ethereum moved to proof of stake sometime back. BTC and I think a few other (very) minor cryptos still use proof of work which is where the significant power usage goes. Not something I track but I believe the vast majority of non-BTC cyptos are proof of stake or something not proof of work anyway and BTC is the only one that uses proof of work and is used at all. That might not exactly be technically correct but it is in the practical realm.
Took me a moment to realize what exodus this was referring to which I guess answers the question. I deleted my fairly old account during the AMA at the beginning and I do not miss it. From time to time I have been back for those specific things that have developed communities that do not really exist on kbin but I’ll never post there again and I probably visit the R site maybe twice a month.
While kbin doesn’t have everything that I hope that it would, so far I find it good and I visit daily.
So these days my only social media, if you call kbin that, are kbin and Mastodon. X, FB, insta, whatever corporate BS are all 0% usage for me now. Very occasionally I view tildes but I don’t even have an account there.
I am not sure the people who were in that hospital care that much. Both Israel and Hamas share blame in this situation no matter who’s rocket it was.
My Intel Arc 750 works quite well at 1080 and is perfectly sufficient for me. If people need hyper refresh rates and resolution and all all the bells well then have fun paying for it. But if you need functional, competent gaming, at US$200 Arc is nice.
Um, sure Vlad, that makes sense.
Safer than negotiating a ceasefire as a theory, maybe. Safer than negotiating a ceasefire with the RF? No.
Wait what, a tank in a warzone got blown up? Who could have predicted something like this could have happened? Totally unexpected and I am sure no one thought this was possible before sending it in. It’s almost like there is a cost to war.
Or sticks depending on how it goes.
I don’t think anyone considers them not to be incredibly dangerous. But in terms of logistics, organization, strategy, and leadership they have proven to be nothing like they were imagined.
I am no expert but my understanding is that plain old artillery is the main tool being used in this conflict, and that’s like how long have people been shooting cannons at one another? If you have 20x as much artillery as your more competent opponent you’re still very dangerous.
I wish Ukraine the best vs the invaders and I think they will prevail, but there is no doubt the cost will be high.
Overall I think it is not a good idea to criticize people who were on the mountain for what they may or may not have done. It isn’t a normal environment and people are often not fully in their right minds. Decision-making is often poor or confused and people can be certain of things that are not correct. I don’t believe the history of rescue attempts on K2, especially from dangerous areas is good and has led to even bigger disasters.
Now if an expedition company did in fact know he was inexperienced and sent him to the upper section of one of the world’s most dangerous mountains improperly equipped. Anyone involved in that decision should face consequences. Experienced and well-equipped people up on K2 are already taking a huge risk so sending anyone who doesn’t meet that standard is negligent to an extreme.
And further as the article suggests there needs to be a foundation or insurance policy of some sort that will support the family of someone like this.
K2 is an incredibly dangerous mountain. The possibility of a rescue attempt would depend on many factors that we have no way to know. In these sorts of situations even other climbers nearby might have a complete different opinion. In many cases like this people are often not thinking correctly believing they saw something that wasn’t even there or just completely misperceived due to attitude or exhaustion or illness.
I work with a small nonprofit that years ago was donated Photoshop. Over the years as upgrades happened, the org received new donations in one way or another to keep it current enough that it was still helpful. Even with a legit corporate donation of the software the license for it was a pain to deal with. At one point when it needed to be reinstalled it was no longer possible and I told the org to just forget about it. Last time I talked with Adobe to try to get it working, which they refused to do, I ended up telling them I would never use an Adobe product willingly again. I personally learned Gimp at that point and while I only use it from time to time it does the job and as you say, it is always there, always works, has plenty of online help and does anything that I need it to do.
Just like beingoff corporate social media, I try to use FOSS as much as is reasonable because while it may have rougher edges at times, it can actually be more reliable. I manage some servers as part of my job and over the years the licensed stuff, Windows server, Exchange, VMWare at some point will bite you back with a dead end or major costs where as Debian…
Maybe in some cases for some things but overall I would say no In my experience. I’ve been to India 5+ times and spent a lot of time with locals. The healthcare situation for many in general is really bad. As my friend said to me, “If we get something serious there is no hospital for us, it’s direct to graveyard.” They get sick, they suffer, they are not superhuman immune-wise at all. The better I got to know one particular group the more I discovered that most if not all of them had an untreated medical situation that they just lived with “I have some problems in my body.” This was 10 and longer years ago so perhaps things are a bit better for some in some areas now.
Crawl issues I am sure but also user experience issues. Google is sensitive to sending visitors to sites where metrics indicate users do not, like bounce rates etc. I don’t use twt but if it is the case you have the be logged in to see anything now, a non-logged in user will click a link from Google hit a login page, and use the back button. I would assume Google will see that as a bad search result and use it less.
Surprise Rs have no principles.
Fear and an unwillingness to try new things.
For example, some of the complaints that people had about Mastodon early on were just odd to me. They made such a big deal out of “you have to pick a server, no one understands that” or nitpicking UI interfaces between Mastodon and twt. They didn’t have logical arguments IMHO it was them just not being happy about change and not being honest about that.
Deleted my account during the AMA. Reddit is dead to me.
A reasonable and modest platform cost is what’s in order not a SV unicorn IPO.
Oh, look another article on how Reddit is fine. Must be fine, everyone stop protesting, it doesn’t work. /s
Reddit is unprofitable with massive new expenses, no realistic plan on making a profit, apparently trying to pump for an upcoming IPO, being run by a CEO who seems fine to disrespect its lifeblood, the community, and thinks it’s a good idea to emulate Elmo… what could go wrong?
Like these sorts of things with large momentum, they don’t stop overnight but who can say the Reddit ship is on a good trajectory?
I assume that most of the few of these that actually get made, will end up being parked on rich people’s lawns as some sort of weird post-modern art meme sculpture or whatever.