Yeah, I read the whole thing. It was a good story but I felt that when it came time to “deliver the goods” they fell a bit short. For example, this: https://www.atlanticcouncil.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/final-image-global-south.png. That is under the heading “Clearly authoritarian”, which seems pretty strong for such a boring sounding course.

I stand by my earlier comment.

I wish they were able to find better examples of the courses and the content (not just the summary from marketing materials). The examples they provided were really tame.

in China, law enforcement is designed to protect the state and the Party rather than the people, journalism is prescribed to create national unity rather than act as a check against the system, and the law is intended to protect the regime rather than its citizenry.

Very succinctly put!

In the Constitution of China you’ll find a section where it explicitly states that the interests of the group outweigh those of the individual. It’s baked into the legal bedrock.

This would be fine if there were no externalities.

Yeah, but no https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jevons_paradox

The climate doesn’t give a toss how much value for shareholders is generated, all that matters is the total amount of emissions.

Efficiency??

This is about the total amount of emissions, not the emissions-per-unit-of-compute (or whatever).

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You’re looking for meaning where there is none. Fascism does not want to make sense, it very intentionally rejects reason and logic. To fascists, force and power is the only real politics. Few people really grasp how deep the nihilism of it is.

The chaos is an end in itself.

Fake Jehovah’s Witness

Yeah although if Russia wins it’d involve “unstable geopolitics” too.

This could be a long war.

Durian.

Texture of banana but with a huge seed. Tastes like a strange combination of rotten eggs, whipped cream, vanilla ice cream, diced garlic, onions, cheese, and… caramel?

It’s fucked. Never again.

To fascists, hypocrisy is a virtue:

https://hac.bard.edu/amor-mundi/hypocrisy-and-fascism-2018-08-12

They NEED to demonstrate their hypocrisy in order to signal to their supporters that the nasty shit they promise to do to The Other (immigrants, gays, whatever) won’t be done to their supporters.

Russia on Monday threatened to strike British military facilities

This is equivalent to USA threatening to strike North Korean, Iranian or Chinese facilities (all of whom have been arming Russia). No such threats have been made.

Just so we’re clear who’s escalating things.

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Yeah I was heavily into peak oil once, too.

Don’t underestimate the power of literally everyone on the planet really really wanting to avoid that situation. Life finds a way.

No - the VPN provider has another DHCP server for use ‘inside’ the VPN.

2 requests per instance - one for the HTML of the page and another for a preview image.

I’ve found that if left on default settings, CloudFlare is not that great at caching. It requires a bit of configuration to really make it sing. itsfoss.com thought they were “using CloudFlare” but probably not to it’s fullest potential.

FYI the german word for “emotion triggered by a combination of sad, funny and stupid dystopia” is “Traludystopieunglücklichkomik”.

ChatGPT told me.

This is the kind of inflation that raising interest rates cannot solve. They’ll try it anyway.

I appreciate the practical suggestions section, there’s some great ideas there.

You might be interested in the low bandwidth mode that https://piefed.social has. It can be enabled during login and removes most of the images and Javascript.

Really, developers need new tools to support these values. Our dev tools report on performance and reliability but not on sustainability / energy use / CO2. Our programming frameworks offer flexibility, power and expand-ability but never intentionally constrain our energy / waste / performance. The only exception to this that I’ve seen is Google App Engine which has some resource utilization limits and a pretty limited ORM that feels like fighting with one hand tied behind my back sometimes.