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#digitalpollution — Public Fediverse posts

Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #digitalpollution, aggregated by home.social.

  1. At 10 AM on Oct. 15th, you'll find Catherine Bouxin along with others from our team at Postgres Ibiza!

    She'll be kicking off the conference with "Reduce energy usage: contributing towards a greener future while directly improving cost and performance".

    You can also follow to keep an eye out for content from our team on how to do exactly that, in an entirely digital format! 😉

  2. I love LLMs and use them almost every day. Every new version fills me with happiness and curiosity. But honestly, I can’t stand the endless photo and video generation. After #Sora2, I feel like the internet will be flooded with digital junk. It’s like we’re building a virtual Great Pacific Garbage Patch, and I feel sorry for all the energy wasted on generating and storing this garbage.
    #AI #LLM #DigitalWaste #Sora2 #TechThoughts #VirtualPollution #AICommunity #OpenAI #GreatPacificGarbagePatch #DigitalPollution

  3. In the #OER world, it's a common thing to discuss #Sustainability, especially #UNSDGs and other #SustainableDevelopment goals (decided by international instances). In the interest of #glocal work, it might become relevant to measure our #DigitalPollution. How much of an improvement is #OpenEducation making in these terms? Different from (though not unrelated to) the frequent discussion of #TextbookCosts. eductive.ca/en/resource/the-en