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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Government pledges nearly £22bn for carbon capture projects⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The laws of physics mean that no matter what we do with carbon capture it is never going to be cheaper and less energy to emit it and then capture it again. This is a foolish endeavour the focus should be on the green transition with Wind, Solar and Storage combined with ensuring infrastructure is there for Electric Vehicle transition. This is the sort of investment the fossil fuel wants governments to make that will have no impact and allow them to continue to emit.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Intel releases one last microcode update to fix high-end desktop CPU crashes⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  This was has been ridiculous. I have no idea how long my CPU will last and whether it will just randomly start failing. Intel has run out of spares and it seems to have had so many stabs at fixing the problem now that if we believe this is really the last one we are the fools.

  These CPUs need a recall.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Paralyzed Jockey Loses Ability to Walk After Manufacturer Refuses to Fix Battery For His $100,000 Exoskeleton⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  A right to repair is long overdue but more than that when it comes to medical devices it’s obvious battery replacement is going to be necessary and should be user accessible.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨“Model collapse” threatens to kill progress on generative AIs⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Having now flooded the internet with bad AI content not surprisingly its now eating itself. Numerous projects that aren’t AI are suffering too as the quality of text reduces.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨US grid adds batteries at 10x the rate of natural gas in first half of 2024⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  They are a lot more expensive than expected at the moment, once they start selling at the 30$/KWh they were proposed at they will be fantastic but if they stay at their current price LFP is going to be a lot cheaper.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What are some game series you would like to see revived? And if possible, which entry should the new game follow from?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Yes Satellite Reign, I guess its not very recent since it was nearly a decade ago!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What are some game series you would like to see revived? And if possible, which entry should the new game follow from?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Syndicate (the recent indy homage alas broke the formula too much).

  Mech Commander

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Logitech’s Subscription Mouse Idea Pulled Back After Backlash⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The first attempt of many, the tech industry will normalise a subscription model alongside the hardware they just need to find the right justification that doesn’t have universal push back. It worked for games, the trojan horse used was (often token) multiplayer addition and it will work in hardware too once they find the right combination.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨AMD won't patch all chips affected by severe data theft vulnerability — Ryzen 3000, 2000, and 1000 will not get patched for 'Sinkclose'⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  AMD has unfortunately a long history of abandoning products before its reasonable on its graphics division. Its not really acceptable, up until earlier this year my NAS/server was running a 3600 and its only for power saving purposes I changed that as its still a very workable CPU in that role.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Google antitrust ruling could be an existential threat to the future of Firefox | Financials show 86% of Mozilla's revenue came from the agreement keeping Google as Firefox's default search engine⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  That doesn’t produce any practical competition however. Some vertical splitting of the search business seems reasonable so we end up with multiple companies doing search out of it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Report: Consumer Hardware Still Often Impossible To Repair Despite New State ‘Right To Repair’ Laws⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The law comes in two parts, the actual written bit that says what it is and the enforcement. Most people consider the first part what is necessary and lobby hard for it but really the most important bit in a practical sense is how it gets applied and enforced, without which the law is worthless. In many countries one way to defang laws is simply underfund the legal system or quangos that do the enforcement, another is putting someone in charge at the attornies office who de-prioritises those cases. The law as written isn’t worth the paper/bytes its written on unless there is a plan for enforcement that doesn’t involve every poor person using the rich mans legal system.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is it safe to automatically pull and update docker containers?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It really depends on the project. Some of them take breaking changes seriously and don’t do them and auto migrate and others will throw them out on “minor” number releases and there might be a lot of breaking changes but you only run into one that impacts you occasionally. I typically don’t want containers that are going to be a lot of work to keep up to date so I jettison projects that have unreliable releases for whatever reason and if they put out a breaking change its a good time to re evaluate whether I want that container at all and look at alternatives.

  So no its not safe, but depending on the project it actually can be.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is social media fuelling political polarisation?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  When I look at how much Nigel Farage has been platformed in the UK the press helped manufacture the consent for Brexit and the big far right swing that is coming with it. What were quite isolated social media views have become very mainstream and on the TV all the time. Society is now quite open about a lot of far right talking points. Social media is a part of the media landscape but it didn’t make the far right figures popular that was all the traditional presses doing.

  Even now they cover and platform Nigel Farage about 100x as much as they do any Green candidate, and yet the Greens hold more MP and council seats. Same with the Lib Dems who are bigger than Reform and yet the press is constantly platforming Reform. Its hard to look at traditional media and see anything but a big swing to the right in the last decade and they have led every step of the way.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Recommendations for cheap hardware upgrade⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t think modern Raspberry pi’s make much sense unless you are using GPIOs or really need the low power consumption. The 3 and the 4 were OK price wise but the pi 5 is quite close to all these N100 mini computers and they are a lot more performance and expansion compared to a raspberry pi 5 and still quite low power.

  Either a Topton or similar N100 based machine or a mini PC second hand is the way to go at the ~$100 mark. The mini PC will be faster and probably more expandable and cheaper but also more power consumption.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Lithium-free sodium batteries exit the lab and enter US production⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Late last year they were talking about $40 for a KWH which compared very favourably to LifePO4 that was more like $130 at the time and Li-ion that was more like $200. However right now on alibaba you can get a 200Ah battery for about $60 and the LifePO4 300Ah are now down in the $50 range which is an incredible drop in the space of 6 months. So in practice they are less dense and more expensive but I think its new technology introduction pricing and at some point it should be about a third cheaper than LifePO4 for the same capacity, all be it a bit bigger and heavier and quite considerably cheaper than Li-ion for the same capacity.

  The small 18650 and other small sized cells have started appearing on aliexpress as well so its possible to get those too butt they are a lot more expensive than a basic Li-ion 18650 at the moment for a lot less capacity. I think its mostly the bigger cells that most people interested in Sodium Ion will be wanting (home battery and grid storage solutions and some of the low/mid range cars) more than small cells since typically the smaller stuff you want to maximise capacity even if it costs a bit more and most will want li-ion and ideally the newer nearly solid state li-ion that doubles capacity per KG.

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨First known test dogfight between AI and human pilot carried out, US military says⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Not so much f16s but the more modern planes can do 16G where the pilot can’t really do more than 9G. But once unshackled from a pilot a lot of instrument weight and pilot survival can be stripped from a plane design and the airframe built to withstand much more, with titanium airframes I see no reason we can’t make planes do sustained unstable turns in excess of 20G.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Which of these VPS providers would you recommend?⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Another possibility for cheap VPS is Contabo they are quite good value. Netcup is good value as well.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨T-Mobile's New AI "Profiling" Privacy Toggle Is On By Default⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  That is a breach of GDPR, default has to be opt out. We don’t need new laws we just need the existing one enforced.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Cropped out, banned, airbrushed: the school photos that show the ugly face of Britain today⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  People don’t realise how common this is in our society unless you are a minority. Its everywhere. The state abuses disabled people via the DWP, the doctors do the same to disabled people by refusing to accept they are disabled, access is awful everywhere and people with wheelchairs fail to get on buses because the spot is taken by a pram. Then there is all the attacks and verbal abuse on the streets from random people.

  Despite whatever self reported level of discrimination the UK gets as one of the best in the world any minority in this country can tell you how many times a day they are abused by someone else. Its every single day. The Police, NHS and other state functions all do it. Most of the time there are no consequences, its so common infact its not ever news. Its hard to accept this basic reality as someone who isn’t a constant victim of our society but if you listen to the people who are the victims of this stuff its relentless.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Public satisfaction with NHS falls to lowest level on record⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Its notable its not listing Long Covid at all. The 1.9 million long haulers in the UK have all been treated atrociously by the NHS so far, most have been misdiagnosed and gaslighted and the rest have been abused with graded exercise therapy that has worsened their disease. But then this was a poll by the NHS so it likely wasn’t one of the answers available.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Pupil behaviour 'getting worse' at schools in England, say teachers⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  This is almost certainly Covid. We already know it damages the brain and attacks the executive as well as behavioural centres of the brain and children are out sick for twice as long from school directly due to sickness. We are also busy trying to force children with Long Covid, of which there are 68,000 in the UK now, into school and unfortunately that will make them very unwell. Most schools are having to use a lot of substitute teachers due to doubling of sickness and teachers are the second hardest hit profession with Long Covid (behind medical staff).

  It will keep getting worse as more and more suffer from Long Covid impacts.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is Intel gatekeeping WiFi 7? A very quick look at the Intel BE200.⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I recently bought a BE200 for upgrading a very old laptop that came with N wifi with a 4500U CPU. That is pretty old these days! After a driver install both the wifi adapter and bluetooth work as expected. I don’t know if I get wifi 7 speeds and throughput yet as this got upgraded before the network and router did but I think it was worth sharing that it does work on old laptops.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Labour 'committed' to assisted dying vote, Sir Keir Starmer tells Dame Esther Rantzen⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Assisted dying requires really good legal protections or we end up with a system that pushes people who are in desperation situations into death. There needs to be legal provisions that those applying have actually had all medical interventions (even those that could kill them) and they are actually fully supported socially too to live a reasonable life. It needs to be a legal requirement that the government must ensure these things happen and quickly to elevate suffering.

  The problem is we currently live in the country that is actively trying to kill the chronically ill and disabled with below poverty levels of social funding and a healthcare system that isn’t fit for purpose and regularly abuses patients. We need to fix these before we can talk about a safe assisted dying system or its just eugenics.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What's wrong with Nextcloud, and why is it slow/clunky?⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It has been slowly improving. It used to be a lot worse but I have a lot less issues with it now than I did before all the changes. Its not the fastest best way to do anything, there are better calendar, file sync, email etc etc applications out there in every category that run better but its also quite an easy way to make a lot of things happen.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft's Pricey AI Assistant Copilot Leaves Early Adopters Feeling Cheated⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  As far as I am concerned Copilot is a giant theft of open source code and breaches the license. I expect in the future a lot of repositories will be used to poison these AI agents just as is happening with images. The agents will get better but the quality of what they produce will also be poisoned and get worse precisely due to the theft.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨European Union set to revise cookie law, admits cookie banners are annoying⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The EU law explicitly says no consent by default and users have to opt in. All of these cookie banners are breaking the law, the law doesn’t need to change it just needs enforcing and these banners will disappear. We already have a do not track header and that could be complied with but it’s enforcement that is the problem.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Do any of you have that one service that just breaks constantly? I'd love to love Nextcloud, but it sure makes that difficult at times⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The new Linuxserver.io docker image at the very least has solved the annoying update cycle NextCloud has and seems to have fixed the need to do that every few months. I haven’t ever had it die but I don’t push it hard and I keep the plugins to a minimum because I just don’t trust it and it doesn’t run all that well.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Britain likely to generate more electricity from wind, solar and hydro than fossil fuels for the first year ever in 2023⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I tend to go off the grid.iamkate.com website which is a good day by day look at power generation and summarises the year. Renewables have so far surpassed fossil fuels 10.7GW compared to 10.3GW with other sources taking 5.9GW of which biomass is 1.52GW. I don’t personally think biomass is renewable because its burning old forests and at a rate far faster than the wood is replanted and we know that old forests store much more CO2 than new ones. With hydro and Nuclear its a pretty close run thing if we consider them green renewables are the majority of power production.

  Still a way to go, obviously more capacity is required and more storage and this will inevitably lead to excess power in the summer which is how renewables will work and hopefully we will find a good use for free power capturing CO2. A lot of projects are held up by the grid in the UK, more than enough to complete this transition, companies want to install the production its just the grid holding everything up with plans out to 2035.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨There Is Zero Evidence of a Shoplifting ‘Epidemic’⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Way back in time I worked in a supermarket that first trialled self shopping. At the time this was done with special trolleys and boxes and hand scanners people took around the store to scan their own goods. The scheme survived about two years. The system was designed to gradually ramp up rescans by the checkout operators if prior scans had shown missing items. Certain people were clearly making a lot of mistakes (usually with expensive items like Whiskey) but many weren’t. The increased waits for rescans for the people who often made such “errors” destroyed the value for everyone else and they became increasingly angry on what should have been near instant checkouts.

  Its notable I think that almost all supermarkets today use self scanning despite all those earlier experiments showing that some people would use it to hide theft. This goes very much against the image of the pocket and exit that people have in their head. That was actually very uncommon and being a person who often greeted on the door it was my job to spot them. Most of the theft occurred through items that were smuggled through the checkout in some way.

  I don’t think self scanning is contributing to an increase in theft losses and the data shows its not. What I think it potentially contributes to is making it hard to identify the theft because there are less employees effectively as the security force. The decline in prosecutions is likely due to these changes that the supermarkets have adopted which they knew 25 years ago resulted in hidden theft.