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Eh, MP count means very very little in this modern world of computational smartphone photography. My Nokia XR21 (2024) was $400 brand new and has a 50MP sensor but it's photos are comparable to a 12mp pixel 4 (2019). Processing and optics are everything.

Will probably be a great phone regardless

After almost half a century, I'm still doing it... in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 25 points 1 week ago

Every network engineer must lock themselves out of a node at some point, it is a rite of passage.

The sense of loss from the fediverse hits hard sometimes in c/[email protected]

Online algorithms could help save the planet with just a few small tweaks. in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (1 children)

Yea they COULD, but they won't. All these big tech companies profit massively off destroying the environment. The same data centers that use huge amounts of water and electricity that would serve these climate videos are what made them rich.

I'm not convinced just pushing a topic most people willfully ignore would work. People will just scroll past the boring climate change videos that make them feel bad about existening to click on meme compilations.

Also, I hate that we still push the "individuals can fix the climate" narrative. Corporate pollution is the major issue, the 17 biggest ships in the world produce more pollution than the global car fleet. We need regulation not algo tweaks. Big tech isn't going to push videos that might educate people to that fact, so even the videos we would get in a project like this would contain misinformation.

Meta says this is the make or break year for the metaverse in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 12 points 3 weeks ago

It's so obviously break and not make but I will happily watch them spend their money

A hypothetical sci-fi (or fantasy) scenario question: If a civilization couldn't set up its own internet, or if a curse was placed on it, what would be the best replacement for what it does? in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

Cuba might be a good place to look for a real world example of this. They had the concepts of "SNET" and "el paquete semanal" that were solutions to poor internet penetration, expensive internet costs (pay per MB), and heavy restrictions on that internet.

El paquete semanal is a weekly payload of the latest movies, TV episodes, manga, comics, etc. that gets brought into the country and spread by sneakernet.

SNET is widespread guerilla LAN networking to the point where Cuba had a well populated private WoW server. Also solved some of the Internet cost issues because you could game and share content locally without paying for every little MB.

As of 2020, SNET is now "illegal" and those existing networks are being absorbed into their ISP.