Trop au sud :-(

C’est probablement beaucoup plus. L’article dit que 10% c’est les pubs assez frauduleuses pour violer les conditions de Facebook. Ça exclut beaucoup d’offres frauduleuses.

Ceci. Faut pas promouvoir le libre échange pendant un siècle pour venir se plaindre que des joueurs émergents s’en sortent mieux que nous!

I participate in a lot of real world communities that are more horizontally organized and many do have a similar dynamic, but a key difference is that there are many levels of involvement and the more involved you become, the more influence you have.

Thing is, on the fediverse, one should not confuse involvement with the act of using it. Involvement means participating in communities moderation and running servers. If mods of a 100 users community come to slrpnk.net saying “you know, hexbears users have been really helpful in setting up the /c/solarpunkbigepicstoryline” they will have a saying. But a random user that may be a bot or the alt of a banned troll is certainly not going to get the same weight.

In theory we could vote, but there is a technical impossibility: organizing reliable anonymous votes online is simply not possible.

Mods have a bit of authority but rarely have any process for weighing the views of individual users

Indeed, they have more of an editor power: they make editorial decisions, subjectively listen to feedbacks and see how their communities evolve.

The difference between these is pretty large in terms of skill and time required, and it’s quite difficult to move between them.

In terms of skills, a mod is a regular user, that’s it. And time requirements can vary, but being part of a decently sized mod team is not a huge time commitment. Thing is, I feel it fair to say that people willing to put extra effort in community managements should not necessarily feel forces to take into account the decisions of everyone not willing to do it.

I mean, if I offer a free service because I believe in volunteer work and gift economy, and users vote to complain that it lacks a feature that would double my amount of work (like federation with known toxic communities), I think it is fair for me to deny it.

If I were offering a paid service and getting a wage from it, the dynamics would be different. We are too used to corporate systems where the crucial resource is money, and paid users satisfaction is the most important. In FOSS, the crucial ressource is devs/volunteers motivation, and anything that increases it is what you want to maximize.

(disclaimer: it is a hypothetical, I am not running any lemmy instance)

I like thinking of the fediverse as a do-ocracy rather than a democracy: people who do the hard work get the say. Volunteer moderators that have to sweep the sewers of comments are the ones to decide what to defederate. If I am unhappy with some decisions, I may start my own instance, which is actually relieving some work from the other volunteers and making the overall ecosystem more resilient.

Opinionated moderation decisions are a feature I feel.

Since I discovered that Freebox (the set-top box of a common ISP in France, without about 8 million installed) are welcoming to users running their own docker images, I wonder if I should not write a specific guide about how to install an alternative to Google services on these, and have a huge local impact…

Le PS tente de jouer le jeu du parlementarisme. Soit qu’ils y croient, soit qu’ils souhaitent montrer à quel point le centre est incapable de céder la moindre chose. Même sans résultat concret, je trouve ça utile. Sans ça, au lieu de parler de la taxe Zucman (qui a défaut d’être adoptée, a progressé dans l’opinion) on aurai juste eu droit aux thèmes du RN sur la criminalité des migrants et l’AME.

Donc pas de budget 2026 voté parle parlement ?

Tel que c’est parti c’est sûrement une répétition de ce à quoi on a eu droit l’année dernière: censure du gouvernement, loi d’urgence pour autoriser le gouvernement à continuer les paiements en l’absence d’un budget et loi “rectificative” (budget en retard en fait) au début de 2026. Mais en fonction du nombre de personnes qui veulent jouer aux pyromanes, on pourrait bien avoir un budget par ordonnances, pas sur que même une loi d’urgence passerait dans les circonstances actuelles.

Taxe Zucman rejetée ainsi que la version «allégée» que le PS a proposé pour tenter de séduire le centre.

Bon bah

Ça me parait pas gagné le vote final sur le budget.

I really should resume doing linux install parties…

Why you would depend on a cloud service for a home appliance is beyond me. To me the whole point of home DIY/automation is the feeling of control over your environment.

the ability to combine comments from multiple communities under one post, if the same link was posted to all of them. You can see an example of that here (notice how the comments have dividers for each community).

Oh thanks for the link, I had never seen it in action, it is really nice!

Careful: negative price ≠ negative cost. Below zero prices are a market artifact usually.

The fact that this happens during peak HVAC use is a nice thing though.

And yes, we need intermittent industries, but the problem is, when you invest money in hardware, even to mine bitcoin (I would rather sell GPU time to train deep learning models personally) or to produce hydrogen, every hour not spent running your capital-intensive hardware is considered a cost that is not really compensated by energy price unless you run on donated hardware.

Circuits breakers are an obvious solution and there seems to be reasons why these are not implemented. I am not knowledgeable enough about the question but there seems to be a lot of counter-intuitive incentives that makes the energy market drop sub-zero occasionally. It is more of a market artifact than the absence of circuit breakers.

I have seen people in France explain that this is Germany undercutting prices to ensure France can’t have profitable private solar power companies but this sounds a bit conspiracy-theory to me, as Germany is not the only one doing it (but the biggest one in terms of volume)

These are the prices on the European market for electricity exchange between countries. It has a whole can of worms when it comes to problematic incentives, but it is indeed not consumer prices and (IMO) designed to enrich useless intermediaries.

RTE (French national grid operator)'s realtime data. It is indeed awesome to have realtime trackers of that!

EDIT: looks like the link in english is dead right now, here it is in french: https://www.rte-france.com/eco2mix/les-echanges-commerciaux-aux-frontieres

I’ll give another factoid:

In a sunny day, around noon, many EU countries have below-zero prices for electricity exports:

It comes with a different set of issues, but this is not prospective or a hypothetical: this is the world we are living in, with the operator of the French grid warning that we are currently at solar saturation.

Now we need the other part of the puzzle: energy storage. On a HUGE scale.

It took 40 years to have solar energy and batteries up to the task, and we are not there yet. Yes, it could have been a choice to more massively invest in R&D in these fields, but you still need electricity while you shut down nuclear plants. Don’t do it unless you are ready to replace them with something else than coal. We are not there yet. Germany relies on France’s nuclear capabilities to import electricity at night.

tl;dr: Longchamps et Vincenne, c’est des hippodromes, Marigny était une marque de cigarette et Balto fait référence à Baltimore, capitale du tabac à une époque.

You don’t need AI for that, they just use it as a scapegoat. At this point they may use a dummy named Steve. “I am sorry, Steve denied you medicare”.

It is a simple algorithm that does not require “AI”.

Yes, it is not a problem for the power plants, it is a problem for the fauna and it only impacts reactors without cooling towers. And I may add, this is a problem for the fauna caused in big part by the global warming which nuclear plants help prevent.