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[–] balsoft@lemmy.ml -1 points 4 hours ago* (last edited 4 hours ago) (2 children)

In the grand scheme of things:

  • We're turbofucking the climate, even though we've understood the warming effects of CO₂ for 170 years, and had viable solutions to climate change for like 50. And yet we're increasing CO₂ emissions year after year. It's not certain the human civilization as it currently is will survive the next century.
  • We're throwing non-biodegradable plastics everywhere, even though we've known for like 50 years that it is devastating for many ecosystems and human health.
  • Capitalism is squeezing the global working class ever harder with each passing day, and yet class consciousness is not growing fast enough, despite us scientifically understanding the unsustainability and evils of capitalism for like 160 years.

So yeah, in that grand scheme of things, making models of the larger universe is not actually that important. First we need to make use of the discoveries made way over a century ago.

[–] balsoft@lemmy.ml 7 points 4 hours ago (3 children)

Wasn't this the main selling point of the cybertruck, almost verbatim?

[–] balsoft@lemmy.ml 3 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

This is a really cool photo. Thanks for sharing!

[–] balsoft@lemmy.ml 2 points 16 hours ago

Far from the worst shit to happen under capitalism, especially since it seems randomized in this case and not dependent on user's characteristics or history. Using discounts as a way to study consumer behavior has been happening since forever, and I'd argue it would be useful even under socialism. The only issue here is lack of transparency into the whole thing, but it could be trivially fixed by some legislation that requires a price history to be shown for every item, and personalized discounts be declared separately and in an easy-to-understand way. E.g. if this was clearly marked as "eggs are $4.50, but we are offering you a personal discount of $1" this story would seem like a nothing-burger.

[–] balsoft@lemmy.ml 11 points 22 hours ago* (last edited 16 hours ago) (1 children)

To me, it's simple.

Crash out in the evening, be gone in the morning? A bed in a dormitory will do fine.

Stay for a few nights, go out every day to see the city/hike/etc? Gimme a cheap hotel room with a shared bathroom.

A longer stay for a workation/etc? Get a cheap apartment (at least a studio with a bathroom and a kitchen), because going out to eat fucking sucks.

[–] balsoft@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 day ago

Most jobs on the planet can't be done with WFH, because they require doing stuff with your hands.

The actual solution to traffic is: viable alternatives to driving, such as rapid, comfortable, accessible transit and cycling infrastructure. (once that's done, let's ban private cars in cities altogether, they're the worst thing to ever happen to cities).

[–] balsoft@lemmy.ml 4 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

While I agree with you that art will be there for as long as humans exist (since it's something a lot of us like to do), access to other's art might be severely diminished, especially in atomized societies.

Let's be real, for a lot of people, internet is the source for most of their art enjoyment. As more and more of the internet is filled with soulless AI slop, it might be more and more difficult to find real art here.

I also don't anticipate that AI will fully replace art on the internet - if you look hard enough, you will always be able to find niche communities of people doing their thing. E.g. I am quite fond of art communities here on lemmy, which seem to be mostly AI-free for now (since there's no monetary incentive to posting here).

But I can see how someone who loves art and finds all their life's meaning in it can be concerned with all the slop filling up mainstream artsy social media like instagram/pinterest/music streaming/etc.

[–] balsoft@lemmy.ml 2 points 4 days ago

It's categorically worse for privacy than signal. The latter is at least e2e encrypted. Probably also worse than WhatsApp, they also claim to be e2e encrypted, but it's less certain because the apps are closed-source.

[–] balsoft@lemmy.ml 3 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (1 children)

You can use it as long as you consider all conversations on there, including direct messages, as public and readable by any three letter agency out there. Telegram is not e2e encrypted, which means Telegram LLC can read all your messages and share them as they see fit.

Also remember that they have your phone number and IP address

In short, planning a night out with friends is probably fine, coordinating a protest is probably not.

[–] balsoft@lemmy.ml 7 points 5 days ago (4 children)

BTW this is also the case for most network printers. You can just print to them by sending a pdf/postscript file with netcat. CUPS is rarely needed nowadays.

[–] balsoft@lemmy.ml 32 points 5 days ago (3 children)

In my experience:

  1. All printers are pain. This is a sad fact of computers.
  2. If it detects&gets recognized in CUPS, you can usually fiddle with it and make it work eventually.
  3. If it works on one distro, there will be some way to hack it enough for it to work on all distros.
[–] balsoft@lemmy.ml 2 points 6 days ago

F**k. You added two, so I have to censor one to keep the world balanced.

 

This is my daily driver at the moment - X201s modded with a 51nb motherboard with i7-10710u (a.k.a X2100). A lot of geo nerd cred to whomever can guess the location by the mountains :)

 

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/33203710

Sunrise in Wadi Rum desert. Taken from my phone with OpenCamera's stacked HDR.

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Sunrise in Wadi Rum desert. Taken from my phone with OpenCamera's stacked HDR.

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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/32177363

Moon rising during sunset. Taken from Gombori mountain. Nikon D700, 85mm, cropped.

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Moon rising during sunset. Taken from Gombori mountain. Nikon D700, 85mm, cropped.

 

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/31830215

I liked posting a picture here so I think I will try to do it weekly :)

This is what the dawn of January 1st 2025 looked like for me. We've slept in my van through the night to get this view. The temperature was about -20℃ but it was worth it in the end.

The flats in the picture is the frozen Lake Paravani and the mountains are the Samsari ridge.

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I liked posting a picture here so I think I will try to do it weekly :)

This is what the dawn of January 1st 2025 looked like for me. We've slept in my van through the night to get this view. The temperature was about -20℃ but it was worth it in the end.

The flats in the picture is the frozen Lake Paravani and the mountains are the Samsari ridge.

 

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/31459711

Since today is my first cake day, I've decided it's time to post instead of commenting. This is a picture I took last month on my phone through binoculars. Taken from Gomismta, the mountains you see are the Main Caucasian Ridge.

 

Since today is my first cake day, I've decided it's time to post instead of commenting. This is a picture I took last month on my phone through binoculars. Taken from Gomismta, the mountains you see are the Main Caucasian Ridge.

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