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My hero today is a Copenhagen protester protesting the US invasion of Greenland with this sign:

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  • @andre_ourednik @terminaltilt You're likely significantly overestimating the difference, and it may not even be a positive one. Servers in datacenters get rotated out and disposed of on a fixed schedule, typically, long before they actually stop working - whereas consumer hardware often gets handed down until it literally breaks.

    Not to mention all the technical and resource overhead of remote anything. That network hardware and corresponding power use isn't free to the environment either.

    If you're looking for a way to materially reduce the environmental footprint of computing, I would suggest that "the advertising industry" is probably the first place to look instead. They're responsible for a vast, vast chunk of energy and resource usage in computing and networking, while providing marginal to no value to society - it's a purely extractive industry.

    Even ignoring the web, look up the power consumption of a single one of those video ad units they put on train stations and in shopping centers, and you'll probably be reeling from just how environmentally wasteful all this stuff is - and consumer hardware will suddenly look like a drop in the bucket. As a teaser: virtually all of those advertising screens have audible active cooling despite sound insulation attempts.

    So... no, there's really no environmental point in a rental model. Insofar it makes any positive difference at all, that sure isn't the intention behind it, and all it does is further support an extractive culture that destroys the environment with no consideration for anything but its own profits. You don't even get to choose whether the hardware is turned on anymore. That is not an environmental win.

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  • @terminaltilt Him and all the other billionaires and tech bros can go fuck a cactus. 🌵 They can kiss it and call it Ramona if they want. Billionaires should not exist. They’re the cancer of our societies.

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  • @BobbiArbore mia madre ha mostrato i primi sintomi della DFT dopo nemmeno un anno che era in pensione, a 63 anni. Il declino è stato improvviso, rapido, e poi devastante, progressivo ed irreversibile, fino a che se n'è andata a 76 anni, dopo oltre 8 anni in cui è stata completamente non autosufficiente e con la mente spenta del tutto.
    Dopo 20 giorni è morta anche una delle mie migliori amiche, portata via in meno di 9 mesi, a 49 anni, da una leucemia fulminante.
    La vita è qui, ora e adesso.

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  • @max il referendum è stato richiesto dai parlamentari (con ben 4 richieste valide) ma è importante la raccolta di firme, sia per massimizzare il coinvolgimento dei cittadini, sia per aumentare l'eco mediatica su un referendum di cui la stampa parla poco e sempre a favore del governo

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  • @stefano as long as it is not only about work, it's fine.

    enjoy your extra time

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  • Nel 2025 gli ingressi irregolari nell’UE sono diminuiti del 26 per cento. Ma non dal Mediterraneo
    @news
    https://www.eunews.it/2026/01/15/nel-2025-gli-ingressi-irregolari-nellue-sono-diminuiti-del-26-per-cento-ma-non-dal-mediterraneo/
    Frontex ha registrato 178 mila attraversamenti delle frontiere esterne UE, di cui più di un terzo sulla rotta che punta le coste italiane. Almeno 1.878 persone hanno perso la vita nel Mediterraneo nel 2025

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  • @ezeno I haven't tried it yet.

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  • I think I speak for all Evans in saying that I hate the name of this podcast.

    https://shows.acast.com/shut-up-evan

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