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  • poVoq@slrpnk.netMtoEurope@feddit.deCan Europe Count On US LNG?
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    1 year ago

    Absolutely no reason to worry about supply, cold homes, or lights going out.

    This was always scare-mongering. The main consumers were the German petro-chemical industry producing for export and thus undercutting the European competition with cheap Russian gas. These have now largely shut down their old extremely wasteful plants as only the cheap energy supply was keeping them profitable and no amount of LNG would help with that.

    In the short term this is of course not great for the German GDP (and company profits), but it forces them to innovate and switch to processes that can use renewable energy, so all in all that is probably a positive development.



  • No that is something else. Currently Lemmy does not cache all remote media (other than thumbnails and some non-Lemmy images AFAIK), but I think this is currently being implemented and once that is added, a separate media storage like mentioned in that Mastodon issue might be useful.

    What I mean is that currently all image data has to flow though your Lemmy backend, even though object storage usually provides static image hosting and the Lemmy backend could just tell the clients to load the images directly from there, similar to how an CDN would do it.









  • poVoq@slrpnk.nettoPrivacy@lemmy.mlThe enshittification of Github continues
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    1 year ago

    Github is pretty much a social network for coders these days. If it was so easy to switch away or just not use their service, why is it that the vast majority of projects are hosted there? Git alone can’t be the reason, as you rightly say it isn’t any different from other git hosts. The relevant parts are the collaboration features and those are exactly the type of social media that enshittification applies to.


  • Still very biased towards Matrix Vs XMPP when it comes to encryption. If it is “provider specific” for XMPP it should be also “provider specific” for Matrix… or rather in 99% of the cases it is not “provider specific” at all but available and enabled by default for both. That there are a few non-compliant server+client combinations is just a result of an open-source and decentralized network.

    Edit: same for the “what apps can hand over to police section”, which is also highly provider specific as it doesn’t really concern the “app” but rather the server (which can be self-hosted).


  • poVoq@slrpnk.nettoPrivacy@lemmy.mlThe enshittification of Github continues
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    1 year ago

    Yes, hence the quotation marks in “market”. But Microsoft is a company large enough to have an internal “market” for different departments and there is also the outward pressure from Mirosoft’s shareholders for whom the cloud business in the main driver of profits/stock value.

    Edit: Maybe to make it more clear: Yes there are no advertisers as in the classical “enshittification” model, but Github is subject to similar outside pressures that do not prioritize the needs of the Github users and thus a very similar dynamic enfolds.