[-] lemmyreader@lemmy.ml 23 points 4 months ago

Is OpenSESAME taken already ?

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Tom Mohan

May. 6, 2024 10:10 am

Thanks to Erin Jordan for her informative and alarming April 28 article, “Google data center would be among Cedar Rapids’ largest water and energy user.“ So now Google wants to take our water?

I believe like many Iowans, that clean water is a human right. It must be available and affordable for all. And it ought to be used wisely, sustainably and for the benefit of all.

Google is one of the largest and most profitable multinational corporations in the world. It wants to draw perhaps up to a million gallons of water daily from our city water supply to cool their behemoth complex. I say perhaps because we don’t really know because they haven’t made public their plans. And they want to do this during a historic drought. A drought over three and a half years old which the Department of Natural Resources has labeled the longest in Iowa since the 1950s.

As Jordan points out, how will this affect residential water rates? How will it deplete our city and statewide water resources? For me, it also comes down to whose interest is being served here. Are our increasingly precious water resources being used for the public good or for private, corporate gain? This sure seems reckless and irresponsible to me. Will their Silicon Valley dreams evaporate into Death Valley days for all of us soon? Surely, our decision-makers can do better than this!

Tom Mohan

Cedar Rapids

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https://forum.garudalinux.org/t/garuda-linux-bird-of-prey-240428/36387 - Garuda Linux “Bird of Prey” (240428) released.

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cross-posted from: https://slrpnk.net/post/9289381

Very interesting and understandable explanations of low level architecture and filesystems, namespaces, userspace, kernel functions, drivers etc.

Highly recommend!

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https://chaos.social/@ktemkin/112392108881500298

~https://chaos.social/@ktemkin/112392108893774195~

This isn’t just a fork of Nix—this is the work of a team of 10+ people near-constantly since early February. (Technically, us too — but our task is really just enabling others.)

Some serious work has gone into ensuring it improves on upstream without having the regressions that have plagued them last three major versions!

And, since this will matter to some — it’s not a project of the NixOS foundation, but an independent organization that takes its responsibility to its community seriously.

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[-] lemmyreader@lemmy.ml 23 points 6 months ago

Yeah, I like to read Hacker news from time to time. Since reading this article I will surely remember that friendship.

[-] lemmyreader@lemmy.ml 25 points 7 months ago

Could not have said it better.

[-] lemmyreader@lemmy.ml 23 points 7 months ago

And what would you do on that other planet without Internet and stuck with Microsoft Windows and no way to activate your OEM license ? At least Linux has nice manual pages to read in the main time off-line 😄

[-] lemmyreader@lemmy.ml 23 points 7 months ago

In addition to the ban on sharing data with third parties for advertising, the proposed order with Monument, which must be approved by a federal court before it can go into effect, also prohibits the company from misrepresenting its data collection and disclosure practices and imposes a $2.5 million civil penalty for violating OARFPA, which will be suspended due to the company’s inability to pay.

They didn't make enough money with this data selling to pay this fine ? Right.

[-] lemmyreader@lemmy.ml 23 points 7 months ago

When I first heard of Beeper I thought it was interesting. But reading later that they were buying really old iPhones to jail break them for bridging with iMessage I had some doubts. Now they're bought by the Wordpress people, who also bought Tumblr, and apparently selling user data to AI.. And from what I've read about bridges there is no E2EE with Matrix (what Beeper seems to use) to Signal bridge.

[-] lemmyreader@lemmy.ml 23 points 7 months ago

The Arch Linux wiki has been the best source for information for a long time for me. Many years ago the Gentoo wiki was good as well, till they lost all content and had to start from scratch.

[-] lemmyreader@lemmy.ml 23 points 7 months ago

Reminds me of the days that cdroms were brand new and advertised like indestructible, with photos of elephants walking over it. Having said that I assume SSD disks can break like other hard disks can break, and in that case RAID can save a lot of time to get a computer back up especially when a lot of data is involved.

[-] lemmyreader@lemmy.ml 24 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Good point, except that this, paying for services and still not getting any privacy, is a reality. But maybe your remark was ironic :)

[-] lemmyreader@lemmy.ml 22 points 9 months ago

https://akko.erincandescent.net/notice/AeoVF2zhNHj6LrNXto

  • Yes, we were aware of the possibility of suspension from the start

  • Yes, we were aware that political circumstances could change

  • But thumbing your nose at conservative autocrats as an even minor form of protest is fun

  • In the end pretty much everyone has migrated out successfully (and I’ll continue to help anyone who remains)

  • We’ve all gotten a fun story out of this

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