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peter, 5 months ago (edited 5 months ago)

Very interesting read, it showcases how big tech can grow more aware of the “threat” of the Fediverse and how they might act.

UPDATE: Those rumours have been confirmed as at least one Mastodon admin, kev, from fosstodon.org, has been contacted to take part in an off-the-record meeting with Meta. He had the best possible reaction: he refused politely and, most importantly, published the email to be transparent with its users. Thanks kev!

What a hero, whoever you are!

peter, 5 months ago

Finally someone that get’s it

peter, 6 months ago

I replaced my old Intel Core i7 HP ProLiant server with an Odroid M1 (ARM Based) and it consumes 2 watts compared to 72 that the Intel Server did.

The only thing I can’t do with it is my Minecraft server, it runs all else perfectly. Even the Lemmy instance of this account is powered by the same server! And what’s more it basically runs for free, as solar generates enough power for the server to consume, even when it’s cloudy.

Yes, I believe Intel should be afraid.

peter, 6 months ago

I wish the Pinebook Pro was updated cause I’d give that a shot. Or better, an ARM powered Framework laptop

peter, 6 months ago

Yeah it’s mostly performance related. I have like 10 different websites running all at once, and while CPU and RAM aren’t 100% all the time, with a heavy load I don’t have enough free to do it

peter, 6 months ago

The server was a second hand server that has 32GB RAM and 2 i7 CPU’s, it was made in 2015 so quite old. The Odroid has only 8GB of RAM but for my purposes that’s enough, and given the power it saves it’s absolutely a bargain!

If I ever need this much memory again I can just temporarily spin up something more powerful, for all other 24/7 tasks I can keep up the efficient ARM server.

peter, 6 months ago

Yeah makes sense! It probably doesn’t although I have no benchmarks to prove it, it just is enough for me. I know this much though: even if the x86 server had the same specs (ram, GHz) as the arm version it likely still draws more power

peter, 6 months ago

Nice, cool to see more people have an arm Lemmy instance

peter, 7 months ago

I don’t know why Lemmy did that. I used the cross post function (which links to lemmy.emerald.show/post/204827). Do you know how to fix that?

And I wish everyone had dreams like this! It’s very enriching.

peter, 8 months ago

We need a starterpacks community!

peter, 8 months ago

I actually like Flatpaks… I use dpkg/apt-get for system packages that cannot be installed in userspace, and flatpaks for desktop apps / games. Many distro’s have unified ways to update them anyway (at least VanillaOS has)

peter, 8 months ago

I think hed be pretty happy with that! That 13% may be less, but its all from 1 manufacturer or brand. They dont need to share a piece of the pie!

peter, 8 months ago

I did the same thing. I still am on social media such as lemmy and discord but its mostly to talk to people. And I havent watched the news since I was a child. Important things come your way eventually and I dont see it as being ignorant. Now I only receive information I can actually do something about if I want to.

peter, 9 months ago

Can you imagine, how much money went into all this and where it all ended up? It couldn’t have gone up in flames, it had to end with some people. I don’t think NFT’s as-is have a future, but I think that NFT’s will eventually end up in the hands of the masses in a format that isn’t focussed on profit but more as a means to share, create and own art for digital games etc.

peter, 8 months ago

True, I’ve been using DeviantArt and Patreon myself. But when it comes to gaming, there is something in people and wanting to collect. I think that where NFTs might make a difference is in gaming (assuming games won’t be the profit-focussed, web3 “X to earn” kind of game and actually focus on storytelling, gameplay and land well with the masses).

For example, Fortnite uses all kinds of psychological tactics to get people to buy more stuff, folding ideas explains it well: www.youtube.com/watch?v=dPHPNgIihR0

I don’t play the game myself, but I feel that this is where NFT might make a better alternative. You keep that ability to make things collectable without all the nasty bussines tactics (IF implemented that way, ofcourse).

peter, 8 months ago

Yeah moving items across games would be impossible at the moment. But I feel that with nft’s, you at least get to own the item. That, and people get to make their own. It’s not easy to add your own skin to Fortnite, for example.

I don’t want to sound like I’m for NFT’s, but I think if done right, it has a usecase.

peter, 8 months ago

You’re right, I didn’t really think of that. When looking solely at the purpose of sharing, just a “framework” for skins would suffice. This is basically what Minecraft is doing with their skins (at least in the Java version).

Ownership would still be a feature, but we’re really scraping at the bottom of the barrel then in regards to what is left for NFT’s to offer.

peter, 8 months ago

Yes, but having it assigned in a public ledger that no one can manipulate means it’s free of censorship and is resilient against downtime, open source and something that can be orchestrated by those involved in the community rather than a single company taking a cut each time it sells and defining it’s own rules (sometimes against consumer interests).

I know I’m really stretching it here but that’s where I can see a usecase that nobody has executed so far (as all the web3 gaming stuff is just focussed on profit and earnings)

peter, 9 months ago

ELI5, can you crash a bank with crypto? (I’m not planning to do it just curious)

peter, 9 months ago

That’s a very nice explanation, thanks! Also nice to interact with people on Lemmy! I was curious, “withdrawing huge amounts at short notice like it was their own money or something”, if that’s what you can do with it, isn’t that exactly what it is, your money?

peter, 9 months ago

I see, I misread it then. Slightly off-topic, but I just realized you are the one who wrote the Attack of the 50 foot blockchain and now I feel I’m in the precense of a legend. I’m going to buy your book, because I’m genuinly interested in an in-depth perspective by someone who is anti-crypto. I’m not anti-crypto, but I like to keep an open mind!

peter, 9 months ago

It was an idea indeed. Like a daily post per user, or even go as far as to synchronize it across users (so each user has a moment to post a new post). This is interesting, and I’m thinking about how to do it!