Richard @ ricdeh @lemmy.world

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Ubuntu is not controversial because it is a "noob distro", it is controversial because the company behind it (Canonical) is turning almost as bad as Micro$oft.

Look at Deng [...] he improved the lives of 10⁸ or 10⁹ people

Lemmy.ml? Makes sense. Your supposed hero "Deng" was a maniacal tyrannical dictator that was responsible for the deaths of countless students at the Tiananmen Square Massacre. He was an offender who committed crimes against humanity and he should be treated as such.

It's about browser architecture and not silly names ("Safari", "Firefox", "Chrome"). The point is that there are only two actual variants.

Edit: Changed introductory wording to be less belligerent. I am sorry if I have caused a significant level of offense.

Just wait for the nuclear shills to flood in and claim that nuclear fission is a sustainable and necessary form of power generation. Some people claim that nuclear fission is a sustainable and necessary form of power generation. It is not. Uranium extraction devastates entire landscapes, the construction of nuclear power plants is too expensive (even for SMRs, as the article explains), ergo electricity prices will climb, it is a hugely wasteful use of so many tonnes of concrete (concrete manufacturing is heavy on the environment too), it creates waste that will still haunt us for hundreds of thousands of years (finding geological structures that are guaranteed to be stable that long is difficult), and relative to the initial construction and set-up effort, they don't provide that much energy. We already have methods that can provide us plenty enough electricity that are entirely sustainable by leveraging large-scale atmospheric aerodynamics as well as the largest nuclear fusion reactor at our disposal (the sun). There's simply no need to go nuclear.

As long as this digital infrastructure is developed by the administration itself, I find the idea of a digital bureaucracy great. But relying on proprietary products would undermine its purpose, imho.

That's true. In a sense, few of Silicon Valley's software "innovations" from the 1990s and 2000s provided anything that was of actual value. Much of it simply enabled an even greater degree of mindless consumption of entertainment content.

Nah we can just blow up the planet, take that mother nature

A lab, manufacturing capabilities for any kind of object and material, and possibly several companions. Plus a mineral-rich planet (best case would be inexhaustible) as well as a star. And a ship, preferably FTL, to change location after the star nears the end of its life. Of course also copies of the entire cultural database of humanity (books, songs, movies). Pets. A thriving ecosystem on the home planet.

Sand is not per se the raw resource for integrated circuit production. More specifically, it is silicon dioxide, also referred to as quartz. Quartz is often found in sand, but sand does not necessarily include quartz. As far as I know, the quartz for semiconductor lithography isn't usually extracted from sand, but rather from proper pit mines.

They look like grumpy old men

Definitely a fabulous ending, but the tie-in with Calypso only made me more curious about what all that is about. Maybe there's potential for a follow-up show now that the 4th millennium has been thoroughly established.

Isn't Lemmy pretty much that?

They knew of the product, but were not informed when it was released. The title of the article is a little misleading.

Why are they all clothed so strangely?

That would be very difficult though for a site as large as the Internet Archive. They will most definitely have intricate defense strategies and lots of bandwidth. Cannot really imagine a teenager to be capable of that unless their parents are billionaires.

This is called Geoengineering, and we don't need volcanoes for that. Current approaches mostly consider injecting sulfates or other reflective aerosols directly into the atmosphere to influence how much solar radiation reaches the Earth. The principle is the same as behind volcanoes. This method is in fact already being employed and has been used in the past, albeit only for regional climate engineering.

Why don't we do this to stop climate change? As you yourself kinda noticed, the consequences could be very unpredictable and dangerous because the effects are difficult to model. However, maybe after everything else has failed Geoengineering could be a viable option.

Logging into a non-indexible proprietary service just to be able to read the documentation definitely does not contribute to accessibility.

Incorporating parts from a free and open-source Unix-like operating system does not make your OS FOSS. Apple would be the last company to contribute their MacOS source code.

A lab work group, like that one on Reddit. I cannot remember the name and I sure as hell will not go to that damned site, but it was basically full of graduate students and technicians that shared stories from their labs.

A probability of 10^-6 corresponds to 10^-4 %, not 10^-6 %.