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  • In the world of computers, why would remembering numbers be the stop for new technologies?

    Do you remember anyone’s public key? Certificate?

    I don’t even remember domain (most) names, just Google them or save them as bookmarks or something.

    The reason IPv4 still exists is because ISPs benefit from its scarcity. Big ISPs already paid a lot of money to own IPv4 addresses, if they switched to IPv6 that investnywould be worthless.

    Try selling static IPv6 addresses as they do now with IPv4. People would laugh at them and just get a free IPv6 address from an ISP that wants to get new users and doesn’t charge for it.

    The longer ISPs delay the adoption of IPv6, the longer they can milk IPv4 scarcity.


  • If you place a data center in a 100% green location, then you’re reducing the supply of 100% energy, so everything else has to consume less green energy. Therefore, by using 100% green energy you just increased your carbon footprint.

    Green energy, like all resources, is limited. If you waste it on a glorified food predictor you can’t use it on a electric harvester that will feed the people.

    Even if you want to avoid this problem and create your own green power plant for your own data center (creating the green supply and demand at the same time), you are still spending green energy resources (rare metals and manufacturing capacity) that went into creating your powerplant instead of creating a powerplant for electric harvesters.

    There’s no way around it. Misusing electricity is accelerating climate change, one way or another. Even if the energy you are misusing is 100% green.




  • calcopiritus@lemmy.worldtoLinux@lemmy.mlWhat's your favorite terminal?
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    Favourite? Windows terminal.

    Favourite Linux compatible? Vs code integrated terminal.

    The one I actually use on Linux because viscose integrated terminal is not standalone? Konsole, just because it’s the default In kde.

    EDIT: may I know why I got downvoted? Just because I have an unpopular preference? Is this reddit?




  • I see you completely ignored my comment. The problem is not the amount of electricity used in itself, which the estimate of 6GWh-130TWh is as precise as shooting a dart at the moon.

    Crypto uses energy for the sake of using energy. The value of crypto is based on the amount of energy used to create it. It’s not valuable to society. That’s what people is upset about. Crypto provides even less value to society than ads do.

    Even you said it, ads spend energy because they employ people, those people generate value.

    That’s like saying we should stop heating homes because it consumes more energy than crypto mining. Hose heating improves the quality of life of people. Crypto does not.


  • With the electricity used to validate a single crypto transaction you could do thousands or even millions of DB queries.

    Yes, everything uses electricity. That’s like saying that it’s fine if you kill one cow per day to eat its ear and throw the rest because hundreds of them are killed every day in farms.

    Wasting so much electricity in such a non efficient manner so a decentralization cult member can have his wet dream of using non-government money makes no sense.


  • That’s because ad serving doesn’t set a lower bound on the electricity price. The value of crypto and the value of electricity are linked.

    For the sake of simplicity I’ll just say Bitcoin.

    If the price of Bitcoin stays constant (big if), and the rate of Bitcoin per watt does too, then everyone would start mining until the demand for power is so high that the price increases until it’s as high as the Bitcoin per watt.

    Sure, they are unrealistic assumptions, but it’s easier to see this way that the value of Bitcoin is (almost) the same as electricity. If it were lower, noone would mine it, if higher, people would buy electricity with bitcoin for a profit until the 2 equalize.

    Electricity will never be much cheaper than Bitcoin, market forces will make sure of that, causing a huge environmental impact. Ads, however, only use as much electricity as they need to operate, their amount is not decided based on how much electricity they waste.