Notices by Timo Tiuraniemi (ttiurani@fosstodon.org)

@aral Hmm, doesn't seem to be open source? Their github at least looks outdated and can't find a link anywhere else either on their site.

@aral We're going to hear capitalism is the "worst economic system, except for all the others" from the people on the winning side of global exploitation and destruction until there are are no more people to exploit and nature to destroy.

That is, unless we get them to admit they actually know of only a couple of alternatives and that there is no limit to the different ways we could structure our economy if we just used our imagination.

@tio @aral

I probably misunderstood, but replied to this:

"no one can live on this planet without trading.... you can't be a good human being, do good thing, and survive."

which I understand to argue that no one on the planet can be a good human being and survive at the same time?

There are both (indigenous) people living directly off the land, and people within societies consuming very little, but still enough to not only survive but also have a good life.

So "no one" is not true.

@tio @aral

I don't believe this is true.

We are heterotrophs and need to consume other life to survive. However, that doesn't mean we must consume more than what nature can regenerate. There are hundreds of millions of people living in harmony with nature, doing good things, right now.

In fact, we can also feed 10 billion people sustainably:

https://www.unep.org/news-and-stories/story/how-feed-10-billion-people

The problem ofc is that our societies, especially in the Global North, actively prevent this.

Let's change them.

Tell me again that the only ecological problem we need to focus on is too much greenhouse gases.

Explain to me how nuclear energy is The Solution.

Convince me that rich countries can keep consuming exponentially more every year, if we just make sure that consumption is "green".

Give me your optimistic take on how electrification, digitalization, fusion energy and/or "AI" will both prevent #EarthBreakdown and save capitalism.

I dare you.

https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.adh2458

@gwensnyder

To those hopeful that #BlueSky is the answer, Jack Dorsey in full agreement with Musk's plan to remove blocking is crucial to know.

Jumping from one billionaire's playground to another is not the way – especially when the two billionaires are good chums.

@hrefna @maegul @aral

Fosstodon is *way* too big. Looking into the future, fediverse ought not optimise for that scale.

No JVM GC, including G1, works without a noticeable memory overhead. That directly contributes to the total memory requirements of the server, and it does make a difference that it's by default higher than needed. As you said, there are a bunch of other things on that server as well that use memory.

@hrefna @maegul @aral

Yes, I'm also interested in the actual numbers and operational complexity.

Personally, for the reasons outlined above, I'd be very surprised that the result will be anywhere close to an optimally resource-efficient and cost-efficient solution to host a server for a small group.

Better than Rails, definitely.

So good that the pros outweigh the cons of making an Big Tech scalable Mastodon server? I'm doubtful.

@hrefna @maegul @aral

There's a difference between resource efficiency wrt scaling up vs a constant (small) scale.

What the fediverse could use (as you highlighted) is a resource-efficient server for small-to-medium scale, think max a few hundred users. While the official Rails app has problem, what Red Planet Labs has built is a JVM server that runs Clojure. That by design comes with a large memory footprint, which is not resource efficient if you don't have enough use for it.

@hrefna @maegul @aral

Again, the official Rails app isn't good, but I'd be very surprised if this is operationally anywhere close to optimal for the small-to-medium scale. If you build for Twitter-scale, you will make decisions that will almost certainly hurt small scale.

And Clojure relies *heavily* on the GC. Using it is not a good way to build low memory JVM servers.

@aral @73ms Indeed, I still get Aral's toots fine.

But still, really want to know what happened here with the silencing. @kev ?

Creating proprietary software to enclose most of the digital knowledge commons of the internet in order to reap more profits to trillion dollar corporations, is not how you end suffering in the world.

That really shouldn't need to be said out loud.

Lex Fridman* proclaims that #AGI is exciting because it will "empower humans to flourish, escape poverty and suffering and to succeed in the pursuit of happiness".

I find these kinds of statements to be extremely baffling. Do they actually think it's not enough intellect that is the reason poverty and suffering is maintained in the world? All we need is better reasoning? Don't they know there are already mountains of rational arguments?

* I know, I shouldn't give him the time of day.

This a very important and powerful manifesto from peoples of the Global South demanding a just #ecosocial energy transition.

Especially recommend reading to those of us living in the Global North who are constantly bombarded by technology-driven "clean energy transitions" that are touted as "win-win".

#ClimateJustice #degrowth #DebtForClimate

https://fpif.org/manifesto-for-an-ecosocial-energy-transition-from-the-peoples-of-the-south/

"If global energy use is reduced enough to ensure climate safety, but the extent of energy inequality remains as it is today, more than 4 billion people will not have access to decent living energy."

#ClimateJustice

https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lanplh/article/PIIS2542-5196(23)00004-9/fulltext

The fight against the climate and ecological breakdown and the fight to reduce inequality are two sides of the same coin.

Every climate policy that ignores #inequality needs to be challenged to break free of #EcoFascism.