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- GPU prices are coming to earth just as RAM costs shoot into the stratosphere - Ars Technicaarstechnica.com ↗Submitted 6 days ago to selfhosted@lemmy.world | 69 comments
- OpenAI says dead teen violated TOS when he used ChatGPT to plan suicide - Ars Technicaarstechnica.com ↗Submitted 6 days ago to technology@lemmy.world | 52 comments
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- Home Assistant Connect ZBT-2 - A USB adapter that plugs into your Home Assistant system and opens up a world of smart device optionswww.home-assistant.io ↗Submitted 1 week ago to selfhosted@lemmy.world | 42 comments
- If evolution is real, then why isn’t it happening now? An anthropologist explains that humans actually are still evolvingtheconversation.com ↗Submitted 1 week ago to [deleted] | 14 comments
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- Cassowary wandering 150km from home in Queensland's Gulf Savannah baffles residents - ABC Newswww.abc.net.au ↗Submitted 1 week ago to [deleted] | 1 comment
- In 1982, a physics joke gone wrong sparked the invention of the emoticon - Ars Technicaarstechnica.com ↗Submitted 1 week ago to technology@lemmy.world | 28 comments
- iRobot’s revenue has tanked and it’s almost out of cash | "Roomba customers are understandably concerned about the impact these current financial troubles might have on their home cleaning robots."www.theverge.com ↗Submitted 2 weeks ago to selfhosted@lemmy.world | 177 comments
- Comment on What is the current state of Discourse to threadiverse federation? 3 weeks ago:
Would you have an example of a community where it works? I was trying it earlier, but I wasn’t getting anything
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- Comment on What is the current state of Discourse to threadiverse federation? 4 weeks ago:
I did try subscribing to one from my instance a while back, but no content has federated in since then
- Comment on What is the current state of Discourse to threadiverse federation? 4 weeks ago:
Right, that makes sense.
What I’m getting from the comments here is that it works for microblogging, not for forum / threadiverse
- Comment on What is the current state of Discourse to threadiverse federation? 4 weeks ago:
Thank you for the detailed explanation, that makes sense :)
- Comment on What is the current state of Discourse to threadiverse federation? 4 weeks ago:
Do you see any content on that page? I’m looking at !events@forum.fedimins.net but I don’t see anything except the title and icon
- Internet Archive’s legal fights are over, but its founder mourns what was lost - Ars Technicaarstechnica.com ↗Submitted 4 weeks ago to technology@lemmy.world | 17 comments
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- Stirling-PDF Release 1.4.0: CBZ conversion, numerous tool improvements and upcoming V2 releasegithub.com ↗Submitted 1 month ago to selfhosted@lemmy.world | 0 comments
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- Deloitte will refund Australian government for AI hallucination-filled report - Ars Technicaarstechnica.com ↗Submitted 1 month ago to australia@aussie.zone | 1 comment
- Comment on How different mushrooms learned the same psychedelic trick 1 month ago:
Yes :)
The new study, led by pharmaceutical microbiology researcher Dirk Hoffmeister, from Friedrich Schiller University Jena, discovered that mushrooms can make psilocybin in two different ways, using different types of enzymes. This also helped the researchers discover a new way to make psilocybin in a lab.
Based on the work led by Hoffmeister, enzymes from two types of unrelated mushrooms under study appear to have evolved independently from each other and take different routes to create the exact same compound.
This is a process known as convergent evolution, which means that unrelated living organisms evolve two distinct ways to produce the same trait. One example is that of caffeine, where different plants including coffee, tea, cacao, and guaraná have independently evolved the ability to produce the stimulant.
Why this is interesting:
This is the first time that convergent evolution has been observed in two organisms that belong to the fungal kingdom. Interestingly, the two mushrooms in question have very different lifestyles. Inocybe corydalina, also known as the greenflush fibrecap and the object of Hoffmeister’s study, grows in association with the roots of different kinds of trees. Psilocybe mushrooms, on the other hand, traditionally known as magic mushrooms, live on nutrients that they acquire by decomposing dead organic matter, such as decaying wood, grass, roots, or dung.
The observation that mushrooms that inhabit two different niches make the same psychedelic compound raises questions regarding the ecological role of this molecule. A possible explanation as to why both mushrooms produce psilocybin could be that it is intended to deter predators, such as insects, that may be tempted to eat their fruiting bodies. This would be similar to the role of caffeine, which is also known to act as a natural pesticide, deterring insects and other pests from feeding on certain plants.
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