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“The Cloud now has a greater carbon footprint than the airline industry. A single data center can consume the equivalent electricity of 50,000 homes. At 200 terawatt hours annually, data centers collectively devour more energy than some nation-states.”

https://thereader.mitpress.mit.edu/the-staggering-ecological-impacts-of-computation-and-the-cloud/

#tech #cloud #ai #datacenter #environment

uBlock Origin filter list for sites that contain AI-generated content for uBlock Origin. Useful for scrubbing AI-generated bullshit from Google, DDG, and Bing image search pages.

Edit: I didn't make this! Just seemed useful.

https://github.com/laylavish/uBlockOrigin-HUGE-AI-Blocklist/tree/main

The Inaccessibility Cycle

#disability #ableism #accessibility

I need a Matrix client that is good … Element is constantly screwing things up. Sometimes short runs of messages in chats I've been in for months suddenly just can't be decrypted. Sometimes it doesn't notify me of new messages for a week or so, on desktop or mobile, before then returning back to normal. Sometimes certain channels just have an unread badge no matter how far I scroll in the room and the threads, and sometimes the badge will stay even if I mark the room read.

We've got a new version (v2.5.0) out which improves the look and feel along with fixes for the #Hypercore / #Holepunch protocol handlers.

https://github.com/AgregoreWeb/agregore-browser/releases/tag/v2.5.0

No, I don't think this had anything to do with startup equity. This advice has cropped up in every industry. I think the job hopping trend is a direct response to growing inequality and companies taking employees for granted. Stagnant wages, erosion of benefits, pushing for longer work hours. The social contract with work is broken. So people are looking out for themselves.
https://mastodon.social/@mhoye/112094754620601904

Found 5 new servers and 17 servers died off since 3 hours ago.

23,432 servers checked. 13,950,395 Total Users with 1,644,254 Active Users today. Check out the stats!

New #fediverse servers found:

hypha.coop a #sutty-distributed-press server from Canada
social.nestbox.club a #mastodon server from United Kingdom
m.freq.io a #mastodon server from Finland
lewdpost.com a #akkoma server from Finland
akkoma.bat-pike.ts.net a #akkoma server from United States

Help others find a home, send them to fediverse.observer

i usually like to say the original sin of the internet was putting trust into companies.. but i think even more precisely it is that we decided that corporate search engines were fine .. search is a foundation of the internet and until we have credible foss alternatives we will forever have a castle built on sand..

it is pretty interesting that while there have been attempts at foss search engines , none of them can compete with a corporate search engine ,, even after decades!