bonifartius 𒂼𒄄 @bonifartius@social.cleverlibre.org

@chrism also those things may additionally disturb the ecosystem, nobody knows about the effects yet, but animals like the dung beetle orient using the night sky.

@chrism it's fucked up that the sky isn't more regulated. it feels like if you have enough money, they are like "sure, do whatever you please". the first time i've seen starlink, it made me sad that the next generations won't see the stars undisturbed. it's hard enough with light pollution already. i'm not sure how quick those LEO satellites deorbit themselves from atmospheric friction.

musk especially pisses me of with his bullshit toy projects, teslas build quality and faults, and still everything gets hyped and politicians brown nose for tesla factories 😑

damn tech bros.

@Bluegrey imho the left/right categories don't fit anymore. the classic left was pro science and technological progress with less profit but more equally spread while the classic right was the same but with religion and maxing out profit for individuals (it's a ring matching at the ends ;)

i think there is no objective reality and certain knowledge. those things would be way too easy :)

@tripu servers aren't "very expensive". having hundreds of people on payroll is expensive. renting offices in fancy towns is expensive.

that's the beauty of federation, anyone who can spare a few dollars can run an instance for some people. if you have more people, limit registration or upgrade the server. imho the hardest thing is to find the time for maintenance, not the money to rent a server.

@freemo i like that it is a bytecode to opencl compiler. i think many interesting things can be done by repurposing/transforming existing bytecodes. like the many languages which use the jvm.

my project back then included parsing a (simple) input language, generating cuda kernels for it. i've never really got it to work properly though.
i sometimes think about building something like it as side project, but now i haven't got that much spare time anymore. but it's always nagging me that it never got really finished :D

@freemo well, it's better than cuda c i've used back then, i guess :) i've also always wanted to check out futhark, but it was very experimental back then. if the job had been a few years later it would've been much easier, so many interesting tools to choose from now :)

@freemo that looks really cool! i should play with gpgpu stuff again, last time was in my student job.

@parasurv@mstdn.io it's already been at cyberpunk-levels a few years ago: https://m.imgur.com/XxVP1Ek

@Phaedrus i like the quote, but concerning the image: i'm still not sure what to think about gates.

i'm not in favor of everything he does, but at least some money is put into things that _may_ be good for the public, like research on cheap sanitation & renewable energy.

but, we will never know the true motivation behind anything so 🤷

amazon looking like the '00s web trying to sell prime. i've not missed these aesthetics.

@xyzzy go southeast

@xyzzy take soykaf

@xyzzy open filing cabinet

@xyzzy shoot ANTHROPOLOGIST with phaser

@xyzzy take phaser

@fernand0 only of the power wasted by such bullshit toys like gpt3?

this week i rediscovered my bookmark for https://b612-font.com . they don't lie, it's imho really good for display usage.

@verita84 @valleyforge @Demosthenes @randomthoughts@mstdn.social well, yes. i don't mind the masks, just get some funny ones. i've got one with birds. additionally, for introverts the current situation isn't that bad, i kind of like it that i don't have to randomly meet and hug people because i am expected to🤷‍♀️

@verita84 @valleyforge @randomthoughts@mstdn.social @Demosthenes but where to go with all that gas while the pandemic thing is going? it's well that i can get a full tank for 60% of what it's used to be, but i've got nowhere to go (and good jerrycans aren't cheap enough ;)