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JA Westenberg mastodon (AP)

In the past, “just asking questions” was limited by the reach of one’s voice. Now, anyone with a Twitter account can broadcast their “inquiries” to millions. This has given rise to a new breed of pseudo-intellectual, the “Just Asking Questions” influencer.

https://medium.com/westenberg/nobody-who-says-theyre-just-asking-questions-actually-wants-an-answer-5f4cee4d74d4

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Phil M0OFX hometown (AP)
Also known as the sealion or JAQoff.

CelloMom On Cars mastodon (AP)

THIS is the moment I've been waiting for!
I've always wanted a "solar skin" on my car. Or even on my backpack, with a USB port inside for charging my devices.

Four decades ago the only available candidate was amorphous semiconductors that you can put on a flexible substrate: look up Sharp and Ovonics for those. The (big) problems:
1. the efficiency sucked;
2. the semiconductors degraded under solar UV exposure.

It was frustrating.
But no more!

https://www.solarpowerportal.co.uk/oxford-scientists-ultra-thin-solar-cell-27-energy-efficiency/

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CelloMom On Cars mastodon (AP)

A decade ago, I did an optimistic back-of-the-envelope estimate that said a Nissan Leaf with PV on its horizontal area could get 20 miles from a one-sunny-day charge.

But you can hardly mount three solar panels on top of your Leaf, can you.

A solar skin changes everything.
And with the efficiency of the perovskite material, you can cover most commutes, charging your car while you're at work. No charging station required.

http://www.cellomomcars.com/2012/01/ev-unplugged-truly-zero-emission.html

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CelloMom On Cars mastodon (AP)

Part of why perovskites are great for PV is that it is well matched with the spectrum of the solar light on the surface of our planet . Our eyes are likewise matched, tuned to the peak of the spectrum, at "visible" wavelengths!

Because silicon and other semiconductor solar cells kick in in the infrared, you can build efficiency by stacking cells made with a variety of spectral response. Of course, people have done / are doing just that.

https://qdsolarinc.com/technology/

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Pippin friendica

"So when someone keeps “just asking questions” about whether vaccines are safe, or if climate change is real, or if a particular ethnic group should be put in a fucking camp, they’re not engaged in a genuine search for truth. They’re exploiting our cognitive biases to make their ideas seem more plausible through sheer repetition."

"Continuing to entertain long-debunked ideas in the name of “just asking questions” isn’t open-mindedness — it’s a waste of time and mental energy."


In the past, “just asking questions” was limited by the reach of one’s voice. Now, anyone with a Twitter account can broadcast their “inquiries” to millions. This has given rise to a new breed of pseudo-intellectual, the “Just Asking Questions” influencer.

https://medium.com/westenberg/nobody-who-says-theyre-just-asking-questions-actually-wants-an-answer-5f4cee4d74d4


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David Amador mastodon (AP)
The tech trend these last few years are to find tech nobody wants, burn a ton of cash, hype it up, profit from stock, fire a bunch of people, rinse and repeat.
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Štejf mastodon (AP)

On the way back from a night out partying.
Hope you all had a relaxed weekend.

/w @/courgus
/w @/Midas_Qu
📸 @HypiTheFox
🪡 @Areksim (Vino Studios)

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Dairishgoat mastodon (AP)
Mythical Monday, eh?
Well, here we have 144 fursuit faces, all belonging to some form of mythical or imaginary creature.
There’s dragons, griffons, hippogriffs, unicorns, various monsters, & a whole lot more.
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Kanda Bear mastodon (AP)

Mythies with a dash of pony I see ;) I see:

1 Gilda
2 Twilight Sparkle
1 MLP styled hippogriff
1 Celestia
1 Ember
1 King Sombra

Dairishgoat mastodon (AP)
@KandaBear
There’s two different Twilight suits in there :)

I'm sorry; I can't stop laughing.

Apparently at least 6 big companies won't insure Tesla's $80k+ Cybertruck in some states. Partly because they're so incredibly expensive to repair, and partially because parts are only available directly from Tesla and they're very expensive. Plus the liability of a vehicle that is marketed as being rigid so as to protect the passengers - the part not said out loud is that it does so at the expense of the people in the other vehicle.

In those states the only viable insurance is from Tesla. That's right, Tesla. Otherwise, they can't be driven & they can't be sold. Which might not be so bad except Tesla's policy is expensive and Tesla gets real time constant surveillance of driving habits AND ADJUST RATES ACCORDINGLY.

Also? The states where nobody will insure the Cybertruck & the 12 states where Tesla is licensed to sell insurance ARE NOT THE SAME STATES. NY, for instance.

I can't see why Cybertruck owners would complain though; it seems like a Libertarian dream to me!

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ROllerozxa mastodon (AP)
Mimi just built a Parappa the Rapper AI

The whole AI thing has me endlessly confused. Half the market is crashing because investors didn't see any signs of payoff in the quarterly earnings report, but I'm so lost as to what exactly they were expecting to see. Did they just not pay any attention at all to what these companies were actually doing with AI?

Were they expecting exponential Instagram usage growth as a result of Meta making it so you can have a conversation with the search bar? Or maybe everyone was going to buy 10 new Windows licenses in celebration of Microsoft announcing they want to install AI powered spyware on everyone's computer? Or was Google going to sell more ads by replacing all the search results with reddit shitposts? Either I'm missing something or everyone's last 2 remaining brain cells are really busy fighting to the death for 3rd place.

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Postgres stores data on disk – this one's a page turner

https://drew.silcock.dev/blog/how-postgres-stores-data-on-disk/

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A long good bye...

"Fifteen years minus one day between these photos. Taken at the Rhone glacier in Switzerland today.

Not gonna lie, it made me cry."

From @misterduncan at birdland/ @duncan

https://x.com/misterduncan/status/1820168563350450324

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"...What, was it something I said?" 🙊

🦌: @SurgeryDeer
🦊: Levi the Fox
🦓: Dashing Zebra
✂️: @poeproductions
📸: Akyr

#AC2024 #Anthrocon2024 #Anthrocon #FursuitEveryday #Fursuiting #Fursuiter #Fursuit #Furry

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Dgar mastodon (AP)
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As a Blind person i never thought i would be on social media savoring photos. But the communal Mastodon alt text game is so strong that sweet, poetic or silly descriptions abound on my timeline. Thanks to legions of people who take time to write a meaningful description of the ephemera they post, i learn so much about insects, plants, buildings, memes — all dispatches from a dimension of the world that i otherwise wouldn't experience. If you're wondering whether anybody reads these things: YES.
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J.D. Vance says that people who have no children have no stake in the future.

Yet he's a Catholic: a religion headed by *checks notes* a childless Pope, and run by *checks notes again* thousands of childless priests. (Supposedly.)

Plus nuns!

And wait, news has just come in that Jesus, the man whose teachings Catholics claim to follow, was yet another man who (according to their own orthodoxy) had no children.

Childless people have no stake in the future.

Shouldn't he convert, or something?

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People of Bangladesh protesting for their rights.

But the world is unaware about it, while thousands of people are dying. Please boost the post, let the world know.

www.bbc.com/news/articles/c1dm4519l48o
#bangladesh#politics#fediverse#mastodon#students#savebangladeshistudent#asia#worldaffairs

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Pippin friendica

☑ I'm in this picture and I like it.

(Although I couldn't afford someone to help even if I had enough stuff to do to need the assistance.)

Kay Ohtie mastodon (AP)
@nivex Does running a bunch of LXC containers like VMs, but to avoid the overhead of the VMs, count? (thank you Proxmox)
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Kay Ohtie mastodon (AP)
@nivex That's fair! I kinda use it to have separate installs of things so I don't worry about ports stepping on eachother. It IS a little tedious.
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“Homosexuality was well known in the ancient world, well before Christ was born, and Jesus never said a word about homosexuality. In all of his teachings about multiple things—he never said that gay people should be condemned.”

- Jimmy Carter, 39th President of the United States

We need more leaders--and people of faith--like Jimmy Carter.

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The Walking World!

Its a world where walking vehicles were invented before wheeled vehicles. Solar power invented before fossil power. Rail travel never declined. Cars never took over the world. Its a slightly kinder world.

People walk everywhere they need to go, whether with their own feet or in their own mecha.

This is the setting I've had in mind while drawing civilian mini-mecha. I just put a name to it today. That'll make it a lot easier to talk about!

#mecha #walkingWorld

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Pippin friendica

Whenever I see a post about RCS it always takes me longer than it should to realise they aren't talking about the Revision Control System. #BeingOld


What’s the point of RCS when it doesn’t even support blobbees


The task of a healthy publicly owned rail company is this:

To run as many trains as possible, within the financial constraints under which it operates

Note trains. It’s not “transport as many passengers as possible on the fewest number of trains”

That 5am train with a dozen building workers on it, or the last train home in the evening *matter for the trust and reliability of the system*, even if those individual trains make heavy losses and are largely empty

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Phil M0OFX hometown (AP)

Indeed. The money from the 8am packed-to-the-gills 5-car subsidises the 5am empty-but-for-a-dozen-builders 2-car, and that's the way it should be.

edit: And for that matter, the 10-car highly profitable Edinburgh to London major-stops InterCity subsidises the less-profitable local services... which is another reason why carving it up and privatising it was a terrible idea.

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Your periodical reminder that all clothing is hand made by humans, usually underpaid!
Polyester doesn't breathe and sheds microplastics when manufactured, worn and washed!
Cotton farming takes immense amounts of water and pesticides!
Viscose can be made from recycled fibres & waste cellulose, but it's a fairly toxic process!
Linen is more ecological to grow but expensive!

"But what do I wear then, Sini?"
The garments you already own, until they fall apart or someone else needs them!
#Sustainability #FastFashion #WorkersRights

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More granular data:
There are some garment making processes that can be automated most or all the way through, like knitwear and socks, but most will still be finished, assembled and/or packed by hand. Crochet is always human work.
Wool is pretty good to wear and when certified and from a good source, can be pretty sustainable if you wear it until it stops existing. This can take decades. Yarn can be recycled, mending is great!
There are fabric recycling initiatives, but the best option is to not buy it if you don't need it. Secondhand is more expensive than it used to be, but you can find older, better quality garments than the crap of today!
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I want to watch a reverse X-Files show where a couple of Fae creatures are trying to confirm that the humans do ordinary things like fill out tax forms and pay for parking
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The problem with being a programmer with ADHD is that it's often more fun to build a chainsaw from scratch than it is to chop down a tree by hand with an axe.
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Custard Smingleigh mastodon (AP)

Pfft

First you must build and train the neural network to drive the robot lumberjack

Daniel Spiewak mastodon (AP)
@grork Ssssssshhhh I’m almost done with my fuel refinery over here. I’m working on my design for a smelter and I got a great bulk deal on coking coal. This tree isn’t gonna know what hit it. Hell, I’ll probably never have to worry about trees ever again!

Making sure that locked up plush doesn’t get out😈🔒
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Pippin friendica
Hurrah. Finally got round to disconnecting the cable going to the outbuilding/shed thing that, after the final round of boundary changes, got sold along with the next-door former-rental house but still had a light fitting powered from our house. So finally I'm satisfied that nothing our new neighbours can do should trip our RCD/circuit breakers while we're away for a few weeks! Good.
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Ret mastodon (AP)
…or run up a big electricity bill!
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Pippin friendica
@Ret the Folf Very true, though they seem nice enough people they probably wouldn't! (Unless inadvertently, but there aren't any sockets in there, just one switched light inside and a motion-detector light on the outside, so they'd have to do wiring to connect anything, and they wouldn't be able to isolate it to do that.)
@Ret
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I'm calling it now. #Nintendo will call the Switch 2 the "Switch Up." See it's an UPgraded Switch. It's also needlessly confusing, which is on-brand.
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Largely how I feel about the entire push towards FIDO and hardware tokens.

#FIDO #Yubikey #Security

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Found this in the old picture folder...
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If you're a web dev, don't do this.

There's really no reason to blocking viewing source of a page, especially if you're using JavaScript to do this, because we can just disable JavaScript and bypass this and view source, or go to View > Page Source from the browser menu.

you're not protecting anything and if you're worried about people copying it, then you probably shouldn't put it on the Internet to begin with.

#webdev

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reminder that the IOC used to do chromosomal testing and dropped it when they realized just how many female athletes they'd have to start excluding

the IOC sucks in tons of ways, but they care about the bottom line and they know that if they start banning female athletes based just on having a Y chromosome, the Olympics are gonna take a much bigger hit than all the casuals think

https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/azeenghorayshi/testosterone-and-female-athletes

https://archive.ph/v23nK

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Released a little Game Boy Advance rom for #gbajam https://voxel.itch.io/game-boy-advance-quokka-wokka that you can play on an emulator or real hardware. It's a simple 'single screen arcade platformer' in the vein of Bubble Bobble and Rodland. Mostly made using a raspberry pi 😊

#gamedev

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ᴄʜᴇꜱꜱ ʜᴀꜱɴ’ᴛ ʙᴇᴇɴ ᴜᴘᴅᴀᴛᴇᴅ ɪɴ ᴀʟᴍᴏꜱᴛ 200 ʏᴇᴀʀꜱ ᴀɴᴅ ɪᴛ’ꜱ ᴏʙᴠɪᴏᴜꜱ ᴛʜᴇ ᴅᴇᴠꜱ ʜᴀᴠᴇ ᴀʙᴀɴᴅᴏɴᴇᴅ ɪᴛ. ᴛʜᴇ ɢʀᴇᴇᴅʏ ᴄʀᴇᴀᴛᴏʀꜱ ᴛᴏᴏᴋ ʏᴏᴜʀ ᴍᴏɴᴇʏ ᴀɴᴅ ʟᴀᴜɢʜᴇᴅ ᴀʟʟ ᴛʜᴇ ᴡᴀʏ ᴛᴏ ᴛʜᴇ ʙᴀɴᴋ.

ɪ ʀᴇᴍᴇᴍʙᴇʀ ʙᴀᴄᴋ ɪɴ 705 ᴀᴅ ᴡʜᴇɴ ᴄʜᴇꜱꜱ ᴡᴀꜱ ꜰᴜɴ. ᴛʜᴇɴ ᴛʜᴇʏ ꜱᴛᴀʀᴛᴇᴅ ᴀᴅᴅɪɴɢ ꜱᴛᴜᴘɪᴅ ꜰᴇᴀᴛᴜʀᴇꜱ ɴᴏ ᴏɴᴇ ᴡᴀɴᴛᴇᴅ ʟɪᴋᴇ “ᴄᴀꜱᴛʟɪɴɢ” ᴀɴᴅ “ᴇɴ ᴘᴀꜱꜱᴀɴᴛ” ɪɴꜱᴛᴇᴀᴅ ᴏꜰ ʟɪꜱᴛᴇɴɪɴɢ ᴛᴏ ᴘʟᴀʏᴇʀ ꜰᴇᴇᴅʙᴀᴄᴋ ᴀɴᴅ ꜰɪxɪɴɢ ɢᴀᴍᴇ-ʙʀᴇᴀᴋɪɴɢ ʙᴜɢꜱ. ɪ’ᴠᴇ ʙᴇᴇɴ ᴄᴏᴍᴘʟᴀɪɴɪɴɢ ꜰᴏʀ ʏᴇᴀʀꜱ ᴀʙᴏᴜᴛ ᴛʜᴇ ᴄᴏʟʟɪꜱɪᴏɴ-ᴅᴇᴛᴇᴄᴛɪᴏɴ ɢʟɪᴛᴄʜ ᴡɪᴛʜ ᴛʜᴇ ʜᴏʀꜱᴇʏ. ᴛʜᴇ “ᴄʟɪᴘᴘɪɴɢ-ᴛʜʀᴜ-ᴘɪᴇᴄᴇꜱ” ʙᴜɢ ʜᴀꜱ ʙᴇᴇɴ ᴀʙᴜꜱᴇᴅ ᴛᴏ ᴅᴇᴀᴛʜ ᴀɴᴅ ᴛʜᴇ ʟᴀᴢʏ ᴅᴇᴠꜱ ʀᴇꜰᴜꜱᴇ ᴛᴏ ꜰɪx ɪᴛ.

ᴅᴏɴ’ᴛ ꜱᴜᴘᴘᴏʀᴛ ᴛʜɪꜱ ᴀᴡꜰᴜʟ ʙᴇʜᴀᴠɪᴏᴜʀ ᴀɴᴅ ʙᴏʏᴄᴏᴛᴛ ᴛʜɪꜱ ᴄᴏᴍᴘᴀɴʏ.

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popping some florida dailies 💪
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I’ve read so many privacy policies
in my life, I am now reviewing them like fine wines :blobcatwine:

"Hmm this one has a strong GDPR aroma with just a hint of CCPA in it 😌"

"This one smells moldy, definitely had some cork issues that turned it bad overtime 😒"

"This one has a very pleasant privacy-laws-future-proofing smell and tastes like respected human rights 😍"

#Privacy #Wine #GDPR #PrivacyTasting 🍷🔒

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There should be a law against this.

Your average user is going to think something is terribly wrong with their computer just because they didn't sign over their rights to Microsoft.

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GrumpSec Spottycat mastodon (AP)
big tech understand consent challenge [ impossible ]
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(please don't tell me to try Linux)

I'm trying to imagine how this would work with other machines.

"Let's finish setting up your bike" as soon as you try to unlock it, and the pedals freeze up every three days until you agree to Schwinn's demands.

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we've let the nerds go to far
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@th The nerds (mostly) didn't do this voluntarily, the owner class forced the nerds to do this. There will always be weird techbros hopped up on anarcholibertarian bath salts, but most of the nerds haaaaate this stuff.
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cy ActivityPub

There should be a law against not trying Linux >:(((

(no really, the EPA, FDA, AMA, and DoL should shut down Microsoft and repossess their assets, using the money and labor to maintain a standard open source operating system for personal computers. But do it for phones first)

(just slapping MS on the wrist and saying "no you can't do that particular thing" would be an improvement too)

@cy read my handle and my bio
@cy
cy ActivityPub
Sorry I was being ironic.
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