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The major difference between a thing that might go wrong and a thing that cannot possibly go wrong is that when a thing that cannot possibly go wrong goes wrong it usually turns out to be impossible to get at or repair.
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That #Loops looks more decent. The PeerTube took me to a landing page, it was very difficult to find videos there. Thanks! :)
It’s decentralized. You need servers.
@glynmoody this depends largely on the USA which previously - currently - guaranteed Ukraine's territorial integrity in conjunction with us.
The USA government has already declared their response to an invasion of NATO as conditional.
I'd say this is a low grade of guarantee. One gets better ones from Curry's, at less cost. (And I avoid those)
@Photo55 well, yes, but it might make putin think twice, given that all of nato would be involved directly
Ancient Rome -- death by a thousand cuts by oligarchs unwilling to act for the common good or public benefit.
https://www.worldatlas.com/ancient-world/how-corruption-destroyed-the-roman-empire.html
https://lens.monash.edu/democracys-bad-eggs-corruption-pork-barrelling-and-abuses-of-power/
Public corruption played an enormous role in the collapse of the Soviet Empire and China's Empire.
https://www.fpri.org/article/2023/03/the-roots-of-russian-military-dysfunction/
https://www.thecollector.com/most-corrupt-chinese-dynasty-of-all-time/
Lebanon's failed state
https://www.lemonde.fr/en/les-decodeurs/article/2026/06/04/hsbc-charged-for-helping-former-lebanese-central-bank-head-embezzle-hundreds-of-millions_6754142_8.html
Jared Diamond "Collapse" -- often triggered by environmental degradation.
I wonder if the guy who coined the term, "One Hit Wonder" had any other phrases.
Brilliant!
Also, who said computing centres had to be ugly.
The Barcelona Supercomputing Center, which hosts MareNostrum, is hosted in a 19th century church.
Residual heat from the installations is routed to heat surrounding campus buildings.
I’m sure there are plenty of cool projects out there in decentralized computing and people doing creative things to lower the environmental cost of compute at scale.
What are some of the cool projects you know about? What are great examples of “as sustainable as possible” datacenters?
didn't open reels/shorts/tiktok/etc for two days because i was too invested in playing videogames. this is like recovering opioid addicts taking methadone instead
when i was staying in shenzhen i got a room without windows, which is not an issue by itself, but it smelled like someone had been chainsmoking there. complained to the frontdesk and she was like “well since you are a foreigner, i will change it to a window room”. not sure if the implication is that foreigners deserve better treatment or if chinamen simply do not perceive smoke
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Do you want to find an audience for your content, or do you just want to upload your content?
The former can be achieved with where we are right now, the latter with a number of file uploading sites that allow hotlinking their uploads.
If you were wondering what the collapse of an empire looks like from the inside, just look at the past few days. Empires don't collapse overnight, they collapse gradually, with systems steadily degrading and failing over decades. It's not a spectacular, singular event, it's watching shit that worked fine in the past just stop working and never getting fixed.
@glynmoody I can't believe the turbine people don't prepare their sites whereas trawler operators will not tidy the seabed they are destroying.
@steevc well, quite
I wonder if the guy who coined the term, "One Hit Wonder" had any other phrases.
"Between Microsoft and the FAA, it's a bad time to be a copilot." - Kelly Vaughn
we just wrote a code comment we're proud of:
Though this can be counterintuitive to programmers, it is normal for fonts to draw outside their bounds. Font metrics are primarily intended to advise about graphic-design topics, which are socially defined and do not necessarily obey mathematical identities, even when such identities are offered as explanations of their meaning.
Instead, the mathematical meaning of these metrics serves as a first layer, a literal meaning which provides a reference point for additional layers of meaning to be added atop, in the same fashion as how the duration of a musical measure is not actually fixed during a live performance.
There are very good reasons that programmers find this state of affairs deeply saddening, but there is nothing to be done but deal with it.
@bovine3dom Can I, with Tridactyl or otherwise, execute arbitrary JavaScript on an opened, or after opening with a timeout, tab? I'm thinking something like firefox https://fabien.benetou.fr/ --js 'alert("hello world")'
"why are you listening to madonna? are you gay?" -- my dad, when I was 12
@ariadne have you listened to Madonna’s Falling Free before?
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