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KillingTimeItself ,

PLEASE I BEG OF YOU, STOP USING DISCORD IN PLACE OF FORUMS AND PUBLICLY ACCESSIBLE BOARDS!

KillingTimeItself ,

dude i give up completely, you think im joining a random discord full of a bunch of people i dont know with a culture of who knows what dialect?

Nah fuck that i’ll just go use some dudes random piece of scrapped together software that’s actually pretty based instead. To that guy who wrote the bash script for flashing windows ISOs under linux. Thank you.

KillingTimeItself ,

at least subreddits show up in google results, that’s the only good thing about them.

KillingTimeItself ,

part of the problem is that discord as a platform for this, is like using NAT to make ipv4 work in the modern era. It’s just annoying.

Discord even if it allowed public scraping would be a nightmare, because it’s search function is practically helpless. Good luck finding a solution as well, that may or may not exist, and that question/answer has probably been brought up numerous times. There is probably specific context around it that we’re missing unless we decide to role play as a historian.

Not to mention, it’s a third layer of abstraction on top of something that should just be accessible.

I mean sure forums need maintenance, So do discords though, Hardware hosting is barely a problem. Basically anything and any internet connection can host a forum, cloudflare will probably sell it to you for pennies on the dollar even. (though i dont like cloudflare myself)

KillingTimeItself ,

the irony here is that discord quite literally has quantum state messages/posts, unless you NAIL the search perfectly, you’re gonna get everything but the exact message you wanted. I mean sure the keywords make sense, but try searching for two or three keywords in a server with tens of thousands of message, or better yet, not knowing what specific keywords to use.

i can’t tell you the amount of times i’ve tried searching for an embed with words only to realize that apparently, discord is completely incapable of searching through embed names.

Discord is alright as a chat platform, would actually be better if it were a universal platform base, like matrix, or get this, IRC. Not being stuck on a shitty broken electron app would nice from time to time.

KillingTimeItself ,

this is not explicitly true, moderation is still a labor requirement.

Messages get deleted from bans, channels wipes cause problems, sometimes discord just decides people shouldnt exist anymore.

KillingTimeItself ,

the hate is because discord actively makes it harder to find and get support for anything. It’s adding extra steps to something that doesnt need them.

I use discord to chat with my friends and weird people online, not to complain about the nonfunctional nature of software to people i dont know.

KillingTimeItself ,

its missing all my friends inside of my computer though!

KillingTimeItself ,

lemmy isn’t terrible, but you aren’t going to find diehard thinkpad enjoyers flashing them with coreboot here, and you certainly are likely to find much if any documentation on it here either. Maybe reddit. Forums though? Daily occurrence.

Those “forum” channels are locked behind community servers, for some reason. And also still not a replacement for forums. Still not publicly accessible. Threads also suck btw. Matrix likely wouldnt copy them, because forums exist.

KillingTimeItself ,

i dont see how it would be easier on discord, discord is literally known only for bot/hacked account issues. I’ve never seen a spam bot on a forum before.

Plus nobody is likely to target a forum, everybody is targeting discord already. And on top of that the discord banning/automoderation isnt great, i’ve heard its getting better though.

KillingTimeItself ,

honestly, i dont know why this is so downvoted, this is basically just what discord is.

KillingTimeItself ,

convenient for what? forcing me to join a server, go through onboarding, and potentially even deal with not having enough spyware loaded on my information, at best waiting 10 minutes to say ANYTHING, and at worst not being able to say anything at all.

Not to mention these on boarding processes can explode and cause problems from time to time. Discord is only convenient for real time chatting, nothing else.

KillingTimeItself ,

not to mention the QR code login is actually scary insecure. I think its basically equivalent to a login token?

KillingTimeItself ,

honestly i would understand matrix more than discord, it’s a lot easier to just jump in and start existing.

KillingTimeItself ,

thats like saying “fix the government”

lol

KillingTimeItself ,

the ironic thing is that basically the only thing that needs to happen for matrix to have that moment is some startup company to host a server much like discord, and then create a front end.

It’s literally something they’re capable of doing, and it would totally work. The ENTIRE backend is already done, they can even help contribute to matrix as well. The value is the customer base, not the open source code, so it’s not like it’s going anywhere.

KillingTimeItself ,

90% of the projects that i use and other people care about are developed by people that have the technical ability to set up and host a web server. They likely have the cash. It’s not exactly outrageously expensive. If it’s small enough they dont have the cash for it, they don’t need it.

Im guessing the discord was more of a legacy thing, someone was like “hey im having a problem, can you contact me on discord?” and then suddenly we have the rust discord server.

KillingTimeItself ,

gotta love the modern internet…

yay.

KillingTimeItself ,

idk you’d have to compare it between a few forums, and a few discord servers of the same size in order to figure it out.

I’d still be surprised to see people actually botting forums. It really just doesn’t make any sense.

KillingTimeItself ,

you already said that, but like, what does it mean

What forum/s are we talking about? What discords are we talking about? What kind of botting are we talking about? Are the forums actively moderated? What’s the moderation experience like? Etc…

The big problem here is that discord is the only thing between you and managing your server, either they do it right, or they don’t (which is what they usually do) With a forum, you are the only person between the two, but you have full control over it You want to set up a basic entry gate to prevent bot accounts from sneaking through? Trivial. You want to set up message rate limiting? Trivial, you want to set up some clever detection and sequestering mechanism? Trivial.

With discord you’re either using bots, which suck, or you have to pay for, or you just pretend that it isn’t a problem and let humans deal with it.

KillingTimeItself ,

my ass is installing linux on the first machine capable of having linux installed on it.

You are not safe, there is nothing you can do to stop me.

KillingTimeItself ,

are you not familiar with houses having attached bathrooms in the master bedroom?

Its a thing here in NA for suburban homes, and for houses in europe to some degree im guessing.

KillingTimeItself ,

leave, performing a mercy kill on the laptop.

No associate of mine is going to be using windows xp.

KillingTimeItself ,

you think me, a linux user, is leaving home without a handful of bootable drives?

KillingTimeItself ,

THIS is a classic.

KillingTimeItself ,

damn, guess that’s a green flag then.

KillingTimeItself ,

free and open source software is inherently sexy!

KillingTimeItself ,

one step at a time my friend, one step at a time…

KillingTimeItself ,

as long as i can make it do my bidding for me!

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KillingTimeItself ,

this shit is psychotic to me, why is this even a thing corpos/individuals are allowed to do?

Your options at that point are settle, immediately, do the nissan uzi strat, waste ten years of your life, and millions of dollars. Or just stop existing.

I guess there are some counters to this in court, but im guessing you’re gonna have a hard time countering good lawyers with DEEP pockets behind them. Good luck finding someone to do a percent cut on that one.

KillingTimeItself ,

at the very least you should required to cover all extraneous lawyer charges by default. Otherwise you just can’t sue an individual/small company.

KillingTimeItself , (edited )

as a non programmer, but someone involved in fields intimately similar in fundamental manners.

Honestly i get the feeling that languages and compilers are going to stop babying the user and go RISC-V at some point.

Who needs complex structures and tons of rules when you can just use a turing machine instead!

KillingTimeItself ,

depends on how precise those bolt cutters are. Knipex? Yeah probably.

KillingTimeItself ,

think assembly, but without the assembly part.

All the good parts of shit like assembly without all the bad parts of more involved languages like js. Or god forbid front end development frameworks.

KillingTimeItself ,

a language with all the good parts of something like assembly, and without all the bad parts of more modern, complex, and “safe” languages.

One major rule for designed functionality is simplicity. The second you add another rule, the amount of things that can happen grows immensely. And that only scales worse the farther you go. The simpler something is, the easier it is to be intimately familiar with it. Which is what allows people to make proper use of something.

KillingTimeItself ,

yes, that’s the problem though. There’s a solution somewhere in there.

KillingTimeItself ,

pretty much. C but if it was better somehow, basically.

KillingTimeItself ,

rust, but if it were minimalist, yeah.

KillingTimeItself ,

not much, the point here is that it’s somehow better than c, while being c like.

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KillingTimeItself ,

but it’s always sunny and windy somewhere and we can move that electricity around with HVDC, lessening the need for storage.

this is true. But the technicalities present are immense and would require some significant mathematical modelling in order to optimally determine the solution.

The primary issue with long distance transmission is that unless it’s one singular line, it’s really difficult to know where power is going. It’s realistically going to take the path of least resistance, but what this path is, where it is, and where it goes is complicated. If you have a long distance transmission line from point A to point B it’s much much simpler and a lot easier to deal with.

A particular example would be alaska, particularly farther north, where the sun gets really bizarre in the winter. That’s a prime candidate for anything that isn’t solar basically. Wind might even be problematic with the temperatures there. Nuclear however? Great starting point.

It’s hard to phrase it, but basically. hyper local generation is going to be more important than long distance transmission with renewables, particularly wind, it’s just more efficient that way. Even if norther solar panels produce less power than more southern panels, it might actually make sense to have them there, due to transmission complexities, losses, and just general shenanigans. (if one significant transmission line goes down an entire grid can fail)

If you were to just plonk down a plant in arizona for instance, and hook it up to the local grid. That power is going places. Where exactly? Nobody knows! It could be literally anywhere within the grid! Heres a particularly good demo of this

You could very well export lots of solar and wind, but honestly, i think it’s just going to be more feasible to properly manufacture nuclear power, until we can get fusion power to be a thing that exists. It’s stable, flexible, and we know it’ll work. As anybody would in CS would tell you, it’s a heuristics problem, and heuristics suck. They’re relatively accurate, and give good information, but they are a pain in the ass to develop. Though i guess if solar manages to do that for cheaper it just doesnt matter lol.

(also in case you’re wondering, they’re using HVDC cuz it’s undersea transmission. They might also run at different frequencies? I dont know.)

KillingTimeItself ,

I think you’ll notice i never said bespoke. Realistically there will be minor differences from plant to plant, but you just design it in such a way that it’s modular and not super set in stone, which will help alleviate that problem.

KillingTimeItself ,

fair enough i guess. You’ll be mused to know that nuclear is just about as unprofitable as it gets. So maybe that will rouse some feathers so to speak.

Realistically, i agree with you, get rid of all humans, no more sustainability problems. Problem solved.

KillingTimeItself ,

ok so i get what you’re saying here.

But there is a fundamental thing with nuclear power, where the “burn up” of nuclear fuel doesnt change. In a submarine it doesn’t matter because you’re backed by a military force and you use 70-80% or 90+% enrichment, where as on land we have 3-5% upwards of 20% for the higher enrichment stuff these days i believe.

In the water its about safety and ensuring power production, on land it’s about ensuring reliable and efficient power production. The only beneficial way of doing this is electricity storage. If you’re nuclear reactor isn’t producing power and has fuel, you are quite literally burning money. Think about it like diverting gas/coal input into a gas/coal fired power plant when power demands lower, as opposed to just lessening the consumption.

But yes it would be about 100% baseload first and foremost, everything else is a future concern, eliminate as much static load as you can and then deal with the rest in other manners.

KillingTimeItself ,

shits expensive because those plants are older, more complicated, and riddled with constructions issues. Literally all we have to do is just build more of them, and it will go away.

Or if that doesnt satisfy you, a one time government subsidy for the building costs will drastically improve it. (most of the cost is upfront after all.)

KillingTimeItself ,

There have been 6 EPRs built, Flamanville-3, Olkiluoto-3, Taishan-1 & 2, and Hinkley Point C (2 units). All of them are/were massively over budget and behind schedule.

TBF the EPR is just a horrifically complex design. It’s no wonder they all sucked.

KillingTimeItself ,

i suppose so. That’s another heuristics nightmare though. That or it will take centuries lol.

Also intelligently routing power technically already happens, just based on the nature of the network. I suppose certain automated segmentations could help though. Realistically if we want a fully decentralized grid network it needs to be on a town/city basis, rather than a county/state basis.

KillingTimeItself ,

yes, i know, but it’s more complicated than “just data” modern reactor designs are orders of magnitude simpler than previous designs, modern reactor issues are primarily construction related (a solvable issue) Nuclear is a particularly apt solution to the problem if done correctly.

Solar/wind IS cheaper, but solar and wind also have problems. Solar is more complicated at scale. You need to start balancing production/consumption on either side, neither of which are consistent. recycling and waste disposal is another big concern. Solar panels for instance consume tons of different rare earth metals, and materials that are hard to manufacture, dangerous for humans to work with, and complicated to get rid of. And add on top of that energy storage.

There isn’t a “good” solution, merely a lot of different solutions, some more apt than others, sometimes it depends on the situation.

maybe i’m a little autistic about nuclear power, but you cannot deny it’s potential application in the power production infrastructure. There is absolutely a case to be made there.

KillingTimeItself ,

damn, best wishes, get better soon :)

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