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- Comment on Britons could soon install balcony solar panels in flats and rental homes 1 hour ago:
As long as you dont connect it to the grid (island mode) you can do whatever the fuck u want and go way beyond 800W. You can buy a full kit of these 800W setups (panels, cables, inverter) for like 2-300€ sometimes. The one i got says that its island capable, but its not really optimal for grow lamp use, because for that you need battery storage and the cheap ones arent capable of that. Idk how much power these lamps use, but there are relatively cheap 12V solar charger + inverter systems that use car batteries for storage.
- Comment on Tumblr’s move to WordPress and fediverse integration is ‘on hold’ 15 hours ago:
Yeah their plans have been on and off for years now. Just ignore anything they say.
- Comment on Britons could soon install balcony solar panels in flats and rental homes 15 hours ago:
Yes, its kinda complicated and there are lots of reasons. The solar advocacy groups fought a lot to make it so that you dont even have to ask/notify your landlord or energy provider for these <800W installations
- Feeding in a lot of power (and especially quickly switching it on and off) can create grid instability
- At some point (really big installations) you are even required to install a remote disconnect system that the provider can use to turn off your installation if the grid is overloaded
- You dont get the same amount of money for selling energy then buying it, which means with high power installations the provider loses money if they dont install a smart meter (meter that keeps track of how much flows out and into the grid)
- With <800W installations the provider can still install a smart meter if they want, but you dont have to notify them of your installation
- Comment on Britons could soon install balcony solar panels in flats and rental homes 16 hours ago:
It has been insanely successful in Germany. Around this time last year the total number of these private mini setups reached 500.000. They are typically 800W peak power (because thats the legal limit for an unregistered installation) so that gives you 400MW of total installed capacity. Pretty dope imo.
- Comment on Trump says 'not going to stand' for Netanyahu's continued prosecution 2 days ago:
“The United States of America spends Billions of Dollar a year, far more than on any other Nation, protecting and supporting Israel. We are not going to stand for this,”
What is that argument even? Its basically like saying “This corrupt guy is our friend and we are just as corrupt, so we cant let you set an example by sentencing him”
- Comment on Australian police beat an opposition politician so badly that she might lose an eye -- simply for being at an anti-genocide protest. 2 days ago:
Because they are trying to catch people in a bad faith argument about the validity of specific individual sources.
- Comment on Typical Friday night 2 days ago:
Those are the best hangout spots tho.
- Comment on What's the difference between ICE breaking in to people's houses and disappearing them and IDF doing the same in Gaza? 2 days ago:
Its bad yes, but its just laughable to equate a literal genocide with hundreds of thousands of deaths, to people stuck in a cell for a few days, where one ended up dying.
- Comment on What's the difference between ICE breaking in to people's houses and disappearing them and IDF doing the same in Gaza? 2 days ago:
You have a decent chance
Thats what i meant by that. The number of times it has happened with ICE is nothing by comparison to the IDF.
- Comment on What's the difference between ICE breaking in to people's houses and disappearing them and IDF doing the same in Gaza? 2 days ago:
You have a decent chance to survive somewhat unscathed if abducted by ICE. If you get abducted by the IDF you are basically guaranteed to be tortured, raped, killed or all of the above.
- Comment on Germany asks Apple and Google to remove DeepSeek from app stores 2 days ago:
The request follows similar measures in other European countries and is driven by concerns about data security.
Then also ask them to remove all Google, Apple, Meta, Microsoft and OpenAI apps please :)
- Comment on If government hackers can infiltrate big companies, why not hack normal people? 2 days ago:
Yeah this is like asking “Why rob a bank when you could just rob a random person on the street”
Yeah sure you can do that, but the comparably tiny amount of money you get is not really worth the effort and risk.
- Comment on Australian police beat an opposition politician so badly that she might lose an eye -- simply for being at an anti-genocide protest. 2 days ago:
If you ask me about some specific source, then you already know that what i have said is true and you are just trying to argue for the sake of arguing. If you know the name Adrian Zenz, then you know how to read a Wikipedia article.
- Comment on Australian police beat an opposition politician so badly that she might lose an eye -- simply for being at an anti-genocide protest. 3 days ago:
To deny that is to deny your own ability to see, read and think.
So you admit to not being able to do any of those three?
- Comment on Australian police beat an opposition politician so badly that she might lose an eye -- simply for being at an anti-genocide protest. 3 days ago:
Genocide doesnt require direct killing. Forced sterilization and destruction of cultural identity is also genocide.
From Wikipedia:
“the destruction of a nation or of an ethnic group” by means such as “the disintegration of [its] political and social institutions, of [its] culture, language, national feelings, religion, and [its] economic existence”.
- Comment on Microsoft pushes staff to use internal AI tools more, and may consider this in reviews. 'Using AI is no longer optional.' 3 days ago:
Nah its just part of the MLM scheme that is “AI”. Its useful because they said it would be useful. Its worth the investment because it cost a lot of money. Once you realize that all these companies care about is revenue and “growth” then it all clicks. It doesnt have to work or be profitable, it just needs to look good to investers.
They will even go as far as firing loads of workers and saying publicly that they “replaced them with AI” while in reality those workers were just doing something that the company was willing to sacrifice. They just replaced something with nothing to make it look like their magic AI can actually do things.
Cory Doctorow put it better than i ever could: pluralistic.net/2025/05/07/rah-rah-rasputin/
The whole post is good but i will just quote this section.The “boy genius” story is an example of Silicon Valley’s storied “reality distortion field,” pioneered by Steve Jobs. Like Jobs, Zuck is a Texas marksman, who fires a shotgun into the side of a barn and then draws a target around the holes. Jobs is remembered for his successes, and forgiven his (many, many) flops, and so is Zuck. The fact that pivot to video was well understood to have been a catastrophic scam didn’t stop people from believing Zuck when he announced “metaverse.”
Zuck lost more than $70b on metaverse, but, being a boy genius Texas marksman, he is still able to inspire confidence from credulous investors. Zuck’s AI initiatives generated huge interest in Meta’s stock, with investors betting that Zuck would find ways to keep Meta’s growth going, despite the fact that AI has the worst unit economics of any tech venture in living memory. AI is a business that gets more expensive as time goes on, and where the market’s willingness to pay goes down over time. This makes the old dotcom economics of “losing money on every sale, but making it up in volume” look positively rosy.
- Comment on You've got to stick up for the little guy 3 days ago:
Which one?
- Comment on A Tech-Backed Influencer Wants to Replace Teachers With AI 3 days ago:
I still wonder to this day if this thing isnt just a really elaborate mechanical turk setup.
- Comment on [deleted] 4 days ago:
Hes going to have Mamdani arrested if he wins. Im calling it now.
- Comment on [deleted] 4 days ago:
Yeah absolutely zero chance anyone is gonna make a moder smartphone with all parts from a single country. Maybe in China but definitely nowhere else.
- Comment on Is there a service to check for reposts? 4 days ago:
For URLs just put the URL into the lemmy search and it will find any posts with it.
For images there isnt really anything because it would require hashing all images uploaded to all instances and then allow people to search through them which is computationally expensive. Basically you want reverse image search like tineye.com but only for lemmy.
- Comment on India recovers data from black boxes after deadly crash 4 days ago:
I wouldnt wanna be that one person that survived. That would feel horrible.
- Comment on In a First, America Dropped 30,000-Pound Bunker-Busters—But Iran’s Concrete May Be Unbreakable, Scientists Say 5 days ago:
Thats fair yeah
- Comment on In a First, America Dropped 30,000-Pound Bunker-Busters—But Iran’s Concrete May Be Unbreakable, Scientists Say 5 days ago:
The greater strength is achieved by turning concrete into a composite material with the addition of steel or other fibers.
Fiber reinforcment is thousands of years old.
- Comment on In a First, America Dropped 30,000-Pound Bunker-Busters—But Iran’s Concrete May Be Unbreakable, Scientists Say 5 days ago:
Basically they used egyptian age tech to outplay billions of dollars worth of weapons tech.
- Comment on Man on my word 5 days ago:
Not without an account i think. There are websites sthat still work tho because they use an account to download it serverside.
- Comment on The sign was a lie she didn't even know the concept about Sex 😭 5 days ago:
Frieren is the ultimate aroace endboss
- Comment on Man on my word 5 days ago:
Age restricted even sadge
- Comment on What a fun guy! 5 days ago:
Accurate in my experience too tbh
- Comment on What a fun guy! 5 days ago:
Relative to leg girth, that thing is massive.