Ads are a core component of how search makes money. They’re also a core component of how YouTube makes money.

Satellites have some degree of mobility and space junk follows trajectories that can be computed basically infinitely into the future.

Space junk is highly deterministic, though. No atmosphere to fuck with.

It absolutely is, even if your particular instance hasn’t been. Lemmy.world probably takes the brunt of it.

Does that claim remove the existence of conflict of interest?

State funding describes a conflict of interest, whether perceived or actual.

Musk wasn’t wrong in applying the state media tag to NPR/BBC/CBC. At the end of the day, they are funded by the state.

Thanks, China.

The entire point of E2EE is that it doesn’t matter who the host is.

Most people from hexbear provide sources, which is better than can be said for all the tankie hate.

Quite. All American networking equipment is being used to spy on people, so clearly all Chinese networking equipment must be, too. Evidence? Unnecessary.

There are an immense number of ways to dissipate excess power by shifting the cost/benefit curve.

One recent work looked at repurposing aging electronics when the energy cost curve allows it: https://arxiv.org/abs/2110.06870

Fiberglass is a bitch and it’s used in far greater quantities.

Have you ever wondered why people are so eager to accept the premise that China is doing everything to spy on foreign nationals?

Considering that those claims are almost all getting started by American agencies, and given the details of the Snowden leaks… America is projecting.

Do you understand how fucking convoluted and bureaucratically insane the US H1B visa system is?

On the other hand, what if the problem is simply one that’s no longer important for most people? Isn’t technological advancement supposed to introduce abstraction that people can develop on?

Google should be finding searches with “lemmy” keyword, but it isn’t at the moment.

Lemmy needs some SEO people.

75 to 1000 tons of CO2?

That’s, what, 5-62 years of an average American lifestyle?

Honestly, that’s not so bad lol