mosiacmango
@mosiacmango@lemm.ee
- Comment on Meta Says it Made Sure Not to Seed Any Pirated Books 23 hours ago:
“Corporations are people, my friend.”
No, it applies to “anyone,” its just that corporations can drag lawsuits for years to decades, so they get to make sweet heart deals for their crimes that the test of us dont.
- Comment on Microsoft announces quantum computing breakthrough with new Majorana 1 chip 1 day ago:
This is the best description of a quantum computing ive ever read.
- Comment on Diablo speedrunners searched 2.2 billion random dungeon seeds to debunk a two-decade old speedrun record 4 days ago:
I ujderstand it from a “if every single level was the optional level, this what the best possible rin would be level.” Tool assisted speed running before that was a thing.
The fact that levels in that spliced game were faked makes it all pointless through.
- Comment on Install Tuba on Linux | Flathub 6 days ago:
Based on the total lack of description, I thought this was an emulator for the music instrument at first.
That would have been something to see
- Comment on Zuckerberg's rightward policy shift hits Meta staffers, targets Apple 1 week ago:
Incentivizing dividend payments are the same problem. They will want to make them bigger every quarter.
Its just line goes up in a different form.
- Comment on Man who lost $780 million in Bitcoin in a landfill now wants to buy the entire dump before city closes the site 1 week ago:
- Comment on MIT builds swarms of tiny robotic insect drones that can fly 100 times longer than previous designs 1 week ago:
The humans are using ai to pick the targets they kill anyway. They theoretically are supposed to parse out the bad targets, but we know that fir genocidal states like israel, that is being intentionally ignored or minimized.
- Comment on Study Highlights Challenges To The Electrification Of Homes In The US 1 week ago:
So an “AI study” using “High quality synthetic data” tells us that “full electric homes with solar are good in heat waves but have issues in winter storms due to heating concerns.”
No mention of batteries, no mention of heat pumps in the article. Seem like simple compensating factors.
- Comment on Twitterrific team launches new ‘Tapestry’ iPhone app for Bluesky, Mastodon, RSS, more 2 weeks ago:
Plex is owned by venture capitol now.
- Comment on Possible closure of Ivanpah solar plant casts a shadow on DOE loans 2 weeks ago:
Basically “a tech that looked promising in 2010 using solar mirrors and thermal batteries has lost out to rapidly advancing solar panels and chemical batteries. It is being shutdown now.”
The failure of an experimental tech is not some roaring indictment of the federal energy loans program. The whole post of the program is to try to get tech off the ground until it’s self-sustaining commercially. You’re going to get some misses there, but the wins far, far outweigh them.
- Comment on "How decentralized is Bluesky really?" by Christine Lemmer-Webber 2 weeks ago:
Yeah its a great read that people enjoyed a lot.
One of the best parts is where she explains that bluesky cant scale down. You can run a actively pub server on a potato clock by design, but bluesky can not ever be decoupled from a “eye of god” central architecture. The best case scenario for atpronto is wikipedia or the Internet archive hosting a competing federated instance, but neither have steppes into that “Millions/month” role.
- Comment on Tesla pulls out all the stops as Cybertruck sales grind to a halt 2 weeks ago:
The problem is that the overlap between tech bros and nazi lovers is definitely not 100%, probably not even 10%.
Dont be so sure about that ratio. Plently of “got mine, im all bootstraps” tech bros. Id put the number at about 70/30% against nazis, but no better.
- Comment on This is the first silent home wind turbine that destroys solar panels - 1500 kWh of free electricity 2 weeks ago:
They have a smaller 0.75m one as well. Lower power, but 2ft vs 5ft if you need to save the space on your roof
- Comment on This is the first silent home wind turbine that destroys solar panels - 1500 kWh of free electricity 2 weeks ago:
Looks like its also a helix design made for high wind, so the answer is likely yes.
The design of the Liam F1 Mini is best suited for cities because turbulence is a characteristic of the wind within city limits. In such conditions, conventional turbines are ineffective; on the contrary, the Liam F1 is designed to perform well.
It actually has a helix-like structure, so it can self-adjust to face the wind in the same way that a weather vane moves. These features guarantee optimal performance and power generation irrespective of fluctuating, oscillating wind conditions.
- Comment on Is lemmy slow for anyone else? 2 weeks ago:
They tend to lag behind on purpose for stability reasons, but a year out of date is pushing it.
Part of the issue they have is that one of the most popular apps for lemmy, Sync, has been abandoned by its dev. They said they have roughly 5k/month sync users, and if they update, their experience will break further. The egregious part is that app has subscription options, and it’s still been 6+ months since the last update.
- Comment on Will solar panels overrun farmland? The two are more likely to coexist. 4 weeks ago:
These are called “bi-facial” solar panels and you can buy them now. They have panels on both sides, and are commonly used in solar fencing.
Even though you place them vertically, they often are counterintuitively more efficient than normal panels that are angled into the sun. Not only do the two sides let sunlight bounce in from more surfaces, they dont get nearly as hot as angled panels, which is one of the main reasons solar panels get less efficient while in use. Normal panels literally have a problem with being in too much sunlight.
You don’t normally get 2x the power out of bifacial panels, but you get something like 1.3x, and it tends to be more consistent.
- Comment on Solar farms are booming in the US and putting thousands of hungry sheep to work 4 weeks ago:
The electric robot ones basically do, in the sense that they go and charge when needed and then return to cutting the area until it’s done.
- Comment on Solar farms are booming in the US and putting thousands of hungry sheep to work 4 weeks ago:
Electric mowers are common now, even robotic ones.
You could solve this with machines and just electricity, but sheep seem smarter.
- Comment on Solar Array 250 Miles Long to Power Beijing 5 weeks ago:
A much better article from NASA that lists way more info, including the goal wattage in 2030 : 100 gigawatts, or roughly 20x the current pwer generation. It should be able to power roughly 8 million homes when complete.
Sandy and mostly devoid of life, the Kubuqi Desert in Inner Mongolia once had a reputation for being a “sea of death.” More recently, its dune fields have become a sea of photovoltaic possibility, transformed by a surge of newly installed solar panels. The construction is part of China’s multiyear plan to build a “solar great wall” designed to generate enough energy to power Beijing.
The project, expected to be finished in 2030, will be 400 kilometers (250 miles) long, 5 kilometers (3 miles) wide, and achieve a maximum generating capacity of 100 gigawatts. So far, Chinese officials say they have installed about 5.4 gigawatts.
The Kubuqi’s sunny weather, flat terrain, and proximity to industrial centers make it a desirable location for solar power generation. Panels are being installed in a long, narrow band of dunes just south of the Yellow River between the cities of Baotou and Bayannur. The OLI (Operational Land Imager) and OLI-2 on Landsat 8 and 9 captured this pair of images showing the expanding footprint of solar farms between December 2017 (left) and December 2024 (right).
The solar farm that resembles a galloping horse—Junma Solar Power Station—was completed in 2019, setting a Guinness world record for the largest image made of solar panels. It generates approximately 2 billion kilowatt-hours of electricity each year, enough to meet the yearly electricity needs of 300,000 to 400,000 people. Junma means “fine horse” in Mandarin.
In addition to generating power, planners hope that the installation will have other benefits. They think it may help curb desertification by preventing the movement of dunes and slowing winds. Also, the elevated panels create shade that slows evaporation and may make it easier to grow pasture grasses and other crops beneath them. Analysis of Landsat data indicates that solar projects have contributed to the greening of deserts in other parts of China in recent years.
As of June 2024, China led the world in operating solar farm capacity with 386,875 megawatts, representing about 51 percent of the global total, according to Global Energy Monitor’s Global Solar Power Tracker. The United States ranks second with 79,364 megawatts (11 percent), followed by India with 53,114 megawatts (7 percent).
China’s solar growth has been particularly rapid during the past decade. Between 2017 and 2023, the country’s operational solar capacity surged by an average of 39,994 megawatts per year. The solar capacity of the United States expanded by an average of 8,137 megawatts over the same period.
- Comment on Is it possible to run a docker host that has no harddrive? 1 month ago:
Id be pretty wary of using any system that “cooked” an nvme. That not the sign of an actual healthy system.
- Comment on JetKVM's Source Code is now public! ✨ 1 month ago:
They sent out a lot of review samples to different serious tech youtubers like wendal at level1 and jeff geerling. They all came back big fans.
- Comment on Firaxis reveal Sid Meier's Civilization VII system requirements for Linux 1 month ago:
Popular distro or one based on it. Pop-os is Ubuntu based and has always worked well for gaming. Its maintainted bt system76, a solid hardware vendor.
The fact they pulled all the snap bloat out also is a win win.
- Comment on TURKEY POWER 2 months ago:
The fun part of this is this is true of any 1GW power source. We have been deploying solar+battery arrays in that range recently for much less money and much faster than nuclear.
Thanks nuclear power for pointing out useful large scale solar+battery is too!
- Comment on The Black Friday sale for the most popular gaming system on the planet doesn't actually have any games on sale...? 2 months ago:
Slay the spire, balatro, stardew valley. All one time payment, all amazing.
- Comment on ugh i wish 2 months ago:
Fun fact:
The dairy was fined in 2023 for a Salmonella outbreak and is very militantly anti-government.
- Comment on punchable babies 2 months ago:
Hes not kidding. The cgi on the child is horrifying for a “blockbuster” movie.
Very much movie execs going “why spend time and money on CGI when these idiots will go anyway?”
- Comment on Amazon and Audible flooded with 'forex trading' and warez listings 2 months ago:
I know the correct pronunciation, but it will always be ware-ez to me.
- Comment on Monster catcher Cassette Beasts adds Steam Workshop support and a new battle mode 2 months ago:
Its currently in the humble choice bundle with 7 other games for $12.
- Comment on How to convince my uni / dept. to switch to Mastodon? 2 months ago:
Ehh, i get it. I live in the same world.
Still, I would lean in if my org asked me to stand up a mastodon instance.
- Comment on How to convince my uni / dept. to switch to Mastodon? 2 months ago:
Taking on tech debt is pretty common thing for IT. We spend all day standing up servoces for various internal orgs.
Mature orgs should be able to automate deploy of services like mastodon, so depending on various factors it’s not that big of an ask.