Gsus4

Gsus4, 8 months ago (edited 8 months ago)

This is just the easiest step of the green transition: reduce costly energy imports through efficiency and it makes sense even without a green transition point of view. If even that can’t be done with public assent, there is no hope for anything beyond that in countries that buy cheap and/or export fossil fuels :/

Gsus4, 8 months ago

Even experts can’t keep up with all the developments :/

Gsus4, 8 months ago

We need this for babies :)

Gsus4, 8 months ago

How much does one’a them cost these days, 40$?

Gsus4, 8 months ago (edited 8 months ago)

I mean, we could have a community for building a geocities-style network of dumb-sites and personal pages linked to other people’s pages or shared interest pages dedicated to non-chatgpt content. With its own death (autocorrect, wtf?) local search engine to bypass Google’s SEO (like a sub-internet). Make the web alive again. We have had some Lemmy posts about favourite websites that made me think of that.

Gsus4, 8 months ago

Ok, I’d heard about it before, but I’ll try it out and see if it really is what it looks like. I can’t criticise it if I haven’t really tested it myself.

Also: can neocities be shut down like geocities was?

Gsus4, 8 months ago (edited 8 months ago)

Alright, Wikipedia model (but for web art and enthusiast communities). Looks good, let’s gooo :)

Gsus4, 8 months ago

Sounds good, I only need to run ipfs to host myself. Do you also need to run the software to see it on the clearnet? Probably there are gateways for this.

Gsus4, 8 months ago

Probably a typo, but currency is *inflationary, cryptocurrency is *deflationary, that’s why it’s not for spending “now” (e.g. hodlbros)

Gsus4, 8 months ago

I’d settle for Elon selling all his companies and taking a 50-year holiday on a private island quietly enjoying his 200 billion and we never hear from his stupid ass again.

Gsus4, 8 months ago

We should have let him pilot his magic cave sub. That’s where this timeline fucked up :/ he would have died a tragic hero, not lived long enough to out himself as a wanker.

Gsus4, 8 months ago (edited 8 months ago)

It’s ok, but it’s possible some people will walk out thinking “the people are too stupid for democracy” like Mussolini, “we need to wipe out these fuckwit degenerates” like Old Testament God. But I guess it’s good for venting and ranting with friends.

Gsus4, 8 months ago

Yea, I thought about that. If you think Sodium goes to town with water, imagine what would happen if thrown in a cloud of Chlorine :D

Gsus4, 8 months ago (edited 8 months ago)

Hahaha, he’s so deadpan, I love it :D

Gsus4, 8 months ago (edited 8 months ago)

It’s ok, we were already trapped in our planet. There is no planet B…unless you don’t mind living in high-tech caves :) on Earth they’re called “vaults”.

Gsus4, 8 months ago

Bikes are actually greener than walking, because if you need to move, they allow you to have a greater daily range for a not much higher footprint (more efficient and 3 times faster).

Gsus4, 8 months ago

Embedded CO2 for a bike is like 100kg (that’s what 4 trees in your backyard absorb a year), which over a lifetime of 30 years is negligible.

Gsus4, 8 months ago

#fuckcars

Gsus4, 8 months ago

They are there to remind you what trees grew up to before we started “managing” forests

Gsus4, 8 months ago

Nobody has teeth?

Gsus4, 8 months ago

Because we don’t know how long this war is going to last and you’re making comparisons with a short war+long counterinsurgency that ended…so it’s hard to say more died in Iraq when you don’t know how many are going to die plus refugees plus kidnappings in this.

Gsus4, 8 months ago

A nonprofit with multiple synchronized copies of the database and you can get your own copy, synchronize, fork it if you have the space, like a GitLab repository. Remember this is not for secure transactions and to prevent double-spending like a currency. It’s just an additive database. You don’t need to overkill with a blockchain.

Gsus4, 8 months ago (edited 8 months ago)

Look, Git exists and image or document registration in an official onine database is Git diffs with less functionality because you can’t remove previous commits: you just append new lines. This is a solved problem. If you’re trying to solve a double-spend problem, then you need more than that, but it’s overkill for your problem.

PS: maybe I’m oversimplifying it, but here’s more discussion on this:

stackoverflow.com/…/why-is-git-not-considered-a-b…

stackoverflow.com/…/is-git-distributed-or-decentr…

Gsus4, 8 months ago (edited 8 months ago)

There are examples like DNS or the Mozilla foundation or all sorts of repos. Due to the receipt system you can verify if the commit history has been tampered with (your image has been removed from the database or edited). For court documents each court could host its own database where checksums are verified periodically, by “oracles”.

Gsus4, 8 months ago

Everyone uses “oracles” eventually, there is no true “trustless”, but you can have systems which are publicly “loud” about being changed, even ethereum needs “oracles” that can be tampered with and which you need to trust, that’s why I used the word.