JohnEdwa
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Technology@lemmy.world•X down – latest: Twitter and Grok not working in another major outageEnglish
1·3 days agoArtists I follow post mostly either on X or Instagram, which I don’t find to be much better of an alternative. All that have mastodon or bluesky accounts I’ve switched over, but many do not because there aren’t enough users.
But I haven’t actually tweeted anything for something over a decade now?
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World News@lemmy.world•Fatberg the size of four buses likely birthed poo balls that closed Sydney beaches – and it can’t be clearedEnglish
61·4 days agoWell, yes. Dumping high concentrations will instantly kill everything in the waterway, diluting them and doing it slowly means they can handle it and survived.
Heck, the ocean is full of salt, but if you started dumping high-concentrated brine off a beach you’d kill every animal and plant on sight, just as you would kill yourself drinking said brine. But it would be quite hard to argue that you can’t safely put salt in the ocean, or add some to your food, once it is diluted to a safe level.
The question is how much of something total can the ocean handle before it becomes a problem. And for many things the answer is, quite literally, that it is just a drop in the ocean.
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World News@lemmy.world•Guard at Winter Olympic construction site dies in nighttime subfreezing temperaturesEnglish
6·7 days agoAny temperature below somewhere around 60F/15C is “deadly cold”, as in your survivability depends entirely in how well you are clothed as you will eventually die of hypothermia otherwise, the only variable being how long it takes. Kinda like how you can get a 3rd degree burn with 44C water, it just takes 6 hours.
-12C really isn’t all that cold - lowest temperature in northern Finland this winter so far has been -42,8C / -45F - but it is a temperature where you will need to pay some attention on how you dress for it. For me, it’s around (-10 to 15c depending on the wind) where I’ll put on long-johns in the morning and add a sweater instead of just having a t-shirt under my jacket.
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World News@beehaw.org•'Help is on its way,' Trump tells Iranians as he urges them to keep protesting
2·7 days agoHe doesn’t want to be the president of the solar system, there’s no oil anywhere so what’s the point.
Also the US already has a military base in Greenland and has for many decades. In fact, they used to have dozen or so during the Cold War. And because the area is apparently such vital importance to the defence of the US, they currently have… 150 soldiers stationed there.
In the one base they have kept.Very, very important location. Vital for defence.
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World News@lemmy.world•Indonesia blocks Musk’s Grok chatbot due to risk of pornographic contentEnglish
2·10 days agoWell to put it into context, you were allowed to work underground at the same age you were allowed to have sex, which was two years before you were allowed to be married, at the good ol’ ripe age of 12.
This whole “you gotta be 16/18/21 to be considered an adult” thing is really recent in human history all things considering.
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Technology@lemmy.world•Windows users keep losing files to OneDrive, and many don't know whyEnglish
7·10 days agoAh, such nostalgia. I used a complex password until they forced monthly resets on us and I forgot mine a few times. After that, “FuckingPassword1”, “FuckingPassword2”, FuckingPassword3" etc with a mysterious post-it note on my table with a single number. Very memorable, still remember it well after a decade.
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Technology@lemmy.world•'Worst in Show' CES products include AI refrigerators, AI companions and AI doorbellsEnglish
3·10 days agoTraditionally, convection ovens have a fan at the back that pushes air over the food and around the oven, while air friers have a fan on top that draws the air through the food from the bottom. But for majority of the use cases, the results are very similar and I’m sure convection ovens that work the same way also exist.
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World News@lemmy.world•A red pixel in the snow: How AI solved the mystery of a missing mountaineerEnglish
3·11 days agoYup. And there’s a pretty fantastic short movie about it on youtube called 096.
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Technology@beehaw.org•Dutch students create modular electric car "you can repair yourself"
2·11 days agoAs an actual highway-legal car, certainly not. But there are plenty of other categories you can stuff random vehicles way easier that could still be useful, such as the European L6e/L7e Quadricycle.
The US equivalent is the NEV.
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Technology@lemmy.world•How we get to 1 nanometer chips and beyondEnglish
12·12 days agoOpen any wikipedia article about “x nm process” and one of the first paragraphs will be something like this:
The term “2 nanometer”, or alternatively “20 angstrom” (a term used by Intel), has no relation to any actual physical feature (such as gate length, metal pitch or gate pitch) of the transistors. According to the projections contained in the 2021 update of the International Roadmap for Devices and Systems published by the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), a “2.1 nm node range label” is expected to have a contacted gate pitch of 45 nanometers and a tightest metal pitch of 20 nanometers.[1]
It used to be that the “60nm process” was called that because the transistor gate was 60nm.
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World News@lemmy.world•Danish soldiers ordered to fight back if US invades Greenland, Copenhagen confirmsEnglish
8·12 days agoTo be fair, they haven’t really gotten all that much invading done recently, they’ve mostly just been squatting on the parts they managed to captured back in 2022.
I am kinda morbidly curious what would happen if they did decide to start invading some other countries - splitting their forces feels like it would be a terrible idea if their aim is to ever actually manage to win the Ukrainian war, and not just stall it forever.
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Technology@beehaw.org•Grok Can't Apologize. Grok Isn't Sentient. So Why Do Headlines Keep Saying It Did?
5·14 days agoCombining concepts is one of the core functions of a generative image AI - fairly sure nobody trained them on of videos with athletes made out of pasta either.
But they were trained on images of both naked people, as well as tons and tons of stock photos of children in swimwear and bikinis, so they know how to combine the two to create images of naked children.
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Technology@lemmy.world•Electric motorcycles with solid-state batteries seem to be coming soon.English
1·14 days agoBecause it isn’t? I’m comparing it to other hubless designs, stuff like this.
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Technology@lemmy.world•Dell brings back XPS laptops — ditches the capacitive touch bar, adds 1Hz display option, and upgrades 14 and 16-inch modelsEnglish
4·14 days agoTop tip, buy a used enterprise laptop. You can get one hell of a deal when big companies throw their entire lineup out after a few years and flood the market. Some have a few scuffs here and there, but others are mint after sitting plugged to a dock for the last three years in a row.
Might need a new battery though, so research how easy it’s to swap and calculate that in the cost just in case.
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Technology@lemmy.world•Electric motorcycles with solid-state batteries seem to be coming soon.English
13·14 days agoAt least it being a fully integrated hub(less) electric motor makes it a much more sensible of a solution than many other tries with all kinds of belt drives and gears and cogs and stuff.
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Hardware@lemmy.world•Corsair Introduces its First Gaming Keyboard with Built-In Stream Deck ControllerEnglish
11·14 days agoThe device that combines a $150 gaming keyboard and a $200 stream deck costs as much as a $150 gaming keyboard and a $200 stream deck would. Not… all that surprising to me.
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Technology@lemmy.world•Home electricity bills are skyrocketing. For data centers, not so much.English
13·15 days agoPartly because doing so risks that they might decide to invest in their own production instead, and therefore not buy any electricity from you at all which would result in loss of demand, and a reduction in overall electricity cost.
Like how rising a bus ticket fare by 10% means you will lose some customers because they decide to walk instead, so your profit increase will be lower than that 10%. Raise it too much, and almost everyone walks, and you sell no tickets.And it’s a lot harder to build your own solar or wind farm if you are a person living in an apartment building.


Eh, the anthropocene extinction event will be like the sixth big one, something periodically wiping out a ton of species and life restructuring itself is kinda just natural at this point. As the saying goes, life will find a way. It’ll look different, but just like the previous five times, it’ll do just fine.