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Comment on Long-term experiences with Google search alternatives? in ~tech
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Comment on Anyone interested in trying out Kagi? (trial giveaway: round #2) in ~tech
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Comment on Anyone interested in trying out Kagi? (trial giveaway: round #2) in ~tech
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Comment on Anyone interested in trying out Kagi? (trial giveaway: round #2) in ~tech
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Comment on Infinite energy in ~creative
Pepetto (edited )LinkInfinite energy, unless paired with massive societal changes, would be a planetary catastrophy. Of the 9 planetary boundaries, the most urgent is biosphere intergrity (habitat destruction mostly)...Infinite energy, unless paired with massive societal changes, would be a planetary catastrophy.
Of the 9 planetary boundaries, the most urgent is biosphere intergrity (habitat destruction mostly) and the most talked about is climate change. Infinite energy might (maybe not, see Jevons paradox) help for climate change, and enable us to completely blow past (not the good kind of blowing past) all 8 other limits.
Infinite energy does offer lots of new opportunity, so we might be able to survive, with a few pets, but most species wouldn't.I expect we'd be able to use carbon capture to solve most of climate change.
But basically all human activity is like a machine that uses energy to turn nature into garbage (nature - > raw resources - > extracted resources - > product - > used product - > garbage). If we get infinite cheap energy, we'll also get infinitely more garbage and infinitely less nature.
It'll always seem like an acceptable tradeoff on it's own (smartphone and EV for everyone!), but nevertheless the main thing stopping us from turning the planet into single use napkin right now is that we don't have the means.I sound anti human, but I'm really not. I just think we have an overconsumption management problem, and we should work on that before we get infinite power. (Just like free booze isn't a good fix for a broke alcoholic, broke is a symptom, not the illness)
Thank you for coming to my Ted talk.
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Comment on DeepSeek’s safety guardrails failed every test researchers threw at its AI chatbot in ~tech
Pepetto Link ParentHaven't done it myself (you do need beefier computer than my potatoes) but here is a guide. https://docs.openwebui.com/tutorials/integrations/deepseekr1-dynamic/ So yeah, if you have a few...Haven't done it myself (you do need beefier computer than my potatoes) but here is a guide.
https://docs.openwebui.com/tutorials/integrations/deepseekr1-dynamic/
So yeah, if you have a few thousands cash lying around you definitely can. -
Comment on You can change ONE thing about a game. What do you change? in ~games
Pepetto LinkA magic wand you say... I'd like for time IRL to freeze while I game, so I can finally have time to play all my games more...A magic wand you say... I'd like for time IRL to freeze while I game, so I can finally have time to play all my games more...
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Comment on US President Joe Biden won't enforce TikTok ban in ~tech
Pepetto Link ParentThe popularity is the difference. Being able to access foreign propaganda is fine. But a whole generation being spoonfed propaganda is not. Not propaganda like "such and such atrocities didn't...The popularity is the difference. Being able to access foreign propaganda is fine. But a whole generation being spoonfed propaganda is not.
Not propaganda like "such and such atrocities didn't happen" which are already bad enough, more concerned about stuff like "distrust your government, they aren't any better than Hitler".
I don't like to reason with unknown, but can't ignore that after a closed hearing, 100% of congress (this never happens) agreed to ban tiktok.
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Comment on US President Joe Biden won't enforce TikTok ban in ~tech
Pepetto Link ParentWell, saying Meta's ass kissing is bad is compatible with saying tiktok's relationship with China is worse for us. The black and white world view is demonstrably false, but don't replace it with...Well, saying Meta's ass kissing is bad is compatible with saying tiktok's relationship with China is worse for us.
The black and white world view is demonstrably false, but don't replace it with an "everything is grey" worldview. Some shade of grey are much darker than others, to the point that qualifying them as "black" or "white" is less wrong than saying it's all "grey".
During the cold war, America would never have accepted it if the soviets bought a major newspaper.
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Comment on Kids at-home science experiments (of the less tame variety) in ~science
Pepetto (edited )Link ParentSo... A potato railgun? I'll let myself out. By the way, a regular potato cannon is probably plenty exciting for a 5 year old, and can teach stuff ( see smarter everyday video, which might also...Then put it all together and build a rail gun powered by potatoes! (If you do this, please post the results here. I suspect you'll need an absurd number of potatoes, and I want to see it in action.)
So... A potato railgun? I'll let myself out.
By the way, a regular potato cannon is probably plenty exciting for a 5 year old, and can teach stuff ( see smarter everyday video, which might also give you other fun sciency experiment to try )
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Comment on US President Joe Biden won't enforce TikTok ban in ~tech
Pepetto Link ParentFrom what I read, tiktok isn't banned because it's a massive Brain rot poisonning the youths, it's being banned (unanimous vote from congress) because it's likely been proven to be a massive...From what I read, tiktok isn't banned because it's a massive Brain rot poisonning the youths, it's being banned (unanimous vote from congress) because it's likely been proven to be a massive propaganda machine for China.
Meta and Twitter are just regular brain rot, which is fine for congress.
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Comment on Personally protecting a piece of prairie in ~enviro
Pepetto LinkNice article, enjoyable and I learned a lot... I did check out the rest of the blog and... Well... It serves as an illustration that people should usually stick to blogging about their area of...Nice article, enjoyable and I learned a lot...
I did check out the rest of the blog and... Well... It serves as an illustration that people should usually stick to blogging about their area of expertise. It's pretty conspiracy theory territory...
Virus do exist and chemtrail don't.
And writing a whole article about this based on a conversation with a chatbot (asking it to defend the virologist point of view) is the most strawmanny thing I've ever seen or even heard of.All in all, I'm happy tildes enabled me to read this article cause I definitly wouldn't have found it past the rest of the blog.
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Comment on Do you use an RSS reader? in ~tech
Pepetto LinkI use Feeder, for a no nonsense, fully local (no account funny business) rss reader. It's really streamlined and lowered my web use. Sometime a blog mentions another blog, I'll check it out and...I use Feeder, for a no nonsense, fully local (no account funny business) rss reader.
It's really streamlined and lowered my web use. Sometime a blog mentions another blog, I'll check it out and add it if i like it. Otherwise i can quickly check if anything new was posted without having always something more shoved in my face (which I usually won't have the discipline to ignore). -
Comment on Industrial-scale thermal storage unit in Pornainen, southern Finland, will be the world's biggest sand battery when it comes online within a couple of years in ~enviro
Pepetto (edited )Link ParentWell yes, all fair points ( about scaling up, transmitting easely , higher temp and the convenience of not living next to a massive turbine ) and I agree it's most of the time worth losing a third...Well yes, all fair points ( about scaling up, transmitting easely , higher temp and the convenience of not living next to a massive turbine ) and I agree it's most of the time worth losing a third the energie to conversion loses.
But I love KISS too! ( sometime too much ) Maybe we should make a post to ask everyone all their best example of effective low tech solution. It's engineering katnip.
About the vertical windmill tangent, I don't think we'll reach consensus between us here, but it's nice talking about it. There are plenty of exemple where the industry has massively invested in inferior methods for a very long time just because the inferior method was the one that got adopted first... (x86 architecture, thorium vs uranium nuclear plant, DC vs AC in home's wall outlet)
And reasonable size (>5m span) wind turbine don't get built in a shed. ( I know you said prototype, but small wind turbine don't scale down well, and so make lousy prototype.) -
Comment on Industrial-scale thermal storage unit in Pornainen, southern Finland, will be the world's biggest sand battery when it comes online within a couple of years in ~enviro
Pepetto Link ParentOf course we wouldn't be placing tonnes of hot sand up the tower... Just use a miter gear to transmit the rotation down 90°, and place the battery at the foot of the windmill. And don't use sand,...Of course we wouldn't be placing tonnes of hot sand up the tower... Just use a miter gear to transmit the rotation down 90°, and place the battery at the foot of the windmill. And don't use sand, just have a big insulated water tank. We know this would work because it allready has allready been done for 50 years.
Also, anecdotally, I knew fairly well an engineer working on designing on of those silly geometry wind turbine (for offshore). The way he said it, the real main disadvantage of those design was that current wind turbine maker would have to retool and redesign their production line, and they wouldn't use as much of their patent. So the wind turbine lobby ( nebulous, I know, but it was years ago so I don't remember exactly ) weren't interrested and ultimately got the project scrapped.
Sometime, it should come as no surprise, the reason we've always done things a certain way is because of entrenched interest... Even in "eco friendly" domain like renewable maker... -
Comment on Industrial-scale thermal storage unit in Pornainen, southern Finland, will be the world's biggest sand battery when it comes online within a couple of years in ~enviro
Pepetto (edited )LinkNice this is getting traction. Then we could just ditch the dynamo in the windmill and make heat directly from windNice this is getting traction.
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Comment on Feeeed is a reader app that goes beyond tracking RSS feeds in ~tech
Pepetto Link ParentI use feeder because it doesn't ask to make an account, it's all localy stored, and it's supposed to be FOSS ( haven't checked) . I keep my phone for a very long time, so i don't mind manually...I use feeder because it doesn't ask to make an account, it's all localy stored, and it's supposed to be FOSS ( haven't checked) . I keep my phone for a very long time, so i don't mind manually reentering my feeds when I change device. Works great too.
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Comment on Beyond the water flow rate: Water pressure and smart timers impact shower efficiency in ~enviro
Pepetto (edited )LinkOr even better; the mist shower The only rational way to take a shower. (Tldr: basicaly a mist sprayer hooked up to a DIY pressurised hot water container, enables you to take comforyable shower...Or even better; the mist shower
The only rational way to take a shower.(Tldr: basicaly a mist sprayer hooked up to a DIY pressurised hot water container, enables you to take comforyable shower with only 2 litres of water which also means less energy because water is expensive to heat.)
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Comment on Pace of electric car adoption has markedly slowed in the US in ~transport
Pepetto Link ParentSee, this is the million dollar problem with environmentalism: almost everyone agrees we have to do something, do it hard and do it fast, but no one wants to do anything if it inconviniences them...See, this is the million dollar problem with environmentalism: almost everyone agrees we have to do something, do it hard and do it fast, but no one wants to do anything if it inconviniences them in any way, or even just changes their routine slightly... Vegans think everyone else should stop eating meat, cyclist think everyone else should stop using cars, citydwellers think everyone should accept to live in a flat, ect... If we're ever to acheive being carbon neutral (2 tonnes CO2 equivalent per personne per year, as opposed to the current 10 in europe, and 14 in the US), we'll probably have to do all of those things and then some. But everyone is just staring at everyone else and adjusting their effort to just barely what's socially acceptable in their social circle.
No one individual is to blame, obviously, but unfortunately, the current norm sucks and we should strive to do much much more than the current norm, in the hope to nudge it a little.
Have you contacted your elected official about installing some public transport for your trip or in general? (wouldn't you be much more motivated to do so if you desperately needed it because you had no car?) have you tried coordinating with collegues and neighbors for some carsharing? how hard would it be to pack a regular wall charger (the kind that slowly charges the car overnight but can plug in a regular wall plug) and to stay the night at your sisters, or to go there twice as long and half as frequently?I know it's way easier for me to declare you could do all those things than it is to actually do them. I'm sure you could think of plenty of sacrifices I'm not making myself which seem obvious low hanging fruit to you.
think of it this way: could you look at a guy in a third world country (or let's make it a little girl, maximum pathos) and explain to him that he shouldn't eat because his farm is flooded but you really really need to be able to visit your sister easely in the winter.
Is it unfair of me to put this responsability on you instead of all the others who don't give a shit?
Sure!
Is anything I said false?I trully don't want you to feel guilty, or angry, that doesn't help anyone, I want everyone to start acting, not just agreeing (being politically active IRL is also acting, posting on reddit or Tildes much less so).
I would be very thankfull if you'd help me by saying which part of this post were convincing, and which part were just bad. (I may even delete this post if it's universally considered especially counterproductive)
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Comment on Pace of electric car adoption has markedly slowed in the US in ~transport
Pepetto Link ParentBut do you really honnestly need 500+ km range? Most commute are way under 100 km daily, or we can take a bus or train (and chill instead of being stuck in traffic) if the commute is longer (or...But do you really honnestly need 500+ km range? Most commute are way under 100 km daily, or we can take a bus or train (and chill instead of being stuck in traffic) if the commute is longer (or move closer?).
Sure, it'd be nice to have more range occasionally, but having a livable planet is also nice to have.
Frugality is the name of the game when it comes to the environment.
Because it's still google's indexing, juste with kagi as a middle man.
If you want to avoid google's ads, then getting it's results through kagi works fine. If you wan't to avoid using google at all(don't want to feed their monopoly, or suspect they might censor the results, I don't know) then kagi won't help.