geopoliticssuck 1 year ago • 100%
I still use Giac/Xcas with an interface that was made before 9/11.
Programmer Humor
Object oriented programming
geopoliticssuck 1 year ago • 100%
OCaml enjoyers anyone? 🐫
www.ecoindex.fr
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/1339480 > Results for lemmy.ml: https://www.ecoindex.fr/resultat/?id=248e7bbb-41bf-4249-a4f8-de5b716e55e2 > > At my engineering school, we had a mandatory lecture of the environmental impact of IT. Initially, I thought it was some bullshit lecture that the education ministry imposed on us, and all I had to do was sign the attendance sheet at the end and be done with it. > > But it did stick with me, we know that crypto mining consumes massive amounts of power to the point where Ethereum had to switch to the more efficient Proof-of-Stake in late 2022. Now, the recent hype of AI is starting to exacerbate energy consumption since petabytes of data have to be stored in data centres, then the models have to be trained for months on end. > > In fact, there are many sectors of IT industry that consumes gigantic amount of energy, and I think it's something to be considered when we're using the Internet. > > Here's an article by Raphael Lemaire (in French, but you can translate it): https://raphael-lemaire.com/2019/11/02/mise-en-perspective-impacts-numerique/ > > I also found this really interesting website that tests the environmental impact of your website. Lemmy.ml got a F. > > Unfortunately, I couldn't find an English-language equivalent of this website, but I still found it interesting enough to share.
www.youtube.com
www.ecoindex.fr
Results for lemmy.ml: https://www.ecoindex.fr/resultat/?id=248e7bbb-41bf-4249-a4f8-de5b716e55e2 At my engineering school, we had a mandatory lecture of the environmental impact of IT. Initially, I thought it was some bullshit lecture that the education ministry imposed on us, and all I had to do was sign the attendance sheet at the end and be done with it. But it did stick with me, we know that crypto mining consumes massive amounts of power to the point where Ethereum had to switch to the more efficient Proof-of-Stake in late 2022. Now, the recent hype of AI is starting to exacerbate energy consumption since petabytes of data have to be stored in data centres, then the models have to be trained for months on end. In fact, there are many sectors of IT industry that consumes gigantic amount of energy, and I think it's something to be considered when we're using the Internet. Here's an article by Raphael Lemaire (in French, but you can translate it): https://raphael-lemaire.com/2019/11/02/mise-en-perspective-impacts-numerique/ I also found this really interesting website that tests the environmental impact of your website. Lemmy.ml got a F. Unfortunately, I couldn't find an English-language equivalent of this website, but I still found it interesting enough to share.
geopoliticssuck 1 year ago • 100%
I've been personally using Mull, which is Firefox-based. Big advantage over Bromite is that it supports add-ons as well!
Open Source
what's a good IMDb alternative?
geopoliticssuck 3 years ago • 92%
Rotten Tomatoes is a commercial product and is owned by the major US media conglomerates. We're looking for an open source alternative.
Lemmygeopoliticssuck 3 years ago • 90%
We should be wary of feature creep. Lemmy is a link aggregator, that's it. I don't see why lemmy should also have a chat feature. If you want to have a discussion outside of lemmy in a traditional chatroom, then just use Matrix/Discord/XMPP/etc.
Communism
The first Chinese communist revolutionary Li Dazhao gives his speech opposing Yuan Shikai at Waseda University
geopoliticssuck 3 years ago • 100%
I wrote the subtitles myself. This PeerTube instance was the only one I found that allowed user registration.
ptube.xmanifesto.club
Don't forget to turn on English subtitles.
ptube.xmanifesto.club
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/72642 > 觉醒年代 Age of Awakening (2021) is a Chinese drama that recounts the stories of the first Chinese Communist revolutionaries from 1915 to 1921. It has a rating of 9.3 (out of 10) on Douban but is almost unheard of in the West. It's shame that with such a high production quality, CCTV will probably not publish English subtitles. That's why I'm giving a translating this show a shot.
ptube.xmanifesto.club
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/72642 > 觉醒年代 Age of Awakening (2021) is a Chinese drama that recounts the stories of the first Chinese Communist revolutionaries from 1915 to 1921. It has a rating of 9.3 (out of 10) on Douban but is almost unheard of in the West. It's shame that with such a high production quality, CCTV will probably not publish English subtitles. That's why I'm giving a translating this show a shot.
ptube.xmanifesto.club
觉醒年代 Age of Awakening (2021) is a Chinese drama that recounts the stories of the first Chinese Communist revolutionaries from 1915 to 1921. It has a rating of 9.3 (out of 10) on Douban but is almost unheard of in the West. It's shame that with such a high production quality, CCTV will probably not publish English subtitles. That's why I'm giving a translating this show a shot.
Bitcoingeopoliticssuck 3 years ago • 100%
My incredibly volatile and risky investment is a complete failure. I blame China.
Memesgeopoliticssuck 3 years ago • 100%
True
geopoliticssuck 3 years ago • 100%
Some associations and cooperatives offer email accounts as a free trial. If you live in France, you can get almost all your Internet services provided by associations/cooperatives: https://chatons.org/. This has the benefit of you being a "member" and not "customer"/"client" of the organisation, but this means you have to pay a yearly subscription
Asklemmygeopoliticssuck 3 years ago • 60%
You're more suited to r/worldnews at Reddit™
geopoliticssuck 3 years ago • 100%
Either GAFA agrees to store user-data in the countries in where they're gathered or they're banned from operating those countries, regardless of the fact that a blanket ban is an attack on "freedom of expression"
geopoliticssuck 3 years ago • 100%
One of my CS professors is a open-source advocate, he has a GNU Project sticker on his laptop, so I think he understands the situation
geopoliticssuck 3 years ago • 100%
My university is going to set up a Mattermost service because every major and student club is using Discord, even some classes are using it, which is a shame. What also really bothers me is that since the crisis began a year ago, we're still using Blackboard Collaborate which is proprietary, I don't see why we don't use BigBlueButton
World News
South Indian variant of COVID 15 times more lethal, highly infectious
geopoliticssuck 3 years ago • 100%
I offer to call it the COVID-19 Plus Pro
geopoliticssuck 3 years ago • 100%
I like a European union, but I don't like the European Union.
geopoliticssuck 3 years ago • 100%
geopoliticssuck 3 years ago • 44%
Lemoids
geopoliticssuck 4 years ago • 100%
Just get a textbook (with a CD) if you want to learn a language
Technology
Thoughts on smart watches?
geopoliticssuck 4 years ago • 100%
I'll only ever consider the devices that track your heartbeat and are not connected to a network. Other than that, a mechanical watch or an electronic watch is all I'll ever need, and I always have my smartphone.
Open Source
List of libre software I would love to exist
geopoliticssuck 4 years ago • 100%
Then it's IPFS, which is distributed, not federated. You can upload a file to service that can pin the files for free (like globalupload.io up to a certain file size) or pin the files yourself. Then other users running IPFS on their machines can pin those files. The network runs a bit like BitTorrent.
Technology
tiny enclosed electric vehicles have found their niche in China
geopoliticssuck 4 years ago • 100%
They should just bring back the "flying pigeon" bicycle culture if the cars are that small.
Green - An environmentalist community
Is using your laptop as a desktop more environmentally friendly than getting a separate desktop PC?
geopoliticssuck 4 years ago • 100%
An easily repairable second-hand laptop that is well maintained (not charged constantly) is, in my opinion, the most eco-friendly solution.
This is basically my laptop, which is a second hand HP Elitebook 840 G6.
Open Source
List of libre software I would love to exist
geopoliticssuck 4 years ago • 100%
For Imgur, there's Pixelfed (for a traditional image-hosting website) or IPFS (where you can host/pin any file).
Technology
Mozilla is testing sponsored links (ads) in the top sites view, at least it can just be disabled.
geopoliticssuck 4 years ago • 83%
GNU IceCat is, once again, the only viable libre web browser.
For some reason, Qwant redirects to Qwant Lite and whenever try to search something, it always comes up as "no results". Does this happen to anyone else as well?
Privacy
In the Midst of eliminating Amazon and Google from my life. Came here because I felt like this community would appreciate!
geopoliticssuck 4 years ago • 100%
Bear in mind, that deleting accounts in Big Tech won't destroy the data that you've already given them...
China, 中国
Chinese tech billionaire Jack Ma was removed from his own reality TV show and has not been seen in public for two months after falling foul of President Xi in anti-regulation speech
geopoliticssuck 4 years ago • 100%
I too want to defend a capitalist billionaire with his own reality TV show
geopoliticssuck 4 years ago • 100%
IPFS for all of them. You can use globalupload.io if you can't pin them yourself.
geopoliticssuck 4 years ago • 100%
This doesn't work as well, like I said in another comment, I live in the EU so I have to forego the GDPR rights to see the article.
geopoliticssuck 4 years ago • 100%
I didn't work for me, I already tried lynx before and I got the same results (without --dump). I'm in the EU so that's probably why it worked for you.
geopoliticssuck 4 years ago • 100%
I already know outline.com, it is also proprietary, I'm looking for a replacement for that as well
If I want to read https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/05/19/post-american-world-is-now-full-display/, I have to use archive.vn which allows me to go past the paywall (https://archive.vn/yTP0x). However, archive.vn is still proprietary so I installed ArchiveBox which is free software but does not go past the paywall. Does anyone have any solutions?
geopoliticssuck 4 years ago • 100%
There's always yacy.net, decentralised and free software. The search results are pretty bad though but it at least exists.
youtu.be
Be sure to download this video in case it gets taken down or manipulated.
geopoliticssuck 4 years ago • 100%
Use the search engine of your choice to find the video you want to watch, then use mpv or vlc to watch it by running one of these players using the video link as an argument.
Try this: $ mpv https://www.bilibili.com/video/BV1np4y1r73P
geopoliticssuck 4 years ago • 100%
I've said this before and I'll say it again, every major power is going to copy China and there's not much one can do about it, their policies really have been far-sighted. But you shouldn't see data collection as a political tool, you see, the EU is behind in AI and since practically of the EU's personal data is stored in the US (because they all use GAFA), they can't train their models properly. China created the firewall, blocked GAFA (and of course political threats), and developed their own domestic Internet industry; now China is ahead in AI facial and speech recognition. There's a EU Commission paper that proposes a European firewall that functions like the Chinese version because they know they will fall behind. In the US they already have the "Clean Network" and they're going to block TikTok and WeChat.
World News
Kamala Harris: a woman for the future of the US
geopoliticssuck 4 years ago • 100%
geopoliticssuck 4 years ago • 85%
cash
buy local
Public Square
Are the mods being too strict?
geopoliticssuck 4 years ago • 100%
The great thing about decentralisation is that if you don't like this lemmy instance, you can always set up one yourself and make your own rules.
www.youtube.com
Fediversegeopoliticssuck 4 years ago • 100%
Don't forget YaCy, a libre decentralised search engine, I think that's the most important project of all. Just understand how much trust we put on search engines then realise how dangerous they are if proprietary
Protonmail
Why using Google VPN is a terrible idea
geopoliticssuck 4 years ago • 100%
It terrifies me how much control and influence GAFA has on the entire global market. If Google really wanted to be sinister, they'd make this VPN both free and enabled by default on Android.
Androidgeopoliticssuck 4 years ago • 100%
I'm sorry but who names their app "QuickDic" lol
Open Source
*Permanently Deleted*
geopoliticssuck 4 years ago • 100%
bashtop looks a lot prettier than glances
I want to know if there are other specialised Q&A sites (and not general-purpose like Quora). I feel Stack Exchange has a monopoly in this domain. Since it's both hosted in the US and its business model is not very clear (look at the trackers they have on their site), I want to avoid using it to ask questions. I'm actually considering hosting my own French Q&A site that specialises in mathematics (from kindergarden to graduate), using libre software and relying on donations.
I need to look through a Facebook group but I don't want to use a Facebook account. I want to know if there's an open-source service like [Bibliogram](https://bibliogram.art/) (Instagram) but for Facebook.
[!thirdculturekids@dev.lemmy.ml](/c/thirdculturekids) is a community for those who were raised in a culture other than their parents’ or the culture of the country named on their passport for a significant part of their early development years. I don't think there's going to be a lot of users since the /r/tck subreddit is also very small, but also fuck Reddit, so this is a identity-based community for those without a singular identity to call their own.