annoy them by barking at everything everytime.

(the same applies to cats…)

That’s actually quite wild coming from someone on dbzero0, which is doing the same on an instance level as instance policy

It totally makes sense. If we want to steer our society to reduce CO2 emissions, we can’t afford companies doing multibillion dollar ad campaigns for CO2 emissions.

That’s really a western prospective where you are used to a reliable power grid. If you’re living in the global south, blackouts are more common (depending on your country, of course). And if you can’t rely on your power system to provide you power at all times, you have already adapted. And that also means that you can use solar without much hassle

The issue is that there are apps promising you an calorie count via photo.

I would be so pissed if those football billionaires would destroy my internet everytime there is a game going on. And there is a game going on the whole weekend

The worst about this: It is not a response. The CDU government was planning this way before the iran war and is still doing this despite the oil price hike and the new geopolitical situation.

That behaviour shouldn’t be possible in a browser that has its users interests in mind. The browser could limit the extentions websites could monitor for to a sensible amount. Or disable that feature at all. Or block fingerprinting by default by providing false data. But if you have the worlds biggest spy company building your browser, you will get a browser that spies

They are reporting “family daily active users” and I assume that this “family” means all of their apps. They are reporting 3.56 billion DAU, but Whatsapp alone has 3.3 billion users according to some sources. So we really do not know how Facebook or Instagram are doing from those numbers - and it does make sense that user numbers are dropping when Russia is restricting access to WhatsApp & Co and Iran is switching off its internet.

Account bans? Which accounts will be banned?

Ask the World Economic Forum or the Stockholm Environment Institute:

https://www.weforum.org/stories/2024/05/climate-change-economic-impact-incomes/

(and if you are honest, it totally makes sense that rich people produce an overproportional amount of CO2. They have the money. They are flying. They are consuming more. They have bigger houses and all those fancy Saunas, Whirlpools and second homes. Why are you questioning that?)

Not really. Blockchain technology has one use case and that is collaboration between partners who don’t trust each other. So we’re talking crypto coins, where not all nodes are really trustworthy and there is an incentive to cheat. But there’s no reason to bring this tech to your Git repository because you really do not want untrustworthy participants in your code. Only you should have access to your Git rep, and then the easier solution is to host it yourself and use a normal database.

Let me ask a question: do you really think that changing the behaviour of the 1% richest people would change anything on the pollution problem ?

Yes, I really do think that changing the behaviour of those people who are producing 15% of global emissions will have an effect on global emissions.

The average American generates about $1,605 a year in advertising value. A 35- to 44-year-old man in Bozeman, MT, without children, using a desktop and making high-value corporate searches, generates an estimated $17,929.30. An 18- to 24-year-old father in Fort Smith, AR, using an Android phone and making low-value searches, generates $31.05.

Just imagine how much people have to buy through ads to justify this amount of ad spending.

There are two things: The amount of CO2 produced by private jets is not “near nothing”, it is quite significant and produced only by a small number of people. We need to get to net zero in order to save the planet and therefore we can’t afford a “it’s only a small amount” way of thinking. And we can already see how this behaviour of the super rich is tipping opinions against environmental protections. I’m sure you have seen this whole “Taylor Swift is flying everyday and we have to drink out of paper straws”-meme

I know that text to speech does work without AI, but the modern AI-based models are so much better.

Yeah, that really does not look good. Something like that should never have been released in that state and that is a serious problem with processes.