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Cake day: June 2nd, 2023

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  • An issue with the torrent scheme is efficiency. Networks of home computers will suck down considerably more power from (potentially) less than ideal energy sources than dedicated servers in well-planned locations (i.e. near reliable renewable energy sources, with backup generators). I don’t see a way to have this without involving large institutions, whether private or public.

    Regarding media creation, there’s a middle ground between direct payment and government-sponsored: Universal Basic Income, or a related scheme of generic grants for art/education producers. Ensuring people don’t starve or become homeless as they start projects or grow large enough to be sustained by direct payments from an audience could foster this sort of growth.





  • The Wasp Factory by Iain Banks. The narrator and main character is a psychotic teenager, and being inside their head just feels so gross. Fantastic book, but genuinely disturbing.

    In close second is Earthlings by Sayaka Murata. The main character goes through some stuff as a child, and comes to believe that she isn’t human. Meets some others like herself and it gets weird. Great book, not for the faint of heart!





  • You’re completely right, clickbait is pointless in a space dedicated to the channel in question (and just sucks in general!). As far as LTT goes, the wood one wasn’t too bad so I didn’t think to change the suggested title.

    They’re way better about titles on Floatplane (for, presumably, the same reason you outlined). “WATCH OUT Power Supply Makers! – LTT Labs Update” becomes “Labs Update - Power Supply Tester, Markbench, Metal 3D Printing”, for example.

    I only sub occasionally because I block ads on YouTube, and like to throw something in the pot time and again. I get the aversion to plastic, shame they don’t take anything else.









  • I like the idea of instances, but would like to see the development of more “themed” servers. So maybe one instance is a cluster of related topics (science, arts, LGBT, whatever), or one that caters to a specific country/local area, or particular users (IT professionals, students, mechanics, librarians, etc).

    Currently everything seems a bit slapdash, with larger instances each having a bit of everything. It will be interesting to watch the cultures here develop.



  • I want to be the person who reads attentively, underlining things and scrawling notes in the margins, then going back to reread years later, or share books with others who do the same. But I always get too caught up in the story, or just cant bring myself to do it when I do remember. It also slows down my pace of reading quite a lot, and I’m not that fast to begin with.

    It doesn’t help that, as a librarian, the people who write in library books are the worst!




  • Most of my collection is CDs ripped to FLAC. It can be slow going, but I enjoy hunting around charity shops/thrift stores for new albums. You can also check out the Discogs marketplace. I’ve bought some things digitally from active bands on Bandcamp, and some I knew I’d never find from sites like 7digital and HDTracks.