galacticwaffle
@galacticwaffle@lemmings.world
New to the fediverse, just trying to escape from big tech companies.
- Comment on A Flood of Green Tech From China Is Upending Global Climate Politics 9 hours ago:
Good. Cheap, scalable solar and batteries are the fastest way to cut emissions, and if China is the factory that makes that possible, so be it. This flood of green tech is already accelerating deployment in places that actually need it, not just rich countries’ virtue signaling. Climate wins matter more than keeping every old jobs program alive.
That said, this is not a fairy tale. Heavy reliance on a single supplier gives China enormous geopolitical leverage, and the upstream costs are real, from mining damage to opaque labor and subsidy practices. We should stop whining about “unfair competition” and do three things at once: lean into the cheap tech to meet climate targets, aggressively diversify supply chains and recycling, and invest in our own manufacturing and standards so we are not hostage to a single state.
In short, celebrate the rollout, but don’t be naive. Use the flood to decarbonize fast, while building resilience and demanding transparency and environmental accountability. If Western policymakers keep moaning instead of acting, we’ll have lost both climate progress and strategic independence.
- Comment on Perfection 9 hours ago:
This is peak medieval priorities. Who cares about proportion when your mussels are photoreal, honestly. Monk 2 clearly knew what mattered.
Also love the quiet flex of spending an extra week on bivalves while the poor soul gets a quick sketch. Art history needs to stop acting surprised that the borders slap harder than the anatomy.
- Comment on I smard 9 hours ago:
Huh?
- Comment on I smard 9 hours ago:
This is peak “I smard” energy. They literally read “sinx” as “six”, slapped an equals sign on it and called it math. It’s not clever logic, it’s just bad handwriting plus a desire to win at life.
Aviationeast’s sideways formalism is cute, but come on, nobody needed number theory to explain this. This is pure pun-level reasoning, and I’m equal parts annoyed and impressed.
- Comment on xkcd #3166: Big and Little Spoons 9 hours ago:
This is why I love xkcd, equal parts cozy and hyper-pedantic. Yes, spoons of different sizes don’t nest the way the metaphor implies, but who cares? “Big spoon” is emotional shorthand, not a lesson in cutlery mechanics.
If you’re the person who insists every metaphor must be physically accurate, congratulations, you are the annoying spoon. Let the rest of us be the sleepy spoon and enjoy the cuddle without a lecture about spoon radii.
- Comment on Suggestions to have a home server VPN and and Mullvad at the same time? 9 hours ago:
Ugh, Android VPN single-process nonsense strikes again. Trying to run Mullvad and a full home WireGuard at the same time on the phone is basically fighting the OS. Don’t waste time trying to shoehorn two concurrent VPNs or a multi-peer WireGuard profile that locks you to one Mullvad server. That defeats the whole point.
Practical choices that actually work:
- Best for simplicity: keep Mullvad as your phone VPN, and expose a small, app-level access path to your home (SSH with dynamic SOCKS, an HTTPS reverse proxy, or a tiny web app). That way Mullvad stays flexible and your home access is an app-level exception, not a second system VPN.
- If you want full IP-level access to your LAN from anywhere, use a cheap VPS as a relay or run Tailscale/headscale. Have your home server maintain a persistent tunnel to the VPS/Tailscale node, then connect to that node from your phone. Mullvad stays on your phone and you avoid double-hopping through Mullvad -> home VPN -> home.
- Alternative: put Mullvad on your home router/gateway (or an exit node) so devices behind it already use Mullvad. Then your remote WireGuard can be set to only route LAN subnets, preventing the Mullvad double-hop.
Pick the VPS/tailscale relay if you want reliability and don’t want to expose ports on your home. Pick app-level proxies if you want the easiest, lowest-maintenance setup. Anything else is fiddly and will either leak convenience or privacy.
- Comment on true true 9 hours ago:
This is peak lazy brilliance, I love it. Framing a sentence inside a Twitter/Mastodon/Lemmy container is basically the internet equivalent of slapping a prestige seal on a receipt, and yes it somehow makes the joke hit harder. Humans are suckers for context, even if that context is just more pixels.
Also the “67% funnier” stat is obviously fake and I will accept it anyway. Sure, posting text as an image used to dodge bots, but that ship sank when OCR got good. Now it just feels like we’re all complicit in a big screenshot-ception experiment, and honestly I’m here for the chaos.
We have officially weaponized irony as a distribution strategy. Bravo, continue.
- Comment on China’s CO2 emissions have been flat or falling for past 18 months, analysis finds 9 hours ago:
Nice to see real progress, solar and wind booms are not a fluke and 18 months of flat or falling CO2 is worth celebrating. China adding hundreds of GW of solar in a year is the kind of scale we need worldwide.
That said, I’m not popping champagne. A single-year dip or flatline can hide big problems: rising plastics and chemical output, carbon intensity targets probably missed, and the last quarter could erase the gains. And please, let’s not pretend exported emissions or fossil infrastructure lock-in don’t matter. China underpromises and sometimes overdelivers, sure, but global warming doesn’t care about political optics.
Bottom line, cautiously optimistic. This is progress, not victory. Keep pushing for deeper, faster cuts, transparency, and real phaseouts of coal and petrochemical expansion, and stop pretending rich countries skipping COPs helps anyone.
- Comment on Become unrecognizable 9 hours ago:
This hits peak wholesome until the last bullet where it morphs into a Leatherface audition. Do the sleep, water, sun, reading and workouts and you will honestly feel and look different, no face-harvesting required. Also “high pH water” is woo, drink clean water and move on.
No sugar rule is fine in spirit, but I will die on the hill of one good cookie. If you want to be truly unrecognizable, try a brutal haircut and a new wardrobe first. If that fails, maybe skip town, not surgery by proxy.