Notices by Nemo_bis 🌈 (nemobis@mamot.fr), page 2

@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

@tml The uber-mythical night train to Lecce! Nice that it runs once again (it used to be an Espresso). Here's the soundtrack appropriate for the trip: Giovanna Marini, "I treni per Reggio Calabria" (different side, same story).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jeVmCIkrz2Y

@douginamug Oh no, new rabbit hole. :) You say "lend" but I see no mention of a legal structure here, how does it work? I guess I'll ask them. Thanks for sharing!

@hexa Is "fair to a fault" an euphemism for "engages in extreme bothsideism for sport"?

@edsu Putin called it last month! "Sanctions fuel tech jump" https://tass.com/economy/1885325

@davidgerard "It was the worst trading day in five years": I wish, but they reduced losses by closing time (S&P closed at minus 100 points vs. 200 earlier in the day).

If we talk about biggest point losses, both the S&P 500 and Nasdaq had worse days on 2024-07-24, 2024-12-18; also several days of 2022 for S&P 500.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_largest_daily_changes_in_the_S%26P_500_Index#Largest_closing_point_changes

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_largest_daily_changes_in_the_Nasdaq_Composite#Largest_point_changes

Niente male, compagno Wenfeng. Puoi fare di meglio! Credici!

#DeepSeek

@tutam That's interesting, thanks! Does it ever get pre-installed on anyone's devices and if so which?

@tutam @hw @anulahtinen I created https://oad.simmons.edu/oadwiki/Free_and_open_source_educational_operating_systems to remind myself about #CubbliLinux but the link is now broken, what's the best one these days?

@torrentfreak Nice. Do 558,466 PDF files next. 😇

#OAintheUSA #copyright

@maxdid Non è molto ma almeno c'è @www.internazionale.it

@anulahtinen Let me know if you need help getting started with GNU+Linux!