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🐘 Alexx

@0Alexx@mstdn.social

19 Followers

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81 Posts

ばんざい！

Just a Vato who likes computers, hates capitalism, and
tries to improve himself every day.

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Pronouns	He/Him
Main Account	@Alexx

🐘 Alexx 3d ago

Larry Garfield 4d ago

Priorities...

#GenAI #LLM #AI #ClimateChange

🐘 Alexx 3d ago

Wesley Moore 4d ago

entering the void

🐘 Alexx 4d ago

retrocompmx 4d ago

Feliz 41 aniversario a #xwindowsystem Lanzado el 19 de junio de 1984 por el MIT, fue el pionero de las interfaces gráficas para Unix. La ventana que cambió el #retrocomputing Descubre su legado en #retrocomputingmx. #Unix #GUIs #computerhistory

https://retrocomputingmx.com/esga

🐘 Alexx 4d ago

Inspirational Skeletor💀Jun 12

🐘 Alexx Jun 17

Mondoweiss 🇵🇸Jun 16

After 23 years of service, I was fired from my position as a Professor of Medicine at the University of California, San Francisco, for being critical of Israel’s violence in Gaza and speaking out against the racism that leads to genocide.

https://mondoweiss.net/2025/06/uc-san-francisco-fired-me-for-speaking-out-against-genocide-but-as-a-physician-i-could-not-remain-silent/

#Palestine #Israel #Gaza
@palestine @israel

UC San Francisco fired me for speaking out against genocide, but as a physician I could not remain silent

After 23 years of service, I was fired from my position as a Professor of Medicine at the University of California, San Francisco, for being critical of Israel’s violence in Gaza and speaking out against the racism that leads to genocide.

Mondoweiss

🐘 Alexx Jun 17

Absolute Memery 🎭Jun 17

#VIM #VI #Linux #Shell #UNIX #CLI #CommandLine #TextEditor #CMD #LinuxMeme #LinuxMemes.

#Meme #Memes #Humour #Humor

🐘 Alexx Jun 17

Juan Per¢ent,🇲🇽 🍉Jun 17

https://elpais.com/economia/negocios/2025-06-17/la-mitad-de-la-poblacion-mundial-respira-aliviada-el-motivo-el-arroz-se-abarata.html
Noticia importante porque poder comer es una preocupación para muchos, y creo que de nos olvida a veces.

La mitad de la población mundial respira aliviada. ¿El motivo? El arroz se abarata

La bajada del precio de este alimento tras años de subidas supone un bálsamo para miles de millones de personas para las que es la pieza básica de su dieta

El País

🐘 Alexx Jun 17

Hacker Memes Jun 17

Be not afeard; the INET is full of noises,
Sounds and sweet ACKs, that give Bytes, and Hertz not.
Sometimes a thousand twangling Interfaces
Will hum about mine Peers; and sometime voices,

That, if I then had waked after long sleep,
Will make me sleep() again: and then, in streaming,
The clouds methought would open(), and show gliches
Ready to drop frames upon me; that, when I waked,
I cried to stream again.

~ Shakespeer

🐘 Alexx Jun 17

@rl_dane
There is also https://bsd-hardware.info/

It is not *BSD official tho.

BSD Hardware Database

A database of all the hardware that works under bsd

🐘 Alexx Jun 16

Working Class History Jun 16

Sad to report that China Labor Bulletin is no more. Ostensibly due to "financial problems", six members have been detained. CLB had promoted workers' rights and news in China since 1994.

Our recent podcast would have been impossible without their work: https://patreon.com/posts/e106-radical-in-129688227

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Larry Garfield 4d ago

Priorities...

#GenAI #LLM #AI #ClimateChange

canleaf08 ⌘ ✅4d ago

@Crell When people think that X company is too late to the AI LLM bullshit thing.

fuminghumanist 4d ago

@Crell Melon Tusk, the 'green tech innovator' of electric cars, solar roofs, and batteries solved the AI draining the grid problem by illegally running a bunch of heavy polluting gas generators. Everything is ok now.

firstprimate 4d ago

@fuminghumanist @Crell

Not the first time.

https://www.vehiclesuggest.com/the-diesel-secret-behind-teslas-largest-supercharger/

Green or Not So Green? The Diesel Secret Behind Tesla's Largest Supercharger - Vehiclesuggest

Tesla is setting the gold standard for innovation, performance, and most notably, sustainability. Tesla’s Supercharger network is often cited as a testament to its commitment to making green technology accessible and convenient. However, a recent revelation has cast a shadow over Tesla’s eco-friendly image. One of the company’s largest and most celebrated Supercharger stations located […]

Vehiclesuggest

PixeKnight 3d ago

@firstprimate @fuminghumanist @Crell OMG, yeah, I always suspected that just switching to EVs doesn't actually help all that much (BY ITSELF).

Like, we also need to shut down most of fossil power plants, only then does it make a dramatic difference.

Not to say switching to EVs bad, just that it feels like an excuse for governments to not invest in green energy, while we need to do BOTH.

Larry Garfield 3d ago

@a_e_sayapov @firstprimate @fuminghumanist EVs on dirty electricity are still better than gas cars, since power plants are more efficient than your car is.

But yes, greening the grid is a required step that needs to be moving a lot faster.

@Crell @a_e_sayapov @firstprimate @fuminghumanist not even power plants are needed, a diesel generator as the one in the article above will do, to make it more efficient than an ice.

Mathias Hasselmann 3d ago

Companies like Nissan, Honda and so on use this observation for their serial hybrids.

What entirely spoils these cars: Their tiny batteries and no charging port. So even for the typical daily 40 km round trip they need fuel even though you could conveniently charge them from your roof for these short distances.

@Waslich @Crell @a_e_sayapov @firstprimate @fuminghumanist

NiceMicro 3d ago

@Crell @a_e_sayapov @firstprimate @fuminghumanist an EV is still a car, has tiers that make noise and microplastics, take up space, require half of your city covered with tar.

If you cared about the environment, you advocated for public transit, that is the most energy and space efficient way to move people around.

EVs are a scam to make selfish people who want the government to subsidise their luxuries but also want to feel like they are doing something good.

#fuckCars #warOnCars #urbanism

PixeKnight 3d ago

@nicemicro @Crell @firstprimate @fuminghumanist 💯 yes, public transport is the best solution to transportation.

And denser housing (apartments around 2 to 4 stories tall imo is optimal)

Larry Garfield 3d ago

@nicemicro @a_e_sayapov @firstprimate @fuminghumanist More walkable cities with public transit is lovely. But that's simply not viable for large swaths of the country, especially areas that are not cities. And even if we committed to it, it will take decades to rebuild all our cities to not need cars. EVs are a necessity and even in the most optimistic case will be for decades.

Your vitriol towards people with their own wheels is counter productive.

PixeKnight 3d ago

@Crell @nicemicro @firstprimate @fuminghumanist yes, it's not necessarily viable in rural areas, I agree, but it is totally viable in cities, and I would argue even in suburbs.

Just make bus routes around the suburbs that can take you to a train station (that you'd also have to build) that can then take you to the city centre.

How do I know that works? Because I used to visit my friend who lived in suburbs that way.

And since most people live in cities and suburbs, it will reduce pollution.

Larry Garfield 3d ago

@a_e_sayapov @nicemicro @firstprimate @fuminghumanist You need to get say more places than city center.

I live right near a local light rail station in the Chicago area. We have the 2nd best public transit coverage in the counter after NYC. It's still impossible to get to 90% of places without a car, in less than 2-3 hours.

It took a century to build car cities. It will take at least 50 tests to unbuild them.

PixeKnight 3d ago

@Crell @nicemicro @firstprimate @fuminghumanist That's because there isn't enough investment into public transport.

Because there isn't enough public transport investment, it's shitty, and because it's shitty, no-one uses it, and because no-one uses it, it doesn't get investment.

It's a self fulfilling prophecy.

Larry Garfield 3d ago

@a_e_sayapov @nicemicro @firstprimate @fuminghumanist Indeed.

To be clear, I'm in favor of more/better public transit. I'm Yes-and on EVs, bikes, ebikes, public transit... We need all of the above.

PixeKnight 3d ago

@Crell @nicemicro @firstprimate @fuminghumanist fair nuff.

But yeah, my point basically is that we need to start somewhere.

NiceMicro 3d ago

the problem is, that EVs are "not a start in the right direction", it's a scam, so the status quo of the car industry milking the american public dry can continue, just even in a worse, more tax-payer subsidized way.

how is it a "good thing" to let the already rich get tax-subsidies on a more dangerous, more expensive car instead of sustainable development?

in the list of "public transit, EVs, ebikes, bikes", there is one that is not like the other.

#urbanism #warOnCars

PixeKnight 3d ago

@nicemicro I meant start investing in public transport

Mathias Hasselmann 3d ago

Yes, if you have lots o time.

Writing this from Berlin, Germany. Guess we can agree that this city and its suburbs got a pretty decent public network with even the most remote places seeing regular service. S-Bahn run at 80 to 100 km/h. Trams and metro at 60 km/h. Still you barely reach an average speed of 15 km/h when using public transportation, because of the delays and detours. Cars move here with an average speed of 30 km/h.

@a_e_sayapov @Crell @nicemicro @firstprimate @fuminghumanist

Mathias Hasselmann 3d ago

Well, and I really don't like the fact that cars are so much faster, but 30 km/h is the benchmark to met for people to change from cars to public.

Well, and then there is the cost: Once you wasted your money on a private car, the PV charged electric car drives almost for free, while public transport is 4,70 € per trip. Get another persons in your PV car and safe money; even with acquisition and service.

@a_e_sayapov @Crell @nicemicro @firstprimate @fuminghumanist

NiceMicro 2d ago

@taschenorakel @a_e_sayapov @Crell @firstprimate @fuminghumanist
yes, but the fact that the default assumption is that "you already bought a car" is very silly. Most of us aren't born with a car, and while the 4.70 euros would be a bit much for my liking (I spend 2400 KRW on a single trip (~2 euros) on a bus that is as fast as cars. But, paying 4.70 would probably still be less than your vehicle expenditure.

NiceMicro 2d ago

@taschenorakel @a_e_sayapov @Crell @firstprimate @fuminghumanist also also, let's not forget, that the PV charged electric car is paid for partially by the tax payer, the electrical infrastructure is paid for by the tax payer, the roads are paid for by the tax payer.

Why does the tax payer subsidize the least efficient way of moving people around instead of the most efficient one?

This boggles my mind and it makes me angry. And it should make you angry, too.

NiceMicro 3d ago

@Crell EVs are as much a necessity as any other scam.

yeah, let's build cars that are heavier (and therfore more dangerous), can burst into flames you can't extinguish, require more rare materials to build, and are so expensive that you need other people to pay for it through taxation.

EVs are only good for the car companies and for the people who are already rich to get subsidized.

The car industry is the king of america, and the EVs are just their way to keep their crown.

Larry Garfield 3d ago

@nicemicro How's that misdirected hate working out for you. Managed to convince many EV drivers that they're the evil enemy?

I thought not. Get out of my thread.

Mathias Hasselmann 3d ago

Analyses' of the full production chain have shown, that producing six liters of diesel consumes about 45 kWh of electricity.

Six liters of diesel power the most efficient combustion cars for something like 100 km.

The energy just needed to produce these six liters of diesel would power most recent battery electric cars for up to 300 km.

Go figure.

@a_e_sayapov @firstprimate @fuminghumanist @Crell

Jargoggles 4d ago

@fuminghumanist @Crell
He has a long and extensive history of environmental violations.

adaddinsane (Steve Turnbull)4d ago

@jargoggles @fuminghumanist @Crell

His mere existence is an environmental violation.

Hot Dog Water Moccasin 4d ago

My wife telling me about the power cutting twice at her entire complex today, and we just approved a data center. In the desert.
We gon'die.

@Crell ... and while artists who could do perfectly good (and in some cases I'm sure, excellent) drawings of a girl with 5 tits are going without work and could really do with the commissions.

Glenn Seto 3d ago

@joachim @Crell Shout-out to the artists involved in that one scene in Total Recall and all the lovable pervs it awakened something within!

Blippy the Wonder Slug 🇩🇪4d ago

@Crell Please share the pic of the girl here, so that not everyone reading this has to generate it on his/her own.

@Crell no link?

Dav Ito :polyam::nonbinary::omnisexual:3d ago

@Crell
reminds me of how normal people have water restrictions during a drought.
and then there are golf courses that still are still somehow still green.

Nicole Parsons 3d ago

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2024/sep/15/data-center-gas-emissions-tech

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-04-15/ai-to-prop-up-fossil-fuels-and-slow-emissions-decline-bnef-says

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/apr/03/trump-fossil-fuel-donors-data-centers

https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2025/02/23/ai-gas-trump-climate-fossil/

Data centers are being forced upon us all so the fossil fuel industry can keep its oil energy addicts & captive consumers.

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/artificial-intelligene-ai-data-centers-electricity-bill-energy-costs/

https://www.cnbc.com/2025/04/16/customers-could-pay-for-data-centers-energy-costs-without-reform.html

https://www.volts.wtf/p/who-is-paying-for-all-that-data-center

The fossil fuel industry funds cryptocurrency & AI data centers to keep oil prices high for petrostate despots like Putin & MBS. And Koch Network.
https://www.businessinsider.com/ai-runs-dirty-power-and-the-public-pays-the-price-2025-6

Tim Ward ⭐🇪🇺🔶 #FBPE 3d ago

@Crell Any house that needs AC is somewhere hot, right? Or it wouldn't need AC in the first place?

So there's at least some sunshine, right? Or it wouldn't be hot?

So the AC is powered by the house's own solar panels, right? Because there is no conceivable reason why not. So, why should the city care how much you run your AC? You'll just be exporting a bit less power, on a day when there's more than enough power to go around anyway.

@TimWardCam @Crell great for 'houses', sure. But if you're in a multi storey building you don't have enough roof for panels for everybody's cooling.

Tim Ward ⭐🇪🇺🔶 #FBPE 3d ago

@Niall @Crell Sure. I very deliberately said "houses" for exactly that reason. Gotta start somewhere.

Morgan ⚧️3d ago

@TimWardCam @Crell friendly reminder that most people in cities rent our homes and many of us (probably most idk) live in apartment buildings 😕 I'd use solar panels if I could

mtconleyuk 3d ago

@raphaelmorgan @TimWardCam @Crell And in the meantime, those nice country folk don’t want the big solar arrays situated near them because they ruin the view …

Tim Ward ⭐🇪🇺🔶 #FBPE 3d ago

@mtconleyuk @raphaelmorgan @Crell My answer to that (I've been in the planning business as a councillor) is "if you want to keep your view the same then all you have to do is buy it and refrain from developing it (and hope that you don't get CPOd because development is in the overriding public interest.)"

@raphaelmorgan @TimWardCam @Crell in Germany it is popular to use small portable solar panels in windows and on balconies and plug them into the nearest electrical socket. I don't know what it requires of the wiring in an apartment, so might not be possible for everyone.

Morgan ⚧️3d ago

@Laust @TimWardCam @Crell that's something I've considered! I'd have to save up for it and do more research though, so right now I'd rather pay the extra 25 cents or whatever to use renewable energy from the company

Larry Garfield 3d ago

@raphaelmorgan @Laust @TimWardCam

Technology Connections has argued that self hosted solar is actually bad for the grid, as it undermines revenue needed to maintain the wires, even if they're just a backup for you.

Certainly grid scale solar/wind is more efficient. My city bulk buys from a green provider rather than the incumbent company, so our electrons are already green.

Larry Garfield 3d ago

@TimWardCam That assumes everyone has their own rooftop solar farm. While a lovely idea the future, it is not even slightly where we are today.

@TimWardCam @Crell
This is why I say all new housing should be required to have power generating capability. Maybe geothermal for apartments instead, or both.

@Crell
Retreating to cool places is recommended. 😎

zombiewarrior 3d ago

@Crell "girl you make me wish i had five arms"

@Crell Why is she speaking true facts?

Woozle Hypertwin 3d ago

@Crell If only we had this foreign communist thing called "government regulation", where the AI companies were required to drastically reduce usage during power-shortages...

NiceMicro 3d ago

@Crell yeah but think about it in winter, when you can keep your house warm by generating girls with 5 (or even more!) tits!

David Scott Moyer 3d ago

@Crell Especially since a woman with five tits was hand engraved in 1692.

Kevin Russell 3d ago

Take AI offline?

Lady Artemis 3d ago

I have a housemate who insists on showing me AI YouTube videos. I've stopped protesting and simply leave the room.

It's funny how fiercely people will pressure others to enjoy some bullspit they know is harmful, but don't want to admit is harmful. This AI spit from a man who typically would despise things that prevent people from having their basic needs met. It hurts my head, heart, and soul.

Ω 🌍 Gus Posey 3d ago

@Crell Five, you say?

Glenn Seto 3d ago

@Crell Is this what vegans felt when they cautioned people about the ecological impact of cow farts, only to be met with shrugs or outright ridicule?

(Why yes, I am paying a small karmic debt here myself.)

This is Hell 3d ago

@Crell @tayfonay PREACH

@Crell fast extinction or superfast extinction? Why not do *both*!