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by simgt 1y ago
Aside from latency, reducing ressources consumption to the minimum required should always be a concern if we intend to have a sustainable future. The environmental impact of our network is not negligible. Given the snarky comments here, we
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by simgt 1y ago
Center right is spot on if you know anything about the EU's member states. Here left means some flavour of socialism. Running state monopolies to the ground and adding markets for essential services like electricity is not exactly that
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by simgt 1y ago
Or also for the "middle" class but as an expensive treat that would have been chosen over something else, like it used to be. After all the environmental cost of a 20€ EasyJet ticket isn't nothing.
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by simgt 1y ago
Of course it is. Edge mostly stands for network edge, Jetsons aren't meant to be deployed in data centers.
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by simgt 1y ago
That's the main point, "center" is synonymous of status quo in politics. So we get more neoliberalism from it. Macron and Starmer are both in that vibe. Once in power they take ideas from the far right, because it's much
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by simgt 1y ago
Even most children or partners of abusive people feel defensive when an outsider intervenes. Nevermind getting your country bombed by strangers. Spending days reading news that hide people behind symbols make some forget that we're dea
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by simgt 1y ago
I recently switched to Linux Mint on a makeshift PC and it feels a bit like going back to Snow Leopard. It's snappy, pleasant to look at and has all the necessary modern features I need. Very surprisingly and unlike everything I experi
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by simgt 1y ago
Related question, has Anna's archive been thoroughly filtered for non-copyright-related illegal material? Pedo, terrorism, etc. I've considered downloading a few chunks of it but I'm worried of ending up with content I really
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by simgt 1y ago
So, same as every other kind of design: form over function and cycle in-between various styles to keep on selling. Except here I guess what's being sold is the time of the designers inside corps who need to keep on changing things to h
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by simgt 1y ago
Never Too Small has an episode on a renovated flat in the Barbican: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=2L0uML715dE I personally love the brutalist and gigantic architecture of this time. Jam pack the flats, leave space for natur
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by simgt 1y ago
Thanks for the details! I had no idea that estimating soil moisture from the signal was a thing
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by simgt 1y ago
Is it an RTK base station? If so I'd love to know more about why you set one up.
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by simgt 1y ago
Why is it useful to have as much as 64GB of RAM in a NAS?
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by simgt 2y ago
> I could never guess if someone looked like 2015 or 2025 It's the length of the socks
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by simgt 2y ago
There is no dissonance here, workers being put in competition with much cheaper ones on the other side of the planet is absolutely going to drive their wages down. They got 30 years of that... and many of us in Europe did too. Wages may hav
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by simgt 2y ago
The people involved in international aid in particular know fine well that it's not an easy problem to solve... Exploitation and corruption is at every level here. For a children in Congo it may be a better option if the only alternati
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by simgt 2y ago
To clarify, I'm not defending the tariffs or the way this whole thing is implemented. I'm sure it puts a lot of people in trouble. I'm only criticizing the race to the bottom that the platforms and kind of consumption mention
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by simgt 2y ago
> But, someone buying stuff made by their employer is not what harms them. It is exactly what harms them. With that logic one can defend keeping children in tantalum mines in the supply chain of an iPhone. That's not an acceptable s
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by simgt 2y ago
> I loved temu, aliexpress, and shein. I probably averaged 1 item per day arriving to my house, for years and years. > I feel bad for the unaware people still ordering. I personally feel bad for the environment and all the people on t
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by simgt 2y ago
Very nice article! Every time I was part of a team designing IoT devices, there would be a slightly more security-focused engineer who would manage to have some level of protection for the boot. I'm surprised there was no resistance he
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by simgt 2y ago
Most companies are not publicly traded. Getting rid of the stock market doesn't mean that your local coffee shop is now state-owned. And if they sell specialty coffee, it may not even impact the price of the beans.
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by simgt 2y ago
Suburbia is absolutely part of the problem
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by simgt 2y ago
Car centricity is the main culprit [0] https://m.youtube.com/shorts/0dKrUE_O0VE [1] https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=oHlpmxLTxpw [2] https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=TheOkz8oF_I
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by simgt 2y ago
> But the proof of our success is all around if you're willing to actually look. Get a slice of humble pie. The proof of American failure is also all around if you're willing to actually look. Urbanism, health, environment, MAG
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by simgt 2y ago
> this is also worrying to know that the government now knows exactly what you bought, where, when, and for how much As a citizen of a still kind-of-functioning democracy, I'd happily make the trade if that means Apple, Google, Visa
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by simgt 2y ago
What's in there for Trump and his friends? There is no way they actually care about bringing back all sorts of sweatshops in the US, and that can't just be blind nationalism. How do they personally benefit from that situation?
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by simgt 2y ago
> 1000 persons that want that kind of product I'd say advertising is in good portion what creates the "want" instead of a "need". If we were to rebalance the amount of purchases driven by needs instead of wants,
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by simgt 2y ago
> No, the mechanisms would just get even more sophisticated, to work around whatever (inherently, and unavoidably, arbitrary) lines were drawn against "advertising" while permitting the flow of information and opinions about pr
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by simgt 2y ago
It's all about scale, really. In France advertising for political parties is very restricted. We don't get to endure the kind of insane propaganda Americans have.
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by simgt 2y ago
> check out the documentary “Century of the Self”. The editing is not for everyone but I thoroughly enjoyed it. You come out of it not really knowing what it did to you, but something changed. This is a fantastic recommendation, and Adam

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