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Rioting Pacifist
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It’s hard to tell, because companies that make their money from ad revenue also spend a lot making their apps more addictive in order to sell you more ads.
You can tell that they are making less than whatever their premium costs though, so for example YouTube makes less than $8/month selling ads.
If people aren’t trying to sell you shit, and don’t have to make their website more addictive it’s relatively cheap to run, for example Wikipedia that has a pretty dynamic read/write load, get 11 billion unique devices a year on just the English site https://pageviews.wmcloud.org/siteviews/?platform=all-sites&source=unique-devices&start=2025-04&end=2026-03&sites=en.wikipedia.org which is about half of the page views: https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2026/01/13/wikipedia-at-25-what-the-data-tells-us/ but spends ~$180m/year across all languages, so it costs about 1c a year/unique device if I’m doing my math right.
Obviously some service like YouTube will cost more because it uses more bandwidth and Gmail will cost more because each user is served individual emails and spam filtering has always been CPU intensive, but the hardware costs are fairly minimal anyway (most of the cost is on staff), so if it wasn’t for the ads Google would have less staff and hosting their services would be much cheaper, maybe not 1c/year but almost certainly less than $1
Obviously Lemmy instances are currently much smaller than reddit, but I’d bet by unique user count Lemmy instances are likely running far more effectively than reddit and likely in the sub dollar category.
On the flip side if you want to make something a subscription only service you need to spend a bunch of money processing payments and subscriptions, probably more than the actual hosting costs.
That doesn’t work in reality, as evidenced here, it’s far more likely people compromise their security for convenience than the other way around.
Also sometimes opsec requires in get messages from certain chats quickly. Knowing where ICE are in a timely manner is important.
I reckon the Pope could kick Vance’s ass TBh
It would be nice if Signal let you do this per conversation.
It’s sort of a victim of its own success, I use it for both things that do and don’t require opsec
The UK has every right to deny Ye entry, the issue is that the law is so vague that it’s implemention is up to the home office and largely used to pander to the (foreign/non-dom owned) press, the UK has effective abdicated control of its borders to the media.
Ironically this also weakens democracy in favor of an all powerful executive.
He is literally a Nazi
Is he?
Does he organize nationalists or promote white supremacy or does he just say stupid shit?
Because if it’s the latter this will be weaponized against anyone left of center far more effective than this.
Wether it’s Ye or Kneecap, having visa laws/the right to perform applied to individuals on a whim to pander to the media, is bad and reduces the rights of everyone.
Ironically this weakens democracy in favor of an all powerful executive.
There’s no queer police coming to dictate who isn’t valid.
Fuck/don’t fuck whoever you want, you’ll always be valid.
#NoQueerCopsAtPride
it is better than not building the home.
Is it?
San Diego like most cities has more empty homes (75k) than unhoused people (9k), the problem is not a lack of housing units but that the ones that exist are kept empty because it’s more profitable to speculate on house prices than to risk renting it out and then not being able to sell it for the most potential profit later.
In that context, I don’t think painting your garage white and renting it out is necessarily a good thing as it will drive house prices even higher.
ADU’s are also a solution brought up by planners to address increasing housing supply in a built suburban environment.
I said proper planning, upzoning and letting the market decide what gets built (including ADUs) is what got us into this mess, it won’t get us out of it.
This makes so much sense:
- Centralized maintenance compared to individual rooftop solar
- Peak generation during buisness hours is actually a huge bonus instead of a drawback
we’re talking about a single homeowner trying to build more housing for people to live in
Dude is painting his garage white and going to charge $2k/mnt for it.
Sorry but the myth of smol landlord good, needs to die, too often they hide behind being a small bean that can’t afford to maintain their property while tenants suffer from health conditions as a result of their illegal renovations or failure to fix issues in a timely manner.
The YIMBY propoganda that they selflessly providing housing needs to die too. I’m not fan of HOA’s but if you can convert a condo into a 3-bed, generating an extra 24k/year, that’s going to increase house prices not decrease them.
The only way to solve the housing crisis is through proper planning and the state putting resources towards building affordable homes, the shortage wasn’t created by HOAs & NIMBYS either, it was created by neoliberalism that destroyed the capacity of the state to build affordable homes, that’s why it’s a global problem and YIMBYs refuse to acknowledge that and also can never point to the specific laws that cause the issue (for example CEQA does delay planning in California, but it doesn’t explain the same exact slowdown in development in the rest of America/the west)
- It came from a corporation so was designed by 1 guy not a committee and some people will never forgive it for that.
- The systemd suite is far more than an init system and keeps getting bigger, I genuinely think it’s just a matter of time until it has a mail retrieval service built into it.
- It offers clear benefits so even distros resisitent to depending on a tool when there are alternatives have adopted it
- It doesn’t pander to slacktivist on stuff like including an optional DoB field
That’s about it, I find it kind of annoying sometimes as it messes with stuff I knew how to do (harden per-user-tmp partitions), but overall the benefits to distro maintenance must be worth it so I don’t worry about it too much.
Much like the DoB stuff I find the pushback to it far more annoying than the actual inconvenience of sometimes not being able to configure a tweak how I’d like.
Maybe he should have checked it was legal conversion before doing it, he’d sat on the HOA board before.
Also fuck landlords, far more harmful to the housing market than HOAs
Landlord YIMBYS offering false solutions that will inflate house prices (& rents) further vs HOA NIMBYS, I hope there is a way for them both to lose.
That would be a mechanism for doing it, I’m just pointing out that, according to most economic theories (which I think are wrong) money requires Treasury notes to exist, otherwise you’re printing money which most economists claim will cause inflation.
The chicken (Gallus gallus domesticus) is a domesticated form of the red junglefowl (Gallus gallus), originally native to Southeast Asia. It was first domesticated around 8,000 years ago and is one of the most common and widespread domesticated animals in the world. Chickens are primarily kept for their meat and eggs, though they are also kept as pets.[1]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicken
The red junglefowl (Gallus gallus), also known as the Indian red junglefowl (and formerly the bankiva or bankiva-fowl), is a species of tropical, galliform bird in the phasianid family, found across much of Southeast and parts of South Asia.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_junglefowl
A species (pl. species) is the basic unit of classification and a taxonomic rank of an organism, as well as a unit of biodiversity. It can be defined as the largest group of organisms in which any two individuals of the appropriate sexes or mating types can produce fertile offspring, typically by sexual reproduction.
Maybe it’s not slop, but this can lead to lazy developers that don’t grok the code they write.
Linus was right to be sceptical about unit tests in the kernel, writing to test without understanding the problem is common in my paid job. The AI enabled equivalent of writing code without truly understanding it, is going to be much worse and is a separate issue to the pure slop AI generates at the moment.
AI is also likely to write bugs faster than they are reported.
Maybe the rust code would help in this.
Why? Are these bugs in modules that are memory management related?
Having moved to the US recently and encountering the insane distances people drive here.
I do wonder why (other than the downwards mobility of a decayed empire) everyone in the UK isn’t using EVs, unless you’re doing donuts on a roundabout on your way beat up staff over a ham sandwich, an EV can get you from Birmingham to anywhere south of Glasgow on a single charge.