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mycorrhiza

@mycorrhiza@post.lurk.org

Dad, working scientist, degrowth anarchist, wobbly

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rysiek, (edited ) to random
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"ChatGPT [prompt] consumes (…) up to 25 times more than a Google search"
https://www.brusselstimes.com/1042696/chatgpt-consumes-25-times-more-energy-than-google

> Making sure your electricity comes from wind, solar or nuclear power is a logical first step. Google itself, for example, says it has been running entirely on green electricity since 2015.

Story misses a crucial point:

👉 The goal isn't just to add green power. The goal is to emit less CO2!

New green capacity needs to replace old dirty stuff. Not be gobbled up by new data centers for AI.

🧵

mycorrhiza,
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@rysiek another thing to consider is that when Google (etc) builds a new data center, they go in and buy up all of the region’s renewable energy so that they can claim to be using renewable energy. All of the homes and industries that were already in that region are stuck using fossils instead of any new green power. This is one way that the percent of renewable energy can increase without a commensurate decrease in the total amount of fossils burned.

mycorrhiza,
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@rysiek I’m sorry about that! I scrolled through the thread after I replied (which was sloppy), and then I just figured “at least we’re on the same page” (which was lazy).

But I’m glad we’re on the same page!

jonny, to random
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6am, bright and early, the strike is on

mycorrhiza,
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@jonny “There can be no power greater anywhere beneath the sun”

lilithsaintcrow, to random
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"...for me, “Man or Bear” is not hypothetical. I’m literally a woman who left mankind behind to live in nature with bears. This is my actual life." https://bikepacking.com/plog/man-or-bear-debate/

mycorrhiza,
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@lilithsaintcrow this is a phenomenal read, thanks for sharing.

mycorrhiza, to random
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A lotta people will hop on a public microblogging platform and confidently type out something like, “you cannot support the world's population with community supported agriculture alone,” without citing a single reference.

If science is so great for agriculture maybe you should incorporate it into your arguments.

yaxu, to random
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Pattern club is live on Mondo radio https://www.mondo.radio/

mycorrhiza,
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@yaxu on this broadcast you told a story about somebody running a tutorial and how they had great advice about following instructions and getting help from your neighbor? I wish I remembered the wording because I loved that so much.

mycorrhiza,
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@yaxu nice, thank you!

mycorrhiza, to random
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I really wish I could easily choose a side here, but the email from the Tusky team didn’t do them favors in my eyes. Why do people have to write paragraphs and paragraphs of excuses instead of a short mea culpa?

“Nik raised a valid point and we will be more transparent about fund distribution decisions moving forward. We appreciate the community’s support and trust, and it’s important to us to preserve that. Expect us to post our new expense policy within the coming X weeks, as we work in parallel to formalize a new governance structure for the project.” That was easy!

Instead I come away from reading this with the impression that I wouldn’t get along with or trust any of the people involved. Which is a shame.

mycorrhiza, to random
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Buckle up, it’s time to read KSR’s fanfic about world governments actually doing something for the common good. I like Stan but I don’t expect to love this. Should have some compelling characters at least.

(comment on https://bookwyrm.social/book/29187)

mycorrhiza,
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@mycorrhiza I need to dig through my notifications because someone, a while back, was telling me to look out for some stuff. Was it you @skyfaller? Or maybe @adamgreenfield? Iirc you folks came away from the book with the opinion I expect to have. But it’s the next book on the stack on my nightstand, and duty calls.

mycorrhiza, to random
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Voyager 1 has been in space for 16,900 days and is still getting software updates 24 billion kilometers away, but Google stopped supporting my phone less than 3.5 years after they started selling them (and just 2 years after they stopped selling them).

mycorrhiza, to random
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I’ve been around for a minute, and I feel fairly confident when I say this: there aren’t any “normal” people. Just weirdos and people you don’t know very well.

mycorrhiza, to random
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One thing I changed my mind about in recent years is that I think “link rot” is fine, and that efforts to preserve all of the information on the web are misguided. Supposedly, “those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it,” but what if the reason we keep on falling into the same patterns of behavior is because we remember them? We certainly remember the 1930s enough to recognize where the creeping fascism we see today is headed, and it’s apparent that all the remembering in the world isn’t enough to stop it.

mycorrhiza, to random
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I’m not an Arch user, but the Arch Wiki has become the best place to figure out how to do some random thing in Linux. Nice work Arch people — thank you.

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    mycorrhiza,
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    @Binder those who don’t remember history are doomed to repeat it.

    Those who do remember history are doomed to repeat it too. The first time they’ll be smug about it, but that will quickly give way to outrage, then horror, and finally just resigned acceptance.

    mycorrhiza, to random
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    Project Idea

    I still have a bona fide Linksys WRT54GL that I’m not using for anything. I thought it would be cool to set up a solar-powered captive portal ebook library to share public domain reading with my neighbors...

    ...but the secret anarchist agenda would be to host a forum that I could stand up in order to help my block coordinate supplies and such in case of an emergency.

    Is there a turnkey solution for this usecase? If anyone has done this they're probably on Fedi, right?

    mycorrhiza, to random
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    As a nerd who does a lot of data visualization for my day job and is putting much of my (scant) hobby time into permacomputing, it’s hard to keep @visnut and @viznut straight.

    mycorrhiza, to random
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    “Oh, you use Emacs? Like that Stallman guy?”

    (I don’t mean it, I love you Emacs people.)

    mycorrhiza, to random
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    Always grateful for @jonny's posts about academia on my timeline; whenever I start to wonder, “did I make a mistake by leaving...”, “did I give up too quickly...” a new toot drops, reminding me that I would be entirely too miserable working in that environment full-time. Don’t get me wrong, I’m glad that they and folks like them are fighting the good fight — higher education is too important for us to abandon — but my circumstances preclude me from that one.

    mycorrhiza, to random
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    I see a thread that’s gaining traction making a point I disagree with. But I don’t know the OP and I don’t want to argue with strangers online, so I’ll make my point here.

    The poster is talking about Fedi remaining niche like it’s a bad thing. Their central thesis is probably best summarized by the statement, “having a critical mass of users is the only way to gain relevance”. (Implicit in this statement is the notion that a “critical mass” of users is a lot of people, otherwise it’s vacuously true.) But I don’t share this perspective. I think the right couple thousand people — doing the right thing at the right time — could absolutely move the world. It’s happened so many times throughout history!

    mycorrhiza, to random
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    I fucking love beets. The greens are delicious, the roots are delicious (roasted, pickled, shredded and raw — however you want them), their coloring is beautiful, and they’re so nutritious.

    I saw some asshole* hating on beets over here and fuck that noise. This is a pro-beet account and beet haters can gtfo.

    • I don’t know the person; it’s possible that they’re perfectly lovely and have this one terrible opinion.
    mycorrhiza, to python
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    Bookworm is Debian’s oldest still-supported LTS release and apparently ships with 3.7.3. If you wanted a Python script to work out of the box on as many computers as possible, is there a compelling reason to target an older version than that?

    mycorrhiza, to random
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    In light of the corporation’s legal attack on the NLRB, have any of the workers (or unions representing workers) at Trader Joe’s asked for a boycott yet?

    mycorrhiza, to random
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    Over on the Permacomputing mailing list, I just learned about this super cool project by @thentrythis:

    > Last year I ran a workshop for disadvantaged families in Cornwall in the UK (a historic mining area) where we smashed rocks, collected crystals from mine waste, built semiconductors out of them, plugged them into cardboard circuit boards and made synthesisers: https://thentrythis.org/notes/2023/11/17/organised-atoms-at-flamm-festival-redruth/

    mycorrhiza, to random
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    If you have an old plastic device with a coating that once made it feel slightly rubberized, but has since become uncomfortably sticky, I’m finding that isopropyl and a bit of elbow grease takes that coating off, leaving the smooth hard plastic beneath.

    Does anyone know if there’s a better way to do this? I just reclaimed an old gaming mouse, and I’d like to attack an even older Alienware laptop next. Laptops should not be sticky.

    mycorrhiza, to random
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    I saw a toot (from a stranger, hence the subtoot) that argued that permacomputing was about redeeming computers. Maybe some permacomputing proponents feel that way, but that’s not the attitude I’m bringing to this endeavor at all. The questions I’m interested in are things like:

    • We have all these computers around, how do we make them last as long as possible?
    • If or when we reach a point where we stop mass-producing new chips, how can we eke out the most use of extant digital devices?
    • Is it possible to build something that counts as a “computer” in a genuinely sustainable way?
    • At the root of all of this: what purpose does computation serve for humanity that is even worth carrying on in a more humane society?

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