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@apti, the Romanian digital rights NGO i work with, and for, and alongside, and have been doing so for some very lovely, intense and rewarding years, is now on PeerTube!
you can follow us at: @drepturi_digitale
here's to a whole new world of perhaps posting more self-brewed long-form video content, outside the algorithmic confides of Google's video platform. you know which one.
happy to see more Romanian content on the Fediverse 😁 here's to much more of that!
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« Ceci est un livre pour les personnes qui veulent détruire les Big Tech.
Ce n'est pas un livre pour les personnes qui veulent dompter les Big Tech. Il est impossible de les réformer.
Ce n'est pas non plus un livre pour les personnes qui veulent se débarrasser des technologies à proprement parler. Les technologies ne posent pas de problème en soi. Arrêtons de réfléchir à ce que font les technologies. Réfléchissons plutôt à qui elles le font et pour qui elles le font.
C'est un livre qui s'intéresse à ce que les Big Tech craignent le plus : une technologie qui serait dans les mains et au service des personnes qui l'utilisent. »
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I reckon a big reason why LLMs are as effective at coding as they reportedly are... Is because most programming tasks (at least those which actually pay) are easy to automate! We *used* to automate these things more!
We just don't because coding makes us feel like big-boy engineers doing Real Work. LLMs provide a means of automation that lets us continue to kid ourselves in this way.
I don't believe we need such a massive hammer for this! One causing widespread harm.
I think you are 100% on point, and much more succintly put than I did here:
(The second part of the post)
Sécheresse : des restrictions d'eau dans plus de 70% de la France
https://fr.euronews.com/2026/08/10/secheresse-des-restrictions-deau-dans-plus-de-70-de-la-france?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
Publié dans Crise climatique & environnement @crise-climatique-environnement-euronewsfr
@AnarchoNinaWrites
"Prickly for an optimist" is, to be clear, not meant as a criticism or complaint; just trying to summarize how your usual style comes off, because like... a lot of (most of?) the shit you write is already in the vein of 'here is an effective path out of this', which... if the doomers are looking for something to be hopeful about, what more do they want from you about it?
@miss_rodent It's okay - you aren't saying anything untrue. I lack patience for pretend, and it makes people think I'm hostile because in Pretendland the Country the idea that you would be enraged by pretending doesn't even occur to them so they think I'm just mad all the time.
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For precocious 11-year-old Lea Ypi, Albania’s Soviet-style socialism held the promise of a preordained future, a guarantee of security among enthusiastic comrades. That is, until she found herself clinging to a stone statue of Joseph Stalin, newly beheaded by student protests.
Communism had failed to deliver the promised utopia. One’s “biography”—class status and other associations long in the past—put strict boundaries around one’s individual future. When Lea’s parents spoke of relatives going to “university” or “graduating,” they were speaking of grave secrets Lea struggled to unveil. And when the early ’90s saw Albania and other Balkan countries exuberantly begin a transition to the “free market,” Western ideals of freedom delivered chaos: a dystopia of pyramid schemes, organized crime, and sex trafficking.
With her elegant, intellectual, French-speaking grandmother; her radical-chic father; and her staunchly anti-socialist, Thatcherite mother to guide her through these disorienting times, Lea had a political education of the most colorful sort—here recounted with outstanding literary talent. Now one of the world’s most dynamic young political thinkers and a prominent leftist voice in the United Kingdom, Lea offers a fresh and invigorating perspective on the relation between the personal and the political, between values and identity, posing urgent questions about the cost of freedom.
RE: https://chaos.social/@icing/117052747042728143
81% of you* wrote ten or more test cases. That‘s cool!
This directly contradicts my experiences in the last decades, which could mean (in order of likelihood):
- you are a exceptional bunch
- times have changed
- you are all bloody liars😜
*) who participated. Lack of tests and not voting might be correlated. But still.
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I always complain about how hard it is to do justice to my 3D displays in 2D video, but this one really takes it to new levels.
I think I've managed something here which gives a sense of what you see irl. The trick is to film it in potato vision - in high resolution 2D you only see the underlying pixel grids.
@ancientjames I don’t even want to know the calculations involved… 😅
But it looks fantastic! Congrats.
« Gngngn mais c'est pas à la France de faire des efforts de réduction d'émissions de CO2, c'est la Chine, c'est eux qui polluent le plus hein. »
Alors pas de bol, la Chine est déjà en voie de réussir sa transition énergétique. Avec 10 ans d'avance par rapport à la date prévue.
Ses usines, ses trains, ses voitures sont de plus en plus électrifiés :
* https://www.lemonde.fr/economie/article/2025/07/13/la-chine-hyperpuissance-de-la-transition-ecologique_6620973_3234.html
* https://www.rfi.fr/fr/asie-pacifique/20260119-chine-nouveau-record-mondial-consommation-d-%C3%A9lectricit%C3%A9-croissance-consommation
* https://www.ifri.org/fr/nouveau-plan-quinquennal-chinois-acceleration-de-lelectrification-et-expansion-mondiale-des
Et son électricité est de plus en plus décarbonnée (de 20% en 2010 à 43% aujourd'hui), notamment tirée par l'hydraulique, le solaire et le nucléaire :
* https://lowcarbonpower.org/fr/region/R%C3%A9publique_Populaire_de_Chine
* https://www.franceinfo.fr/monde/chine/en-chine-l-empire-des-centrales-nucleaires_7959923.html
C'est con hein, plus d'excuses.
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🤦♂️ I switched from LightningCSS to esbuild thinking it didn't mess with CSS
esbuild is literally changing colour values to distinctly different colours 😩
is there a CSS bundler/minifier that doesn't break styles?
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