no one can index exponential amounts of data, nevermind the predatory SEO and AI.

Google is. The NSA almost undoubtedly is. A bunch of other governments are. AI companies probably are. Meta probably is.

When a user wants to search something up, they first search for a topic in web-rings, and then they select that web-ring.

From a usability perspective, that doesn’t feel great. How does a user find the first web ring search engine? What if they don’t want that multi step process? How do users avoid predatory web rings that are trying to sell them stuff? How does this compete with existing search?

Unidentified sources who spoke to BI claimed Microsoft would likely backfill the jobs cut this month, meaning there wouldn’t be much of a reduction in overall headcount. Microsoft confirmed this to be the case.

This sounds more like a mass firing than layoffs, but I guess that’s semantics.

M U R D E R

None of this put a dent in CO2 emissions, because more energy available just means more energy consumed.

I’m my geo, we’re lowering GHG emissions and increasing electricity output. That isn’t entirely due to renewables, but it’s part of the equation. Those renewables were affordable due to feed in tariffs mentioned above.

Without continued advocacy, entrenched interests will reverse those trends. With continued advocacy, we may be able to lower emissions further.

When you get to 50, you’ll understand.

I’m not the original commenter, but as someone in a similar boat, I’ll interpret:

Aging fucking sucks. Seeing doors close as your body switches modes is depressing as hell. Knowing you have another half century left, but it’s all gonna be worse is a terrible feeling.

Political advocacy is the way to go. Pushing politicians to change laws is what got renewables to be cheap in the first place. We need more of that.

Solar, wind, and EVs have become much cheaper after they received significant government incentives. Feed in tariffs started in the 1990s, implemented by Japan, Germany, China, and many other governments decreased the cost of renewables and built industrial capacity.

Governments did that because of significant environmental advocacy from the 1960s onwards.

Advocacy feels like it doesn’t work now because there’s massive advocacy pushing back against our longterm interests, but it’s couched as “industrial interests” so we don’t see it.

If you truly don’t need the money, donate it to an org that’s doing political advocacy.

10k of solar isn’t going to make a difference in the grand scheme of things. Changing laws and regulations will.

I worry that we’ll only get it fixed once the human population falls to some horrifically low number.

It says right there. Like three times. Which isn’t suspicious at all.

pugjesus has a lot too

Did you?

i have a good feeling about 2025

Please do more than just link to your website. A quick blurb of what those nine things are would be great.

If we’re gonna build the fediverse, we need content, not just a stream of links.

I mean the nice thing about Lemmy is you can always create your own community

You can do that on most platforms. It isn’t worth the effort unless you can pull users into your new community. That’s hard.

I see a fair number of Reddit posts on the main page with 40k+ votes mentioning Luigi. I think that subreddit is in the minority.

It’s become clear that Lemmy is not about to take off. For most users, it’s probably a fine Reddit clone, but it’s not about to replace the big R.

I’m sure that will change in 2025. 🧌

I feel like there’s less Canadian content. After the Reddit API Exodus, there was a fair bit, but that dropped off.