ProdigalFrog
@ProdigalFrog@slrpnk.net
- I found some toxic old banned insecticides, let's talk about them! | Extractions&Irewww.youtube.com ↗Submitted 11 hours ago to chemistry@mander.xyz | 1 comment
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- Comment on Jeep pushed software update that bricked all 2024 Wrangler 4xe models 6 days ago:
A user here emailed slate asking if there would be any tracking, and they responded that it would not, as it wouldn’t have the hardware to make that possible.
We’ll see if they actually follow through on that.
- Comment on She's a pain in my rear but she keeps me straight! 6 days ago:
- Submitted 6 days ago to energy@slrpnk.net | 1 comment
- Comment on Climate goals go up in smoke as US datacenters turn to coal 1 week ago:
There’s still time for a general strike. The country would be brought to its knees if suddenly deprived of profit and labor. That tactic was extremely effective in Chile in 2019, and had they not fallen for the trick of liberal reform, they would’ve had a successful revolution on their hands with virtually no bloodshed.
If you aren’t in a union (or even if you are, it’s worth dual-carding), please consider joining the IWW to unionize your workplace (bonus: you’ll get higher wages, better benefits, and more time off if you succeed!) to strengthen a general strike if we manage to enact one.
And for our international friends, you should join one as well, as fascism is gaining momentum globally. If your country isn’t listed below, just contact the IWW directly in the link above.
- Comment on California Shuts Down Its Solar Thermal Plant 13 Years Early 1 week ago:
As far as I know, it needed to burn gas to get it up to operating temperature each day.
- Comment on California Shuts Down Its Solar Thermal Plant 13 Years Early 1 week ago:
The Ivanpah Solar Power Facility (the plant being shut down) apparently uses quite a significant amount of natural gas to operate (more than anticipated), and seems to be more polluting than a normal NG power plant, though it seems to generate a bit more power for the amount of pollution generated. Per wikipedia:
The plant burns natural gas each morning to commence operation. The Wall Street Journal reported, “Instead of ramping up the plant each day before sunrise by burning one hour’s worth of natural gas to generate steam, Ivanpah needs more than four times that much.”[38] On August 27, 2014, the State of California approved Ivanpah to increase its annual natural gas consumption from 328,000,000 cubic feet (9,300,000 m3) of natural gas, as previously approved, to 525,000,000 cubic feet (14,900,000 m3).[39] In 2014, the plant burned 868×109 British thermal units (254 GWh) of natural gas emitting 46,084 metric tons of carbon dioxide, which is nearly twice the pollution threshold at which power plants and factories in California are required to participate in the state’s cap and trade program to reduce carbon emissions.[40] If that fuel had been used in a Combined Cycle Gas Turbine (CCGT) plant, it would have generated about 124 GWh of electrical energy.[41] The facility used that gas plus solar energy to produce 419 GWh of electrical energy (more than three times that of the referenced CCGT plant), all the while operating at well below its expected output. In 2015, the facility showed higher production numbers, with Q1 increases of 170% over the same >time period in 2014.[42]
The facility uses three Rentech Type-D water tube boilers and three night time preservation boilers. The California Energy Resources Conservation and Development Commission approved for each a stack “130 feet (40 m) high and 60 inches (1.5 m) in diameter” and consumption of 242,500 cu ft/h (6,870 m3/h) of fuel.
The wikipedia article also mentions it has no energy storage capabilities:
For the first plant, the largest-ever fully solar-powered steam turbine generator set was ordered, with a 123 MW Siemens SST-900 single-casing reheat turbine.[23] Siemens also supplied instrumentation and control systems.[24] The plants use BrightSource Energy’s “Luz Power Tower 550” (LPT 550) technology[25] which heats the steam to 550 °C directly in the receivers.[26] The plants have no storage.
However, the similar Cresent Dunes molten salt solar array, does have energy storage, and can store 1,100 MW·he.
- Comment on Great games you would recommend from before 1990? 1 week ago:
Mr.Do! Is quite fun.
H.E.R.O. can become quite fun if you don’t mind initially learning its tricks through trial and error (the harder path is always the correct one). It can get pretty flow-state when you get a handle on it.
The early Space Quest from Sierra games are still quite fun if you don’t mind using a text parser. As is Quest for Glory.
Finally, a Mind Forever Voyaging by Infocom still holds up supremely well if you don’t mind pure text adventures. The short story included in the manual alone is worth the read.
- Comment on Framework supporting far-right racists? 1 week ago:
Yikes. I loved that framework trailblazed repairable laptops, but those responses are pretty fucking damning.
- Comment on What fuel will ships burn as they move toward net zero? 1 week ago:
According to this very compelling article, we could actually skip transition fuels entirely, and switch over to iron oxide batteries pretty much immediately. It just seems to be lesser known.
I think it’d be possible to combine iron oxide batteries with new sail designs to extend the range even further without any carbon emissions.
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- Comment on Cool Project? 2 weeks ago:
We have a community for this project as well: !open_source_ecology@slrpnk.net
- Comment on Lemmy.zip & Piefed.zip Server Update October 2025 2 weeks ago:
The wittiness added a lovely complexity to the flavor, and the graphs gave a much needed texture to the data stream.
- Comment on Why can't we have a static vintage web? 2 weeks ago:
Neocities encourages static 90’s style webpages.
- Submitted 2 weeks ago to retrocomputing@lemmy.sdf.org | 0 comments
- Comment on Apple has REMOVED the ICEBlock app from the App Store due to “objectionable content.” 2 weeks ago:
It doesn’t necessarily need to achieve mass adoption, it just needs to get to a ‘good enough’ point to make it viable for those who are willing or desperate to get away from big tech.
Linux still has plenty of people giving reasons why they won’t switch, but it’s now finally viable for many, including myself. I just want mobile Linux to get to that point too, even if there’s still rough edges.
- Comment on Apple has REMOVED the ICEBlock app from the App Store due to “objectionable content.” 2 weeks ago:
We rapidly need to switch Linux Mobile. PostmarketOS and Mobian are the two most promising projects, and I would highly recommend anyone reading this to donate to them if you have the means.
Both projects directly use your donations to hire developers to build and polish the critical essentials to get this alternative viable as a daily driver.
- Comment on No, Deus Ex Remastered, I simply do not believe you need an RTX 2080 to run at recommended settings 2 weeks ago:
The Revision mod looks leagues better, and overhauls the gameplay too.
- Submitted 3 weeks ago to retronet@lemmy.sdf.org | 1 comment
- Comment on Amazon is making it impossible to remove the DRM from Kindle Books 3 weeks ago:
Kobo e-readers are 1-to-1 alternatives that allow you to easily transfer epubs or PDFs to it with a USB cable.
- Comment on Is there some sort of "underground" net for old computing? 3 weeks ago:
There’s still BBS’s around, and I think the Amiga has a network that old amigas can connect to to share software and such.
- Comment on Setting up a DOS/Win98 system for gaming 3 weeks ago:
DOSBox-X is supposed to have 3DFX support, though I’ve never tried it myself.
- Comment on Community Discoverability Inconsistencies 3 weeks ago:
By default, a piefed/Lemmy instance only knows of the existence of its own local communities. To see any off-instance communities in the search, they first have to initiate federation by a local user manually searching that community and/or subscribing to it.
Once the off-instance community has been federated by a single user, it will stay that way forever, and other users on your local instance will see it show up in the search as well.
There is an effort to automate that initial federation by Lemmy-federate, which creates a bot on participating instances to automatically subscribe to participating communities, but I’m not sure if piefed instances are compatible with it yet.
- Submitted 4 weeks ago to retrogaming@lemmy.world | 0 comments
- Comment on Primordia, a sometimes difficult Point & Click Adventure game with a great story 4 weeks ago:
Wadjeteye games (who published primordial) mostly publish serious non-comedic point’n’clicks. I highly recommend Gemini Rue by them.
- Comment on Mods react as Reddit kicks some of them out again: “This will break the site” 4 weeks ago:
I would suggest that it is as complex as you wish to know.
My explanation above is not truly required to effectively use a federated platform, in the same way that most email users don’t actually know how precisely email works, and would find an in-depth explanation of it very complex.
All someone needs to know about email is that they must login to their email host provider, and that every user they might send email to has a unique name, and possibly a different host name after the @ symbol.
In the same way, the only thing soneone needs to know about this platform, is they must login to the same place they signed up to (their host provider). If anything, that might make it easier to use than email.
- Comment on Mods react as Reddit kicks some of them out again: “This will break the site” 4 weeks ago:
They each use a different backend, and their web UI’s are designed with their own unique backend in mind.
There is Photon, a third-party web UI/client that may someday be compatible with both Lemmy and Piefed, but currently only properly supports lemmy (AFAIK).
