I really struggle to understand the direction of today’s society.

For years, we’ve been saying we need to reduce emissions and consumption, removing chargers from smartphone boxes “to pollute less,” then the “AI” comes along and we reopen fossil fuel power plants, increasing consumption and emissions for… well, who knows why!

We make people feel guilty for not switching to an electric car (or one with high energy efficiency), yet we fly for pure leisure, just to get “a few more likes” on YouTube.

We create increasingly efficient electronic devices, focus on the consumption and emissions of data centers (local or remote), and then stop optimizing code and dependencies because “there’s autoscaling” and “resources are cheap.”

To me, these are ideological short circuits.

#Sustainability

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    21 days ago

    @stefano@bsd.cafe I think most of us are in a similar situation.
    I am completely fatigued by it and at this point I don’t give a **** anymore. Probably what big corp wants.
    I think there’s good will and effort going on, but also a LOT veil pulled on our eyes.