lime!

that’s how you link a community in text. if you just paste the link verbatim, you end up on the wrong instance.

we passed that point last year, yes.

that’s old data. inference uses more than training now, since usage has gone up significantly. they traded places in march or april 2025.

no, that’s your reading of what i said.

a web server also spends most of its time idle, and the power loads are on the clients.

just going from experience. my pis tend to max out their power supplies unless they’re oversized compared to the spec, leading to boot loops and brownouts.

yes, and the values that gemini embodies are isolationism and conservatism by breaking away from the larger community, limiting contributors to the people who have the technical skills, and standardising on an intentionally incompatible version of a 30 year old protocol.

it doesn’t solve it because the problem is not a technical one but a social one. a malicious actor can still track and advertise to people. that doesn’t mean it’s happening right now.

the onus is on the protocol to prove itself.

but gemini doesn’t solve that. the protocol is not the problem.

there is nothing stopping any server from tracking requests on the backend. there is also nothing that stops a server from transmitting that request info to a third party. in this way it’s identical to http. it’s also identical in that there is nothing that stops you from setting up a http server with no tracking.

if you fetch something from a server, you can be tracked. if you get presented content, you can be advertised to. it’s a meaningless limitation.

be serious. gemini has tons of intentional limitations that makes it only appeal to a small niche of a niche.

gemini is a very ideological project, and if you don’t buy in 100% it’s pretty hard to use. sticking to html is a better idea in my opinion.

also your power figure is off by a factor of ten, an rpi needs 5W when running and up to 12 on boot which is why the official power supply is rated for 3A.

i mean we already have multiple national payment systems (like vipps, swish, and mobilepay) that are in the process of interlinking with eachother, and there are other eu-sanctioned digital payment systems also rolling out (like tips). wero is very early in its deployment. i would not be surprised if our banks are waiting until a clear winner emerges to jump on the single payment system.