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🌲ikt has funded planting of 1,145 trees and the prevention of 54.1 tCO2e from being emitted
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22·4 days agothat means we’re stuck buying german coal.
is germany increasing or decreasing the amount of coal it burns every year?
ecosia has always felt kinda skeevy to me, because tree planting isn’t actually carbon positive. it becomes positive after 40 or so years, granted that the trees are not cut down. which is usually what happens.
they have a blog post on this
https://blog.ecosia.org/how-do-ecosia-trees-survive-cut-down/
the tree counter for example aims to match reality not hope:
For instance, if we plant 1000 trees and know from experience that the mortality rate in this area is 25%, we’ll only add 750 trees to our tree counter. We continually measure the survival rate of the trees we plant, through inventories and satellite technology, and adjust our tree counter accordingly.
Pretty much every tree planting project now involves cooperating with the local community around the trees, in some cases money goes to them to buy goods to prevent them from needing to cut down the trees
Not only that but tbh it’s just a good thing :)
also, just like ddg, ecosia is dependent on bing, the search provider with the worst carbon footprint, to function.
you are out of the game too long, they switched to google a while ago:
but! even better!
For the first time in its 16-year history, Ecosia users in France will now receive a proportion of their search results directly from EUSP’s independent European index. The rollout aims to serve 30% of French search queries by the end of the year.
How exciting!
Try to stay positive eh ;)
Unless you maintain and protect a large swath of nature
what about this
https://www.bankaust.com.au/about-us/conservation-reserve
😁
the energy costs for the restaurant to operate, maintain their structure, maintain the roads for you and the employees to get to and from, costs of employee transit
that would be split though? a bit like a bus or train, average costs to produce the meals would be lower as they’re made in bulk
You are highly unlikely to be cradle to grave climate positive
that is true, you can see my ecologi link in my profile with my eventual goal, although that’s just for the sake of it
i have recently funded a second solar battery which should reduce another few thousand co2’s out of the air every year pushing me even further co2 positive
there is also corena which i want to donate too after this damn russin invasion is up, money goes to them, they lend it out at low interest rates, the money comes back and they can lend it out again, pretty damn good
there is still work to be done though, never give up!
i don’t get it what am i supposed to be learning?
Or don’t and assume that your vibe coding skills are the same as career engineers
I don’t? stop assuming im a professional coder, i’ve said multiple times what i use it for in this very thread
producing beautiful code?
tell that to microsoft and salesforce and slack and jira and every other piece of junk software that was garbage before ai
if ai is fixing bugs in their shitty “beautifully coded” software so much the better
ok? 👍
I’m not sure
to be fair I use https://www.ecosia.org/ which is climate positive so anything else I do on the web is carbon negative, however I also have solar and a battery and export power at night so I am technically climate positive (I reduce more emissions than I make)
also I mainly use lechat tbh, it’s french and aims to be climate friendly:
The project will support large-scale AI model training and inference workloads, leveraging Sweden’s renewable energy capacity and EcoDataCenter’s established footprint in sustainable data center operations. The facility is expected to be powered primarily by renewable energy sources, aligning with both companies’ commitments to reducing the carbon intensity of AI compute.
https://dcpulse.com/news/mistral-ai-ecodc-ai-facility-sweden
If the grid is more green, the data centres are more green, and in the most tech heavy place on earth:
The growing portfolio of grid-scale batteries in California, the world’s fourth biggest economy, hit a stunning new peak earlier this week, reaching a share of 44 pct of evening demand at once stage in the early evening.
They’re rapidly getting pretty green
It’s not my fault Americans are innovative enough to come up with a magic computer code box but not smart enough to install a bunch of solar panels and batteries :\
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sure let’s just burn down half a hectare of the amazon for a seven line script
that would probably be a couple hundred tokens so the same energy use as a google search
bash syntax is an annoying pile of illogical junk
🤣 so true!
I picked up python fairly quickly but bash my gosh
upvoted because you’re right, i don’t care?
edit: javascript sucks btw i hate it
why are there so many lemmy users throwing weird analogies about monkeys and hammers at me
Yeah i duno, it’s helped me make a massive script to automate a hugely time consuming part of my job saving literally 10’s of thousands of hours of work, I’m using it to also setup a boilerplate website that links to our backend to monitor services, it has also helped me setup home automation which makes me money (export power to grid during peak time), and I use it daily for any number of things, it’s great
Seems to work well for other people as well:
Claude Code hit $1 billion in annualized run-rate revenue in the first six months after its release and has since grown to $2.5 billion, the company said. Once used primarily by AI-forward startups, Claude Code has gained traction with engineering teams at Fortune 500 companies and even among hobbyists lacking technical skills who are interested in building their own apps. It’s been used for everything from growing a tomato plant to helping plan the route of a NASA Mars rover. On social media, users describe themselves as “Claude-pilled,” or Claude-obsessed.
But who knows, maybe it’s just 3d printing 2.0
You’re right I have no idea, I use it for scripts, it works well, you guys are all linux nerds talking about philosophy that I don’t care for
I need code to make a script, it works, end of story, I don’t care about your philosophy on less code more code better code worse code, and I’m pretty sure most businesses don’t care either
works for me and apparently a shitload of other people because the thing is so popular it can’t stop crashing from people using the hell out of it
Who are you asking that question to? I don’t care about your code, make it as shitty as you want
Claude doesn’t have the ability to create images, it’s mainly used for work
yeah this has been normal for them since they’ve become extremely popular after chatgpt got with the US military
They’ve been up and down near daily for like the last 2 weeks, unfortunately they just don’t seem to be able to get enough compute to handle how popular they are
Claude is used mainly for writing code, it is substantially faster at writing code than a human
https://www.cleanenergywire.org/news/german-coal-use-continues-downward-trend-2024