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- Comment on Airbus previews next-gen airliner with bird-inspired wings 5 days ago:
That requires lots of cropland though. Hydrogen can effectively be made by offshore wind farms etc.
It might work if we reduce standard fuel requirements for cars etc enough.
- Comment on Airbus previews next-gen airliner with bird-inspired wings 5 days ago:
Electricity has been around that long too though, yet there are no serious electric passenger planes (with a decent range)
It has it’s flaws, but it may have a higher ceiling in terms of usefulness. They say they can make it work, which is more than I hear about electric planes for example.
We should be financially encouraging 0 carbon planes, without controlling how, then let the engineers work what tech to do it with.
- Comment on Airbus previews next-gen airliner with bird-inspired wings 5 days ago:
What are the other 0 carbon flight options? They are all flawed.
We can engineer our way through flaws with enough effort though.
- Comment on Airbus previews next-gen airliner with bird-inspired wings 5 days ago:
…then there should be regulatory actions to help make them viable
- Comment on Internet forums are disappearing because now everything is Reddit and Discord. And that's worrying. 1 week ago:
If anything, it’s way easier to control what your employees see if they are on a company instance. …that was entirely my point.
Also, which company uses Reddit as their forum? lots of small apps, orgs, communities etc just have a subreddit and a discord server. Lots of bigger companies have official or semi-official subreddits.
We’re all a big community. I think people get this quickly. Someone wanting to get support for their hoover or something may not. they create an account to discuss the pros and cons of certain hoover and see loads of random stuff about American politics and Linux. Their going to get real confused. Most people have heard of reddit now though (and to a lesser extent discord)
- Comment on Internet forums are disappearing because now everything is Reddit and Discord. And that's worrying. 1 week ago:
In fact defederation is a negative since now you have to worry about new signups, moderation, etc. While in a federated instance, you can leave moderation to other instances and only allow team/company members on your instance.
They are going to moderate their communities, if its unfederated, you don’t have to worry about moderating (or the lack of) on any other instances communities at all.
Users can sign up on other instances and still be able to interact with your instance for support, help and other stuff.
Thats going to be too confusing for a lot of users - they just want to sign up and complain about/discuss things.
It depends if they are saying, we have a community on lemmy (federation fine) or saying, here is our official forum thing (federation bad)
- Comment on Internet forums are disappearing because now everything is Reddit and Discord. And that's worrying. 1 week ago:
If you are a company looking for a forum, you want to be able to control it. Unfederated means you can control account access and don’t have to worry about someone going to All and seeing porn etc.
Federated could work, but you need to make it clear that it’s just a community on a platform.
- Comment on Internet forums are disappearing because now everything is Reddit and Discord. And that's worrying. 1 week ago:
You could force latest comment sort on the posts, but leave the comments sorting to the user.
- Comment on Internet forums are disappearing because now everything is Reddit and Discord. And that's worrying. 1 week ago:
The Reddit style voting/threading is superior of forums though.
An unfederated Lemmy instance for example would actually be really good.
- Comment on Thoughts on Old World? 3 weeks ago:
I might just be bad at it, but all my games ended up being either a boring cake walk, or ridiculously difficult.
Never really got into it.
- Comment on YouTube launches a $7.99 per month, ad-free Premium Lite subscription 4 weeks ago:
Then you are using it for music and pay the full rate.
- Comment on Nokia to deploy the first cellular network on the Moon 4 weeks ago:
I was thinking more of a spinlaunch thing, that would make more sense, but would require a fuckton of industry in space or on the moon to have it work
- Comment on Nokia to deploy the first cellular network on the Moon 4 weeks ago:
You still need to fire an engine on the far side of your orbit though which makes it more difficult as it still needs to be able to propel itself (while surviving the acceleration)
- Comment on A new study found adaptive traffic signals powered by big data reduced peak-hour travel times by 11% in China’s 100 most congested cities – saving 31.73 million tonnes of CO₂ annually. 4 weeks ago:
Look for a square or an X (or a square with an X in it) right Infront of the stop line for the lights. If it’s there, that detects a car waiting.
There may be more of them further up the road to detect more cars waiting/arriving.
They tend not to detect cyclists, so I often have to move to the side and wave cars forward so lights on side streets will change.
- Comment on Cars will need fewer screens and more buttons to earn a 5-star safety rating in Europe | Euro NCAP will introduce new testing rules in 2026 requiring physical controls for the highest safety score 4 weeks ago:
I consider temperature and fan controls to be safety critical for demisting windows etc for example.
- Comment on Removing Jeff Bezos From My Bed ◆ Truffle Security Co. 5 weeks ago:
I wasn’t going to read the article until I read your comment. Wtf!
- Comment on AI Killed The Tech Interview. Now What? 5 weeks ago:
Looks to be about 50/50 between the dictionaries I looked at. Wikipedia includes friends in it’s definition.
- Comment on AI Killed The Tech Interview. Now What? 5 weeks ago:
My understanding is that is included in nepotism nowadays (used to be family only, now more general)
- Comment on AI Killed The Tech Interview. Now What? 1 month ago:
My favourite tech interview technique was the code review style. Give them some code with a range of deliberate issues and ask them to code review it live on the call.
Tests their code comprehension and as you can ask them questions live, it’s reasonably AI proof (I think). You can ask them to refactor things on the call, which tends to be something AI is weak at. It also requires no take home work for the applicant.
My company has just said that AI use in the interview is fine, but we will be asking questions as they work through it to check they actually understand things.
- Comment on AI Killed The Tech Interview. Now What? 1 month ago:
Ah, Nepotism.
- Comment on New to self-hosting 1 month ago:
That’s a lot of useful info, thanks!
- Comment on New to self-hosting 1 month ago:
What do you want to run in a VM that can’t run in Docker?
a VM with torrent client and a killswitched VPN was the easiest way to get a secure setup. also meant if it ever got virused I could just roll it back. I need to look more into what docker can actually do by the looks of it.
You are the second person to suggest unraid - is it ok to sit on the perpetual license (for a few years at a time), or are the updates really required? It supports GPU passthrough right, so I can have a ‘normal’ linux desktop for gaming while running the other stuff in the background?
TY for the response!
- Comment on New to self-hosting 1 month ago:
I only know of it from LTT videos I think, not exactly the best endorsement!
That’s a lot of data (relatively)! Are you paying for the unraid license yearly, or just sitting on an old version?
- Comment on New to self-hosting 1 month ago:
Here ya go: selfh.st/apps/
oooh, TY! Now to guess which ones will still be maintained in 5 years 😆
I guess I must as well have a play with some stuff like jellyfin to see if its useful. The ‘server’ in this case would have a 6 year old GPU in it, so should hopefully have enough grunt.
Thanks for the info!
- Comment on New to self-hosting 1 month ago:
ah sorry, my new ISP gave me a router, but it doesn’t have any VPN functionality on it. My old one probably can’t support the speed, and for some reason doesn’t let me change its MAC address, so I can’t use it as the ISP facing device.
- Comment on New to self-hosting 1 month ago:
I’m paying for a static IP (and to get of cg-nat)
- Comment on New to self-hosting 1 month ago:
what benefit does a new router give over just putting the VPN software on the RP for example?
- Comment on New to self-hosting 1 month ago:
That’s some nice documentation - way overkill for what I need though.
Out of interest - Why is the VPS required, and why the mention of a non residential IP address? Could that not all be hosted locally if your ISP has given you a static IP address?
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- Comment on Why there is no photos of earth from space? 1 month ago:
Ok… I will engage…
Why do they look fake?