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- Comment on China's 1st large-scale sodium battery energy storage station put into operation 4 days ago:
uses 210 Ah sodium-ion battery cells that can be charged to 90 percent in 12 minutes
Very fast!
- Comment on Mods, what tips or etiquette do you recommend for reporting? 5 days ago:
Report AND downvote. Reports only go to your instance and the originating instance whereas downvotes go everywhere. Highly downvoted content will get noticed by someone, eventually.
- Comment on Will I ever be seen as truly British? 1 week ago:
You might feel more comfortable in a larger city. In London every person you meet has a different accent.
- Comment on Republicans are pulling out all the stops to reverse EV adoption 1 week ago:
Yeah I was heavily into peak oil once, too.
Don't underestimate the power of literally everyone on the planet really really wanting to avoid that situation. Life finds a way.
- Comment on Novel attack against virtually all VPN apps neuters their entire purpose 1 week ago:
No - the VPN provider has another DHCP server for use 'inside' the VPN.
- Comment on The Fediverse has a DDoS problem 1 week ago:
Link previews for content from untrusted instances could still be generated just as they are now.
The centralisation that has happened is a separate issue.
- Comment on The Fediverse has a DDoS problem 1 week ago:
Not all servers are equal. I would trust a post from lemmy.world or lemmy.ml to have valid metadata, for example. It'd be great if admins had some way to specify trusted instances (with the biggest 6 instances as initial defaults).
There would be other uses for the trusted instances concept. Automatic sharing of moderation actions, block lists, community lists, etc
- Comment on Please Don’t Share Our Links on Mastodon: Here’s Why! | itsfoss.com 2 weeks ago:
2 requests per instance - one for the HTML of the page and another for a preview image.
- Comment on Please Don’t Share Our Links on Mastodon: Here’s Why! | itsfoss.com 2 weeks ago:
I've found that if left on default settings, CloudFlare is not that great at caching. It requires a bit of configuration to really make it sing. itsfoss.com _thought _ they were "using CloudFlare" but probably not to it's fullest potential.
- Comment on Elon Musk wants to turn Tesla’s fleet into AWS for AI — would it work? 2 weeks ago:
Surely their cars have general-purpose CPUs, not especially suited to the purpose? Don't you need a GPU and gobs of RAM?
- Comment on Microsoft’s OpenAI partnership was born from Google envy 2 weeks ago:
Spoiler: not really envy, just the realization that they were too gormless to ever be competitive if they limited themselves to in-house resources.
- Comment on The Cuban Missile Crisis (Part 6) 2 weeks ago:
Thank you for sharing this story :)
- Comment on The Slow Fedi Movement: Toward a Green, Independent, and Equitable Fediverse 3 weeks ago:
I appreciate the practical suggestions section, there's some great ideas there.
You might be interested in the low bandwidth mode that https://piefed.social has. It can be enabled during login and removes most of the images and Javascript.
Really, developers need new tools to support these values. Our dev tools report on performance and reliability but not on sustainability / energy use / CO2. Our programming frameworks offer flexibility, power and expand-ability but never intentionally constrain our energy / waste / performance. The only exception to this that I've seen is Google App Engine which has some resource utilization limits and a pretty limited ORM that feels like fighting with one hand tied behind my back sometimes.
- Comment on Reddit embracing all out enshittification 3 weeks ago:
Yep, the faster the better. The worst thing would be a slowly boiling frog effect where people don't notice and stay put.
- Comment on Is Lemmy growing or shrinking? 4 weeks ago:
It's too early to say, as the method of accounting for 'active user' changed recently.
Seems to me like Lemmy is "consolidating". Some people are leaving but the community is deepening in norms, understanding, commitment and cohesion. This shows up as better content and discussions all the time. Spam is snuffed out quickly, more communities have better moderators. Our infrastructure is maturing and the software is getting better.
- Comment on Monthly Recommendations Thread: What are you playing? 4 weeks ago:
It is very atmospheric and lonely. So well done.
- Comment on Monthly Recommendations Thread: What are you playing? 4 weeks ago:
Haha yeah it's brutal at first. There is a wiki for the game with maps containing spoilers - that really helps.
The trick with rabbits is you watch where they're going and position yourself infront of them, so they come closer and closer, with no sideways movement. Then they're easy to hit with a stone.
They don't yield much meat so you need other sources too. Once you find a revolver (check wiki map) it gets a lot easier because then you hunt wolves instead of them hunting you.
- Comment on Monthly Recommendations Thread: What are you playing? 4 weeks ago:
The Long Dark.
Survival sim, in an arctic wilderness. It took me two weeks (occasional play only) to trudge through the snow and gather resources to smith some arrowheads for hunting. With that done, food is no longer an issue until my bow wears out. Better scour the forest for the right kind of wood, soon.
- Comment on China Already Makes as Many Batteries as the Entire World Wants 5 weeks ago:
Great to see prices coming down!
- Comment on Social Software Hacker Theory #1 – Conflict-Encouraging- vs. Discussion-Encouraging-UI-Design on the Fediverse 5 weeks ago:
PieFed has a de-escalation function that post authors can use to indicate they've changed their mind about something. Screenshots here https://mastodon.nzoss.nz/@rimu/111577832133087147
- Comment on Looks like SEO chuds are now adding 'Reddit' to the titles. 1 month ago:
Pretty much all content gets federated to lemmy.world so if you use site:lemmy.world that'll do it.
- Comment on DIY keyboard 1 month ago:
Great work! I like Backspace and Delete being next to each other, makes total sense.
Do the 4 different space keys have a function?
- Comment on Threadverse Working Group is formed 1 month ago:
Thread i verse, threadverse??? I don't know :)
- Comment on Threadverse Working Group is formed 1 month ago:
Developers from Discourse, NodeBB, Mbin, PieFed, Hubzilla and maybe some more that I forgot. Possibly Lemmy devs too, someone is contacting them directly about that.
If we can get Discourse and NodeBB sharing nicely with Lemmy+Mbin+PieFed it could more than double the size of the threadverse. It's a big deal.
- Comment on Lemmy.world seems to have banned the largest piracy community on Lemmy. 1 month ago:
Oof, yeah that's bad...
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- Comment on Reddit: Return Of The Junk Stock IPO 2 months ago:
Yeah, too often Forbes will publish any old trash.
But it's hard to argue with maths.
- Comment on Reddit: Return Of The Junk Stock IPO 2 months ago:
Hundreds of millions of dollars each year and in 20 years all they did is two redesigns, both of which sucked worse than what they had originally.
Oof.
- Comment on Electric cars will be cheaper to make than gas vehicles but with much higher repair and insurance costs 2 months ago:
Just because Tesla made a lot of bad choices, that doesn't mean all EVs for all time will always be more expensive.
- Comment on You guys should check out the reddit clone I've been working on 2 months ago:
Oh I just saw the youtube video you posted the other day.
That wink makes more sense now.
You're one of them.