So, #Introduction take two, since my own server was börked beyond repair ! I don't learn about my own failures so I did it again and rebuilt my server from scratch.
You'll often find me at #CCC events and near critical infrastructure, and especially burning critical infrastructure. Just promise me a cup of cofe au lait or say pspsps and I might come to you (maybe). :orangekater:
I know it's been a while since our last correspondence. I heard that King Musk is threatening to attack Emporer Marc von Zuckerberg III for having his territory be similar in design (due to hiring King Musk's former workers). King Musk has gone so far as to (and forgive my vulgarity) have a "manhood" measuring contest. This is all truly absurd.
@drahardja We really need the media companies to ask some serious questions of Jack and Zuck about the serious concerns of the previous apps/platforms and how the new ones have addressed those concerns. I have yet to see this kind of coverage.
The reason I do not expect it is that any media org which is critical of any social media platform risks becoming shadow banned so their reach is severely limited. It is why most writers and hosts of TV news shows are often blissfully unaware of any problems.
@SomeGadgetGuy just realized that Elon is to tech/ Twitter as the Kardashians are to media/ TV. Both are painful to watch but you keep wanting to see what shyt is going to happen next.
Maybe if we stop acknowledging the tantrums, the children were stopped trying to seek attention in negative ways.🫤
@TheOmegaOnion Agreed. It's like all that reality TV posturing. The drama and controversy keep people watching. Musk has never been an earnest commenter or participant. There's no "shaming" him into better behavior because he's a shitposter. The whole point is to do ANYTHING to get attention.
@badgersaurus There definitely needs to be a better guide to all of this. I only recently figured it out when I realised that there was so much stuff going on that I couldn't see.
Instances really do matter for your experience on the Fediverse. What you do see really depends on which instances your home instance federates with.
This one in particular is mainly for academics, so definitely you'd see it skewed towards more serious content (with a few hobby posts in between).
This is actually a great way to illustrate how much a billion dollars actually is!
According to Bricklink, a 1×2 Lego tile weighs 0.26 g. If each tile represents a dollar, this set would contain four billion tiles, clocking in at over ONE MILLION KILOGRAMS. Delivering this number of bricks would require 49 standard cargo containers (each nominally rated at 21,600 kg).
Even if each tile represents $100, the largest denomination that US paper money comes in, we would still end up with more than 40 million tiles, weighing more than TEN TONS. Imagine holding a tiny lego tile that you can sell for $100, and looking up to see that you have TEN TONS of it stored in a warehouse. That’s how much $4B is worth.
A billion dollars is a incredibly, mind-blowingly vast sum of wealth for one person to own today; an amount so huge that most people don’t really comprehend how large it is.
And once you realize how much $4B actually is, realize that Bill Gates has 29 times that amount, and Elon Musk has 62 times that amount.
I love how unemployed and disabled shitposters have caused a genuine crisis in #Finnish right-wing nationalist government just by reading through their social media history.
I bet the massive (and growing) resource consumption of cloud computing is largely because seemingly every CI job downloads (a) an entire operating system, (b) a full set of pinned dependencies, (c) the full version control history of your project, then (d) builds all of them from scratch, then (e) it’s all thrown away and run again because you just force-pushed a typo fix.