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- Comment on Scientists in Japan develop plastic that dissolves in seawater within hours 1 week ago:
The pace at which a takeaway container degrades from the salty food may be more than slow enough for it to not matter for that use case — especially if the container uses a coating.
- Comment on Front Brake Lights Could Drastically Diminish Road Accident Rates 1 week ago:
Colorblind person here. If we’re talking about limited visibility differentiation of front and back, the color of light is way less noticeable than whether we’re looking at headlights or not (based on intensity). There would be no issue telling whether we’re looking at a front brake light or a back brake light so long as the front brake light has headlights around it.
- Comment on New fuel cell could enable electric aviation 1 week ago:
This was my first thought as well. Both sodium hydroxide and sodium bicarbonate seem like they could have a signficant environmental impact. We’d some good studies on that before committing to this idea, I think.
- Comment on New fuel cell could enable electric aviation 1 week ago:
The technology plans for these fuel cells aren’t “for now”. They’re for a future where we’ve hopefully already decarbonized most of the electric grid, as doing so is way more important than decarbonizing aviation. Converting fleets of airplanes to electric is a long process that will probably not be started for a while yet while there are more important carbon emission sources to tackle (aviation is only 2-3% of the emissions right now).
- Comment on Former Meta exec says asking for artist permission will kill AI industry 2 weeks ago:
Terminator 7: Robot Pirates
- Comment on Bing Search and Bing Custom Search APIs will be retired on 11th August 2025. 4 weeks ago:
Thurott’s article on this implies that “big customers like DDG will be unaffected”. Though he also says information is scarce.
- Comment on Skype was shut down for good today 5 weeks ago:
I think Teams has already taken over there as well.
- Comment on Discord's face scanning age checks 'start of a bigger shift' 1 month ago:
Revolt relies on community self hosting last I looked at it, which means it would never be a “mass” solution.
Should Discord ever collapse (something I don’t see in the near future), the free alternatives that I see benefitting would be XMPP and Matrix — though there’s new contenders that could make name for themselves by then too.
- Comment on Exclusive: TSMC could face $1 billion or more fine from US probe, sources say 2 months ago:
The issue is a TSMC-made chip ended up inside a Huawei processor. They’re not allowed to make chips for Huawei or other US-sanctioned entities since they use US tech inside their foundries.
What happened here is that TSMC made chips for another Chinese company that gave them to Huawei (and is now on the sanctioned list as well as a result, but wasn’t when TSMC made the chips). The problem for TSMC is if the US determines they should have reasonably known there was a risk the company they made the chips for would give them to Huawei.
- Comment on Exclusive: TSMC could face $1 billion or more fine from US probe, sources say 2 months ago:
How is the US gonna fine a company from Taiwan?
They use US tech in their foundries, and thus are subject to export controls to make sure sanctioned entities (like Huawei) don’t benefit from it.
- Comment on Exclusive: TSMC could face $1 billion or more fine from US probe, sources say 2 months ago:
From the article, it sounds like TSMC’s part in this was just negligence as Huawei used a front company to make the order for them — like a 14-year-old getting an adult to make a booze purchase. If they get fined, it seems unlikely it would be for the maximum amount.
- Comment on Shopify CEO Tobi Lütke tells employees to prove AI can’t do the job before asking for resources. 2 months ago:
Why do I get the feeling that the hot new thing for CEOs to do is ask AI whenever they need to make a decision. Would explain a lot.
- Comment on Amazon wants to buy TikTok 2 months ago:
Oracle has been the most involved player for TikTok up to this point. Trump has also floated the idea of being government-owned.
- Comment on Nintendo delays Switch 2 preorders over tariff concerns 2 months ago:
The market wasn’t expecting the tariffs to be as insane as they were — which is why it crashed. They had been expecting 10% maximums, not minimums.
- Comment on Mozilla Thunderbird Challenges Gmail With Its Own Email Service 2 months ago:
Thunderbird’s corp (MZLA) does not get Google money so far as i’m aware. It is a different subsidiary corp from Firefox’s Mozilla Corp.
- Comment on OpenWrt Two will be a higher-performance router with 10 Gigabit LAN and WiFi 7 support - Liliputing 2 months ago:
The Asus BT8 has recently had support added in snapshots.
- Comment on Roku’s Moana 2 controversy is part of a bigger ad problem 2 months ago:
DRM-laced streaming apps sadly makes that unlikely.
- Comment on Microsoft is killing OneNote for Windows 10 2 months ago:
I wouldn’t exactly call that the hallmark of OneNote, but okay. Have you tried Saber?
- Comment on Microsoft is killing OneNote for Windows 10 2 months ago:
I’ve found Joplin acceptable.
- Comment on Get your new PebbleOS watch 2 months ago:
The Bangle.js is around too.
- Comment on Discord in Early Talks With Bankers for Potential I.P.O. 3 months ago:
The trouble with relying on each community to self-host is that it’s unlikely to ever make it to the masses that way. Self-hosting is a significant barrier.
- Comment on Discord in Early Talks With Bankers for Potential I.P.O. 3 months ago:
I don’t think Nostr can take on Discord. A big part of Discord is the voice chat channels, which, as far as I know, Nostr just isn’t built for.
- Comment on Thunderbird does not fall under the new terms frommmozilla 3 months ago:
They do. Well, I should say Thunderbird is also under the Foundation, but is developed by a separate subsidiary Corp (MZLA Tech Corp) than Firefox (Mozilla Corp).
- Comment on Brave CEO rants about "lefties," "glowies," George Soros 3 months ago:
He was CEO briefly, until the controversy over his appointment got loud enough. It makes sense he would’ve been paid the most that year, especially with the golden parachute CEOs get when they leave.
His appointment remains one of the most damaging events in Mozilla’s history, as it led to the resignation of multiple prior leaders (including previous CEOs). Making him CEO might’ve been Mitch Baker’s worst decision as chairwoman.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 months ago:
If only there were a search index I thought was still good.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 months ago:
Mojeek (UK-based) is trying. I wasn’t super impressed by their index yet, though.
- Comment on GitHub - LadybirdBrowser/ladybird: Truly independent web browser 3 months ago:
If you look at the kwebkitpart commits, it looks like it’s been nothing but localization for years.
- Comment on GitHub - LadybirdBrowser/ladybird: Truly independent web browser 3 months ago:
Konqueror is more or less dead as a browser. I don’t even think kwebkitpart is maintained anymore since QtWebkit was abandoned with Qt6.
- Comment on Framework’s first desktop is a strange—but unique—mini ITX gaming PC 3 months ago:
The Noctua fan option should be pretty quiet.
- Comment on France runs fusion reactor for record 22 minutes 3 months ago:
Most fission plants transfer the heat away from the reactor before boiling water. The same can be done with fusion.
The main difference with fusion is you have to convert some of the released energy to heat first. Various elements have been proposed for this.