Telemachus93

@Telemachus93@slrpnk.net

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft Teams status⁩ ⁨⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  It really depends on what you actually need, how much setup the IT department can manage and how well the change is communicated and managed, I guess.

  We use it (i.e. the Element client) mostly for chatting and another open source solution (BigBlueButton) for online meetings, but voice and video calls are possible directly with Element. Matrix lacks the out of the box office product integration for collaborating on presentations, spreadsheets or text files that Teams has. It can be extended via widgets though, which includes at least etherpad and afaik there are options for nextcloud (which has collabora) integration as well, so with a bit of setup, even that could be emulated.

  So that would of course require some setup and maintenance and if the company used Teams before, some training and help for the users as well.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft Teams status⁩ ⁨⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m trying not to dox myself, but it’s a university in Germany. :D

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon is a rabbit⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  9-10 billion wouldn’t be a problem if our food was mostly vegan… We’d even still have space left that we could rewild.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft Teams status⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m so glad we use Matrix at work. Our IT department even tells us explicitly not to use Teams if we can avoid it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon is a child prodigy⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Strictly speaking, a normal distribution doesn’t cap, neither at 0 nor at 200. Maybe the scores achievable by standardized tests do, of course.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon questions nature⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  No, definitely not.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Help needed: Selfhosted website only reachable through http, not https⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m not that experienced with http(s) hosting, but for the two sites I host, I used Certbot with nginx. It seems the combination of the two does the same thing as caddy which was suggested a few times.

  So you could either install certbot and point it to your working nginx http config (then certbot will try to get the ssl certificates and modify the nginx config so it works for https and https connections are preferred) or ditch nginx for caddy.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon is a gamer⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s a weak argument because everything used by normal citizens is, in practice, always used by the big corpos against the normal citizens in much greater quantity and with much more force.

  Now that I think of it, it’s no argument at all because I already admitted, that under capitalism, you might not have another choice to get paid for your work. That still doesn’t make it morally good or logically sound.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon is a gamer⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Of course it’s work finding solutions to problems and you should be able to live off your work. And in capitalism, a patent sometimes is the only option to do so.

  However, patents and other forms of “intellectual property” are absolutely illogical and amoral. Nobody ever made a completely new thing. Every innovation builds on so much knowledge accumulated by so many people that came before. It’s absolutely nonsensical that an advancement that’s 99 % an achievement of humanity and 1 % of a single person should belong to that single person.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨AI Electric Bills⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Colombia has price discrimination for residential areas: households in richer areas have to pay more than those in poorer areas. I don’t know how good the actual implementation works out for the people there, but it was in effect when I was there more than 10 years ago and it still seems to be (see “estratos” here: enel.com.co/…/pliego-tarifario-enel-diciembre-202…). If that is possible for different areas of one city, of course we could make data centers pay more for 1 kWh than a private consumer would.

  It just won’t happen in our hyper-capitalist north american and european countries.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨AI Electric Bills⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Expanding on that: in competitive electricity markets, in theory, total demand is met by the cheapest plants (by “marginal price”: how much does an additional unit of electricity cost?) that are available.

  The marginal price of PV, wind and hydropower is pretty much zero.

  The next cheapest are usually older nuclear fission plants and coal power plants.

  Then is a huge gap and then come newer nuclear plants and gas fired power plants.

  But all of these plants aren’t built over night. So maybe before all of the datacenters, total demand may have mostly been met by renewables and coal and gas power plants only operated a few hundred hours per year. Now, total demand rises and those plants need to operate more often. That’s why the prices rise just because of demand increase. Other effects (e.g. changes in regulation, corporate greed, …) might be at play as well.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Order of magnitude is a hell of a drug⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  We’re talking about engineers here! We’re using MATLAB or Python if we’re programming at all.