Notices by Sieva 🚴🚇🏙️🌹 (anibyl@social.coop)

Huh, there's a bike museum in Maple Eidge 👀

https://www.freshetnews.ca/former-new-westminster-bike-shop-owner-opens-his-own-bike-museum-2/

#BikeTooter #MapleRidge #BikeYVR

@evan This is whataboutism, Evan. Of course AI is not the biggest source of our emissions, but its contribution is significant. Like, it's close to a whole %? In the context of it 1) not being essential and 2) bringing other substantial negative side effects I don't understand how it's possible to say “nah it's ok”.

@evan Data doesn't support your belief.

“global electricity consumption for data centres is projected to double ... by 2030 ... representing just under 3% of total global electricity consumption”
“mainly driven by AI adoption”
https://www.iea.org/reports/energy-and-ai/energy-demand-from-ai

I'm sure you can find more online. Or even ask you agent of preference 🙄 Your example simply ignores the big picture, and narrows down the problem to someone's personal choice.

@carkner @evan Would you even define such a thing as “Canadian history” in this framework?

@evan Mainly? Otherwise, what's the point of it being Canadian?

If you take a course on quantum mechanics, classical mechanics won't be an important part of it — but it'd be referenced and compared to.

You can't just pile everything together — sometimes it's important to focus.

@evan I don't think that major events in other countries that that contributed to immigration are important parts of Canadian history. Like Russian Revolution isn't. It's important to understand the causes on the global scale, but it's not really a part of what happened here.

@evan I'm not sure how the two are related.

We should get ready for another right-wing mayor in Vancouver: OneCity, COPE and Greens will have their own candidates, and now Kennedy Stewart is considering running too. 2022 all over again. 😒

#VanPoli

@evan I am not an American, and had to look it up. The red rose is a common socialist symbol.

@evan Yes. Being able to vote for nominees and candidates in leadership races is pretty powerful, even if you don't do anything else.

@lanodan @elilla Mozilla was hiring people for this team in spring 2024, if not earlier.

That's how you know people are serious about coffee:

#cycling #coffee

You don't see BitTorrent and direct download options next to Spotify and iTunes links on a band's website often 👀

@evan @julian @j12t I might not be using it right, but it just webfingers the domain and gets the account info in the background. I don't see the auth part.

late check-in at #FediCon 🐌

When listening to @j12t at #FediCon talking about universal identities, I kept thinking about #OpenID and how it tapped into the broad internet, and virtually disappeared in a few years.

Instead, we have all those “log in with {an overlord}” buttons, obviously pushed by the wealthy and powerful tech companies.

@mattl It's been a long time since I had to install WiFi drivers, likely in Windows XP.

@mattl I had a blue-and-white TV after red and green emitters died, which is pretty much the same thing, right?

@erin Go to Settings → Apps and remove everything that the friend doesn't use.

For the apps that are needed, check sessions, and log out from those you don't recognize.

@mattl Username. I really don't like giving my email address to weird websites that later sell my data or get hacked.