Wall-E, is that you?

I’d describe my feelings around the current solar boom as cautiously positive with a good sprinkle of skepticism.

I’d like to see billionaires investing in education towards self-regulating communities. I’d like to see them heavily investing in funding coops, not buying up startups. Billionaires investing in renewables means more money in billionaire’s pockets, because they will just sell the clean energy back to you for a profit while remaining the owners of everything and then some.

I’d carefully agree that more solar panels are good, but I’ve now lived through enough eco hypes to not have at least a few concerns. In the worst case we will now quickly and thoughtlessly plaster solar panels over hectares and hectares of useful farmland, important ecological reserves, and poor people’s homes, just because line go up. And probably trash them all in ten years when maintaining them proves too costly, or the next hype comes along. In the best case we actually start polluting less and use the time we buy to seek for more energy-saving ways of living in general.

No. I don’t want one giant Billionaire-backed project. I want a million small scale projects backed by local communities.

It’s a technological and a physical issue. We just can’t store every bit of information plus a picture of everyone’s cat. We can’t guarantee that no information ever gets lost. We’ve also not really stored and archived every shopping list, advertising, pamphlet, silly poem, ugly drawing etc. since the time of the printing press and that’s okay.

It might be a good idea to store and archive some written material as time passes but we want to be a bit picky about what we store. That said, I wouldn’t mind to find more shopping lists and less posh documents in museums.

Yeah, just like most material that was ever printed or carved into a clay tablet. It’s the way of things.

It’s getting better. We have become pretty good at sharing cat pictures. I guess it’s just time to direct our focus more efficiently. This instance is just one of many tiny efforts in that direction.

Our local aquifer didn’t need the introduction of solar pumps. They manage with fuel powered pumps and corn, all along the stream. In August the water is gone.

The farms without accessible water just drill a deep well, 120m or thereabouts, and now you have magical water - and the problem gets worse!

The solar just makes it more accessible, so even the remotest areas can participate in the destruction.

At same time there is only very little collection of rainwater from any roof and/or water storage for use in the dry season, and not much education about drought resistant plants. I think that’s where efforts need to point towards: share knowledge of different people all over the world as to how to farm with less water and how to farm in respect of the existing aquifer.

Thanks a lot for sharing this. I’ll keep it bookmarked for later reference, looks very cool!

This is something I’ve been waiting for. It seemed a little absurd that water is wasted for cooling the stupid things while elsewhere necessary heat is generated.

Emergency? Which emergency?

Speaking is an act of changing reality, always. If you want to go as far as calling this ‘speaking to’ is up to you.

But is FOSS actually more vulnerable?

For real now? I thought they were going back to coal?

I was leftie before I was techie. If you don’t know anything around tech and computers you wouldn’t know what to do. Even as a fairly tech-adjacent professional it took me quite a while.

Then again, I only became a real leftie again after kicking all the corpos out of my computer.

Tech used to be (and still is) obscured by heavy gatekeeping. We who understand a little more like to joke about those who don’t, and I guess we’ll have to stop that if we really want to unite the left. Don’t ridicule, explain. The person might never have had a chance to learn the concept.

I decided to check if it was any better than my current specialized job portal, which has enshittified a little in the last years. But Linkedin enshittification can’t be beat. It’s like prostitution level of job seeking for brainwashed people. What jobs are you applying for?

LinkedIn just isn’t for Jobs Anymore. It’s Now a Pile of Trash.

Ads about pushing your career, then more ads about how to create a better work life balance. And everybody seems to be a coach who tries to push their courses about the above mentioned topics. Thanks but I’ll pass.

I made her mine using the command line and sudo

For speech to text I also found Speech Note (not to confuse with Speechnotes, some similar thing from a different team I believe)

I do think it’s a problem that doesn’t need solving, but would maybe some sort of instance integrator sites help keep the fediverse open and easily explorable?

I found KDE Simon, and Numen … I’ve only ever used a commercial product, Dragon Naturally Speaking, many years ago. It was used so I could speak instead of typing texts but it did have functions to assign commands as well - don’t think it worked on Linux though.