Yeah, that kind of stuff. Any you’d recommend?

A bit dated but Cousteau’s documentaries, while it mentions environmental problems, do that from a discovery point of view.

There.

(just downscaled/upscaled with no interpolation)

Yes: they train the model on 8 bit art with 8x8 pixels and then ask it to generate with a scale of 0.125 (1/8) and scale up with no interpolation.

I keep seeing these titles and it pisses me off.

Mass-tourism is a problem, but this is not what the Louvre strike (dare that word in the title, even if it pisses your owner) was about.

It was a regular strike over working conditions. Yes, mass tourism, but the Louvre has been the most visited museum in the world for a very long time with no problem. The problem is that 200 staff are currently missing and the rest is overworked, in the management’s indifference.

So let’s go with all the swear words: After a worker’s unions meeting about the degrading working conditions, a strike was decided to protest and gain a leverage in negotiation with management.

Looks like the model knows that it has to make 8x8 blocks but that forcing it to generate at 1:8 the normal scale is a natural way to force it. The current one probably didn’t use it, as the whiskers are sub-“pixel”

Wow it is unusual to have pixel art that actually has such a regular grid! Still missed on the whisker though!

I was Dave Bowman

It is also non-coercitive.

I would argue that when you have 1000+ people, you will necessarily have subgroups, teams, you wont have 1000 on 1000 communication. There will be subtasks, people a bit more specialized at organization and communication. Topologically, you will have a graph of people passing through specialized communication nodes. I think it is unavoidable.

There is no reason however for seeing these nodes as “above” the others. It is out of habit that we organize things as a pyramid, but the fact is if a dev or a maintainer disagree, they have no way to force each other. Resolution comes from overall consensus, and the reason why Linus Torvalds is often the arbiter of these cases is because he is very respected by the rest of the community, but whole forks have existed (and have been reintegrated).

Open source politics is quite different from what people are used to. The ability to fork a whole project gives a mean of resistance that no other organization has.

The linux development team

Yes, it changes the criterion from “uptime of a server” to “uptime of a service” and that’s why I mention that the fediverse and even the old discussions on slrpnk.net kept being accessible.

But if we went to let go of the old world, we can’t have the back thought of “you know, worst case I’ll host that on a google drive, I know that one will be up”. We need to get to this last mile.

Really this is just a general remark, not something specially related to slrpnk.net and you are doing an awesome job, that I am grateful I don’t have to do. Please don’t see it in any form as a criticism of this server!

I am just saying that we should not embrace downtimes as an unavoidable thing or a problem we need to live in order to have a sustainable world. Resilience is also an important aspect of solarpunk.

I love the lemonaut.

Also, there is an advice I love, that can be applied to any genre: Do not write with the genre X in mind. Write what you want, pour your love in it, and let others label it. Maybe ‘solarpunk’ will end up not existing and will instead be dwarfed by a similar but different style, tidal romance, alt-earth utopians, skyships lesbian pirate slashfiction, whatever. Do not try too hard to shoehorn the themes of sustainability, it can simply be a background for the things you love.

Gibson hated the term “cyberpunk”: he said he was just writing the science fiction that made sense to him.

If you are attracted to solarpunk, you have some thoughts and hope about the future but you are probably also into other things that you love. Make it about that.

First of all, I love you, slrpnk admins.

First, yes, <3 to all.

Then:

Meh, I consider that resilience is not opposed to sustainability.

We don’t have to prioritize it right now, and I will always be grateful of volunteers who do the best they can with what they have.

And to me the lesson was that several communities (french-speaking jlai.lu) still worked and I just used an alt there to continue the conversations I had, and that I could still access through them the past conversations in slrpnk.net. This is a testament to the resilience of the fediverse architecture.

I just disagree with the sentiment that we should somehow romanticize power outages. Some people need a reliable power sources to survive, and it is a totally preventable thing. We can route around them in a radically different way though.

But thinking “this could be down for a week with no warning” also implies that I need to keep a fallback mechanism if I am using it to organize any sort of event with people.

It is not only corporations. Single governmental voices are bad too, and many non-profits have their own political biases.

The difference with influencers and podcasters is that you have the choice between thousands of them. Radio would be like having the choice only between the top 5 of youtube, and you would have to tune in at a precise time to get it.

It is fun as a quirky hobby, but really, depending on it for information and entertainment was really bad. Radio and TV are what created mass culture, removed local dialects and accents.

It is a one-to-many channel where people in charge of the station have disproportionate power.

It is nice to have as a simple alternate way of communicating, but boy, how am I never giving up internet access to get back to those.

Everytime he is mentionned this webcomic en tête springs into my mind, and I can’t help giggle out of it.

Thanks!

Not much to say, I love your work! Thank you for what you do and for existing!

Ah yes, maybe something: I think the fediverse suffers from a lack of recommendation/search system. We are a bit burned out from the terrible consequences of the for profit recommendations of Youtube and Twitter, but I think a system that would be actually controlled by the user would be a very precious discovery and adoption tool. Is there something like that being worked on somewhere?

I wont buy electric until they are analog and disconnected from any sort of internet.

I have this one:

https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mitsubishi_i_MiEV_-_Peugeot_iOn_-_Citroën_C-ZERO

As analog as you will get. Bought second hand for cheap. Only about 100 km range though so not for every use.

I am part of a citizen’s collective that promotes direct democracy. They did not theorize the narcissism-authoritarian link explicitly, but gave a few tricks that worked here to make some bad actors flee:

• Avoid one-on-one conversations with potential bad actors, have a public channel and put things there even when they insist on communicating directly (they hated that)
• Talk explicitly about how positions of powers are going to be distributed but also how they are NOT going to be. The earlier you have them tag you as a dead end for their political career, the better.

And I think that we failed on that account here: recognize that they are going to go from friendly to hostile in the blink of an eye and be ready for it.

One thing I will do differently in the future is that I will not waste too much time with people who can’t clarify their positions and disagreements.