U.S. electric utilities predict a tidal wave of new demand from data centers powering technology like generative #AI, with some power companies projecting electricity sales growth several times higher than estimates just months earlier.
"Deutschland hat neuesten Berechnungen zufolge bereits mehr CO2 ausgestoßen, als es das für die Einhaltung der 1,5-Grad-Grenze dürfte. Doch kaum jemanden scheint es zu interessieren."
@saraschurmann mit einem eindrücklichen Vergleich der #Klimakatastrophe mit einem brennenden Haus, das niemanden interessiert.
> Tout sourire, un chien nous regarde en proclamant "This is fine" : tout va bien. Il est pourtant sur le point de disparaître dans un incendie. Depuis 10 ans, ce dessin a été détourné d'innombrables fois pour illustrer, notamment, le déni climatique. Présenté par Sonia Devillers, le magazine qui analyse les images de notre époque.
Meanwhile in #Iceland, (presumably) earthen dams are being built around the geothermal power plant in Svartsengi due to a volcanic eruption that is starting near Grindavík.
Road to Grindavík is closed due to cracks that had appeared on it.
We can feel the shakes all the way in Reykjavík, some 30km away as the crow flies.
Greetings, Mastadonians. As the kids say, “it’s been a minute, huh?” I realized that I still needed a microphone into the ether to vent frustrations, and since X (née Twitter) has become its own tar pit of crazies and porn accounts, Mastadon it is. Plus, half the people I need to vent about are on Facebook, so I’m just keeping up the façade of funny memes over there as the room burns around me. #thisisfine
If I were to be laid off now and wanted to continue my same health insurance coverage for my family with COBRA, it would cost $3000/month. (medical, dental, vision)
I don’t understand what problem they are meant to solve. If you have a FOSS piece of software, you can install it via the package manager. Or the store, which is just a frontend for the package manager. I see that they are distribution-independent, but the distro maintainers likely already know what’s compatible and what...
add a second source of package truth to the host, introducing uncertainty in content. So they…
risk consistency in that you can’t be sure quickly from where something came.
add an out of band repo-like entity with no signed manifest of exact contents so you can’t validate your install down to the file level
encourage dependency hell
break any sort agreements as vendors can all refuse to support people with this oob spooge, at the drop of a hat (happened to me with moreutils)
Really, from a build/release standpoint, from an os security standpoint and from an escalation/support standpoint - three jobs I held on the OS/distro side - they’re all just toxic and valueless.
But the kids think they’re neat, so in a world where they rewarded systemd with more than ridicule, I guess #thisIsFine.
@panamared27401 The problem already manifested last year on some old Oracle software running on Windows according to Wikipedia (a cookie containing UI preferences with an expiry date set 500 millions seconds in the future) #ThisIsFine 🙃
Moved the hacked PS1 mini (it has like 80+ games on it now thanks to Autobleem, the most important of them being Diablo) to the living room to start up a new Diablo run. I beat it two years ago in September and I started my run(s) in August 2021. Something about August and fall, I guess. Last time, I tried a sorcerer but struggled til I switched to fighter, which I beat it with. This time, I'm trying a rogue. Never tried rogue before. Should be wild. Time for tons of saving and leaving all my gear on the ground in town! 🤣
What is the point of Flatpak, AppImage, Snap, etc?
I don’t understand what problem they are meant to solve. If you have a FOSS piece of software, you can install it via the package manager. Or the store, which is just a frontend for the package manager. I see that they are distribution-independent, but the distro maintainers likely already know what’s compatible and what...