Notices by Nemo_bis 🌈 (nemobis@mamot.fr)

@libreleah Widely used for workstations with desktop environments?

@libreleah Sure. There would be a tender and they'd get offers from other companies like openSUSE, Debian consultancies etc. Fedora is just used for a proof of concept because it was easier that way for the lone volunteer doing it.

@libreleah AFAICT, "EU OS" is a volunteer-run initiative proposing the EU to do something. If the European Commission ever decided to start it and roll it out widely, it would presumably be outsourced to Red Hat or whatever.

@dajb https://codeberg.org/fediverse/fediparty/wiki/Collectively-owned-instances

@libreleah Well,,, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abu_Omar_case

Are retaliatory #EU #tariffs on digital services possible? Do you just have to call them by another name?

Reading up on GATS.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_Agreement_on_Trade_in_Services

«Estimates for ad valorem tariff equivalents of services trade restrictions for cross-border trade [...] ranging as high as 2000% when trade flows are relatively inelastic, as opposed to between 20% and 300% in most other sectors.»

https://www.oecd.org/content/dam/oecd/en/publications/reports/2017/04/services-trade-costs_3781532c/dc607ce6-en.pdf

"GATS the way"

https://esil-sedi.eu/esil-reflection-gats-the-way-i-like-it-wto-law-review-of-eu-legality-and-fundamental-rights/

Looks like tariffs on services are possible and are being considered, together with a bunch of other options.
https://www.politico.eu/article/eu-tariffs-counter-strike-big-tech-us-banks-donald-trump/

Big Tech oligopolies are largely parasitical. If you slapped a 100 % tariff on them, replacing them would be painful but possibly not all that inflationary. (Compared to, say, rebuilding a car manufacturing supply chain from scratch.) A 30 % price increase for Office365 was apparently enough to make millions to switch to LibreOffice! Try 300 % and see.

@lxo Fair enough. I treat captchas like an addictive drug: I follow #HarmReduction principles.

@lxo Truly privacy-respecting #micropayments could open many possibilities, yes. The #digitalEuro plans are interesting too, in this regard.
https://mamot.fr/@nemobis/111951626495391352

@lxo Captchas are always waste (compared to the user's task at hand). The question is whether this kind of captcha is more wasteful than the unfortunately more common ones. (The hypothetical benefits produced for datasets of proprietary captcha-makers are not verifiable and would only accrue to shareholders; they need not be counted.)

@lxo It's not like currency, precisely because it can't be accumulated. Timeless accumulation is the problem with currency; without it, a number of problems vanish.

Anyway, we've still not established that any significant waste exists. That's not a philosophical question but something that a power meter can determine.

@lxo "playing the video is supposed to be useful to the user, whereas the proof of work [...]"

I don't really see the qualitative difference here. When I play the video or audio there are parts of the decoding that are redundant for me, for example the video may be too high resolution or contain a padding intro/outro I'm not interested in or audio frequencies I can't here.

"there has to be a better way"

Maybe. I don't run an Invidious instance so I don't know. On wikis, QueryCaptcha works.

@lxo It is sad, but we have had captchas forever. The skills to solve captchas are unevenly distributed. A PoW captcha only asks you to spend some electricity, which is a commodity more evenly distributed (among those who already have a browser and are using it for compute-intensive purposes like video). I have not measured how much additional electricity is consumed by visiting this sort of captcha, but I expect it is negligible compare to the playing of the video.

@lxo Yes it's unfortunate, but I mostly use it to share links. Does mpv/yt-dlp <URL> work for you?

Is there a way to make mCaptcha work with LibreJS?

@fijxu Thank you so much for using a proof-of-work #captcha https://nadeko.net/announcements/invidious-and-the-bot-problem/ instead of centralised proprietary mass #surveillance aka Google/CloudFlare!

You're a hero.

#Invidious #Anubis

@Amgine How long do the USA last without Canadian oil?
https://www.eia.gov/todayinenergy/detail.php?id=62664
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strategic_Petroleum_Reserve_(United_States)

@jonny Let's solve the problem of the centralised expensive database by moving it to an even more expensive database!

#FediMeta

Always a good sign when I'm laying down 20 m ethernet cables at home in order to mirror more stuff from the internet. (Not.)

@edsu Here you go.

The real reason is that impulse buying this little cutie of a #Libreboot 9020 SFF forces me to find some use for it.

@edsu *Maybe* it qualifies as old hardware reuse because the product line was being retired and it could have gone to trash, but not sure. I just had to finally buy something from @libreleah after recommending their services to all my friends for years. :P