Alphane Moon
That there is no perfect defense. There is no protection. Being alive means being exposed; it’s the nature of life to be hazardous—it’s the stuff of living.
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Alphane Moon@lemmy.worldto Fedigrow@lemmy.zip•Weekly thread - how is everyone doing with their communities?English2·4 hours agoThe Threadiverse is definitely not ready for “normies”. Even if we ignore the extremism, the on-boarding, UX, service provision stability, topical coverage is not at the point where normies can join.
I’ve told people about the Fediverse as a concept, but I haven’t suggested anyone try it, as I don’t think it’s ready.
I will note that I personally think the federated model isn’t inherently too complex, it just needs better UI/UX and the network needs to be larger (e.g. 1 M MAU, 50 K DAU with coverage of at least 5 major langauges).
I am not really sure there is any magical solution to dealing with extremism. Better mod tools, a development focus on automated admin work will help, but I don’t think it will solve the root cause. IMO it’s not technical problem, it’s a social issue that’s also present in mainstream corporate network (albeit it can be more subtle there).
Alphane Moon@lemmy.worldto Fedigrow@lemmy.zip•Weekly thread - how is everyone doing with their communities?English2·4 hours agoThanks for sharing!
From my perspective, the best way to deal with toxicity (whatever that might be for a given individual) is to have multiple accounts and to have regular “time out” periods where you only use the non-politics accounts. This is of course not viable if you are a single admin.
Then there is the issue of making the most of a bad situation. Even though for me tankies are mortal enemies (including the Lemmy Devs), I see usage of Lemmy (well the Threadiverse) being a less worse choice than using American commercial social media.
With the Threadiverse, there is a weak light at the end of the tunnel. We may never get there, but it’s there. On the other hand American social media is an intellectual, moral and even economic (I am actually serious about this) dead end. That’s why I use the Threadiverse, although I am trying to slowly move off Lemmy to Piefed for obvious reasons.
Just sharing some thoughts in context of your very justified comments on the Threadiverse. I am not necessarily trying to change your mind or prove anything. :)
Alphane Moon@lemmy.worldto Fedigrow@lemmy.zip•Weekly thread - how is everyone doing with their communities?English5·10 hours agoMoved a community over from lemm.ee to Piefed (!monitors@piefed.social). It’s going well enough. The community never had all that much engagement, but the content is complementary to the !hardware@lemmy.world community that I mod/curate, so it doesn’t require additional time/effort.
Alphane Moon@lemmy.worldto Fedigrow@lemmy.zip•Weekly thread - how is everyone doing with their communities?English4·11 hours agoPlease do share.
I am not attached to Lemmy, I joined because from my perspective commercial American social media is not viable for me, it’s equivalent to supporting/enabling those who wish you harm.
Alphane Moon@lemmy.worldOPto PC Gaming@lemmy.ca•AMD Ryzen "Zen 6" CPU Samples Already Distributed, Architecture To Be A "Evolution" With More Cores Per CCD, New "Dual" IMC DesignEnglish2·11 hours agoApologies in advance for being overly pedantic, but it’s Zen 2, not Ryzen 2. Ryzen is a generic brand, when Zen is the architecture family.
Alphane Moon@lemmy.worldOPMto Hardware@lemmy.world•HoloMem's drop-in holographic tape drive for LTO tape libraries – Blocks and FilesEnglish4·16 hours agoThe seemingly high level of compatibility with existing archival system and alleged low costs make this tech sound very intriguing.
It’s also good to know that they haven’t taken any VC money (they are currently relying on public funding).
Alphane Moon@lemmy.worldOPMto Hardware@lemmy.world•Real Stagnation: Six Years of GeForce RTX 60 Class GPUs TestedEnglish3·16 hours agoThe 5060 is not that bad of a SKU, albeit the comparison relative to 4060 is misleading, in many cases the 4060 shows a mere ~10-15% gen on gen improvement relative to the 3060.
The biggest issue is the price. It’s supposed to be $300 (excluding taxes?) in the US, but where I live it’s over $400 (full out of pocket price).
Alphane Moon@lemmy.worldMto Hardware@lemmy.world•Intel increases Oregon layoffs by nearly 4 times as muchEnglish3·16 hours agoAnd based on the reports its not only middle management, but also lots of engineers and technicians.
Perfect approach to regain their leadership position in semiconductor design and manufacturing!
Alphane Moon@lemmy.worldOPMto Hardware@lemmy.world•Google tangled up in $600m Chromebook corruption probeEnglish6·16 hours agoEarlier this year, Indonesia’s Attorney General announced an investigation into why authorities chose Chromebooks as client devices when a pilot of the machines pointed out they’re not useful without reliable internet connections – a situation that’s common across Indonesia.
That’s a really bad outcome. To be fair, Google itself doesn’t seem to be directly involved (although they had to have known about this limitation).
Alphane Moon@lemmy.worldOPMto Hardware@lemmy.world•Asus showcases a $500,000 RTX 5090 ROG Astral GPU in China with 5kg of goldEnglish5·1 day agoYou could even buy a good GPU and still have another $39 K leftover.
I guess we are sort of on the same page then. :)
Alphane Moon@lemmy.worldOPMto Hardware@lemmy.world•Asus showcases a $500,000 RTX 5090 ROG Astral GPU in China with 5kg of goldEnglish5·2 days agoThat is so true, it doesn’t even look nice.
Not to mention there is no cool technology that is unique to this SKU (redundant sub-systems, high quality materials etc.).
I have no issues with LW (and most other instance). I mod/curate multiple communities on LW.
I definitely do not intend to “run down” LW (if I am understanding the meaning of “run down” correctly).
Alphane Moon@lemmy.worldOPMto Hardware@lemmy.world•Asus showcases a $500,000 RTX 5090 ROG Astral GPU in China with 5kg of goldEnglish131·2 days agoThe GPU shroud is made up of 5kg or 11 pounds of pure 24-karat gold, upping the weight of the GPU to 7.2kg or 15.9 pounds. To put things into perspective, most RTX 5090 GPUs weigh anywhere from 2.5 to 3.0 Kg, making Asus’s newest showcase GPU 3 times heavier.
Why would you ever want a ~7 kg GPU, this makes it objectively worse than a regular high-end 5090. They could have used minimal gold coating and diamonds to keep the bling factor while maintaining a more reasonable weight.
Also it doesn’t seem there are any true product benefits over the ROG Astral RTX 5090. For such a price, I would expect them to source the best binned GPU chips on the planet and other unique features.
Definitely. I’ve been on the Threadiverse for a while now.
The problem is that ML is such a prominent instance and the lead devs are degenerate tankies.
And I don’t use the word degenerate lightly or as a generic insult.
Claiming (without irony) that North Korea is good place to live and their political system has been discredited by a vast capitalist conspiracy led by the BIA is a sign of true degeneracy. It doesn’t even matter if they are engaging in demagoguery or not.
Alphane Moon@lemmy.worldto Linux@lemmy.world•What do y'all recommend as an arch based distro?English1·2 days agoI was indeed refering to the rolling release nature of Arch-style distros.
Having every update be a potential system breaker is not in any way user friendly, nor is it a user friendly experience to have to audit updates.
Alphane Moon@lemmy.worldMto Hardware@lemmy.world•The Commodore 64 Ultimate computer is the company's first hardware release in over 30 years — pre-orders start at $299English51·2 days agoI get that (I am assuming you have excellent C64 emulators for x86 too), just for some reason the USB tape deck felt like a bridge too far for me.
Alphane Moon@lemmy.worldMto Hardware@lemmy.world•The Commodore 64 Ultimate computer is the company's first hardware release in over 30 years — pre-orders start at $299English101·2 days agobuyers will also get a spiral-bound user guide, a 64GB USB Cassette Drive featuring 50+ full games, including licensed classics
Is this USB Cassette drive for retro vibes? Why not just have a USB flash drive? Am I missing something?
Alphane Moon@lemmy.worldMto Hardware@lemmy.world•Our visit to the Hunter supercomputerEnglish4·2 days agoAnd it’s liquid cooled too!
Interesting commentary about the cost recovery approach to operating this supercomputer.
With hardware you will always have higher per unit costs for more niche product lines due to weaker economies of scale.
It’s true for hardware products that are free (as in freedom) or apple products (e.g. Vision Pro).
Not much we can do about this, short of a revolution in 3D printing and distribution systems (you will never be able to 3D print all components; e.g. semiconductors).