Lol given there are a good number of countries who engage in constant increasingly sophisticated cyber-attacks, this might be the stupidest one yet

I hope you guys aren’t too attached to having money stay in your bank accounts and your utilities working reliability

Wait Casio make TVs?

I really don’t want to be the guy spoiling it for you, but we all die

Essentially for something to be decentralised and not ephemeral, everyone needs a copy of the data.

To go into a bit more detail—one of the biggest benefits of decentralised systems is generally redundancy has to be built in otherwise you have a Single Point Of Failure™️, and then you get data loss when it’s gone. Given any sensible decentralised system is designed to avoid this scenario, that data has to be somewhere, and generally the simplest and less expensive (in terms of processing) way to improve on data in one place, is to have it in every place. Any time the data isn’t in one place or every place, you then have an exercise in figuring out where it actually is. This “finding it” processing is going to take time and effort, and if you imagine a standard semi-popular lemmy post, that’s potentially data coming from all sorts of different places, which may or may not be there—this would inevitably make request times ridiculous and basically no one would use it.

At the end of the day, any kind of processing is energy, cost & time expensive, whereas storage makes that part of the process effectively instant and is much cheaper than increasing processing power in both cost and energy.

So basically in this use case and many like it: it makes sense if you’re trying to pick what to optimise, you optimise for lower processing and higher storage requirements rather than vice versa.

The history aspect is more straightforward to understand given the above, if you expect people to care what happened a year ago and want to support that, that data needs to live somewhere

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/oct/24/uk-meat-consumption-lowest-level-since-record-began-data-reveal

Sure things can always go quicker, but this one is at least already on the right trajectory, and luckily that’s the hardest one for a government to influence.

The government should definitely be heavily subsidizing heat pump replacements (then after a while ramping up gas duty as the stick) and bring back the solar panel subsidies though. And yes shove every penny necessary to get HS2 done to completion so we can get started on HS3 and completely disincentivise short haul flights. All the while building as many wind, tidal and solar farms as possible to power it all—bonus points if we can get a surplus Vs our immediate neighbours.

If we’re all dead the money doesn’t matter, so it should be spent on ensuring survival.

My friend, it’s not nonsense, it’s basically how decentralised communication has to work if you want any reasonable level of recency & history in the data.

Usenet was basically the original and I believe a modern news provider requires something like 50 petabytes of storage to run a 10 year data retention service

“Tim onion” got an irl lol out of me

That guy is already beating his wife, if I stop giving him hammers to do it with, that other guy that’s pissed off about it all might do something bad

Oh, so someone has shown that you can buy yourself a carte blanche in the US government for about the price of a medium sized building in larger capital cities?

This bodes well for America from now on, what interesting times you’ve made for yourselves

Surely they would hope a new product would positively impact them though

That’s really shitty given the expectation set when using a VPN

I was wondering the same, I’ve not had any issues personally

I’m sorry, but fucking what

What union member isn’t aware of who the enemy is

The Dreamcast had hall effect joysticks and the controllers cost half what subsequent controllers did

We’ve been taken for a ride

This breaks many games

I always find it mad as hell that Americans have to pay tax in the US even if they are living and earning elsewhere

Especially given generally Americans are pretty allergic to reasonable taxation

I doubt this comment is for anyone reading but:

If you support this, you are a bad person, a literal caricature villain.

Okay cool, but what about the games you’ve already had out for like a year?

Like, idk, ff7r2 on PC?

You’d have thought they’d have learned from losing the browser monopoly they had 15 years ago due to complacency

I say this all as someone who often supports the greens in my own country:

If they are even entertaining the idea of Harris losing being a positive for them, they are as deranged as Trump.

Trump gets in, we might as well start building bunkers, because climate change will accelerate under him, and these next 5 years are probably the most important if we’re going to stand any chance of turning this around.

I don’t know who still needs to see this, but: Voting Green in this election is the most environmentally damaging thing you can do aside from directly voting for trump.

If you vote green in this election, you will be directly responsible for everything that follows should Harris lose.