girsaysdoom
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- Comment on Elements of Renewable Energy 2 months ago:
There are forms of hydroelectric generation that aren’t damaging to the environment. We just need to actually be aware of the consequences and perform an environmental risk assessment. I think this is a requirement for new installations in the US, but I could be wrong.
- Comment on Elements of Renewable Energy 2 months ago:
They aren’t forms of energy storage on their own. Just like batteries aren’t a source of energy on their own.
- Comment on Sineng Electric launches world’s largest sodium-ion battery storage project 3 months ago:
According to a paper published in 2020 here, the specific energy and energy density are in line with what you are saying. But according to the article that Wikipedia cited here, sodium batteries show the opposite.
You’re probably right but it looks like there’s conflicting info about this currently.
- Comment on Sineng Electric launches world’s largest sodium-ion battery storage project 3 months ago:
What’s interesting to me is the power to weight ratio. Sodium-Ion is at ~1000 W/Kg vs Li-Ion at ~175-425 W/Kg. EVs could maybe have less weight and cost in the future because of this.
- Comment on Proxmox on Laptop, Network Setup 4 months ago:
You definitely should try something with an actual desktop. It sounds like you’re wanting a headed server with virtualization capabilities. I’d personally run LXD or KVM and LXC if I needed a type 2 hypervisor and containers like what you’re saying. Luckily, a ton of distros support both of these at this point.
Btw, proxmox utilizes KVM and LXC on the backend. So the only difference is that you’re leveraging the tools directly. If you’re a CS student then learning the underlying tools is the best way to learn about a system and how it all interacts.
- Comment on "Privacy-Preserving" Attribution: Mozilla Disappoints Us Yet Again 4 months ago:
I used to run that years ago and what I remembered was that it was a handful to maintain with updates when I used to run it on windows. It could be completely different now, so don’t let my past experience hold you back from trying it out.
- Comment on "Privacy-Preserving" Attribution: Mozilla Disappoints Us Yet Again 4 months ago:
Firefox forks seem to be the best option. Chromium-based browsers still report to Google unless you basically break them.
- Comment on The AI-focused COPIED Act would make removing digital watermarks illegal 4 months ago:
Did you read the documents? It’s not as bad as what you’re saying.
It looks like the prohibited acts (section 6) specifically mention for commercial purposes where attribution markers are separated from the content. So, commercial AI software that doesn’t retain these markers or copyright marker removal done to mislead or affect in a commercial way would be against the law in 2 years.
I don’t see how this affects anything open source related. The way I understand it is that this will just force commercial applications to adapt to this and move on.
- Comment on Cloudflare is bad. Youre right. 4 months ago:
It looks like Quad9 supports DoH: quad9
- Comment on The Power of Sand Batteries -- Revolutionizing Energy Storage... - YouTube 5 months ago:
While it can be used in localized electrical power generation, this isn’t exactly best suited for just that. According to the video, the typical household uses 60% of their energy towards heating on average. This type of battery would already be storing thermal energy in the form that you need for this, so any conversion losses would already be accounted for; it would just be radiative losses while distributing the heat.
- Comment on Sanity checking an idea for editing yaml without wanting to throw my laptop out the window 7 months ago:
Maybe a tilde file would work? You could add all of the relevant data there and when translating between one language or the other it would prune any comments or unsupported features as the output is generated.
- Comment on Sanity checking an idea for editing yaml without wanting to throw my laptop out the window 7 months ago:
Oh, my mistake. Disregard me then.
- Comment on Sanity checking an idea for editing yaml without wanting to throw my laptop out the window 7 months ago:
That’s hilarious. I didn’t know that
- Comment on Sanity checking an idea for editing yaml without wanting to throw my laptop out the window 7 months ago:
I think the difference is that it sounds they are just looking for something JSON-like, just enough to edit and save a change. It might not be to be valid.
- Comment on Scientists find a simple way to destroy 'forever chemicals' — by beheading them 8 months ago:
Agreed 100%. They should be forced to add the cost of handling and recycling the material. Honestly, this should’ve been done with all plastic from the get go too.
- Comment on Smaug-72B-v0.1: The New Open-Source LLM Roaring to the Top of the Leaderboard 9 months ago:
I’m pretty sure you can load the model using RAM like another poster said. Here’s a used server under $600 that could theoretically run it: ebay.
- Comment on Smaug-72B-v0.1: The New Open-Source LLM Roaring to the Top of the Leaderboard 9 months ago:
I think I read somewhere that you’ll basically need 130 GB of RAM to load this model. You could probably get some used server hardware for less than $600 to run this.
- Comment on Hackers can infect network-connected wrenches to install ransomware | Researchers identify 23 vulnerabilities, some of which can exploited with no authentication 10 months ago:
You’re right, something like what I described wouldn’t necessarily need networking to work like that. However, think if you had to manage 100 or more of these devices for people in an assembly plant. Deploying new torque specs to all of the workers’ tools wirelessly would be much faster than having them bring them in individually after each batch job had been completed.
- Comment on Hackers can infect network-connected wrenches to install ransomware | Researchers identify 23 vulnerabilities, some of which can exploited with no authentication 10 months ago:
For efficiency and quality of service. If you have to tighten a hundreds of fasteners with specific amounts of torque then this would make the work go much more quicker than using a manual torque wrench.
- Comment on Hackers can infect network-connected wrenches to install ransomware | Researchers identify 23 vulnerabilities, some of which can exploited with no authentication 10 months ago:
This really isn’t shocking news. Tons of industrial devices have poor or out of date security. This is why you always segment off your Operational Technology on your network.
- Comment on Fear Mongering About Range Anxiety Has To Stop — CT Governor Calls Out EV Opponents 10 months ago:
And yet they are still generally more efficient than ICE vehicles.
- Comment on China launches test runs for world’s largest plant that can convert coal to ethanol 10 months ago:
I’m pretty sure they’re taking about Xi.
- Comment on AI-screened eye pics diagnose childhood autism with 100% accuracy 11 months ago:
For real.
It looks like the actual number of candidates were 958 and only 15% of that number were reserved for testing, the rest were used in AI training data. So in reality only 144 people were tested with the AI and there’s no information from the article on how many people were formally diagnosed of this subset.
- Comment on How to take ‘forever’ out of forever chemicals 11 months ago:
I think the key is using argon bubbles as a method of nucleation for the PFAS as well as an efficient medium for the plasma to be carried to the chemical. I’d imagine it would function like a neon light with water and a bubbler in it.
- Comment on How to take ‘forever’ out of forever chemicals 11 months ago:
It seems like they are still researching the actual effect but it’s sounds more that it’s breaking the chemical bonds apart by using electrical energy on concentrated areas of the chemical. My hypothesis is that it’s like how electrolysis breaks the bonds between hydrogen and oxygen in water.
- Comment on I can barely tell the difference between 60 and 165 hz on my monitor 1 year ago:
You may have to set the refresh rate manually to go higher than 60hz. Things should look much smoother.
Run ‘xrandr -q’ and see if it gives you multiple refresh rates for your displays.
Also, what GPU are you using?
- Comment on [Mental Outlaw] YouTube Accidentally Made Ad Blockers More Powerful 1 year ago:
In my mind it makes sense that the more extreme people tend to gravitate from public circles and tend to land in places that have less moderation and more freedom of speech unfortunately.
- Comment on [Mental Outlaw] YouTube Accidentally Made Ad Blockers More Powerful 1 year ago:
For real. I didn’t realize how bad all of the YouTube alternatives are. They are just flooded with neo-nazis and bigots. It just sucks with how we really don’t have much choice other than to use something like newpipe.
- Comment on Powerful Malware Disguised as Crypto Miner Infects 1M+ Windows, Linux PCs 1 year ago:
From what it’s describing, it sounds like it would only impact Linux computers that allow SMB1 access, such as domain-joined systems with samba access allowed. It sounds like this would target mainly enterprise Linux deployments.
- Comment on Kids Online Safety Act will allow Attorney Generals to Censor the News. 1 year ago:
It’s not different for the Internet. We’ve always had people that have been opposed to ideologies separate from their own. Book bans aren’t anything new and neither are restrictions to free speech. Nazi book burnings and the US Red Scare are extreme examples of this. It’s all a symptom of nationalism and ethnocentrism, just a different place/time/media. What really sucks is that the nationalists have a lot of power now all over the world, and we’re slowly seeing the results of that.