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Pledges coming from proprietary software companies mean nothing

https://www.theverge.com/2024/5/15/24157496/microsoft-ai-carbon-footprint-greenhouse-gas-emissions-grow-climate-pledg

Get behind the community that is really fighting to curb climate change:

https://eco.kde.org/get-involved

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Poster announcing KDE Eco's monthly meetings, in which like-minded people, like yourself, get together to work on reducing computing's impact on the climate.

Screenshot of a headline of the Verge. A photo shows Satya Nadella talking about Copilot at some bullshit Microsoft event and the headline itself reads: "Microsoft’s Al obsession is jeopardizing its climate ambitions" The introductory paragraph reads: "After pledging to slash its greenhouse gas emissions, Microsoft’s climate pollution has grown by 30 percent as the company prioritizes AI."
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    The board of directors is obliged to maximize profits for the shareholders!

    sexy_peach ,

    I urge everyone to install linux on an old notebook and see if it works for you with firefox as a browser and thunderbird for emails

    sexy_peach ,

    Because it works well

    sexy_peach ,

    Well but Thunderbird can get mails from dozens of email addresses at the same time.

    What are the most private social media platforms?

    I've been feeling uneasy about the privacy implications of using Lemmy and similar platforms. The ability for anyone to view your entire posting history feels to me like publicly sharing my browser history. In contrast, most other social media platforms allow you to limit your feed visibility to just friends or followers....

    sexy_peach ,

    In contrast, most other social media platforms allow you to limit your feed visibility to just friends or followers.

    Yes but they will sell all of it plus where your mouse pointer was and how long you viewed what topic happily.

    Mastodon I think has a built in feature to delete posts after x days. But I wouldn't use it since people who want to stalk or surveil you will find the hdd space to save your posts within these days but friends and people interested in your posts will not find it after 6 months. So I don't think that's a solution to your problem.

    What could be of interest to you is the mastodon feature to only post to followers. That means that you will also have to approve followers as well, since it's pointless to post to a limited amount of people if that's potentially everyone.

    You would still have to trust their server administrators somewhat but since most servers aren't run with profit in mind you won't find that many sell the user data.

    sexy_peach OP ,

    That's a bold prediction.

    sexy_peach OP ,

    Yup but the employers are to blame

    sexy_peach ,

    Imagine using telegram... It's worse than whatsapp

    sexy_peach OP ,

    Oh weird it didn't show up

    sexy_peach ,

    GPS coordinates in metadata isn't common

    sexy_peach ,

    I wish they went with XMPP. Still cool though.

    sexy_peach ,

    Wow many people seem to own both a switch and a steamdeck. Do y'all just buy everything?

    Newpipe is getting updates on fdroid again and seem like will be getting updates for the foreseeable future as the issue stopping it is solved. ( f-droid.org )

    Also on an unrelated note anyway to remove live from your subscribed channels update field ? Some channels are filling it with live so i have to really scroll down to see my video feeds and can't find a setting to switch it off. Newpipe didn't used to add live in your what's new feed of subscribed channels, related pic .

    sexy_peach ,

    Omg finally I can see comments again!

    sexy_peach OP ,

    I don't necessarily agree that this is concerning. I never thought of gargron of making good moves either though.

    sexy_peach ,

    They're not a government institution providing necessary services, so I think it's legal pretty much everywhere. Same with places accepting payment by card only.

    sexy_peach ,

    That's cool but also a bit dystopian in a way.

    sexy_peach ,

    It's not like that here. Most accept cash and I think gyms are still "normal"

    sexy_peach ,

    yup

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    yup and it's great! Unfortunately there are not good iphone apps that work with omemo encryption.

    It's really lightweight and that's such a great feeling.

    sexy_peach ,

    Ah yes US-american prudes

    sexy_peach ,

    Conversations

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    Cool tech, but I am always sad when it's the big giants adding something new and innovative.

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    What do you like about it?

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    Only use deep learning ai with deepl translations and for some text annotation project I did for uni.

    What're some of the dumbest things you've done to yourself in Linux?

    I'm working on a some materials for a class wherein I'll be teaching some young, wide-eyed Windows nerds about Linux and we're including a section we're calling "foot guns". Basically it's ways you might shoot yourself in the foot while meddling with your newfound Linux powers....

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    formatted the wrong drive. I had to run a data rescue program which gave a bajillion files with random names...

    WTF is up with switches?

    Okay, I've been watching lots of YouTube videos about switches and I've just made myself more confused. Managed versus unmanaged seems to be having a GUI versus not having a GUI, but why would anyone want a GUI on a switch? Shouldn't your router do that? Also, a switch is like a tube station for local traffic, essentially an...

    sexy_peach ,

    A switch will allow a star shaped network. The switch is in the middle and connects all devices that are plugged in.

    sexy_peach ,

    It does, also the router most likely also has switch functionality if it has several Ethernet ports.

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    Computers can be random with special hardware.

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    There are devices that measure radioactive decay for operations where truly random numbers are very important. Or something like that, I am not an expert, sorry.

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