Building ultra cheap energy storage for solar PV
Building Ultra Cheap Energy Storage for Solar PV
Solar still needs storage cheap enough to move energy between seasons. I have been working on a startup to do this for the last two years.Austin Vernon (Austin Vernon's Substack)
MotoGP Ungheria 2025: vince sempre Marquez, la noia domina.
Il Gran Premio d’Ungheria 2025 ha visto per l’ennesima volta il dominio di Marc Marquez, che al Balaton Park ha conquistato la sua 14ª vittoria consecutiva, firmando la sesta doppietta stagionale tra Sprint e gara lunga. Sul podio, insieme al pilota della Ducati Lenovo, sono saliti Pedro Acosta con la KTM e Marco Bezzecchi con l’Aprilia, regalando tre marchi diversi nelle prime tre posizioni.
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MotoGP Ungheria 2025: i risultati e l’ordine di arrivo della gara - Quotidiano Motori
Risultati MotoGP Ungheria 2025: ecco l’ordine di arrivo della gara al Balaton Park con tempi, distacchi e sorpassi decisivi.Mario Roth (Quotidiano Motori)
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Keanu Reeves racconta la nascita del Cadillac Formula 1 Team
Dopo il successo della docuserie premiata con un Emmy, Brawn: The Impossible Formula 1 Story, Keanu Reeves torna con un nuovo progetto. L’attore e produttore sarà la voce narrante della serie che documenta la nascita e il debutto del Cadillac Formula 1 Team, il nuovo progetto americano targato TWG Motorsports e General Motors.
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Keanu Reeves racconta la nascita del Cadillac Formula 1 Team - Quotidiano Motori
Keanu Reeves è il protagonista della docuserie sul debutto del Cadillac Formula 1 Team a Melbourne che avverrà nel 2026.Caterina Di Iorgi (Quotidiano Motori)
Comet AI browser can get prompt injected from any site, drain your bank account
cross-posted from: programming.dev/post/36251461
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Comet AI browser can get prompt injected from any site, drain your bank account
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"Scamlexity": When Agentic AI Browsers Get Scammed
We Put Agentic AI Browsers to the Test - They Clicked, They Paid, They FailedGuardio Research Team (Guardio)
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Comet AI browser can get prompt injected from any site, drain your bank account
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"Scamlexity": When Agentic AI Browsers Get Scammed
We Put Agentic AI Browsers to the Test - They Clicked, They Paid, They FailedGuardio Research Team (Guardio)
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MotoGP Ungheria 2025: risultati e ordine di arrivo della Gara Sprint al Balaton Park
La MotoGP ha fatto il suo debutto assoluto in Ungheria sul nuovo circuito del Balaton Park, con la prima gara Sprint della storia del GP ungherese. Una prova spettacolare, segnata da incidenti al primo giro e da un dominio incontrastato di Marc Marquez, al suo tredicesimo successo consecutivo.
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MotoGP Ungheria 2025: i risultati della Gara Sprint - Quotidiano Motori
MotoGP Ungheria 2025: risultati e ordine di arrivo della Gara Sprint al Balaton Park. Distacchi, protagonisti e cronaca della corsa.Mario Roth (Quotidiano Motori)
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Writing with LLM is not a shame.
cross-posted from: programming.dev/post/36242840
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Writing with LLM is not a shame.
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:::Writing with LLM is not a shame. An essay about transparency on AI use.
Do we have to disclaim how we use AI ?reflexions
Chinese women exploited in Telegram voyeur rooms urge authorities to act
cross-posted from: programming.dev/post/36242572
Chinese women exploited in Telegram voyeur rooms urge authorities to act
Chinese women exploited in Telegram voyeur rooms urge authorities to act
A stranger alerted Ms. D to an online chatroom where her private images were being shared. Now she and other angry Chinese women are pushing officials to punish the offenders.Yuxuan Jiang (CNN)
Cooking at home vs eating out vs delivery: what’s your situation?
My boyfriend (20) and I (18) have been living together for 2 years in an urban apartment. For us, it usually goes like this:
- Delivery
- Eating out
- Cooking at home
We visit our parents (and they visit us) often, and they give us lots of home-cooked food. We mostly cook at home just for fun.
I’m curious what it’s like for other people, especially in different age groups or family setups!
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Twitch launches anti-bot crackdown and viewership numbers plummet across the platform overnight: Turns out 50% of the audience was just robots pretending to enjoy hot tub streams.
- Twitch's new anti-bot system caused viewer counts to nosedive across hundreds of channels, with some losing over half their displayed audience.
- Channels running 24/7 reruns saw the biggest drops, with Mira falling from 2,000+ to under 200 viewers overnight.
- The cleanup affects sponsorship deals and ad rates since brands have been paying premium prices for audiences that were partially fake.
Twitch launches anti-bot crackdown and viewership numbers plummet across the platform overnight
Twitch's anti-bot enforcement led to sharp drops in displayed viewership across many channels. The shift raises implications for rankings, ads, and sponsors.Riley Fox (Spilled)
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Kick streamer Raja Jackson brutally attacks wrestler during live show
- Raja Jackson attacked an unconscious wrestler with 20+ real punches after being fake-hit with a beer can during a wrestling show.
- The victim was reported as "barely breathing" and requiring emergency medical attention after the assault.
- Kick immediately terminated Jackson's channel and removed all footage of the attack.
Kick streamer Raja Jackson brutally attacks wrestler during live show
Raja Jackson attacked a wrestler during a live Kick stream, leaving the performer unconscious. His channel was terminated as police have yet to announce charges.Riley Fox (Spilled)
Kick streamer Raja Jackson brutally attacks wrestler during live show
- Raja Jackson attacked an unconscious wrestler with 20+ real punches after being fake-hit with a beer can during a wrestling show.
- The victim was reported as "barely breathing" and requiring emergency medical attention after the assault.
- Kick immediately terminated Jackson's channel and removed all footage of the attack.
Kick streamer Raja Jackson brutally attacks wrestler during live show
Raja Jackson attacked a wrestler during a live Kick stream, leaving the performer unconscious. His channel was terminated as police have yet to announce charges.Riley Fox (Spilled)
Kick streamer Raja Jackson brutally attacks wrestler during live show
- Raja Jackson attacked an unconscious wrestler with 20+ real punches after being fake-hit with a beer can during a wrestling show.
- The victim was reported as "barely breathing" and requiring emergency medical attention after the assault.
- Kick immediately terminated Jackson's channel and removed all footage of the attack.
Kick streamer Raja Jackson brutally attacks wrestler during live show
Raja Jackson attacked a wrestler during a live Kick stream, leaving the performer unconscious. His channel was terminated as police have yet to announce charges.Riley Fox (Spilled)
Writing with LLM is not a shame.
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Writing with LLM is not a shame. An essay about transparency on AI use.
Do we have to disclaim how we use AI ?reflexions
How to run LLMs on PC at home using Llama.cpp
Tinker with LLMs in the privacy of your own home using Llama.cpp
Hands on: Everything you need to know to build, run, serve, optimize and quantize models on your PCTobias Mann (The Register)
Chinese women exploited in Telegram voyeur rooms urge authorities to act
Chinese women exploited in Telegram voyeur rooms urge authorities to act
A stranger alerted Ms. D to an online chatroom where her private images were being shared. Now she and other angry Chinese women are pushing officials to punish the offenders.Yuxuan Jiang (CNN)
Elon Musk says xAI has open sourced Grok 2.5 model weights; Will Open Source Grok 3 model weights in 6 months.
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We’re on a journey to advance and democratize artificial intelligence through open source and open science.huggingface.co
Soft skin, sharp senses: New robotic ‘touch’ sees danger before it hits
cross-posted from: programming.dev/post/36236135
Soft skin, sharp senses: New robotic ‘touch’ sees danger before it hits
Soft skin, sharp senses: New robotic ‘touch’ sees danger before it hits
Soft robots need advanced sensing to safely interact with humans, but combining multiple sensors in soft materials is difficult.EurekAlert!
AI can find cancer pathologists miss
cross-posted from: programming.dev/post/36236133
AI can find cancer pathologists miss
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Trump administration halts work on an almost-finished wind farm
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A German ISP tampered with their DNS - specifically to sabotage my website
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A German ISP tampered with their DNS - specifically to sabotage my website
One of Germany's biggest ISPs changed how their DNS works, right after I exposed an organization that they’re part of.lina.sh
how to build a coding agent
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how to build a coding agent: free workshop
😎The following was developed last month and has already been delivered at two conferences. If you would like for me to run a workshop similar to this at your employer, please get in contact.Geoffrey Huntley
Tiny reactor boosts fusion with a sponge-like trick
Researchers use electrochemistry to boost nuclear fusion rates
Using a small bench-top reactor, researchers at the UBC have demonstrated that electrochemically loading a solid metal target can boost nuclear fusion rates.UBC Science
Researchers use AI to turn park reviews into science
Researchers use AI to turn park reviews into science
New study reveals secret to the parks people lovenews.ufl.edu
Soft skin, sharp senses: New robotic ‘touch’ sees danger before it hits
Soft skin, sharp senses: New robotic ‘touch’ sees danger before it hits
Soft robots need advanced sensing to safely interact with humans, but combining multiple sensors in soft materials is difficult.EurekAlert!
Mastodon är i motsats tilll Bluesky ett socialt medium som kontrolleras av användarna. Det är decentraliserat och federerat vilket betyder att det finns många servrar (som kallas instanser) som kör programvaran Mastodon.
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this rule needs more horny
Fake: 4chan users don't get this much action.
Gay: unless one person is secretly trans, kissing a person of the same identity and expression is quite homosexual
OpenMower: Let's upgrade cheap off-the-shelf robotic mowers to modern, smart RTK GPS based lawn mowing robots!
cross-posted from: programming.dev/post/36230046
YouTube Video.
Let's be honest: The current generation of robotic lawn mowers sucks. Basically all of these bots drive in a random direction until they hit the border of the lawn, rotate for a randomized duration and repeat. I think we can do better!Therefore, we have disassembled the cheapest off-the-shelf robotic mower we could find (YardForce Classic 500) and were surprised that the hardware itself is actually quite decent:
- Geared sensored brushless motors for the wheels
- A sensored brushless motor for the mower motor itself
- The whole construction seems robust, waterproof and all in all thought through
- All components are connected using standard connectors, therefore upgrading the hardware is easily possible.The bottom line is: The bot itself is surprisingly high quality and doesn't need to be changed at all. We just need some better software in there.
OpenMower: Let's upgrade cheap off-the-shelf robotic mowers to modern, smart RTK GPS based lawn mowing robots!
Let's be honest: The current generation of robotic lawn mowers sucks. Basically all of these bots drive in a random direction until they hit the border of the lawn, rotate for a randomized duration and repeat. I think we can do better!Therefore, we have disassembled the cheapest off-the-shelf robotic mower we could find (YardForce Classic 500) and were surprised that the hardware itself is actually quite decent:
- Geared sensored brushless motors for the wheels
- A sensored brushless motor for the mower motor itself
- The whole construction seems robust, waterproof and all in all thought through
- All components are connected using standard connectors, therefore upgrading the hardware is easily possible.The bottom line is: The bot itself is surprisingly high quality and doesn't need to be changed at all. We just need some better software in there.
GitHub - ClemensElflein/OpenMower: Let's upgrade cheap off-the-shelf robotic mowers to modern, smart RTK GPS based lawn mowing robots!
Let's upgrade cheap off-the-shelf robotic mowers to modern, smart RTK GPS based lawn mowing robots! - ClemensElflein/OpenMowerGitHub
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🌸La méditation guidée de 15 à 20 mn sera suivie d'un cercle de parole, pour faire une pause et se reconnecter à soi et aux autres.
Le thème proposé pour le cercle de parole est : "Être à l'écoute de soi-même et des autres" Et chacun est libre de s'exprimer sur ce qu'iel souhaite 🌸
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🧘♀️🧘🏼♂️🧘🏾♀️ Parce que l'activisme est un engagement externe ET une transformation intérieure, c’est dans un esprit de compassion et d’approfondissement de la connaissance de soi que nous prétendons évoluer et communiquer les un‧es avec les autres.
clanker youtubici rompono la quiete in modo sempre più metallico
È semplicemente da non credere che sono ormai anni e anni (e ho perso il conto di quanti) che su YouTube c’è il problema degli spammer e, anziché migliorare peggiora sempre di più! #YouTube è un’impresa che si regge interamente su un datamining inquantificabilmente grosso — per i video consigliati, per controllare che i video […]
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clanker youtubici rompono la quiete in modo sempre più metallico
È semplicemente da non credere che sono ormai anni e anni (e ho perso il conto di quanti) che su YouTube c’è il problema degli spammer e, anziché migliorare peggiora sempre di più! #YouTube è un’impresa che si regge interamente su un datamining inquantificabilmente grosso — per i video consigliati, per controllare che i video caricati non violino i ToS, per servire le pubblicità figuriamoci… — ma quegli scemi che ci lavorano non saranno capaci di contrastare commenti di spam che si vede lontano un miglio sono spam! (E poi, intanto, i commenti legittimi vengono rimossi per errore; Louis Rossman si lamenta continuamente di ciò, e vorrei ben vedere altrimenti.) 😵💫La cosa peggiore è che ormai, negli ultimi mesi, questi clanker sono diventati persino aggressivi! Mazonna ragassi, prima l’approccio di questi affari era solo o completamente distaccato dal video, facendo off-topic totale per veicolare il proprio messaggio, o falsamente positivo, quando profili con la foto di un culo di fuori (e qualche volta anche altro, in una maniera che sarebbe violazione delle norme della community se fotogrammi del genere fossero all’interno di video, ma le regole sono scritte a cazzo e quindi per le foto profilo non vale) scrivono (in un italiano rotto e palesemente tradotto a macchina da un’altra lingua) semplicemente complimentando il video in modo irrealistico… Adesso, invece, puntano sull’offendere il creatore del video preso di mira o i suoi fan, insinuando che i propri video sarebbero meglio, cosa che dimostra (negli umani marci che li hanno programmati e/o ordinati) una estrema mancanza di rispetto e un ego largo quanto una fottuta mongolfiera… 💔
Ma dove cazzo andremo a finire??? Questo l’ho beccato addirittura sotto un video di Kurzgesagt ieri (ora sembra essere sparito), e ha il coraggio di dire “I video che posto sono molto meglio di quelli di Kurzgesagt, Kurzgesagt non può essere comparato a me [e lo dice immediatamente dopo aver fatto esso stesso un paragone; porca puttana, impara a usare la lingua umana oppure taci!], io sono molto meglio“… E potrei capire critiche politiche a Kurzgesagt, ce ne sarebbero molte da fare riguardo il conflitto di interessi, ma sminuirne la qualità è completamente disonesto intellettualmente e non trova alcun riscontro nella realtà! 🥴
Di questo esempio qui (ma ce ne sarebbero tanti altri), già la foto profilo palesemente generata con IA dice tutto, ma aprendo il canale la situazione peggiora. Si vede innanzitutto un video interamente generato dall’intelligenza artificiale (lo si nota dalla copertina, e dal guardare i primi 2 secondi; non di più, altrimenti verrebbe contata la visualizzazione), che da contesto + titolo si deduce chiaramente essere privo di senso (quale valore intrinseco può mai avere un video “primo video sul canale!!!” creato da un’IA generativa, cioè un video dal senso unicamente personale creato da qualcosa che non è una persona?)… ma c’è di mezzo pure un trucchetto tecnico che ha colto persino me alla sprovvista. Il canale che ha caricato il video, che in qualche modo ha pure superato i 20mila iscritti (poveri noi…), non è lo stesso che ha spammato con il commento, che è invece palesemente usa e getta… il video è fissato sul profilo, altrimenti vuoto, usando una playlist dal nome cortissimo, che non si nota. 🤯Ormai siamo a livelli esagerati: sfruttando il fatto che i coglioni che gestiscono questa piattaforma hanno ormai da anni eliminato tutta la moderazione umana, ritenendo erroneamente che si possa delegare tutto all’intelligenza artificiale, questi spammer mettono in atto trucchetti così beceri come separare il canale effettivo da uno usato per spammare; così, se quest’ultimo viene fatto fuori (non si sa come, visto che il tasto segnala per i commenti è a tutti gli effetti finto; se l’intelligenza artificiale deve bloccare un commento lo fa solo al momento in cui questo viene inviato), i malintenzionati non hanno perso in realtà niente. Ah, per giunta, ho come il presentimento che il canale su cui stanno i video di merda (che sono una manciata, e partono da quasi un an anno fa) sia in realtà rubato, perché esiste almeno da 3 anni prima… e pubblicava video di cucina… in arabo. 😶
E ancora, sui video merdosi i commenti sono disattivati, perché il rischio che arrivi gente a scrivere la verità è tosto… mentre sui video vecchi, originali, la gente ovviamente ride (ma ci sarebbe da piangere). E questo senza neanche parlare dello schifo che fa per aver caricato un video “I am sick with cancer, pray for me 😭😭“, essendo, appunto, un ammasso di sola ferraglia e non materiale biologico…
Non molti anni fa si diceva “Susan porco**io“ (in inglese “Susan I swear to god“) per inveire contro colei che all’epoca era la CEO di YouTube. Poi lei è morta, e al suo posto arrivò un tizio dal nome evidentemente meno memorabile (non in quest’ordine), e adesso questa cosa non si dice più, ma il problema dello spam continua ad esistere come lo ha sempre fatto e, per l’appunto, forse anche peggio di prima. A onor del vero, quelli che cercavano di truffare includendo numeri di telefono scritti in caratteri unicode nel nome non ne vedo più da un po’… ma, ammesso siano stati davvero bloccati, e non che siano spariti semplicemente perché la tecnica di spam è diventata vecchia, è solo un’ammaccatura al problema e non una soluzione. Quanto stracazzo ODIO Alphabet Inc.!!! 😫#clankers #commenti #comments #spam #spammers #YouTube
What makes Claude Code so damn good (and how to recreate that magic in your agent)!?
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Claude Code is the most delightful AI agent/workflow I have used so far. Not only does it make targeted edits or vibe coding throwaway tools less annoying, ...minusx.ai
What makes Claude Code so damn good (and how to recreate that magic in your agent)!?
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Study links TikTok scrolling to poor study focus: Just five minutes of scrolling the social app made college students less focused
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Study links TikTok scrolling to poor study focus: Just five minutes of scrolling the social app made college students less focused
SDSU study links TikTok scrolling to poor study focus | News | SDSU
Just five minutes of scrolling the social app made college students less focused while reading long-form news, an SDSU study found.www.sdsu.edu
Study links TikTok scrolling to poor study focus: Just five minutes of scrolling the social app made college students less focused
SDSU study links TikTok scrolling to poor study focus | News | SDSU
Just five minutes of scrolling the social app made college students less focused while reading long-form news, an SDSU study found.www.sdsu.edu
OpenMower: Let's upgrade cheap off-the-shelf robotic mowers to modern, smart RTK GPS based lawn mowing robots!
Let's be honest: The current generation of robotic lawn mowers sucks. Basically all of these bots drive in a random direction until they hit the border of the lawn, rotate for a randomized duration and repeat. I think we can do better!Therefore, we have disassembled the cheapest off-the-shelf robotic mower we could find (YardForce Classic 500) and were surprised that the hardware itself is actually quite decent:
- Geared sensored brushless motors for the wheels
- A sensored brushless motor for the mower motor itself
- The whole construction seems robust, waterproof and all in all thought through
- All components are connected using standard connectors, therefore upgrading the hardware is easily possible.The bottom line is: The bot itself is surprisingly high quality and doesn't need to be changed at all. We just need some better software in there.
GitHub - ClemensElflein/OpenMower: Let's upgrade cheap off-the-shelf robotic mowers to modern, smart RTK GPS based lawn mowing robots!
Let's upgrade cheap off-the-shelf robotic mowers to modern, smart RTK GPS based lawn mowing robots! - ClemensElflein/OpenMowerGitHub
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in reply to Pro • • •It’s going to be plagiarism so yes, it is.
I’ve asked Copilot at work for word help. I’ll ask out something like, what’s a good word that sounds more professional than some other word? And it’ll give me a few choices and I’ll pick one. But that’s about it.
They’re useful, but I won’t let them do my work for me, or give them anything they can use (we have a corporate policy against that, and yet IT leaves Copilot installed/doesn’t switch to something like Linux).
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in reply to morphballganon • • •That's true. Where I was, I didn't have access to a physical one, but could have Googled it. Google often sources Dictionary.com which includes a thesaurus, but also gives AI answers.
That said, the AI gives several choices, so it's not choosing anything. Still, point taken.