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We’ll see. Depends on the primaries. Institutional dems have a pitiful track record on holding people accountable. I expect we’ll see a lot of reaching across the isle and ‘moving forwards, not dwelling on the past’.

Haha I think we have a different idea of which 1% is making life miserable

Which is why it was a mistake to let Republicans vote

Who’s saying not to build solar?

Yeah it’s freaky. I work in tech too, I know I’m a villain lol

Seems pretty obvious- that datacenters very measurably contribute to rising costs of electricity and climate change , and unlike aluminum processing or farming which makes things people want, is used for AI which a lot of people resent. It’s a lose-lose

One refrigerator sized rack at a datacenter takes as much power as 150 homes, and they’re using it for technology that disempowers and annoys people. It’s pretty obviously offensive.

All for rezoning golf courses too

You can have free markets without investments, which imo is the key differentiator between Capitalism and what came before. That’s what ‘capital’ is in capitalism.

In fact, capitalism tends to trend towards monopoly which is the opposite of a free market. Investing in a monopoly tends to be a Very Good Idea for investors but we want a free market so we go against the ideals of capitalism to break up firms and limit acquisitions.

Once you can invest and reliably make money invested by its very nature you get Rich-Get-Richer.

You can say this is a fine trade off for the benefits if you like, but it’s pretty well baked into the design. IMO we don’t have to go all the way to some other -ism either but we have a trillionaire that bought the government, that’s waaaayy too much capitalism if you ask me

To be fair, if they first vocalize it they could just use Sparse Voxels which is my favorite differentiable rendering technique https://github.com/NVlabs/svraster

I didn’t notice there was a secondary link, sorry. For everyone else, consider this comment a recommendation to click through and watch it then :)

People Make Games just did a terrific documentary on this https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Is8N7B9b0GQ&pp=0gcJCUECo7VqN5t...

The core idea of capitalism is that you spend money to make more money. Rich get richer is the basic idea, you invest and those investments make you more. It very necessarily leads to oligarchy when left unchecked.

I mean, you Can, but I like my friends and myself.

I feel gross about the place I’m at and I don’t want to lose that feeling.

I was considering pretty heavily getting a teaching license

Downvoters are wrong. Everything here is true. As someone who compromised their morals (not Facebook but other big tech) after being laid off, it was a choice

As I understand it- you can use free community provided relays, self-host your own, or pay for their managed services with an SLA and monitoring built in

Having spent a while trying to understand it, I believe the keys are serving a dual purpose as an encryption key and as a stable identifier along the lines of a session cookie that might be used for a WebRTC video call.

Here's my summary from Lobste.rs, keeping in mind I'm not an expert and only found this project today:

[..] this is closer to an opinionated WebRTC setup that handles assigning a persistent ID to clients. All the work of making a signaling server is taken care of and the solution is generic enough and cheap enough to run that you can get away with using a community hosted one. Kinda similar to what you get with Steam’s proprietary p2p gamenetworkingsocket infrastructure

https://lobste.rs/s/cslljn/iroh_1_0_dial_keys_not_ips#c_s3na...

Yeah, the bio in About specifically mentions that they are not the famous one

I don’t understand the vision in the blog post, but I’m very excited to try out the Arcan-net as described in http://www.divergent-desktop.org/blog/2026/01/26/a12web/

Haha, good catch- we’re not.

This is my experience as well.

I think the idea is the google is the bot

They get blocked by Recaptcha, I think.

I’m not talking about the network itself but the servers on the other end.

I guess my point is that while Google is definitely malicious, I don’t think every site using recaptcha is and if we expect them not to use that tool there should probably be an alternative.

I love the vision, but I do wonder how the parallel internet will deal with DDoS levels of bot traffic.

I hear ‘web of trust’ pretty often and I like the idea but that’s not anonymous or accessible either

Delivering mail is meaningful for sure! So is teaching, people want to do these things and sometimes it lines up that there’s a market for it too.

The premium is that stuff like my job where I’m fiddling on Azure is to the benefit of no one and making four times as much.

If you want something meaningful you have to accept worse conditions because all the wonderful lovely people of the world who care and want to make a difference want to work there and not somewhere else.

And it’s interesting you picked mail as an example, when at least in the USA it’s run by the state ;p

I don’t really think it’s horrible that it’s not possible to mooch off your community and give back nothing forever but I don’t think ‘a little incentive’ is the right way of putting it, especially for all the people that hate their jobs for reasonable reasons but stay at it because of the alternative.

The ‘little incentive’ that it you don’t do it you starve to death.

There’s tons of work being done because it feels meaningful, later today I’m cooking a meal for a potluck, etc. but if you want your Job to be meaningful that comes at a huge premium.

I don’t think being anti-capitalist necessitates being anti “perform a skilled role or responsibility that's useful for your tribe”. To me, that’s the big benefit- under capitalism you’re not working for your tribe, you’re working for a tiny few shareholders.

I’m pretty sure the world overall and certainly “my tribe” would be better off if the job I’m working just never got done

They’re the ones doing it lol

I still like the name Bard

In my experience games crash a lot less often than the windows file explorer

I feel like we give what’s some pretty impressive engineering short shrift because it’s just for entertainment