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AxiomEvalMay 3, 2023
Show threadChris Gioran 💔May 3, 2023

@aral The amount of human effort and power consumption that goes into generating and mining "clickstreams" is astonishing.

This accumulation of "digital exhaust" is a huge waste of human creativity and material resources that does *nothing* except serve capitalists. It's a huge industry that were it excised from society _everyone_ would benefit.

And i classify as bullshit job every single one in this racket.

AxiomEvalApr 30, 2023
Show threadCoralie Mercier (W3C)Apr 30, 2023

✍️ I wrote on the @w3c blog:

“30th anniversary of licensing the Web for general use, and at no cost”

https://www.w3.org/blog/2023/04/30th-anniversary-of-licensing-the-web-for-general-use-and-at-no-cost/

#anniversary #blog #w3c

30th anniversary of licensing the Web for general use and at no cost | W3C Blog

AxiomEvalApr 14, 2023
Show threadJan Wildeboer 😷Apr 14, 2023
Every time you see such a cookie consent pop-up, you know you are on a website that has accepted to share your data with some data collecting entity. That they are willing to hand over parts of the page content to be filled by a 3rd party. And allow that 3rd party to aggregate and sell their visitors data to the highest bidder. So stop blaming "the EU" and ask yourself if this is the internet we want.
AxiomEvalApr 12, 2023
By the time a few more tech places (just saw the Substack news) add 'notes' and other Indieweb capabilities (of course better if people do it for themselves on their own sites) CorpTech will find itself being dismantled on an ever increasing scale. #indieweb #notes (https://www.axiomeval.me/posts/20230412-notes-help-dismantle-corptech.html)
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AxiomEvalApr 11, 2023
Tim BrayApr 11, 2023
Hey, check this out, someone’s proposing an HTTP response header to say how much CO2 load was incurred serving the request. https://www.ietf.org/archive/id/draft-martin-http-carbon-emissions-scope-2-00.html
HTTP Response Header Field: Carbon-Emissions-Scope-2

This document defines the "Carbon-Emissions-Scope-2" HTTP response header field for reporting the amount of carbon emissions associated with processing a given HTTP request, as calculated according to the Scope 2 protocol outlined in ISO 14064-1:2006.

AxiomEvalApr 11, 2023
Tim BrayApr 10, 2023

Everyone’s linked to the NYT piece on the hideous environmental/economic cost of Bitcoin mining: https://www.nytimes.com/2023/04/09/business/bitcoin-mining-electricity-pollution.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

The question: What to do about it?

Suggestion: Every public agency (mostly but not entirely in the USA) that holds significant Btc (mostly seized from criminals) co-ordinates to set a D-Day where D stands for “Dump”. That day, they all go and sell their Btc for fiat at any price whatsoever.

That might just solve the problem right now. Because the liquidity ain’t there.

The Real-World Costs of the Digital Race for Bitcoin

Bitcoin mines cash in on electricity — by devouring it, selling it, even turning it off — and they cause immense pollution. In many cases, the public pays a price.

The New York Times
AxiomEvalMar 17, 2023
Lol - that moment when you are excited to sit down and play the Open Beta for Diablo 4 and realise you will be in a queue for 121 minutes…
AxiomEvalMar 16, 2023
Bertrand DelacretazMar 16, 2023

Hey, I just invented

WW;SW

to refer to the Well Written but Subtly Wrong statements that you might get from generative AI tools - https://grep.codeconsult.ch/2023/03/16/wwsw-well-written-subtly-wrong/

#ai #gpt #acronyms

WW;SW : Well Written, Subtly Wrong !

bertrand's brain grep
AxiomEvalMar 4, 2023
Show threadpsychopomp disasterMar 3, 2023

These machines can do neither. They produce strings of tokens that statistically appear like they were produced by a human.

To an LLM the statements “Neil Armstrong was the first man to walk on the moon” and “Neil Armstrong was the first man to walk on Mars” are differentiated only in that more people have written the former than the latter.

That’s it.

AI doesn’t exist and companies letting what we DO have make decisions is just a way to avoid culpability for the results.

3/3

AxiomEvalFeb 28, 2023
SwiftOnSecurityFeb 28, 2023
Am I the only person who remembers the villains