billwashere
@billwashere@lemmy.world
- Comment on 'Reverse Solar Panel' Generates Electricity at Night 5 days ago:
So its a giant sterling engine?
- Comment on 'Reverse Solar Panel' Generates Electricity at Night 5 days ago:
Well technically everything is solar in some form or another.
Fossil fuels - dead plants that got their energy from the sun Nuclear(fission) - Uses elements only created from the dying phases of a sun Hydro - Energy that’s created from the sun heating and moving water around Wind - same as above just air instead of water Geothermal - This one is trickier but planets are formed from dead stardust. I guess gravity fits in here somehow. Biomass - see fossil fuels but without as much waiting
The only one I can think of that isn’t solar is nuclear fusion. And this is essentially recreating a star.
- Comment on A Netadmin's NAS: Creating a maintenance-free NAS based on RouterOS, from a homelab holdout's perspective 5 days ago:
Doing it once… how cute. You can always tell when someone only deals with enterprise level networking equipment. I’m not being critical, just realistic. Anything like this will eventually break. And in the weirdest ways imaginable.
- Comment on Nvidia CEO pushes back against report that his company's $100B OpenAI investment has stalled 5 days ago:
The whole thing some like some giant check kiting scam or some weird looping Ponzi scheme. I’m going to invest money into your company so you can buy more of my products. Where is all the money coming from in the first place? Neither of these companies should be worth as much as they are.
- Comment on Can anyone explain why? 6 days ago:
It’s because they can barely pay rent.
- Comment on Installing **self-hostable** services on a cloud server isn't self-hosting ??? 6 days ago:
I mean I get what you’re saying. And certain things I really do want in my house. But at this point I feel like we disagree on a definition which is just kind of silly. As someone else said that used the distinction of home-hosted and self-hosted. I like being in control of my stuff and I think we both agree on that.
- Comment on 6 days ago:
They are failing.
- Comment on Installing **self-hostable** services on a cloud server isn't self-hosting ??? 6 days ago:
I am running the software. I set it up. I maintain it. I can change it to whatever I want. It is therefore self-hosted.
- Comment on The $100 Billion Megadeal Between OpenAI and Nvidia Is on Ice 6 days ago:
So this is like a landlord “investing” in the renter for the renter to pay his rent.
- Comment on Installing **self-hostable** services on a cloud server isn't self-hosting ??? 1 week ago:
Thank you. I was thinking the same thing. Some things it makes sense to host in your home. Things like large media, home automation, etc. Some things it doesn’t. Like DNS, service that require large amounts of egress (most home internet is very asymmetric), anything with a more public face.
Generally it boils down to privacy and reliability. If it’s private, keep it home. If it needs more reliability, put it on a VPS.
My home hardware is just not reliable enough to host something critical. I have redundant systems but it might take a bit to get stuff back.
This idea of it not being self hosted because it’s on somebody else’s computer is just weird.
- Comment on Before social media/internet/cell phones/landlines/payphones; how would 2 friends living across the same city arrange in person meetings and stay in touch? 1 week ago:
The further back you go, the more likely your guests were going to want to live with you for a while.
As an introvert this might as well be a horror movie.
- Comment on Before social media/internet/cell phones/landlines/payphones; how would 2 friends living across the same city arrange in person meetings and stay in touch? 1 week ago:
This mental image just made me chuckle. 🤭
- Comment on Lobster feast 1 week ago:
This is a war crime. A very very funny war crime.
- Comment on But think of the landlords! 1 week ago:
More like capitalist architecture…
- Comment on Grok floods X with sexualized images of women and children: Grok generated an estimated 3 million sexualized images, including 23,000 of children in 11 days 2 weeks ago:
Why is Grok not being charged with CSAM generation?
- Comment on Microsoft CEO warns that we must 'do something useful' with AI or they'll lose 'social permission' to burn electricity on it 2 weeks ago:
You already have.
- Comment on Here I stand, at 50, wishing I could shit as well as my dogs. 2 weeks ago:
Orange flavored coffee at night!?!
- Comment on The consequences of not building enough housing 2 weeks ago:
Don’t let corporations own single family homes. Drastically increase the tax rate for more than 3 houses by any single person. A landlords income is not producing anything useful, it’s stealing income from people actually providing society with something useful.
- Comment on Digg launches its new Reddit rival to the public 3 weeks ago:
My timeline was
Fark>Slashdot>Digg>Reddit>Lemmy
I don’t allow loops.
- Comment on First-In-Human Trial Of CRISPR Gene-Editing Therapy Safely Lowered Cholesterol, Triglycerides 3 weeks ago:
We lowered your cholesterol. But you now have horns and crave the taste of human flesh.
- Comment on Autofocusing Smart Glasses With Eye Tracking Tech Could Make Bifocals Obsolete 3 weeks ago:
Yeah Amazon will figure out a way to enshittify them for sure. Most. Likely with a subscription program for what should be totally standalone.
- Comment on Autofocusing Smart Glasses With Eye Tracking Tech Could Make Bifocals Obsolete 3 weeks ago:
I have them. I also have a large monitor both at home and at work that the sweet spot for being able to focus is a narrow range toward the bottom. So I have a pair of single vision computer glasses that I either misplace or forget I’m still wearing when I leave the office to drive home. So I’m still constantly switching glasses. Yeah I know …. first world problems. I want my old eyes back. Getting old sucks.
I just want a technological fix for what my eyes used to be able to do on their own.
- Comment on Autofocusing Smart Glasses With Eye Tracking Tech Could Make Bifocals Obsolete 3 weeks ago:
As a 55 man constantly switching glasses, taking them off, losing the “right” pair, etc. please please please …
- Comment on MFW I wake up to find Lemmy feeds full of USA stuff 3 weeks ago:
Well it could be worse. You could wake up and actually be in the US.
- Comment on What are your technology mispredictions? 3 weeks ago:
Now that you mention it I have one of those too. Somewhere.
- Comment on US would reach 100% renewable energy by 2148 at current pace 3 weeks ago:
Sustainable sustainable sustainable sustainable sustainable sustainable sustainable. Sustainable sustainable sustainable sustainable sustainable sustainable.
- Comment on What are your technology mispredictions? 3 weeks ago:
If my math is right this would be worth about 9.8 million today if the shares were issued in 2004 ish.
- Comment on What are your technology mispredictions? 3 weeks ago:
I never had one but IMO Zune was one of the few Microsoft hw wins. And their mice.
- Comment on Discord in discussions of going Public Trading, economics expert discusses how that might change things 3 weeks ago:
Revolt != Revolut
Silly lawyers
- Comment on Cloudflare defies Italy’s Piracy Shield, won’t block websites on 1.1.1.1 DNS 3 weeks ago:
Blocking cloudflare is about as useful as a screen door on a submarine. Unless they start blocking IPs like the great firewall of china blocking any DNS is kinda pointless. Unless maybe if the domain’s primary name servers are cloudflare but I can’t seeing any site doing nefarious things using cloudflare. Run your own DNS resolver on a VPS somewhere besides Italy.
My worry is the internet starts getting terribly segmented and not interconnected. That would be more of an issue.