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

They can happen at the same time, but no, they’re entirely independent

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

Well that’s a lie, I know an early 20 year old who’s into retro games and has definitely been to an arcade with CRTs in the past year or so. It’s not a stretch to imagine he’s seen static on one

No one in the last 25 years has ever seen it.

I mean you can still find a CRT today and turn it on if you like, they’re less common for sure, but they’re still around if you’re looking for one

2010-2012 I’d say

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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

I’m sorry, but fucking what

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

For everyone not aware, given everything else that’s going on—yes, that’s world war

I doubt this comment is for anyone reading but:

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

Basically in my experience, when it comes to smart lights it’s generally just worth springing the extra for Philips Hue (and using the hub, not just in Bluetooth mode) unless you want to waste your time and money with other brands. Nothing else seems to be remotely as reliable and easy to work with—and I have zero patience for having to perform tech support on my house lighting.

I’m glad to hear you got your bulbs working though

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.

That’s cool for Action Retro to get featured on Tom’s Hardware

That thumbnail lol

Do you guys have any kind of laws around political messaging?

This would be prison time in most functioning countries

I just love how much it must be hurting him to see his initials attached to a worthless share price