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This post is GOLD. Engineering for the slow internet (an Antarctica story). Through the comments on Hacker News, we see who’s affected. Everyone moving, VPN users, folks on a limit, you. brr.fyi/posts/eng… hackerweb.app #degrowth #tech #it
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#DieZeit bietet ein interaktives Feature zu gesellschaftlichen Problemen – und Lösungen. Natürlich eine große Nummer: #Müll. Natürlich im Fokus nahezu aller Lösungen: individuelle Aktionen und Verantwortung. Hauptsache keine Produktion antasten. Nachhaltigkeit ist im Griff der industriellen PR.
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One theme in my research about chip value chains is that #semiconductor firms invest a lot of R&D and money into lowering the ecological impact. Chemicals, energy, water. Big customers want it. And then we study our university #IT systems and find no #sustainability pressure. Strange blind spot
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It’s #linux time. Since Windows and Mac OS are moving in a questionable direction and my laptop was getting slower, I tried #popos. A truly magnificent system. All the modern apps are there. Smooth. Sleek. Nothing compared to Ubuntu a few years ago, or Arch tinkering, or my dust-craving Cubes OS.
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#ICQ will turn off soon. I grew up with it’s weird aoooo and still know my quite long ID by heart. It was sensational, in contrast to the other, hacky (also cool) #IRC. It was the first DM app I and everyone around me used and loved. #WhatsApp never came close. hackerweb.app
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What’s a hot and useful technique in network #dataviz? I am fiddling around with a graph that represents extractive practices around a #datacenter. Work in progress in #Obsidian. #sts Going minimal? Staying with the trouble of dots and lines, but with style? Or: layers, an infographic, …?
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A wild read with many interesting graphs. The lack of social theory is part of the argument, but it really shows. #degrowth efficiency is a catalyst for technological sprawl [everywhere] economicsfromthetopdown.com/2024/05/1…
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#Saigon vibes. #streetphotography I’ve been to a lovely #sts conference in #HCMC (more on this elsewhere). The south of #vietnam is a somewhat different place. The first random chat in town was about business (am I with Intel, em??), hitting one stereotype right on the head. But there’s more.