I didn’t realize it until a couple of years ago (back when he was popular, I was into different stuff), but he’s made some really good songs!

Sheeeit. If this were how my family asked me too troubleshoot their printer, I actually would.

Funny thing. This used to be the main reason for government - to stockpile foods in case of times of famine. Literally. Before the Code of Hammurabi; before government stepped in and took responsibility for dispensing justice (as opposed to taking matters into your own hands, and starting feuds, which is how things used to run); the whole purpose for government was hoarding food. Well, and wars. But also food.

I just think it’s funny that every government on the planet has abdicated that responsibility, one of the two fundamental origins of the institution.

Prices are falling. Wrong time to be buying in, unless you think they’ve hit bottom already.

@Xanza’s suggestion is a good one. For me, it’s sufficient to fuse mount the backup and check a few files. It’s not comprehensive, but if a few files I know changed look good, I figure they all probably are.

Sounds delicious. You have the recipe?

I love that song. Every time I follow a link, I listen to the while thing.

It’s a great song.

Oh, wait, Friends? Yeah, not a fan of the show, so the intro music has no meaning for me.

Hmmm… Do I subject myself to another ear worm? Is it worth it?

Never heard it.

I do recall Logic class being classified under philosophy, but it’s been a long time.

The difference is disprovability. Can you construct an experiment that would, if successful, disprove Buddhism? If not, it’s not science, and there is an enormous difference between Science and not-Science.

There have been thousands of philosophers, and dozens of philosophies which disagree on key points and are therefore incompatible. Can you reconcile Ayn Rand’s libertarianism and Buddhism? If not, how can you determine which is the correct way to live? If it boils down to personal choice, like whether blue is better than red, then it’s opinion and tells us nothing about reality except what you, the individual, prefer. Which is not very useful to more than a handful of people.

I would suggest that what they’re describing is a scientific theory which might be experimentally provable, based on some experiments that strongly point at the theory being true.

Whereas Buddhism is a religion. Or a philosophy, if you prefer.

I don’t remember the exact quote, but I love the thing about “the thing about science is that it doesn’t matter whether you believe it or not.”

I’m not the person who brought git up.

Then I apologize. All I can offer is that it’s a weakness of my client that it’s difficult and outside the inbox workflow to see any history other than the comment to which you’re replying. Not an excuse; just an explanation.

Work is the thing you’re complaining about, not the proof.

If given the option, I’d prefer all computing to have zero cost; sure. But no, I’m not complaining abou t the work. I’ll complain about inefficient work, but the real issue is work for work’s sake; in particular, systems designed specifically where the only important fact us proving that someone burned X pounds of coal to get a result. Because, while exaggerated and hyperbolically started, that’s exactly what Proof-of-Work systems are. All PoW systems care about is that the client provably consumed a certain amount of CPU power. The result is the work is irrelevant for anything but proving that someone did work.

With exceptions like BOINC, the work itself from PoW systems provides no other value.

Compare this to endlessh.

This is probably wrong, because you’re using the salesman idea.

It’s not. Computer networks can open only so many sockets at a time; threading on a single computer is finite, and programmers normally limit the amount of concurrency because high concurrency itself can cause performance issues.

If they’re going to use the energy anyway, we might as well make them get less value.

They’re going to get their value anyway, right? This doesn’t stop them; it just makes each call to this more expensive. In the end, they do the work and get the data; it just cost them - and the environment - more.

Do you think this will stop scrapers? Or is it more of a “fuck you”, but with a cost to the planet?

Honey pots are a better solution; they’re far more energy efficient, and have the opportunity to poison the data. Poisoned data is more like what you suggest: they’re burning the energy anyway, but are instead getting results that harm their models. Projects like Nepenthes go in the right direction. PoW systems are harmful - straight up harmful. They’re harmful by preventing access to people who don’t use JavaScript, and they’re harmful in exactly the same way crypto mining is.

It’s a rant, for sure

first of all, bitcoin in its original form was meant to be used as a transaction log between banks.

Satoshi Nakamoto, they guy who invented Bitcoin, was motivated by a desire to circumvent banks. Bitcoin is the exact opposite of what you claim:

A purely peer-to-peer version of electronic cash would allow online payments to be sent directly from one party to another without going through a financial institution. … Commerce on the Internet has come to rely almost exclusively on financial institutions serving as trusted third parties to process electronic payments. … What is needed is an electronic payment system based on cryptographic proof instead of trust, allowing any two willing parties to transact directly with each other without the need for a trusted third party.

https://www.bitcoin.com/satoshi-archive/whitepaper/

My comment is a rant, because I constantly see these strongly held opinions about systems by people who not only know nothing about the topic, but who believe utterly false things.

cryptocurrencies result in a centralisation of power by default, whether they use proof of work or proof of stake, because they are built so that people with more resources outside the network can more easily get sway over the system

Ok, now I have to wonder if you’re just trolling.

Bitcoin, in particular, has proven to be resilient against such takeovers. They’ve been attempted in the past several times, and successfully resisted.

I’m not sure where you’re going with the git simile. Git isn’t performing any proof of work, at all. By definition, Proof of Work is that “one party (the prover) proves to others (the verifiers) that a certain amount of a specific computational effort has been expended.” The amount of computational power used to generate hashes for git is utterly irrelevant to its function. It doesn’t care how many cycles are used to generate a hash; therefore it’s in no way proof of work.

This solution is designed to cost scrapers money; it does this by causing them to burn extra electricity. Unless it’s at scale, unless it costs them, unless it has an impact, it’s not going to deter them. And if it does impact them, then it’s also impacting the environment. It’s like having a door-to-door salesman come to your door and intentionally making them wait while their car is running, and there cackling because you made them burn some extra gas, which cost than some pennies and also dumped extra carbon monoxide into the atmosphere.

Compare this to endlessh. It also wastes hacker’s time, but only because it just responds very slowly with and endless stream of header characters. It’s making them wait, only they’re not running their car while they’re waiting. It doesn’t require the caller to perform an expensive computation which, in the end, is harmful to more than just the scraper.

Let me make sure I understand you: AI is bad because it uses energy, so the solution is to make them use even more energy? And this benefits the environment how?

I think decentralized currency is the best part of crypto. Much of US strong-arm policy has been through leveraging control over the dollar? Remember a few years ago when OPEC were making noises about maybe tying oil prices to something other than the dollar? The US government has a collective shit fit, and although I never heard it reported how the issue was resolved, but it stopped being news and oil is still tied to the dollar. It’s probably one of the reasons why the Saudis were about to kidnap, torture, and murder of Jamal Kashogi in the US.

I am 100% in support of a currency that is not solely controlled by one group or State. For all of its terrible contribution to global warming, Bitcoin has proven resistant to an influential minority (e.g. Segwit2x) forcing changes over the wishes of the community. I especially like anything that scares bankers, and usury scabs.

Satoshi made two unfortunate design choices with Bitcoin: he based it on proof of work, which in hindsight was an ecological disaster; and he didn’t seize the opportunity to build in depreciation, a-la Freigeld, which addresses many problems in capitalism.

We’re all on Lemmy because we’re advocates of decentralization. Most of Lemmy opposes authoritarianism. How does that square with being opposed to a decentralized monetary system? Why are “dollars” any more real than cryptocoins? Why does gold have such an absurdly high value?

Not hypocrisy by the author, but by every reader who cheers this while hating on cryptocurrency.

IME most of these people can’t tell the difference between a cryptocurrency, a blockchain, and a public ledger, but have very strong opinions about anyway.

Yeah, then definitely just install VLC. Far easier than mucking about with Jellyfin.

What, exactly, is your end goal? To have a way to play movies that you’re bringing with you on the hotel TV?

Edit: I only all because this seems like a hell of a lot of work just to play movies while you’re traveling, when you could just play them with VLC directly.

Or, if you really want to steam movies to your phone, put VLC on your phone, run minidlna on the computer, and plug it into a GL-iNet Slate Plus.

But if you’re really, like, going to some big get-together and are responsible for media entertainment for a crowd of 20 in a rental, then yeah, taking Jellyfin makes sense. But the hardware doesn’t, unless you make damned sure there’s nothing that’ll need transcoding. One movie, most CPU/GPUs can manage, but if several people are transcoding multiple movies at the same time, it’ll be a fairly beefie machine.