Russia-appointed ‘stooge’ mayor killed in apparent drone strike by Ukraine
Vladimir Leontyev had been convicted in absentia of collaboration with the enemy.
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Jane Goodall, dogged advocate for the natural world, has died aged 91
Acclaimed conservationist and chimpanzee expert Jane Goodall has died, leaving behind a legacy of empathy for primates and the natural world
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Data breach at dealership software provider impacts 766k clients
A ransomware attack at Motility Software Solutions, a provider of dealer management software (DMS), has exposed the sensitive data of 766,000 customers.
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Colombia to cancel free trade deal with Israel, "reform" treaty with US
Colombia’s President Gustavo Petro said Monday that his government will end its free trade agreement with Israel and seeks to revise the one with the United States.
Petro made the announcement during a cabinet meeting amid rapidly deteriorating tensions with its former partners over Israel’s ongoing genocide in Gaza, which is largely sponsored by the US.
The announcement came shortly after an open letter by the Colombo-American Chamber of Commerce, which said that 500 businessmen distanced themselves from the president’s opposition to the genocide.
According to Petro, the “pro-gringo” businessmen failed to understand that life comes before trade.
Colombia to cancel free trade deal with Israel, "reform" treaty with US
Colombia’s President Gustavo Petro said Monday that his government will end its free trade agreement with Israel and seeks to revise the one with the United States.
Petro made the announcement during a cabinet meeting amid rapidly deteriorating tensions with its former partners over Israel’s ongoing genocide in Gaza, which is largely sponsored by the US.
The announcement came shortly after an open letter by the Colombo-American Chamber of Commerce, which said that 500 businessmen distanced themselves from the president’s opposition to the genocide.
According to Petro, the “pro-gringo” businessmen failed to understand that life comes before trade.
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Colombia to cancel free trade deal with Israel, “reform” treaty with US [Adriaan Alsema | SEP 30 2025 | colombiareports.com]
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Colombia’s President Gustavo Petro said Monday that his government will end its free trade agreement with Israel and seeks to revise the one with the United States.
Petro made the announcement during a cabinet meeting amid rapidly deteriorating tensions with its former partners over Israel’s ongoing genocide in Gaza, which is largely sponsored by the US.
The announcement came shortly after an open letter by the Colombo-American Chamber of Commerce, which said that 500 businessmen distanced themselves from the president’s opposition to the genocide.
According to Petro, the “pro-gringo” businessmen failed to understand that life comes before trade.
"Trade is not more important than life, as the 500 pro-gringo businessmen, who are not Colombian or do not appear to be, would have us believe. They are more interested in exporting trinkets to the United States than in preserving life on the planet." -- President Gustavo Petro
“We are not the kind of business that bows down to greed and that means we will also reform the FTA and that means we will no longer have an FTA,” said the president.
Consequently, “the coal companies that export [to Israel] must fold or sell their concessions,” said Petro.
US says they’ll revoke visa of Colombia’s president for call on US soldiers to disobey Trump
Apart from ending the free trade deal with Israel and seeking changes in the treaty with the US, Petro ordered the ministers of trade and transport, to prioritize road infrastructure projects that would allow increased trade with the rest of South America.
"We had the most powerful international trade agreement with the Andean Pact. And now the political satraps come out and say that it is with the United States. When was that the case? Our industrial goods were sold to Venezuela and Ecuador. There was always food trade in the Andean Pact. Why did we abandon the Andean Pact? To prioritize a free trade agreement with the United States that hurts us." -- President Gustavo Petro
The president additionally ordered his foreign minister, Rosa Villavicencio, to replace the personnel at the Colombian embassy to Beijing, claiming that his attempts to strengthen ties with China were being sabotaged.
The government began improving trade relations with China earlier this year in response to an apparent trade war on the rest of the world declared by Trump after taking office.^[[1] https://archive.ph/q1UQ2]
How to get subtitles in jellyfin
I was a regular Plex user, until they had their mental breakdown recently. So I switched to jellyfin. I have only two problems with jellyfin so far. One of them is subtitles (the other is the "remote controller" doesn't always sync properly).
Plex had an integrated subtitle downloader. You could just start a show, see that it was lacking subtitles and Plex could isntantly download subtitles for you. That doesn't seem to work in Jellyfin.
Is there an option or a plugin somewhere that can do/fix this for jellyfin?
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there's an opensubtitles plugin to search for subs and download them; you can also manually upload them by going to a library item, clicking the three dots, an selecting edit subtitles. you can search by clicking the magnifying glass or add your own by clicking the plus.
you can also just drop srts in the folder containing your item named like <name of media file>.en.srt.
haven't found a way to automatically download subs though :/
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I'm old school, I just get the subs and integrate them with MkvToolNix. I was always super picky about my files, so I'd go in there and change around what the active/enabled/default streams were, give the streams better names (e.g. Stereo, Surround 5.1, whatever was appropriate — I never included the language, since the tag handled that). I'd even use en-us or en-gb if it was specifically one or the other (e.g. James Bond, Harry Potter for the latter). I even insisted my subtitles be in English for English movies, and American English for American English movies. So like, the word "honor" in a Harry Potter movie would not fly with me, it must say "honour" because... that's what the English specifically say. (Speaking of Harry Potter, no "Sorcerer's Stone" bullshit in my library, I have the "Philosopher's Stone" version because, of course I do. The first one was the only one with a regional title.)
So because of that, I can use Jellyfin and the subs work just fine.
I am familiar with Plex's auto sub downloader. Despite owning a lifetime Plex Pass, it would put ads in the subtitles. That may be on the site's end though, not Plex's.
Still a Plex user, and I'm on a Mac, but all this shit works whether you're a Windows user or a Mac user. Probably Linux, too. I tried Jellyfin recently. It's fine if your clients are running Android, but they are just not there on Apple devices yet. My computer (M2 Pro) is plenty powerful enough to run both servers (servers use very little resources when not serving) but I just don't see a need for Jellyfin in my rotation. I do root for the project though, I want it to succeed, so I'll try it every year or so.
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Despite owning a lifetime Plex Pass, it would put ads in the subtitles. That may be on the site's end though, not Plex's.
You would be correct. Plex doesn't generate the subtitles at all - they are pulled from places like OpenSubtitles. The person/entity that made the subtitles and uploaded them to wherever Plex pulled it from is responsible for that. Absolutely zero to do with having a lifetime Plex Pass.
It's in the help docs:
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Open Subtitles | Jellyfin
This plugin will allow your server to download subtitles from OpenSubtitles.com for any video file on your server. The plugin can be installed from the catalog page and once enabled you will need to enter your OpenSubtitles.jellyfin.org
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SubStation Alpha
SubStation Alpha (SSA) is a subtitling / script format that supports text formatting, animation, graphics and karaoke.[1] It is also the name of the program that is able to read SSA files.Contributors to File Formats Wiki (Fandom, Inc.)
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ASS File Format Guide
libass is a portable subtitle renderer for the ASS/SSA (Advanced Substation Alpha/Substation Alpha) subtitle format. - libass/libassGitHub
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It's under the dashboard>library>subtitle downloads
Bazarr is OK, but getting subtitles that are actually synced(and stay synced) to your particular video can be a pain.
I try to just grab things with subs already included.
Good news the just released 6.17 kernel has support for the IPU7 CSI2 receiver and the missing USBIO drivers have recently landed in linux-next.
Yeah! I have Lunar Lake! The camera on my Dell Dell Pro is the only thing that doesn't work.
Ollama on Fedora Silverblue
Ollama on Fedora Silverblue
I found myself dealing with various rough edges and questions around running Ollama on Fedora Silverblue for the past few months. These arise from the fact that there are a few different ways of in…Debarshi's den
The BlueSky Patent Non-Aggression Pledge is Good for The Social Web
We are happy to see the patent non-aggression pledge published by BlueSky today.
Software patents and related intellectual property can have a dampening effect on innovation in an entire application domain, such as distributed social networks. They make developers use complex, roundabout methods to do simple tasks, just to avoid the appearance of using a technique that may or may not be patented by another company now or in the future.
By offering this pledge, BlueSky makes it that much easier for everyone in this entire area — not just those working on ATProto or closely linked technologies — to more safely explore techniques without worrying about patent trolls pouncing on them or their users sometime in the future. It was a brave and generous step on their part.
The ActivityPub specifications, including Activity Streams, are covered by the W3C Patent Policy which gives good protection from patents by the specification creators and the W3C member organizations. Patent licensing is an important advantage of working in an open standards organization.
With the BlueSky patent pledge, another distributed social networking protocol and its related technologies are free to explore and re-use with less worry about paying royalties to a patent holder. It’s a good step forward in the ecosystem.
We hope companies and projects in other distributed social network ecosystems follow up on this step by releasing their own patent pledges, or developing their standards in an open standards organization like the W3C.
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Hey Google, meet Gemini: the new voice of your smart home
Hey Google, meet Gemini: the new voice of your smart home
Google is replacing Google Assistant with Gemini on every Google Home and Nest speaker or display, bringing natural language, context, and new smart home features.Jennifer Pattison Tuohy (The Verge)
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I downvote because it's paywalled.
Paywalled links are just ads with extra steps.
Launching October 1st, Gemini For Home is a suite of new AI-powered features for Google’s smart home hardware and software.The biggest change: Gemini is replacing Google Assistant on all of Google’s smart speakers, all the way back to the original Google Home speaker. This LLM-powered upgrade, announced at Google I/O, will be available through an Early Access program at first, with a wider rollout planned for next year.
On smart speakers, Gemini brings an entirely new voice assistant that uses and understands natural language, can interpret context, and can pull in more real-time information. You still activate it with the wake words “hey Google,” but Google Assistant has been evicted.
“Gemini for Home is the intelligence for your entire home,” Anish Kattukaran, head of product at Google Home and Nest, tells The Verge. “It’s not going to just replace Assistant on speakers and displays, but it’s going to upgrade your other devices as well, your cameras and doorbells, where you interact with those devices, and bring those smarts collectively to your entire home.”
I'm not excited for Apple to invent smart homes after this, completing the duopoly of LLMs being in everyone's homes even harder than before.
Long live Home Assistant
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Open source home automation that puts local control and privacy first. Powered by a worldwide community of tinkerers and DIY enthusiasts. Perfect to run on a Raspberry Pi or a local server.Home Assistant
Pope Leo hits out at critics of global warming
Pope Leo hits out at critics of global warming
In his first major statement on climate change, the pontiff criticises those who minimise climate change.Matt McGrath (BBC News)
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As sad as it is to admit this, an American pope is the kind of ally that the world needs right now. I commend his stance to speak so clearly against the grain of his following and in-group, defending facts and science in the process of pursuing a better future to all of us.
Now, we know that the fake Christians of the Maga Cult in the U.S. will dodge this pope as a "woke compromised asset", but to a LOT of Christians and most catholics around the world this will act as a beacon that will make a diference.
As to if it will be enough of a difference? That remains to be seen.
The pessimist in me doesn't believe so. But I would love to be proven wrong. At least in minimising the foreseeable outcomes. Which is the game we've been playing for quite a while now.
I was speaking in relation to climate change and the possibility of changing the mindset of conservatives around the world, as Catholicism has a lot of convergence with it.
This is a community for discussions about climate.
I was not defending religion, and especially not Catholicism.
You are absolutely right. Last time I checked, 6% of all Catholic priests have engaged sexually with a minor. That makes them the institution with the higher incidence of pedophilia.
But I can't deny or claim that the pope speaking in defence of science on climate doesn't make any difference. We both know that it does. That is why I started my comment with "As sad as it is to admit"...
Because as sad as it is to admit, we need these blind followers that allow their children to be the most molested in the world to listen to him and commit to some changes to a more sustainable future.
Idk about you but I have a 0% tolerance for pedos and any organization enabling them needs to be disbanded and the people in charge arrested.
That will do more for the environment than anything this one cult leader could do.
Tell me about it. I would get rid of all religious groups if I could and that is even without pedophilia on top of it.
But we're on a tight schedule to a doomed world and these idiots might listen to their cult leader more than the scientific method. Do I like this fact? Hell no!! But I don't think we're going to dismantle religion institutions in time to actually solve anything we need to.
We surely can try to do both at the same time. But if you have any religious family members, which I do, and roman Catholic nonetheless, you know that they'll listen to this idiot on this matter before they listen to the rest of us battling for the awareness to this for decades. It's insane, infuriating and the sad reality we have to deal with.
A lot of the world only listens to the voices of their in-group. But religious people take that to another level entirely.
I think I might delete my comments, actually, but all I was trying to do is to try to find the silver lining in a shit storm.
This is an olive branch moment if we take it correctly.
What are you suggesting otherwise? Genocide them all?
I hope not.
Anyone in positions of power running an organization that touches children and protects the pedos needs to get shut down and arrested.
Literally hold every “owner” accountable for the actions of their cults and raid and lock their pedo asses up.
Maybe seeing every religious leader stand trial for the crimes committed under them might convince a few of the indoctrinated that they are the bad guys.
I agree. But who the hell is gonna enforce that? Especially right now? Are you seeing the people being elected around the world?
It's kinda scary when this man, the head of the Catholic Church is more of an ally than most nation leaders.
We need to do what you suggest to the heads of companies and conglomerates too. But again, who is gonna enforce it?
People now are using A.I. that burns more water than a cauldron and more electricity than some nations to spew what these corporate overlords want them to. Just today I read that Google is suppressing AI searches regarding Trump and dementia. I don't use Google. But most people do.
The odds and stakes are stacked against a just and fair or even livable future.
I'm gonna take what I can get to turn the tide on it. If I fail it will not be because I failed to try. Giving up is not an option.
Honestly that’s going to be part of the overall revolution that the world needs to have.
Yea too many dictators are in charge. We’re going to have to rip them out from these positions of power.
If the cost of an organization is molesting children and abusing the poor and vulnerable in society, then they shouldn’t exist.
Religion like capitalism is a primitive and outdated concept in this day and age and needs to be abolished.
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So fucking insane to talk about "Critics of Global Warming" like its still something we need to debate.
The planet is frying and the American President is just cranking up the thermostat for the fun of it.
Not for fun, the fossil fuel companies donated something like $1B to his campaign. Might have the numbers off, but it was big news for a minute.
Now that his dementia's really settled in, they only need whisper in his ear.
It's ultimately good news, but the framing is bizarre.
Who criticises global warming? Well, people like us, and pope Leo. As opposed to people who'd rather criticise us and claim that global warming is no biggie (or even not happening).
Similarly, who minimises climate change? Well, people who are actually doing something about it. People who are switching away from burning fossil fuels and taking other steps to minimise the impact of not only themselves, but others, by working in fields like renewable energy, transit, heat pumps, etc.
Even the other framing of "minimising the impact of climate change" means working with adaptation strategies.
I can only assume the framing is so weird because of choices the BBC made.
My dad, very strong "Catholic". Pope says something, my dad, "ahh don't listen to him, he's an idiot"
My interpretation is he's not actually catholic just likes the church because sometime he can use it to justify his bigotry, when it's convenient for him and nobody has the energy to challenge the hypocrisy
Probably very few people will change their mind. It might sway a few Catholics who are on the fence about global climate change (somehow).
But what the Pope says will have an impact on young people from Catholic families who haven't learned much about climate change. Especially in places like the Philippines where climate change is quite literally lapping at their shores.
The idea that all Catholics have to do what the Pope says, or even agree with the Pope, is, frankly, anti-Catholic bullcrap - back when I was a very very small child, John Birch Society bigots were passing out pamphlets claiming JFK would be taking his orders from the Vatican.
But what the Pope does have is moral and persuasive authority. And when teenagers are growing up and learning about the world, and TikTok and right wing news are spewing all sorts of climate denial garbage at them, and they're being bombarded from all sides by the message that all politicians are liars and everybody's out to take your money and trying to change anything is hopeless - don't underestimate the influence of someone who's respected as not just a world leader but a good man.
Hades 2's latest hotfix rectifies narrative hiccups and stops Olympus runs ending in the most frustrating way I can imagine
Hades 2 devs Supergiant have released the roguelike's first 1.0 hotfix, rectifying a list of issues that includes some narrative scipting.
Allianz Life says July data breach impacts 1.5 million people
Allianz Life has completed the investigation into the cyberattack it suffered in July and determined that nearly 1.5 million individuals are impacted.
Munich Oktoberfest evacuated and closed due to bomb threat
The Oktoberfest has been evacuated and closed down, pending to reopen at 5pm local time.
Development is ongoing and changing by the minute.
Oktoberfest-News 2025: Die Wiesn ist wieder geöffnet - weiterer Toter in der Lerchenau
Das Festgelände kann nun wieder betreten werden. Die Polizei gab weitere Details zur Tat in einer Pressekonferenz bekannt. Alle News zur zweiten Wiesn-Woche im Liveblog.Isabel Bernstein (Süddeutsche Zeitung)
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Well, unrelated to the Oktoberfest. Still, it was an incident, and that's what the news was about.
Luckily it was nothing (except for an unrelated incident) .
You do you. 🤷
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Top 10 Biggest Festivals in The World 2025 - World Unfolds
Festivals are the heartbeat of any culture, bringing people together in celebration, unity and joy. They reflect the diversity, traditions and shared humanity of our global society. Every country has its own culture and traditions.Brandon (World Unfolds)
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Oktoberfest back on after Munich bomb scare
Explosions and a fire at a detached house in northern Munich triggered a large police response. The suspect was found injured and later died, but authorities found no link or threat to the Oktoberfest beer festival.Mark Hallam (Deutsche Welle)
Flotilla, l’alt di Israele e l’abbordaggio: fermi sulla nave ammiraglia Alma, rotta verso Ashdod
La Global Sumud Flotilla è stata intercettata a circa 75 miglia dalla costa di Gaza, l’abbordaggio illegale di Israele è iniziato. Alle 20:25 locali (19:25 in Italia) è arrivato l’alt di Israele. Gli attivisti riferiscono che l’abbordaggio è iniziato sulla nave ammiraglia Alma, dove si registrano i primi fermi. A bordo è stato dichiarato lo stato di emergenza. In volo, per monitorare l’area, anche caccia inglesi decollati da Cipro.
GLI AGGIORNAMENTI: Flotilla, l’alt di Israele e l’abbordaggio: fermi sulla nave ammiraglia Alma, rotta verso Ashdod
Flotilla, alt di Israele e abbordaggio: rotta verso Ashdod
Intercettata da Israele a 75 miglia da Gaza, la Flotilla riceve l’alt: abbordaggio (illegale) sull’Alma e primi fermi. Rotta verso Ashdod.Redazione (Atom Heart Magazine)
Judge orders the immediate release of El Paso DACA recipient
U.S. District Judge Kathleen Cardone, a Bush appointee in El Paso, said in her ruling that Santiago’s detainment “deprives her of her constitutional right to procedural due process under the Fifth Amendment of the United States Constitution.”
The Trump administration “did not present any evidence indicating that Santiago has endangered anyone during her twenty years at liberty, including her thirteen years under DACA. Tellingly, they have failed to even articulate an individualized reason for which she should be detained,” Cardone wrote.
Cardone gave ICE until 4 p.m. Thursday to release Santiago and to notify the judge by noon Friday of the time and day Santiago was released.
Microsoft launches ‘vibe working’ in Excel and Word
Sometimes I wonder if the AI push is about firing people for being stupid about trusting any of its output.
Not to mention, this doesn't feel like actual coverage but rather a bit of the author fellating this new development.
You’ve probably heard of vibe coding — novices writing apps by creating a simple AI prompt — but now Microsoft wants to introduce a similar thing for its Office apps. The software maker is launching a new Agent Mode in Excel and Word that can generate complex spreadsheets and documents with just a prompt. A new Office Agent in Copilot chat, powered by Anthropic models, is also launching today that can create PowerPoint presentations and Word documents from a “vibe working” chatbot.“Today we’re bringing vibe working to Microsoft 365 Copilot with Agent Mode in Office apps and Office Agent in Copilot chat,” says Sumit Chauhan, corporate vice president of Microsoft’s Office Product Group. “In the same way vibe coding has transformed software development, the latest reasoning models in Copilot unlock agentic productivity for Office artifacts.”
Agent Model in Excel and Word is a more powerful version of the Copilot experience that Microsoft has added to its Office apps. It’s designed to make the complex parts of Excel more accessible to users that aren’t experts. “It’s not just simple assistive short answers, but board-ready presentations or documents,” Chauhan says. “It’s work, quite frankly, that a first-year consultant would do, delivered in minutes.”
Microsoft launches ‘vibe working’ in Excel and Word
Microsoft is launching new AI tools in its Office apps. A new Agent Mode comes to Word and Excel, alongside an Office Agent in Copilot chat.Tom Warren (The Verge)
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"Security" category
Just a thought as I work through some bugs reported to NodeBB... would there be interest in ActivityPub.space hosting a "security" category for discussion around vulnerabilities, CVEs, and such that are related to ActivityPub?
For example, if NodeBB were to receive a bug bounty report and responsibly disclose the details, it would be ideal to have it archived in a place where it won't just disappear off the feed in a matter of minutes.
U.S. solar will pass wind in 2025 and leave coal in the dust soon after
Based on current deployment rates, it is likely that solar will surpass wind as the third-largest source of electricity. And solar may soon topple coal in the number two spot.
Looking ahead, through July 2028, FERC expects no new coal capacity to come online based on its “high probability additions” forecast. Meanwhile 63 coal plants are expected to be retired, subtracting 25 GW from the 198 GW total, and landing at about 173 GW of coal capacity by 2028. Meanwhile, FERC forecasts 92.6 GW of “high probability additions” solar will come online through July 2028.
U.S. solar will pass wind in 2025 and leave coal in the dust soon after
Solar and wind represent about 11% to 12% of the energy mix each, while coal sits just under 15%. Developers brought online 16 GW of solar out of a total 21.5 GW electric generation capacity cumula…pv magazine USA
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The answer, my friend, is blowin' in the wind.
All we are is dust in the wind...
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That's been the joke of Solar for a while. Engineers could have told you all the way back in the 1970s (really, the 1910s) that it costs less money to leave a big plate out in the bright sun than to drill a giant hole and hope there's enough spicy rocks at the bottom of it to justify the expense.
We should have crested this hill a lot sooner, but the heavy emphasis on subsidized fossil fuels during the 80s, 90s, and 00s kept these fuels artificially cheap. Meanwhile, fossil fuel firms actually did invest in Green Energy R&D but only for the purpose of erecting "patent thickets" that would hinder competitive growth of these alternatives.
This “patent thicket” can create barriers to innovative low-carbon technologies, particularly in markets requiring expensive licensing fees or with complex patent litigation (Cannuscio 2008). A strengthened IPRP can increase market concentration and reduce competition (Liu et al. 2018), with large corporations able to maintain market control in such environments through patents on key technologies. This control not only restricts the entry of emerging low-carbon technologies into the market but also perpetuates the reliance on existing high-carbon technologies.
This has lead to big surges in the development and deployment of Green Energy grids outside of the countries doing most of the cutting edge research. Americans are only now catching up.
Does intellectual property rights protection help reduce carbon emissions? - Humanities and Social Sciences Communications
Humanities and Social Sciences Communications - Does intellectual property rights protection help reduce carbon emissions?Nature
You're really discounting that fossil fuels have hella bang for the buck, loads of power per gallon. tl;dr: Energy dense
I can run my little generator at camp all night long if there's as little as 3 gallons in there. Space heater or AC unit, lights, all that. I'd have to have many panels and batteries to compare to that output. My best battery is a huge LIPO4, trolling motor can't kill it, not even close. But leaving the LED lights on for a little over a day drained it dry.
We need way more solar infrastructure to get where we're going, and I'm all about it. But since since the GOP has decided to go back in time, China is going to smoke America, both in renewables and the associated economic benefits.
Did not know about the patent thing! Know any examples?
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You’re really discounting that fossil fuels have hella bang for the buck, loads of power per gallon. tl;dr: Energy dense
Coal is generally the worst of the lot. Oil and gas burn cleaner and have more combustible by weight. Coal is energy dense but also heavy af and dirty as hell. It's also very common place and comparably safe to transport. And it is simpler to use.
Fine enough to warm your home or grill some meat. But you're not putting a rocket into orbit with coal.
My best battery is a huge LIPO4, trolling motor can’t kill it, not even close. But leaving the LED lights on for a little over a day drained it dry.
Sure. Broadly speaking you want to be hooked up to the grid to benefit from electricity. Anything portable is very ineffective for a litany of reasons.
But you’re not putting a rocket into orbit with coal
And you’re definitely not with wind and solar lol.
Coal is cheap, abundant in supply, and easy.
Coal cheap? Incorrect.
And it's only easy if you're fine burning brown coal and spewing shit everywhere.
Patents have a short life span.
Years, depending on how it is used and renewed. But the point is that you've got a minefield of potential legal liabilities every time you try and launch a business. You don't know whether what you're doing is patented until you check. And if enough entrepreneurs have their businesses blown up early on, it delays how quickly alternative energy can be built out and deployed by at least as long as these patents survive.
When the government is in your corner, handing out subsidies, leaving environmental rules unenforced, securing new oil fields overseas through military force, and generally making your life as an energy tycoon easier, you're at a comparative advantage to the wind farm guy who has to argue with the Kennedys over hurting a bird or obstructing the Massachusetts Bay skyline.
It’s not actually cheap though, that’s the problem. Basically every country that is pushing “renewables” are having their power bills increase over and over and over with no sign of slowing down because it’s not cheap.
No one wants to build them without giant subsidies and guaranteed returns. Why do you think that is?
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The Renewable Energy Honeymoon: starting is easy, the rest is hard
The belief that Australia can decarbonise its economy by relying on the wind and the sun rests on a misplaced conviction about what the renewables rollout will entail.Zoe Hilton , Michael Wu , Aidan Morrison (The Centre for Independent Studies)
This is an important point to consider. However, to me it seems somewhat separate from your previous comment.
Of course, no sane government should push for a country to rely solely on wind and solar. Ideally you have a mix of various energy sources, even potentially including some fossil fuels. Hitting that 20-30% sweetspot, as mentioned in the paper, looks to be fairly cheap and beneficial for everyone.
Solar panels are not the expensive part of using solar to power the country - the storage and transmission is.
Although having said that, the cost of regularly cleaning panels, replacing them, throwing them in landfill, and mining materials to make new ones every 15 years or so is also huge - and destructive to the planet. It’s just more of a slow burn cost that snowballs.
Some reading for you, which I hope you'll read:
cis.org.au/publication/the-ren…
https://x.com/jnampijinpa/status/1973660876793368808
Since I doubt you or anyone else will, I'll take some bits from it:
As you can see, as wind + solar generation share goes up, retail electricity prices go up. They never go down. They never even stay the same.
“As the proportion of weather-dependent energy in the grid grows, the costs and difficulties of integrating this energy also grow at an increasing rate.”
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The paper found (as per the graph):• Countries with less than 21% wind and solar generation have electricity prices of around US $0.15/kWh on average.
• Countries with between 21% and 33% wind and solar generation have electricity prices of around US $0.24/kWh on average.
• Countries that exceed 33% wind and solar generation, have electricity prices of around US $0.37/kWh on average.
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The research notes, “No country has achieved penetrations higher than 60%, let alone 90%, without costs going up. A low-cost, wind-and-solar-dependent country simply does not exist.”
The Renewable Energy Honeymoon: starting is easy, the rest is hard
The belief that Australia can decarbonise its economy by relying on the wind and the sun rests on a misplaced conviction about what the renewables rollout will entail.Zoe Hilton , Michael Wu , Aidan Morrison (The Centre for Independent Studies)
I'm not going to read propaganda from an Australian right wing think tank, you're right.
It’s not actually cheap though, that’s the problem. Basically every country that is pushing “renewables” are having their power bills increase over and over and over with no sign of slowing down because it’s not cheap.
I can't speak for every country, unlike you, but in Southern Europe the trend is exactly the opposite of what you're saying.
bbvaresearch.com/en/publicacio…
The increased penetration of renewable energies in Spain, especially solar and wind, has reduced wholesale…
The increased penetration of renewable energies in Spain, especially solar and wind, has reduced wholesale electricity prices by 20% in the last three years and could cut them by a further 20% by 2030 if the ambitious PNIEC targets are met.Rafael Ortiz Durán (BBVA Research)
“I’m not going to read your link cause it proves my ideology wrong. Here’s a link that proves mine right, and mine is much much much narrower in scope so as to not show the global trend”
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That's actually a problem.
All realistic plans for 100% renewable (or even 95% renewable, which is substantially easier) rely on a multipronged approach of wind, water, solar, and grid upgrades. Each one has upsides and downsides, but you can use the upsides of one to cover the downsides of another. Combined, you get a reliable grid based on intermittent but cheap sources.
Capitalism sees this plan and decides to deploy the one with the best immediate ROI. Which happens to be solar. Problem is that you can't just rely on solar. The grid is hitting limits where electrical production is sending prices to basically zero at certain times, but not able to provide enough the rest of the time. That will shift the economic incentives. Eventually.
It'll figure out what researchers have already written down, but it'll take too long to get there.
That's actually a problem
Is it? Wind is 10% and solar is 4%
eia.gov/energyexplained/electr…
Electricity in the U.S. - U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA)
The major fuel/energy sources and their contribution to annual U.S. electricity generation.www.eia.gov
Even home battery solutions. We have solar panels & a Powerwall. Were part of a Virtual Power Plant along with around 1500 other Powerwall owners in the region. During peak usage in the summer all our PowerWalls feed back to the grid so that our utility provider doesn’t have to spin up expensive (and dirty) peaker plants. We get paid a premium for the power we provide during these events.
I saw articles here on Lemmy just a month or two ago that Tesla successfully tested a VPP in California that consisted of 100,000 PowerWalls.
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Being “recyclable” doesn’t mean that they get recycled, because it’s often not economically feasible - like with solar panels. Are there lots and lots of recyclable materials in them? Absolutely. Does it cost more to extract them out than it does to buy a new one? Absolutely.
Most batteries, especially those used for home batteries, will never be recycled. They’ll end up in landfill, leaching toxic chemicals into the earth.
Also the materials used to make new batteries are not renewable. There are finite resources of them. They require mining. Mining equipment and trucks aren’t running on solar or batteries. As more and more are needed, more and more mining is needed.
The entire “renewables” push is based around endlessly manufacturing non recyclable things that end in landfill, using non-renewable materials, creating large amounts of toxic emissions - but the ones pushing it don’t care because the emissions happen somewhere else by someone else so they can claim to be carbon neutral.
But you miss the whole other aspect with different chemistries, many even harmless to the environment. You are focused only on current li-ion it seems which are not very network storage friendly anyway.
They can be distributed though. I
Install solar, most of the systems we install with batteries end up selling back a significant portion of their charge to the grid (iirc our system wide average is 40% nightly resale)
So not only is each house with a battery not using grid power at night, its powering almost half of an equivalently sized house.
Granted, batteries are still on the expensive side, so these systems aren't coming enough ( I think we're at ~10% of our systems have a battery)
Also you are talking houses, but masses live in apartments where placing solar panels or batteries isn't possible (at least in quantity).
It's not really a 'problem.'
If push came to shove, we could just wait before putting the panels online.
Aren't wind turbines mostly diesel generators in disguise?
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No in fact what they are is in the name "WIND" turbines...
This is complete BS, I could find zero sources for that claim, and several debunking it.
The only tangentially related thing I could find was that in colder climates, they need heat to de-ice the wings, and at one point, the power supply to a Scottish wind farm was cut off, so they put in some temporary diesel generators on-site to power the de-icing system to get the turbines going again.
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Hell. In Florida, FPL is the electric provider, and they are fighting tooth and nail to keep people from installing solar on houses.... In Florida, we would have almost free electric for everyone if all houses could install panels....
But FPL lobbied our GOP legislature and force anyone with solar to have a million dollar insurance policy payable to FPL in case something happens. Also got regulations passed to bar home windstorm insurance if any panels are bolted to the roof. So if you have panels, no hurricane insurance for you....and the mortgage holder gets to put their expensive policy on your home.
Fuck FPL
Bad phrasing. There are power walls for home use and FPL is still available.
My point is that Florida could use solar as 1 prong on the challenge to provide clean, green energy but FPL must deliver profit to it's shareholders and will fight that effort
As soon as solar panels and batteries are involved it’s not “clean, green energy” though. I have no idea how people ate that lie.
Solar panels don’t grow on trees. They’re not made from renewable sources. They require mass amounts of mining and coal/gas created energy to make, and they last 10-20 years max. They’re not recyclable either because it costs more to recycle them than it does to make a new one.
Batteries are even worse.
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Nuclear + solar is the only way to truly make it work. Unfortunately the “nuclear bad” message that’s spread by the “renewables” people are going to put us trillions of dollars and decades behind in getting there.
They require mass amounts of mining and coal/gas created energy to make
only because we choose to use coal and gas. This circular argument is old.
Florida has some of the strictest building codes in the United States due to the hurricane and flooding risks.
May I ask the source of your comment?
Yes, FPL has done a lot to prevent rooftop solar, but calling it "almost free" is not correct. Rooftop solar still comes with significant upfront costs. The weather of Florida degrades panels quicker with non-trivial odds of hurricane damage. Finally, Southwestern states receive much more solar irradiance.
If you are willing to be pragmatic and want solar in Florida, FPL's solar together program is your best option. Like it or not, utility grade solar is 1/3 the LCOE.
my dylexic brain read it as "US soldier will pass wind in 2025 and leaves coal dust soon after.."
holycrap wtf did they feed them as part of military experiment or wtf is going on???
A recent article about the state of the coal industry in the usa....
Fossil Fuels and Fossilized Minds - Paul Krugman share.google/9gGFCB2MFShNzGJrp
NodeBB v4.6.0 — Topic templating, AP fixes, SCSS updates, and more
We have just released v4.6.0 of NodeBB, containing fixes to our ActivityPub integration, minor fixes with SCSS, and some new functionality with topic templating.
:globe_with_meridians: ActivityPub Fixes
- WordPress blogs can be properly pulled into NodeBB (via their URL) now
- Fixed an error when moving a remote topic to another category
- This also fixed the issue where moved topics didn't update topic/post counters
- Fixed bug where NodeBB could not properly process
Linkheaders when it contained the standalonecrossorigindirective - Notifications for replies to topics made in remote categories now show the appropriate user
- Fixed bug where remote users were not able to post to a local category if
registered-usersprivilege was removed (now checksfediversepseudo-user) - Nested remote categories can now be removed from the ACP
- Remote categories can be renamed for de-duplication purposes
- Improved title generation for quote-posts
Core fixes
- Persona theme now shows hidden (zero-character) links in post content
_variables.scsspage in ACP > Appearance can now override Bootstrap variables- A template can be provided in a category's settings. This template is auto-populated in the composer when a new topic is being authored.
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Ted Cruz blocks bill that would extend privacy protections to all Americans | TechCrunch
Ted Cruz blocks bill that would extend privacy protections to all Americans | TechCrunch
The Texas senator blocked a bill that would have prevented data brokers from selling personal data on anyone in the United States, and not just federal lawmakers and government officials.Zack Whittaker (TechCrunch)
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Cruz was the sole objecting senator, who claimed without evidence that Wyden’s bill could disrupt law enforcement, “such as knowing where sexual predators are living.”
1600 Pennsylvania Ave.
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No, not those sexual predators. Not the rich ones who fight to oppress the LGBTQ+ and dark-skinned people. The sexual predators who are struggling to make ends meet. Those sexual predators. The ones that no one will miss.
Those are the ones the GOP wants to go after. Not the ones in their own ranks.
That's the difference between the two parties. One will kick out perverts. The other embraces them, as long as their money's good.
~~Ted Cruz blocks bill that would extend privacy protections to all Americans~~
Real Headline: The American government is corrupt and compromised, top to bottom, side to side. No one gets a pass. Not from the current admin or any previous admin. You do not go into US politics on a mere government salary and exit politics a multi millionaire.
Ted Cruz says ‘stop attacking pedophiles’ in gaffe during Senate hearing
Sen. Cruz, who voted against releasing the Epstein files, reportedly made the bizarre remark Tuesday morning.Stephanie Koithan (San Antonio Current)
I do not like that man Ted Cruz
I do not like his backwards views
I do not like his pedo stance
For there is no circumstance
I do not like that Man Ted Cruz
If pedos walk, the children lose
China Is Leaving America in the Dust on Clean Energy
China Is Leaving America in the Dust on Clean Energy
President Donald Trump is punting on clean energy, continuing to call climate change a hoax. China President Xi Jinping is happy to take the lead.Thor Benson (Rolling Stone)
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They always said this would or could be China’s century.
I just don’t think we knew it’d be because the United States shot their own dick off willingly.
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Cancelled. You can't be socially incorrect now, you can't say it like it is, you can't make stupid harmless jokes because you need to consider the feelings of those MAGA snowflakes.
/s fuck them. They love playing the bully, but then get bitchslapped and go running to mommy sobbing their eyes out "they're being mean to me".
American Republicans are selling out the future of humanity for their own personal power and greed.
At what point should they be treated as criminals in the International Criminal Court? At what point do they face justice for what they're doing?
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This is c/climate
Very few climate focused voters did.
The big issue for American environmentalists has long been failing to vote at all
Exit Poll: climate voters were Harris’s strongest supporters
In this edition, we spotlight who climate voters supported in the 2024 presidential election, exit polling data on fracking in Pennsylvania, and how voters in Ann Arbor, MI approved the creation of a local clean energy utility.www.environmentalvoter.org
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I don't believe that. We have beautiful clean coal.
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4º Encontro de Cidadania Digital em Carataeua – Belém-PA
Nesta edição, com o tema “Comunicação, Território e Apropriação Digital”, o encontro coloca na agenda local o debate sobre as Infovias Amazônicas, infraestrutura essencial para ampliar o acesso à internet e às tecnologias de informação nos territórios ribeirinhos e insulares. Ao discutir o papel das infovias, o encontro reforça a necessidade de que a conectividade esteja a serviço da vida comunitária, fortalecendo redes locais e garantindo o direito à comunicação como parte da cidadania plena.
Durante quatro dias, serão realizadas rodas de conversa, oficinas, vivências e atividades colaborativas, articulando saberes tradicionais e práticas digitais. A proposta é criar um ambiente inclusivo e plural, no qual a comunicação se consolide como um instrumento de transformação social, de defesa dos territórios e de fortalecimento das identidades amazônicas.
Datas: 01 a 04 de Outubro de 2025
Público: comunicadores populares, educadores, movimentos sociais e coletivos.
Parceiros: Casa Preta Amazônia, Comitê de Cultura do Pará (Ação Cultura É muita Onda), Laboratório de Cultura Digital (UFPR/MinC), Instituto Outeiro Verde, Irmãs da Horta, Recanto dos Orixás, Ninho do Colibri, Coração Verde, Tralhoto Leitor, Coletivo Digital, Produtoras Colaborativas, RedeSub, Aldeia FM, Sítio de Maré, Casa da Mestra Zula, Cosmotécnicas Amazônicas, AMP, Cordão de Pássaro Urubu, OBX (Observatório das Baixadas) e CEGAS.
Endereço: Rua Evandro Bona, n. 3380, Bairro – Itaiteua/Outeiro, CEP: 66842-030
Obs: O espaço onde será realizado o evento dispõe de piscina, área de lazer e quadra de esporte, por isso sugerimos usar roupas confortáveis e trazer roupas de banho.
Informações detalhadas em plantaformas.org/conferences/c…
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Nesta edição, com o tema “Comunicação, Território e Apropriação Digital”, o encontro coloca na agenda local o debate sobre as Infovias Amazônicas, infraestrutura essencial para ampliar o acesso à internet e às tecnologias de informação nos território…plantaformas.org
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Leadership shakeup at Hope Florida Foundation follows scrutiny of $10M grants for Desantis' political purposes (from Medicaid)
The department also didn’t reappoint board members Stephanie White, a Pensacola adoption attorney, and Tina Vidal-Duart, executive vice president of major state contractor CDR Maguire. Both had asked for more information on the legality of the $10 million transfer during an April board meeting.
The announcement, made during the organization’s board meeting Monday, came as a surprise to observers and wasn’t mentioned in its agenda. But the foundation’s lawyer, Jeff Aaron, said the board members were originally appointed to serve two-year terms, which recently expired.
It fell under scrutiny this year when the Herald/Times began questioning why it held a secret board meeting last year in which it accepted $10 million from a state legal settlement with the Medicaid contractor Centene.
The foundation quickly gave $5 million each to two organizations, one of which was controlled by the Florida Chamber of Commerce.
Cybersicurezza e “cyberpadrini”: a Lezioni di mafie Gratteri racconta il futuro della lotta al crimine
Le mafie usano i social, si muovono nel dark web, investono in monete virtuali, sperimentano intelligenza artificiale, acquistano software avanzati e arruolano hacker. È il nuovo fronte della criminalità organizzata al centro della puntata di Lezioni di mafie, in prima serata su La7, con il procuratore di Napoli Nicola Gratteri, lo storico Antonio Nicaso e il giornalista Paolo Digiannantonio.
LE ANTICIPAZIONI: Cybersicurezza e “cyberpadrini”: a Lezioni di mafie Gratteri racconta il futuro della lotta al crimine
Lezioni Di Mafie, anticipazioni terza puntata: i cyberpadrini
Nella terza puntata di Lezioni Di Mafie si parla di “cyberpadrini”: dark web, criptovalute e IA. In studio Gratteri, Nicaso, il capo della Polizia Postale e un hacker.Redazione (Atom Heart Magazine)
Wisconsin Planned Parenthood clinics pause abortion services amid funding crisis
Wisconsin Planned Parenthood clinics suspend abortion services amid funding crisis
Planned Parenthood is struggling to navigate fallout of law that blocks them from receiving Medicaid reimbursementsCarter Sherman (The Guardian)
President announces TrumpRx.gov for drugs, and pricing deal with Pfizer (yes, it's a federal website)
President Trump on Tuesday announced a deal with Pfizer to sell its drugs directly to consumers at discounted prices. They'll be available through a website operated by the federal government called TrumpRx.gov. He said similar deals with other drugmakers are in the works.
The new website is part of a broader initiative the administration says is aimed at bringing prices paid by Americans, including Medicaid patients, more in line with those paid in other developed countries. The idea is sometimes called most-favored-nation pricing. Under the deal, Pfizer agreed to charge the same price for new drugs in developed countries and the U.S.
Trump “Peace Plan” A Cynical Cover to Continue Campaign of Palestinian Extermination
The so-called "peace deal" does not offer peace; it demands surrender. The Trump plan is the manifestation of a colonial logic that believes might makes right.
Probably n00b Question - Mead Brewing
For context, I've dabbled in home brewing. I've made ~4 successful batches based on online recipes. I wouldn't call myself an expert, but also not a complete amateur.
So what happens if you don't rack your mead/wine? I suppose the notion I have is to let it set in primary (assuming there's no fruit/spices to remove after initial fermentation) until its fully clarified before going straight to bottling?
I guess I've assumed there is some problem in the clarification step if you don't "get rid of" the dead yeast that precipitates, but I've never seen anything exploring that as a method.
Can anyone offer their experience?
That's fine. The old advice for racking off the yeast is because that's what the big professional brewers/winemakers do. The difference being yeast sitting on the bottom of 5 gallons of beer/wine vs yeast sitting on the bottom of 100,000 bbls. The massive weight crushes the yeast and then lets some undesirable flavors into the beverage. At the homebrew scale this just doesn't happen.
The only thing to be wary of without racking off the yeast is that it's easy to stir a bunch of the sediment back up if your racking cane moves around during bottling.
As @MuteDog@lemmy.world said, but I'd add just one other thought.
Most of my 15 or 30 l batches seem to clear much faster after the first rack
I don't rack clear mead. It settles perfectly after a year or so, wait till laser beam goes through without any scattering, don't agitate the bottle and give it time, mead really gets better on the long run.
Also, the more yeast you have, better is precipitation. Any rush makes imperfectly clear mead that would seem clear but would just settle in bottle later. This is a bad shortcut, don't rake it.
Personally, I had beer sitting on its yeast cake for months (in the cooled keg though), without any issue. Also, when bottle conditioning, you'll have some yeast sediment at the bottom, which has never hurt the flavour in my experience, even a year or so of not always cool storage.
If you leave your beverage on the yeast for years, I suppose you risk autolysis, but I'd say you're safe for anything up to a year or so.
German weapons giant acts as sales rep for Israel's "suicide drones"
German weapons giant acts as sales rep for Israel's "suicide drones"
UVision sees genocide as a business opportunity.The Electronic Intifada
Supreme Court lets Lisa Cook remain as a Federal Reserve governor for now (they will hear arguments in January)
The Supreme Court on Wednesday allowed Lisa Cook to remain as a Federal Reserve governor for now, declining to act on the Trump administration’s effort to immediately remove her from the central bank.
In a brief unsigned order, the high court said it would hear arguments in January over Republican President Donald Trump’s effort to force Cook off the Fed board.
The court will consider whether to block a lower-court ruling in Cook’s favor while her challenge to her firing by Trump continues.
The high-court order was a rare instance of Trump not quickly getting everything he wants from the justices in an emergency appeal.
Government issues new data demand for UK Apple users
Government targets UK Apple users in new demand for data
It is the latest development in a privacy row which has pitted the UK against the tech giant and the Trump administration.Zoe Kleinman (BBC News)
Georgia Mos torna con “Pump The Jam”: la versione Afro House dal 3 ottobre su tutte le piattaforme digitali
Torna la carica esplosiva di Georgia Mos, dj e producer italiana di fama internazionale. Dal 3 ottobre arriva “Pump The Jam” in chiave Afro House, una rivisitazione personale della leggendaria hit anni ’90, pubblicata da QualaqAs Music e disponibile su tutte le principali piattaforme digitali.
LEGGI L'ARTICOLO: Georgia Mos torna con “Pump The Jam”: la versione Afro House dal 3 ottobre su tutte le piattaforme digitali
Georgia Mos: “Pump The Jam” in versione Afro House dal 3 ottobre
Georgia Mos firma una versione Afro House di “Pump The Jam”: uscita il 3 ottobre per QualaqAs Music. Info, stile e percorso dell’artista.Redazione (Atom Heart Magazine)
Chi l’ha Visto?, nuovi documenti inediti su Garlasco: anticipazioni e casi di stasera (1° ottobre 2025)
Chi l’ha visto? Anticipazioni sulla puntata dell’1 ottobre 2025. Che cosa sta succedendo ai ragazzi? Il nuovo appuntamento con Chi l’ha Visto?, condotto da Federica Sciarelli, affronta pericoli della rete e bullismo accanto a tre filoni di cronaca che tornano a far discutere. La puntata è in onda oggi, mercoledì 1° ottobre, alle 21:20 su Rai3.
TUTTE LE ANTICIPAZIONI: Chi l’ha Visto? Nuovi documenti inediti su Garlasco: anticipazioni e casi di stasera (1° ottobre 2025)
Chi l’ha Visto? Anticipazioni 1 ottobre 2025: nuovi documenti su Garlasco e casi in puntata
Chi l’ha Visto? torna stasera alle 21:20 su Rai3: nuovi elementi su Garlasco, il caso Elena Vergari e il mistero di Nicola.Redazione (Atom Heart Magazine)
Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 5th October 2025 - awful.systems
Want to wade into the sandy surf of the abyss? Have a sneer percolating in your system but not enough time/energy to make a whole post about it? Go forth and be mid: Welcome to the Stubsack, your first port of call for learning fresh Awful you’ll near-instantly regret.
Any awful.systems sub may be subsneered in this subthread, techtakes or no.
If your sneer seems higher quality than you thought, feel free to cut’n’paste it into its own post — there’s no quota for posting and the bar really isn’t that high.
The post Xitter web has spawned soo many “esoteric” right wing freaks, but there’s no appropriate sneer-space for them. I’m talking redscare-ish, reality challenged “culture critics” who write about everything but understand nothing. I’m talking about reply-guys who make the same 6 tweets about the same 3 subjects. They’re inescapable at this point, yet I don’t see them mocked (as much as they should be)Like, there was one dude a while back who insisted that women couldn’t be surgeons because they didn’t believe in the moon or in stars? I think each and every one of these guys is uniquely fucked up and if I can’t escape them, I would love to sneer at them.
(Credit and/or blame to David Gerard for starting this.)
Elon Musk announces "Grokipedia", which is exactly what it sounds like.
for article in wikipedia: grok.is_this_true(article)
The Gizmodo story mentions that he retweeted Larry Sanger, but it doesn't dive into the rabbit hole of just how much of a kook Sanger is and how badly his would-be Wikipedia competitors have failed.
Elon Musk's Wikipedia Competitor Is Going to Be a Disaster
Remember when Grok praised Adolf Hitler?Matt Novak (Gizmodo)
In today’s torment nexus development news… you know how various cyberpunky type games let you hack into an enemy’s augmentations and blow them up? Perhaps you thought this was stupid and unrealistic, and you’d be right.
Maybe that’s the wrong example. How about a cursed evil ring that when you put it on, you couldn’t take it off and it wracks you with pain? Who hasn’t wanted one of those?
Happily, hard working torment nexus engineers have brought that dream one step closer, by having “smart rings”, powered by lithium polymer batteries. Y’know, the things that can go bad, and swell up and catch fire? And that you shouldn’t puncture, because that’s a fire risk too, meaning cutting the ring off is somewhat dangerous? Fun times abound!
bsky.app/profile/emily.gorcen.…
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A pair of tweets, containing the text
Daniel aka ZONEofTECH on x.com: “Ahhh…this is…not good. My Samsung Galaxy Ring’s battery started swelling. While it’s on my finger 😬. And while I’m about to board a flight 😬 Now I cannot take it off and this thing hurts. Any quick suggestionsUpdate:
- I was denied boarding due to this (been travelling for ~47h straight so this is really nice 🙃). Need to pay for a hotel for the night now and get back home tomorrow👌
- was sent to the hospital, as an emergency
- ring got removed
You can see the battery all swollen. Won’t be wearing a smart ring ever again.
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TIL there are extensions to automatically expand abbreviations in Firefox
https://www.perplexity.ai/search/extension-that-automatically-e-Yxr0E2NcSgyyssLO6O4hwg
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Sulfur Hexafluoride: The Nightmare Greenhouse Gas That’s Just Too Useful To Stop Using
Sulfur hexafluoride (SF6) is not nearly as infamous as CO2, with the latter getting most of the blame for anthropogenic climate change. Yet while measures are being implemented to curb the release …Hackaday
In electrical distribution, there are plenty of alternatives, I've worked with electrical utilities for a little. In that city, most residential transformers and some legacy switchgear (some up to 80 years old) use mineral oil. In the 90s SF6 switchgear was common to be installed, but the current models of medium-voltage switchgear have neither. And some modern commercial alternatives are appearing for transformer winding isolation and coolant.
The issue comes with higher-voltage switching, such as at substations. If you want to use air separation there, then you'll need lots and lots of space between to prevent arcing. Since that is not always achievable, that's where vacuums or agents like SF6 are used instead.
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For unauthorized scrapers? Definitely
For paid API usage? That tends to not be public for obvious reasons but, allegedly, people have, allegedly, done tests and found "deleted" content in the results.
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Version control mother fucker, do you speak it?
But, in all seriousness: That is what they use for the comments. It is why a lot of the mass delete tools were "accidentally" undone during The Exodus. Because it was literally just rolling back. Theoretically there might be a limited number of revisions available but if you believe that I have a bridge to sell you. Because imagine if A Brown Person wrote a message then edited it five times so that Chloe couldn't alert Jack Bauer to who to torture
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Ive heard the same but I haven't seen real evidence anywhere, so im skeptical. But yes I agree, if they CAN get that data, it means the training data is better-ish....
But we are still on this site for a reason 😀
I mean... if the reason you left is because you didn't want your data scraped then... the fediverse is one of the worst places to go? Because anyone can run a modified lemmy instance to pull everything through the tools specifically designed to do that.
Let alone just scraping websites that don't have teams of big corporate lawyers.
Huh.
Does anyone else think that ChatGPT is still using the data, they’re just not referencing Reddit directly?
This is how you can tell Reddit’s $200+/share price is insane. Over 10% of its value dropped based on a different unprofitable company’s references to ingested content.
Yikes!!
While I don't agree with the reddit valuation to begin with...
that is actually how the stock market "should" work? Reddit is a company that, at its core, produces data to sell to other companies. If other companies choose to (say they are not going to) use that data, then the value of reddit drops. That is literally supply and demand.
If Stanley's Sprockets' sprockets are a vital part of iphones then Stanley's Sprockets is going to be a very valuable company. If Apple changes to the other dude's product, Stanley's Sprockets has now lost a lot of value.
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The ads/manipulation does a thing that helps you attain profit or power. You want to manipulate what people see and pay for... so you pay reddit to allow you to mass deploy bots bypassing moderator levers. They have the community, you have the objective, you pay for the help of doing this and they probably have their own bot farms included.
They can even internally flag these entries as bots and use their AI partnerships to analyze what works on users and what doesn't to trigger a specific response, and to avoid using techniques that get called out as bots.
They have their public 'sponsored' content, but I promise for big spenders they have a program that has no sponsorship callout. They probably brand it with nice fancy marketing terminology that makes it sound like you're an angel doing god's work by driving conversions or some stupid shit.
no actual path to profitablity
You don't think reddit can make money from advertising?
The people in power don’t care about people with a few shares. You can sell all your shares right now and nobody would notice.
Reddit’s power benefits whomever wants to push an agenda and a narrative while minimizing any info that could counter that.
Companies pay for API access so profits go up and stock value go up.
I assume the reddit stock doesn't pay dividends based on profits. But if you bought for 10 dollars and now it is 500 dollars? You can sell some of that stuck to people hoping it will go up to 1000 dollars for a solid profit. And so forth.
And if it DOES pay dividends (some kinds of stocks do) then a percentage of those profits are directly sent to the share holders based on how many shares they have.
see any return in their investment short of managing to sell the stock for more than they bought it
So... it is a stock that doesn't pay dividends? Like... that is what stocks are.
Homie? I assume you are just looking to hear "reddit bad" and... it is.
But if you are actually attempting to discuss things in good faith? You are just describing stocks and you should REALLY educate yourself on the subject if you ever intend to invest beyond retirement and mutual funds... which most people shouldn't in the first place but that is an even bigger tangent.
I am looking at it froma purely financial standpoint. The inky thing Reddit really produces is semi-anonymous data that is tied to an email address. The quality of that data is iffy at best, while they have massive expenses just to keep the site operating. They can charge for their API calls, but they will never be able to use that to generate actual profit since no one will ever pay for it at that price point.
Something like Reddit or twitter are useful if they are owned by powerful individuals or corporations that wish to influence the public. It is worthless as a strictly financial vehicle because it produces no profit and has assets that are not not equal to the cost of maintain them. You would only buy stock in reddit in the hopes that some billionaire thinks they can do a better job running it than Elon Musk did with twitter. Otherwise reddit stock is just a volatile place to park your cash in the hope that you can sell it for more later.
Which takes me back to my original comment about the kitten stomping factory. It gives value to a select group of people with a specific aim, but it is worthless as an investment vehicle because it owns little, produces nothing, and has massive liabilities. If you want to exert power and influence, it's useful. If you only care about making money, it's useless. People who buy and sell stock are mostly only interested in making money.
I am looking at it froma purely financial standpoint.
Then let's do that.
Reddit has three official and one implied revenue streams.
Of the official, we have:
Ad sales. This is where most "user data" actually comes into play and is the idea of building a profile of each user that can be used to put them into categories for targeted ads. That might be a simple as "likes video games, hates women, curious about learning to pee while sitting down". Or it might be "doesn't realize that guy at the bar took off the condom and is now pregnant". This is demonstrably profitable and doesn't seem to be effected.
The next is people buying reddit premium because they are idiots.
The last official oneis the actual topic of this thread. Reddit sells API access to, among others, companies training LLMs. ChatGPT has, allegedly, stopped using them. Thus, one of their major sources of revenue dried up and their stock dropped as a result.
As for the rest:
Otherwise reddit stock is just a volatile place to park your cash in the hope that you can sell it for more later.
Ah, so you DO know what the definition of a stock is. You just refuse to accept it because the word "reddit" is involved.
The vast majority of stocks are horrible to even consider purchasing as an individual. A general rule of thumb is the only ones you should even consider buying are those with dividends where you just buy a few shares and every couple years check your investment account and transfer the excess to your savings.
The rest you rely entirely on mutual funds (and similar). Where the idea is that an investment group has a large pool of money and they try to stay ahead of minor fluctuations and often outright bet against themselves. So you might have some funds earmarked at assuming reddit will go up and other funds that take the Oracle announcement as a hint that OpenAI spending on Reddit might decrease and sell the stocks ahead of time to buy shares in coca cola instead or whatever.
But the thing to understand is that that is happening to basically every single stock. Because the fundamental idea of the stock market is about leaving others holding the bag.
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Which is also generally very detectable (if you actually care) and is generally used to push (monetized) social media and not the answer to "what is the difference between normal and merino wool?" and so forth.
The vast majority of the "user" interaction and memes is not the product (at play. it IS useful for societal manipulation but there are better platforms for that). It is all those useful questions and answers that people get pissy about folk deleting the answers to.
Because people, generally, weren't searching for team edward or jacob reddit but instead the fuck is a renesme reddit or LED versus fluourescent bulbs reddit and so forth. And the community labeling of the latter is generally REALLY good.
Things DO get messy when the question becomes best synthetic boxer briefs reddit but... it is incredibly rare for an astro turfing campaign to be strong enough to get a genuinely bad product "on top". You tend to just get an overly expensive branded white label in the top slot which may actually be identical to the "real" best one anyway. But considering you are relying on human opinion regardless, that isn't far off of what you were gonna get without said astroturfing.
There are absolutely vote manipulation campaigns still happening.
See this from 12 days ago: old.reddit.com/r/privacy/comme…
12 days ago almost every top-level comment was below -50 and responses were untouched.
As a user of the website for many years it's entirely obvious that a majority of the website is gamed (besides its niche corners). Reddit's bot prevention mechanisms just fuck VPN users - they are wholly inadequate.
That thread is evidence of a organized bot campaign that they had 12 days to clean up (and didn't). It's naive to believe that the rest of the website isn't similarly (and less obviously) affected by bots - with vote manipulation still standing.
Are you somebody invested financially in Reddit? Genuine question.
Those niche subreddits can also have their moments, too. Maybe it's not bots, but there are plenty of shills that have been caught in various niche subreddits I've frequented over the years (thanks to unpaid moderators).
No, I'm not. I don't care at all if they're successful or go under.
Sure, but again it's not likely to be most. You don't seem to realize how hard it is to get data that is already classified. That stuff is gold to people developing AI. Most of the work in data science is cleaning data and getting it into a usable form.
It's noise, a very large part of it. Reddit is financially motivated to make the data appear as if it is signal. It isn't - they have taken extremely minimal steps to ensure actual human participation.
This doesn't matter to AI companies, but it only warps that technology more and more. AI is a sinking ship with current methodologies. Reddit will die when the AI bubble bursts and those involved with Reddit already cashed out enough to be filthy rich.
If you can land me a gig engaging with back end data from Reddit in a neutral capacity, it'd likely be pretty easy for a layman like me to confirm that it's largely noise. The AI companies buying data are getting scammed and you are free to remain neutral or plainly disagree with my assessment in the absence of concrete data that is publicly obtainable.
No company is immune to bots and inorganic engagement, least of all Reddit with the strategies employed.
Reddit is presumably the only party with the ability to determine which data/interaction is truly legitimate or isn't.
I have a mostly neutral opinion on AI/LLMs, but I have a negative assessment of the companies driving it unsustainably. They are able to pay big money because AI is where money is flowing. When these actors crash the economy with their hubris, please write back to me - maybe I won't seem so weird at that point.
Meta/OpenAI openly pirating everything they can to train their LLMs is a good example of how data hungry these AI/etc. companies are.
Is it plausible that companies request that Reddit narrows down data e.g. by demographic, geographic location, or likelihood of being a real person and request that data for purchase? Sure, but the LLMs seemingly require all data that exists that these companies can get their hands on - I highly doubt with the scale of data being consumed (and data theft being committed) that the big players care too much about Reddit data being tainted. If anything, it might even be desirable to them.
Yes, but Oracle's stock skyrocketed based on the unprofitable OpenAI promising to buy >100B worth of AI data center space from Oracle. Nvidia stock also surged on the news, since Oracle builds those data centers with Nvidia chips
Obviously OpenAI doesn't have the money to pay Oracle themselves, so Nvidia has helpfully given them the money
So now we have an incredibly large cyclic corporate dependency of money from Nvidia -> OpenAI -> Oracle, then back to Nvidia. Definitely not a financial disaster waiting to happen
They haven't even spent the fucking money yet. It's just announcements of intentions, with a fraction of that $100B in outlays. Nobody seems to want to say who gets to be the one holding the $100B at the end of it, either.
Presumably they'll all just do a stock swap and tell their vendors "We're good for it, check's in the mail"?
This is how you can tell Reddit’s $200+/share price is insane.
Well, that and the P/E is 180. Typical target P/E on a stock is 15-20, depending on your anticipation of its growth. But we're expected to believe Reddit's earnings will be 9x their current income in... some nebulous amount of time?
Like, its silly to get excited about a company this hyperinflated seeing a tiny slide off its new peak. But also, you can't help be bearish on a firm this flimsy.
The entire stock market has become a meme stock pyramid scheme. No price makes sense; it's all glorified gambling making life on this planet worse for most living things.
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Anyways what's everyone having for lunch? I'm having bean burritos.
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What other kinds of burrito would you recommend besides bean burrito?
Try chorizo, potato and scrambled eggs sometime.
Absolutely kickass breakfast burrito, get real chorizo tho
Try chorizo, potato and scrambled eggs sometime.
That's awful greasy for someone who has the flu.
Well, I said "try ... sometime", but also... greasy foods are to be particularly avoided when one has a flu?
I... its not that I don't believe that is a thing that does or could make sense, I've just never heard of that before.
Also, you can prepare chorizo, potatoes and scrambled eggs in ways that are not as greasy, sure they are still greasier than many other things, but you don't have to do it in maybe, typical street vendor or highly rapid restaurant fashion, with grease dripping out like a cheap pizza slice at a bar.
Well, I said “try … sometime”, but also… greasy foods are to be particularly avoided when one has a flu?
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Oh my god I somehow forgot that Reddit IPO8ng means I get to read stories like this.
Oh no, the world's most poorly managed and funded corporate social media website's with a publically traded stock is tanking, oh nooooo!
Ahahahah!
Reddit banned me today for making a joke that the patch title for Guild Wars 2 could match real life events.
What is the patch name?
The Mad King and his Lunatic Court.
Permanently banned for what?
Harassment.
That's what pandering to the bigger techbros spez gets.
Being there stopped being fun ever since the shits started running a massive profile-and-purge program powered by fucking AI, as even casually mentioning violence against right-wingers or POTUS and his merry chucklefucks gets your account flagged for banning. That's why there's now a chilling effect.
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I got my reddit ban for replying to someone in world news. Their comment was saying spain should declare war on israel. I forget why, this before the flotilla though.
I got banned for saying that was unlikely as israel is a nuclear power.
you dont even have to mention anything you can just get banned for creating a new account, or firing up an years old account, since they will consider those as bots. it happens randomly though. so much so, the shadowban sub had so many of these bans because they got banned for little reason.(besides the one that have multiple accounts get shadowbanned).
they started limiting the amount of time the shadowban questions stay open to silence any discussion of it.
no OP.
I got the F out and deleted my old posts every time they restored them until they stayed gone.
I suggested drawing in chalk on the street outside of the governor's mansion, to protest the GIANT chalk Christ she had commissioned across the driveway to celebrate Easter one year.
It wasn't even a serious call to action.
But I was more wondering about the "sprich deutsch" Part - that's usually more of a racist thing, and therefore right wing politics. But if you don't see public transport as political you might be right-wing overall?
...are we now just connecting things to put everyone in right corner?
God i hate online people...
Guess being against corperates, for self reliance, public owner ship, pro a european state and untouchable democracy, and so on, is now "right wing".
"Sprich deutsch" in litterly ich_iel is litterly the norm! Thats the joke! Everything is worded german. Guess such is now "right wing".
"Everything is politics" omfg. Yeah nah. Thats enought Internet for this month, and it only started. Crazy!
bro just skipped the "usually" part and made a rant against things being judged politically.
I think the "everything has to be written in German" part of ich_iel is also establishing a rather nationalist online culture through linguistic homogeny and illegibility to outsiders. So, yeah, you may not want to recognize the impact your words may have, but it's clear to many others.
I still think it builds an attitude that is toxic to outsiders and can potentially push someone into a right-wing position. I have witnessed first hand how someone fell down a fascist rabbit hole via online places touting language superiority.
Mine was telling someone it was unlikely that spain would declare war on israel, it being a nuclear nation....
Banned for 'glorifying violence.'
i think people were shocked that all thier accounts were banned simulataneously, despite some of them not participating in the same subs, around the same time. they just went after every account in your ip address,device or browser. even if time has passed that a subreddit ban has been lifted in your old accounts. the site filters/AI doesnt take that into account, and i suspect its intentional.
i noticed reddit is very wary of browser forks now too(google, firefox forks), theres a reason they dont like brave(because it hides your fingerprints by default)
deleting your account also wont stop them from finding your new accounts, they mostly archived that as well. they look at browser fingerprinting, device, device components, time zone discrepancy, browser size and VERSION, resolution,,,etc. if you use any paid service/trial service that can spoof any of these above and they arnt the correct versions, they can detect that.
and then theres the warming up period with new accounts(like not posting, reporting, or upvoting too fast after account creation)
Right, and if the moderation allows Nazi ideology to run rampant, you have a Nazi town. Especially when it's all mostly bots spewing Nazi talking points anyway.
Refusing to fight hate speech is tantamount to supporting it.
Does Reddit stock pay dividends or offer shareholder voting? Is most of it at least hell by their owners, giving at least a financial interest to having its value affected? Then it might as well be Yet Another Crypto Scam, in which case it isn't really going to affect Reddit because they've probably already cashed out.
What people don't realize is that the stock market is largely based off of on speculation on who's going to buy or sell when, the articles that tie it directly to how the company performing are basically fortune tellers either telling their customers what they want to hear or catering to their customers by manipulating how their readers will behave.
People use belief in the value of money to illustrate how crypto has value. The stock market is a far better analogy, and there are plenty of confidence scams to go along with it as well.
That's actually quite easy to explain. Reddits entire monetary value (or at least a very large portion) depends on how relevant it is as platform to mine user interactions - to use as training material for AI.
Reddit getting references less is a sign that the models, or the owning companies, value reddit data less compared to before.
You just described most tech stocks.
As Cory Doctrow explains:
the fundamental duty of every CEO of every high-growth tech company: explaining how his company will continue to grow. These growth stories are key, because growth stocks trade at a huge premium relative to the stocks of "mature" companies.
The fact that any AI company thought to train their LLM on the answers of Reddit users speaks to a fundamental misunderstanding of their own product (IMO)
LLMs aren't programmed to give you the correct answer. They're programmed to give you the most pervasive/popular answer on the assumption that most of the time that will also happen to be the right one.
So when you're getting your knowledge base from random jackasses on Reddit, where a good faith question like "What's the best way to get get gum out of my childs hair" get's two two good faith answers, and then a few dozen smart-ass answers that gets lots of replies and upvotes because they're funny. Guess which one your LLM is going to use.
People (and apparently even the creators themselves) think that an LLM is actually cognizent enough to be able to weed this out logically. But it can't. It's not an intelligence...it's a knowlege agreggator. And as with any aggregator, the same rule applies
garbage in, garbage out
Thats why I have stopped calling it ai. Its a dumbass buzzword just like cloud, that tech bros like to use but cant explain (or blockchain).
Its llms, and image generators/OCR (which has been around for decades), Using complex markov chains and a fuck ton of graphics cards. NOT AI. NOT AI.
I've had to start calling it AI because most people don't know what LLMs are, and noone cares to go through the explanation, including myself.
I'm afraid that, as these things go, AI has gained a new meaning by popular use, rather than the original meaning of the acronym.
No point fighting it anymore.
Maybe we just need to adjust and start saying GAI (generative ai). It has a nice ring to it too.
It is AI, along with a bunch of optimization algorithms, statistical decision trees (probably used in adaptive AI in games), etc. AI is a field in computer science that includes a ton of things many wouldn't consider AI.
Basically, if the solution doesn't come from direct commands but instead comes from some form of learning process, it's probably AI.
It's not "general AI", but it is in the field of AI.
I would argue we need to go back to Machine Learning.
The field is machine learning, generative machine learning etc.
This rebrand to AI is doing nothing but confusing people and building investor hype
Also fair.
I find the term machine learning more honest than artificial intelligence
It's more specific, sure, but there's nothing dishonest about using the same terminology that has been used for almost 100 years.
The disconnect is that average people have a different understanding of the term than is used in computer science, probably because of sci-fi films and whatnot. When I hear "AI," I think of the CS term, because that's my background, but when my family hears "AI," they think of androids and whatnot like in Bicentennial Man.
I don't know how to square that circle. Neither group here is wrong, but classifying something like ChatGPT as "AI," while correct, is misinterpreted by the public, who assume it's doing more than it is.
Exactly that.
If I were to google how to get gum out of my child's hair and then be directed to that same reddit post. I'd read through it and be pretty sure which were jokes and which were serious; we make such distinctions, as you say, every day without much effort.
LLMs simply don't have that ability. And the number of average people who just don't get that is mind-boggling to me.
I also find it weirdly dystopian that, if you sum that up, it kind of makes it sound like in order for an LLM to make the next step towards A.I. It needs a sense of humour. It needs the ability to weed through when the information it's digging from is serious, or just random jack-asses on the internet.
Which is turning it into a very very Star Trek problem.
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in reply to Iheartcheese • • •Are these households in rural areas without many alternatives?
Starlink is available in the vast majority of the US. What is the cost difference though?
edit: i dont like elon musk or starlink
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in reply to robocall • • •Its not perfect to replace for all those rural households, but a 5G based internet 'gateway' is an affordable and viable option for people at least somewhere near a 5G tower.
Unlike that national fiber build out that never really happened to anywhere near the extent that was promised, its not that expensive to set up a 5G cell tower, and for users its eaaay cheaper than any satellite internet, including Starlink.
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in reply to sp3ctr4l • • •Weirdly, I'm seeing fiber in the most unlikely places. They're running it in my hood, which is on the bleeding edge of a small redneck town, nowhere downstream from here to feed for more money.
What really blew my mind, they're running fiber in the hood where my camp lies, 900 souls altogether, and that includes a fair-sized surrounding area. Can't be 50 homes anywhere near. And again, nothing downstream of that hood, it's just for us. And both places already had cable internet.
No idea how those two ISPs will ever earn their money back from so few customers, with maintenance stacked on top. Maybe running fiber is stupid cheap now? Haven't worked for an ISP for 20 years, who knows.
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in reply to shalafi • • •Wait, what?
I am genuienly surprised to hear this... I mean... cool... I guess?
That... there's more fiber lines than I thought there... was?
But also yeah that doesn't make any business sense to me either.
Unless they're planning on building a data center there in the near future.
Then, that might make a lot of sense.
Oh well, I'm still pissed that we gave ISPs like half a trillion dollars or whatever to build out fiber around a decade ago, and because that law was written by lobbyists, well it was apparently legal for said ISPs to just throw most of that money at stock buybacks and C suite stock packages, and then there were never any consequences for that.
Either way, I'll take not blazing fast speeds and no datacap over... literally any plan with a data cap, anyday.
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in reply to sp3ctr4l • • •Less than a billion I think, but several hundred million? Anyway, you're right, they ate it all paying off investors in the form of stock buybacks. Rural folk got nada.
Yeah, very weird expansion. We don't even have much in the way of utilities at camp. We can get water, but certainly no sewer. Hell, you can't even build "permanent structures" on my land. And I assume the surrounding land is even worse for flooding and being protected wetlands.
Sounds like I can get a power pole for free! Still working on that.
The roads are private, anyone can travel them, no problem, but they're on us to maintain. Couple of dudes use tractors to level them and someone dropped loads of gravel and red clay to fix the slippery bits. (Shit like this is why country people think they don't need no goddamned gubermint. You'd have to live it to understand.)
This is a Cox Cable endeavour. Used to contract for them, finest ISP I ever heard of. Apparently the Cox family took it public, then bought it back, said fuck you to the stock market and ran it themselves again. Hard to describe to those not in the business, but their cable plant is head and shoulders above anything I've ever touched. I assume they're rich as hell and I wish them well, well deserved for once.
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in reply to robocall • • •There are other legacy satellite providers like hughesnet that are somehow still hanging on. They don't really hold a candle to starlink performance-wise, and they shit the bed in bad weather, but at least they're not Elon. There's going to be a lot of latency, but it'll feel blazing fast if you're coming from dialup.
There are other dialup providers still remaining as well, besides AOL. I know msn is still kicking at least. It's kind of funny to think about receiving dialup service when almost all POTS lines have gone away, and much of the modern web will be borderline unusable without lots of tweaking, but at least grandma who lives out in the sticks can check her email, use chat clients, download articles and books, etc.
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in reply to robocall • • •New retirement gig: Fill the gap in the market for super-rural dialup.
It’d be like the new version of a rural post office. I could actually be a lineman for the county!
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in reply to robocall • • •Starlink actually sucks fat dick unless it's literally your only option.
Even in rural America, you still have access to Visible's unlimited data for $25/month. They use Verizon's network, which covers just about everywhere people live in the US.
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in reply to Iheartcheese • • •Now to hook two modems to two computers and get them to 'talk' over WhatsApp...
Would that be a VPN tunnel of sorts?
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in reply to TwinTitans • • •Idk.
It was hard to find things even with a search engine, and it was full of scams and spyware, and obnoxious designs that got in the way of the real content, and the most popular chat rooms were run by power-tripping nerds with too much free time and an endless interest in CSAM and Nazi ideology.
Not like today, where… uh… well…
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in reply to kibiz0r • • •Nazis and pedos were around then too. They just kept to themselves on their own sites and were more subtle outside of them.
Spyware and viruses only went away because all the marks switched to phones.
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in reply to shalafi • • •Not support or a plug for them but, if you are in the USA and are curious… NetZero Dial-up service
It’s still a thing for some people…
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in reply to shalafi • • •I'm sure it's doable. But a cellular pay-as-you-go data plan and router is pretty common.
I don't think telcos will even give you copper phone service any more, unless you happen to be in a covered area, or you want to pay an exorbitant amount. Most service is going to be VoIP or cellular with a desk phone.
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in reply to Iheartcheese • • •Really? I use my phone for internet full-time now.
It looks like we've come full circle.
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