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tinyrabbit

@tinyrabbit@floss.social

parent, role-player, devops engineer/sysadmin, all around decent guy.

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molly0xfff, to random
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oof to whoever paid the 10¢ PACER fee for this

tinyrabbit,
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@molly0xfff is that an entire redacted page? 🤪

theluddite, to random
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theluddite.org is under heavy traffic right now, and I want to take this opportunity to point out how much compute and energy the tech industry wastes.

I host theluddite.org on the absolute smallest linode server available, for $5/month, along with several other websites. It's currently receiving well over 10 requests per second, and has been for many hours.

Here's a graph of the CPU usage hovering at 5%.

tinyrabbit,
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@theluddite @theluddite I no doubt get a lot less traffic than you, but I similarily host on a very small machine. A raspberry pi 2B on my 10mbit/s residential broadband. I host my own static site, a home page for my mom (currently WonderCMS), an instance of thelounge.chat with a handful of users, and a gemini site that gets a couple of hundred unique visitors a day.

I also work in cloud and vm environments and agree with your position on ”need for scalability”

tinyrabbit,
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@theluddite I couldn’t get a static IP this time around, but at least a public one! Thankfully CF DNS has an api so I have a cron job running every minute to see if the IP has changed and updating the DNS records if it has. In practice that happens very seldom

molly0xfff, to ArtificialIntelligence
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I spent a long time experimenting with AI before finally writing about it in depth. It can be pretty useful — but is it worth it?

https://www.citationneeded.news/ai-isnt-useless/

tinyrabbit,
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@molly0xfff is there a delay before the pod episode is published on https://www.spreaker.com/show/6019906/episodes/feed ?

tinyrabbit, to random
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Can we all just marvel for a second at the fact that NASA has found the error that caused Voyager 1 to send bad data, and is working on a solution?

The probe is 163.163 Astronomical Units from the Sun. That's 24408837426 km, and counting (rather quickly at that).

NASA can work around hardware issues in a 46 year old device in outer space. What does that say about the commercial hardware and software industry?

tinyrabbit,
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Link: https://blogs.nasa.gov/voyager/2024/04/04/engineers-pinpoint-cause-of-voyager-1-issue-are-working-on-solution/

tinyrabbit,
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@mansr I think there just might be a compromise somewhere in between where it's cheaper than a space probe but more durable and fixable than an iphone 😉

tinyrabbit,
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@GhostOnTheHalfShell I guess it says a lot of things, really. First of all that commercial hardware is a lot cheaper. But also that repairability is often bad and software outgrows the hardware quickly. And commercial products don’t have the capability to route around a broken memory — which to be fair I wouldn’t expect either. It amazes me that Voyager I is 46 y/o and still vapable of doing what it was designed for. A five y/o smartphone can have trouble opening some homepages

tinyrabbit, to random
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I don’t know why Meta haven’t been public about this, but you can now hide any of your posts from Threads users by just adding the word ”pixelfed” anywhere in it. Nice to give the option to opt out so easily, but a somewhat strange way to do it and a very random choice of keyword imho.

tuxdevices, to GNOME
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must be on some ancient curse. I bought my laptop in 2018 when 3.28 was out and it was quite laggy at the time. Then it became progressively faster with every new release, so as the laptop gets older, it feels newer and gets more features.

I thought computers were meant to feel like bricks within years, and that UIs had to grow inexplicably heavier in spite of no changes in their technologies? /s

tinyrabbit,
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@tuxdevices My experience with GNOME 3 is different. For the past few years I've run Ubuntu on my work laptops. They're quite beefy, but GNOME 3 is noticeably slower on these beefy machines than MATE is on my 32-bit dual core private laptop with 2 GB RAM. That one is really snappy by comparison. And GNOME 3 has certainly not become faster for me since its inception. Quite the opposite.

ajsadauskas, (edited ) to tech
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In an age of LLMs, is it time to reconsider human-edited web directories?

Back in the early-to-mid '90s, one of the main ways of finding anything on the web was to browse through a web directory.

These directories generally had a list of categories on their front page. News/Sport/Entertainment/Arts/Technology/Fashion/etc.

Each of those categories had subcategories, and sub-subcategories that you clicked through until you got to a list of websites. These lists were maintained by actual humans.

Typically, these directories also had a limited web search that would crawl through the pages of websites listed in the directory.

Lycos, Excite, and of course Yahoo all offered web directories of this sort.

(EDIT: I initially also mentioned AltaVista. It did offer a web directory by the late '90s, but this was something it tacked on much later.)

By the late '90s, the standard narrative goes, the web got too big to index websites manually.

Google promised the world its algorithms would weed out the spam automatically.

And for a time, it worked.

But then SEO and SEM became a multi-billion-dollar industry. The spambots proliferated. Google itself began promoting its own content and advertisers above search results.

And now with LLMs, the industrial-scale spamming of the web is likely to grow exponentially.

My question is, if a lot of the web is turning to crap, do we even want to search the entire web anymore?

Do we really want to search every single website on the web?

Or just those that aren't filled with LLM-generated SEO spam?

Or just those that don't feature 200 tracking scripts, and passive-aggressive privacy warnings, and paywalls, and popovers, and newsletters, and increasingly obnoxious banner ads, and dark patterns to prevent you cancelling your "free trial" subscription?

At some point, does it become more desirable to go back to search engines that only crawl pages on human-curated lists of trustworthy, quality websites?

And is it time to begin considering what a modern version of those early web directories might look like?

@degoogle

tinyrabbit,
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@Moonrise2473 @ajsadauskas
3. Infinitely growing list of categories.
4. Mis-categorisation

i remember learning HTML (4.0) and reading that you should put info in a <meta> tag about the categories your page fits in, and that would help search engines. Did it also help web directories?

Erpel, to random

Compulsory military service has been suspended in Germany since 2011. Now old men are discussing reintroducing it because young people do so little for society.

I could explode... ​:bugcatangrycomputer:​

tinyrabbit,
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@Erpel I was suspended in Sweden in 2006 (iirc; I was drafted in 2004 and I believe that was the second to last draft) but was re-instated a couple of years ago. Because, y'know, Russian imperialism.

Gina, to fediverse
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Dear , I need you all to pray to the airline gods that the seats next to me will stay empty!! 🙏

tinyrabbit,
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@Gina No goats around but plenty of cats in the neighbourhood. Would that work?

tinyrabbit, to random
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I know some folks follow me here:

My ISP is having an outage, which means warmedal.se (with Antenna and my gemlog) is unavailable for the moment. So is my thelounge.chat instance, which means I can't spread the word via the IRC channel either.

Feel free to tell any friends that might be affected.

tinyrabbit, to random
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I love Linux. Debian tells me that my laptop battery only has 43.7% capacity left; that it might be old or broken. It estimates a battery life of only 3 hours. At 78% charge at current capacity.

Dear Debian,
When this computer was brand spanking new in 2015 and ran the pre-installed Windows 8.1 it never had more than 2.5 hours of battery life on a good day. Thank you for your concern, but I think I'll manage.

kcarruthers, to random
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lol in today’s means brexit news

tinyrabbit,
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@bouncing @kcarruthers Switzerland and Norway (among others, I believe) are not part of the EU but they’re part of the EES and Schengen, meaning their borders to the EU are open and they have access to the EU inner market. Much can be said about that, because it leaves them somewhat out of decision processes while still binding them to the results, but it does mean lots of the perks of EU countries without having to be members.

tinyrabbit,
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@bouncing @kcarruthers afaik they left every agreement or cooperation behind in the name of "forging their own destiny"

Especially the free movement of goods and people was a major point for the xenophobic brexit side.

gerrymcgovern, to random
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Does anyone know how practical it would be to live on Mars? Listening to the tech bros it sounds like it's as good an idea as bitcoin or the metaverse.

What would it be like to live on Mars? What's the current Mars atmosphere and environment like?

tinyrabbit,
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@gerrymcgovern @ZachWeinersmith wrote a book about it 🙂

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davidzipper, to cars
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My latest in Fast Company:

Last week the National Transportation Safety Board recommended that speed-limiting technology be required on all new cars.

It’s an excellent idea. USDOT should do it.

https://www.fastcompany.com/90985257/you-shouldnt-be-driving-over-100-mph-and-your-car-shouldnt-let-you

tinyrabbit,
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@davidzipper wait a minute… 100mph is about 160km/h! The only road in Europe I know of that allows speeds over 120km/h is the Autobahn. Do people regularly drive 160km/h!? 😳

gerrymcgovern, to random
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The dirtiest of industries claims to be green and clean

There is nothing more dirty, toxic, energy and water intense than making a silicon chip. Hundreds of chemicals are required. Massive quantities of wastewater produced.

And yet ... And yet ... It's all in the Cloud. The marketing and branding people have said it's "clean" and "green" and to save the environment we must to the Great Greed Transition.

Digital is physical. Data is physical. All the lies we tell each other won't change that

tinyrabbit,
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@gerrymcgovern Data centres often tout how they're "entirely run on renewable energy" but any mention or report about the hardware supply chain or manufacturing is always glaringly absent

hrefna, to random
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I'm going to do some reflecting here on

https://hachyderm.io/@nivenly/110890692128244044

Because I have tried to write a perspective more appropriate for the private discussion and I keep failing because I get angry, so I am going to start here.

First, as a pet peeve, let me say:

I am autistic. I have ADHD. I have NVLD.

I strongly dislike when people say things like "As a neurodivergent, I will readily admit that I do not react well to such comments and for that I’d like to apologize and try again."

1/

tinyrabbit,
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@hrefna Apart from all of the (very good) arguments you have against this, my first reaction to this post (which was the first I read of the thread) was something else:

They're making a game but can't find someone to make the art and storytelling. So... they're making yet another game engine and want others to make an actual game?

slightlyoff, to random
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It is intense just how badly the JS/React brainworms have infected the frontend community.

Every single NYT story page has both a 437KiB (1.5MiB unzipped) and a 474KiB (1.7MiB) file, to display ~50K of text. It isn't ad bloat. It isn't tracking. It's this sort of bunk:

tinyrabbit,
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@slightlyoff ”but the browser can cache the files so it doesn’t fetch them every time.” — the argument I get from frontend devs when pointing out this imbalance

tinyrabbit,
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@acdha @slightlyoff at a previous job we had a ”tech day” once a year which was a little like an internal tech conference. I once held a lightning talk about website bloat and how big pages are crap for business. The next talker talked about how introducing Svelte had made it easier to maintain our large and complex website and saved hosting costs by mostly serving flat files and offloading computing to the client 😂

b0rk, to random
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what’s the deal with nftables? are you switching to use it instead of iptables these days? is it actually easier to use? it seems hard to switch because there are SO many iptables examples out there

tinyrabbit,
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@b0rk Thank you so much for providing a summary 🙂

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