kbal

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[–] kbal@fedia.io 42 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (17 children)

Other cryptocurrencies like Ethereum, which are far more energy efficient than Bitcoin

Calling those that don't depend on proof-of-work "more energy efficient" is understating it to the point of being dishonest. The difference is not that they're more efficient in any conventional way. It's that they don't have the amazing bitcoin feature of relying for their operation on the practice of deliberately wasting enormous amounts of energy for the purpose of being able to prove that you've wasted enormous amounts of energy.

All the way through the cryptocurrency crash which the average reader of headlines might've thought had put an end to it by now, the bitcoin network has kept on burning up absurd amounts of power.

[–] kbal@fedia.io 44 points 3 months ago

Canada just gave them another big copyright term extension a couple years ago. The more you give in, the more they'll want. I say they should get nothing more out of Canada for the life of Bob Iger plus 70 years.

[–] kbal@fedia.io 3 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

ext4, but the btrfs activity visible in the kernel changelog has slowed down recently after a long period of many bug fixes, so maybe I'll give it a try next time.

[–] kbal@fedia.io 5 points 3 months ago

Just use your VPN provider's DNS.

[–] kbal@fedia.io 41 points 3 months ago (2 children)

I'm old enough to have seen the Internet without ads. It was better.

[–] kbal@fedia.io 10 points 3 months ago

It provides most of the benefits of "crypto", the ones that normal people actually want, with the added advantage that it might actually end up being usable.

[–] kbal@fedia.io 5 points 3 months ago

Perhaps, but that seems unlikely to have changed so much since last year. Something else has shifted to make Poilievre and the Cons seem more acceptable to people than they did. Perhaps their party leader has learned to stop saying ridiculously stupid things in public quite so often. Excepting those carefully selected ridiculous things which have proved popular of course, such as "axe the tax" and "common sense."

[–] kbal@fedia.io 8 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (4 children)

Conservatives projected to equal the sum of Liberal + NDP in the popular vote. When was the last time they were that popular? Brian Mulroney? That wasn't even the same Conservative party, but people seem to have forgotten that.

[–] kbal@fedia.io 6 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

Elected officials, journalists, activists, it's gradually becoming clear that everyone who uses centralised social media is part of the problem. Promoting the fediverse and keeping it resistant to takeover by fascists or anyone else ought to be a national security goal.

[–] kbal@fedia.io 25 points 3 months ago (4 children)

The problem isn’t merely that Elon Musk is manifestly unsuited to the job of unelected social media tsar. The problem is that no one should have that job.

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