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nah it's perfect for a lot of people who struggle to keep up with chats, just go to activity and you can find the chat you were just in instead of having to scroll through tons of channels

ikton BBC gives up on Threads, sticks with Mastodon

> And then there's the implication that you're supposed to choose a server based on some "interests" or "values." No.

That's an easy fix:

Go to https://joinmastodon.org/ click Join mastodon.social

> search

You might like the latest release:

https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2023/09/mastodon-4.2/

> In this version we overhauled search.

ikton BBC gives up on Threads, sticks with Mastodon

> https://joinmastodon.org/

> Join mastodon.social

There you go :)

ikton BBC gives up on Threads, sticks with Mastodon

I think he means it's not an issue even if Mastodon does remain niche, we're quite happy here how it is, Fosstodon went invite only recently because it felt like the server was becoming too generalised

ikton Volvo to cease production of diesel cars in a few months

Sure but EV's require significantly less maintenance than ICE vehicles, if a 10k battery gets you a car which runs like new for 10 more years (or more depending on future tech) and you like your car why wouldn't you?

It's a bit like the fact that there is a ton of Iphone8's available, pop a new battery in them and you're still good to go: https://www.gumtree.com.au/s-iphone/iphone+8/k0c18597r10?cat...

ikton YouTube blocks Russell Brand from making money through its platform

yeah it's odd, if they do it for brand does that mean they'll now do it for all? of course not and they haven't, this feels unusual for them, so why target brand specifically?

this is going to make his conspiracy's seem true like they are targeting him

but it could be as simple as advertisers don't care about aerosmith because it's bigger than steven tyler, whereas brand is purely a youtube based opinion show and he is the main star of the show

ikton Become an expert in something specific and boring

Just reading this Atlantic article: https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2022/11/cryptocurr...

> Yet this crisis also creates an opportunity. * Effective altruism, the movement, is not the same thing as effective altruism, the practice of financially maximalist and rigorously data-driven philanthropy. * Divorcing the latter from the former would benefit everyone on the planet.

I've been wondering why you guys care about some guy who ran a crypto exchange and what that has to do the with the core philosophy of effective altruism but it seems like you've all linked the movement with the philosophy to my chagrin.

ikton Become an expert in something specific and boring

no, he ran a crypto exchange and behind the scenes his companies trading desk used it's own coin as leverage, nothing to do with ea

ikton Become an expert in something specific and boring

what's the link between sbf and effectivealtruism.org?

ikton Data centres account for between 1.5% and 2% of global electricity consumption

> nobody uses incandescent bulbs anymore

See I thought so too, I went to lookup the stats in Australia but turns out we banned them years ago (I didn't even notice) but in America: https://www.forbes.com/sites/tylerroush/2023/07/29/us-ban-on...

An estimated 30% of U.S. households used incandescent or halogen incandescent light bulbs in 2020

Americans are still the funniest

“I’m happy the Department of Energy is out here making sure that we can all save money because we’re too dumb to figure out how to do it ourselves,” Rep. Brian Fitzpatrick, R-Penn., said.

Does the DoE have the opportunity to say "you're welcome!" to Rep. Brian Fitzpatrick, R-Penn?

Should also add in: Remember to pump up your tyres! it helps save petrol!

ikton Data centres account for between 1.5% and 2% of global electricity consumption

Neither did they!

ikton Rectify11 Improving upon the Windows 11 experience

> That may have been a hot take on my part, but what makes Debian worthwhile over Ubuntu aside from ideology?

I think they're very close these days but to me: Stability, I say this using Ubuntu 22.04 but to say Debian 'sucks' is a big stretch given how similar they are now

Windows 10 to Windows 11 is a disaster, nobody wants it, it's forced on most people, at my workplace people are avoiding it, Debian on the other hand has been mostly smooth sailing for like 10 years now

>Anything other than Ubuntu and Mint requires involvement with 3rd-party repos for comparable multimedia playback

Don't most people use Youtube and Spotify etc these days? If someone wants to break out the Mp3's they just install VLC.

> I remember years ago Debian having some confusion with different images and firmware

You'll be happy to know this is fixed, Debian's latest release now includes non-free firmware in the installer:

https://www.debian.org/devel/debian-installer/News/2023/2023...

Starting with this release, official images include firmware packages from main and non-free-firmware, along with metadata to configure the installed system accordingly. Our installation guide has been updated accordingly.

--- Debian 12 or Ubuntu 22.04 you can't really go wrong imo

There's some other stuff I want to say but I must sleep! thanks!

ikton Harvard University encourages grad students to go on food stamps

He's on the higher end but is paying a mortgage on a million dollar house and has a 150k SUV sitting in the driveway, it's tough out there right now :P

ikton Rectify11 Improving upon the Windows 11 experience

> Debian flat-out sucks in 2023

What? How?

ikton Successful room temperature ambient-pressure magnetic levitation of LK-99

that's me! i call myself a fake network engineer because there is simply too much info to retain, my brain just won't retain things i'm not constantly doing, so i have a complete understanding of maybe 20% of things but outside of that comparing to other configs and pattern matching are my main ways of solving problems and to be fair for my job (fixing network faults) like 90% of faults i've seen before and can fix, for 10% i can't i'm lucky that i have escalation points

at the same time i do feel like pattern matching limits my growth, if i had a complete understanding of a majority of networking principals id be much higher up in my career

ikton Apollo is dead. Long live Apollo

https://www.reddit.com/r/Drama/comments/djdmd9/we_banned_all...

/r/drama banned people who posted in /r/teenagers and brought to surface a whole bundle of pedos

ikton All EU Members are committed to achieving full climate neutrality by 2050

it's worded so that synthetic zero emission fuels can still come along and save the ice engine which is what mercedes etc are hoping for

ikton French govt. says users of uBlock Origin, Signal etc. are potential terrorists

I think maybe because the rest of the world sees those changes he pushed through as incredibly mild

he increased the pension age because people are getting older and the state will not be able to afford it? wow what a crazy dictator

ikton The Federated App Problem

Fosstodon posts that are on my home feed from other instances like this: https://imgur.com/6ToDHHm which is from floss.social load up instantly

Looking at the image source despite it being uploaded to another instance it's hosted on Fosstodon: https://cdn.fosstodon.org/cache/media_attachments/files/110/...

That said when I see posts linked to Mastodon on HN I do notice that maybe the HN Hug of Death hits them hard as they are noticeably slower to load than my day to day interaction with Mastodon, maybe this is what you're seeing?

ikton The Federated App Problem

> Federated services have so, so so so, many usability issues

I like how you're talking about it like it's some abstract underground BBS style system that requires a modem, ISDN line installed, custom software running on a unix subsystem

I mean I found https://fosstodon.org/home signed up, clicked on local, liked posts, followed people, now I get a stream of posts to my home feed every day

Maybe your everyday facebook user might struggle with the idea of signing up to a site and interacting with it but I'm just not seeing why anyone who can sign up to discord or reddit would struggle with it

ikton U.S. Depression Rates Reach New Highs

they point to the pandemic as the source of the issue but rates have been rising significantly since 2011...

ikton Kiss your free returns goodbye

you guys got free returns? in australia it's always been pay the return shipping fee as far as i know

ikton Ed Sheeran demonstrates how copyright is destroying musicians

> Spotify spent a long time in negations to get that price, and I'm not aware of any credible claims they pay higher rates to popular artists

https://artists.spotify.com/en/help/article/royalties

From there, the rightsholder’s share of net revenue is determined by streamshare.

We calculate streamshare by tallying the total number of streams in a given month and determining what proportion of those streams were people listening to music owned or controlled by a particular rightsholder.

https://indepentia.com/blog/how-much-does-spotify-pay-per-st...

For example: if Billie Eilish receives 2% of all Spotify streams in a month, she will receive 2% of that month’s available streaming royalties.

So the more streams you do, the higher your streamshare, the higher your average pay per steam.

Yes it annoys the hell out of me that I support so many underground bands and realise that 60% of my subscription fee is probably going to pop artists.