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Petroleum drilling technology is now making carbon-free power ... in Utah
  • Derange the home stove, the Ford, or the range?

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    What beliefs or hypotheses do you hold strongly despite not feeling confident that you can necessarily prove or evince it?
  • Either greed or religion has killed the most people before their time. One of them has to go.

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  • https:// www.npr.org /2024/10/15/nx-s1-5035523/petroleum-drilling-technology-carbon-free-power

    "Geothermal does currently cost more per megawatt hour than wind or solar, but those more-established renewables require big batteries to keep power flowing around the clock."

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    What do we call communities in Lemmy?
  • I'd bet that 'lemmings' wouldn't work.

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    Bug bounty denied? Hmmm ... OK, let's see ...
  • I specially liked the part where he collected $50k by clueing the affected companies.

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  • www.mcc-berlin.net Germany’s 49-euro ticket resulted in significant modal shift from road to rail

    MCC analysis for the Ariadne energy transition project shows 30 percent more rail journeys. The announced increase in price to 58 euros per month undoes half of this.

    Meanwhile in North America, Canada's VIA is operating on a shoestring and being further threatened ... and in the last 50 years the US has pulled up most of the rails that were installed in the previous century. We're stuck with airplanes, hybrid metro-transit, and what's left of Greyhound. But, hey, we've got a world to police!

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    gist.github.com 1 bug, $50,000+ in bounties, how Zendesk intentionally left a backdoor in hundreds of Fortune 500 companies

    1 bug, $50,000+ in bounties, how Zendesk intentionally left a backdoor in hundreds of Fortune 500 companies - zendesk.md

    hi, i'm daniel. i'm a 15-year-old with some programming experience and i do a little bug hunting in my free time. here's the insane story of how I found a single bug that affected over half of all Fortune 500 companies:

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    This is why physics is dying
  • Sabine is a very competent physicist. That's why her viewpoint - right or wrong - is well worth hearing. The fact that the Nobel went to a computer scientist instead says a lot about the state-of-the-art.

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    This is why physics is dying
  • Sabine knows her shit. May she coax some physicists into getting back into experimenting... and away from Big Science funding.

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    Mexico’s Sheinbaum to Expand Federal Control Over Energy Giants
  • "The change would force the companies to prioritize the government’s social and economic objectives over corporate profits."

    That starts to sound good. What are those objectives?

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    Through Hurricanes Helene and Milton, Amateur Radio Triumphs When All Else Fails
  • Good thing is, your ham (amateur radio) license will not not require you to learn the morse code. To get into 2-meters and above VHF/UHF (handheld/repeater/packet), where most of this action would be happening, you'll pass a 30-question written test to show you know the rules. You can learn them from a book or join a class. You'd also be able to use voice on 10-meters (near the CB band)

    Learn the needed details here: https://www.arrl.org/getting-your-technician-license/

    You might find some people on CB doing this stuff ... why not? But the article was def about the ham scene.

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  • www.wired.com Through Hurricanes Helene and Milton, Amateur Radio Triumphs When All Else Fails

    While some residents in hurricane-impacted areas can't send texts or make calls, amateur radio enthusiasts are helping communicate requests for help and messages between loved ones.

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    Carl Sagan - 1985 testimony on climate change (US Senate)
  • I noticed in that video how Al Gore looked as he listened. Sagan died in 1996. Gore released his documentary 'An Inconvenient Truth', 18 years ago in 2006. I believe Sagan would not have been surprised at the film's reception, nor surprised by how little impact it has had on effective response to the threats it outlined. You can lead a horse to water....

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    What is your solution to the problem in the world you're the most vocal about?
  • If we are realistic enough to put the fight against further global warming on a wartime basis, then we can operate things on a wartime basis. Which means planning things so that everything is focussed on winning the war. For example gasoline rationing would encourage people to plan their use of gasoline for maximum efficiency. It means people can get only as much as they can justify.

    Rationing was used in the US during WW2. To see what that meant, read this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rationing_in_the_United_States

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    Results of the Linux community survey
  • I'd like to encourage the author of of this to leave the line- and paragraph- breaks in the source text. This is impossible to read as is.

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  • How close can you be to a supernova? before things get ugly

    www.scientificamerican.com Don’t Panic—At Least, Not about a Nearby Supernova

    An exploding star is a catastrophe on a cosmic scale, but here on Earth we’re safe from such astral disasters—for now

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    "Witnesses testified on how the greenhouse effect will change the global climate system and possible solutions.”

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    Britain Backs Plan to Store Carbon Dioxide Under the Sea | Two proposals in Northern England, led by the energy giants BP and Eni, aim to establish an industry in burying emissions
  • The wonderful thing about burying CO2 is that nobody can tell you didn't. If it leaks out, nobody can tell it did. If you can get paid for it, that's the most wonderful thing.

    CO2 is like nuclear plants in that way. When Rocky Flats had a big fire in their weapons plant, and plutonium fell all over the Denver suburbs, they just didn't tell anyone about it.

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    What do cats think you are to them?
  • Sugar daddies ...

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    Does Linux emit random sounds or wake up in the middle of the night?
  • A new Linux OS may emit unfamiliar sounds if some network app is still running and set to use them for notifications. Quitting the (sound-making) app(s) and/or the network connection will can avoid that problem. Of course you can just turn the sound volume all the way down.

    Suspended OSs may sometimes 'wake up for no reason' if some vibration causes the mouse, for example, to jiggle around enough.

    Logging out of your user account before suspending/sleeping the machine will stop that stuff without having to dig thru settings. Faster to log back in than to reboot.

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    North Carolina Was Set Up for Disaster | The climate deck is so stacked now that even places that seem safe are witnessing dangerous impacts.
  • This Cat-4 started just down by the Yucatan and worked up 140mph-sustained winds in a couple of days over the Gulf of Mexico. I'm wondering how common that's been before.

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    How the hell does no one talk about this?
  • I ran into a very old saying yesterday: A fish rots from the head down.

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    How the hell does no one talk about this?
  • Quite the contrary! The idea is that today's curricula and methods of instruction have changed a lot over two centuries. Here in the US, it is not uncommon for secondary arts teachers and programs to be dropped whenever schools are feeling a budget crunch. Now we see similar things going on in major universities. Often ones with more administrators than professors.

    In the high school I attended, and later in one that I taught in, the separate building for the sports program was as large as the rest of the school. I thought those were fairly clear statements of what the district's priorities were. 'Education' is a very broad word that can mean many things in many places.

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    How the hell does no one talk about this?
  • A musician friend of mine, when asked "Why are there no Mozarts or Beethovens any more?" replies "We went through your schools."

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    Why do people keep fact-checking Republicans? 😭
  • As they always teach over at Electoral College.

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  • www.youtube.com David Bohm Society

    The David Bohm Society was founded in 2012 to inventory, preserve, and promote David Bohm’s work and to explore and realize his proposals.

    A society has been formed to share the ideas of quantum physicist, philosopher David Bohm (1917-1992).

    "I can tell you one thing. David Bohm knows a lot more than just a little about physics." - Richard Feynman

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    "Michael Straight, a former jockey paralyzed from the waist down, was left unable to walk for two months after the company behind his $100,000 exoskeleton refused to fix a battery issue. "

    “I called [the company] thinking it was no big deal, yet I was told they stopped working on any machine that was 5 years or older,”

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    futurism.com An AI Event Hired John Mulaney to Do a Comedy Set and He Brutally Roasted Them Onstage

    Standup comedian John Mulaney was invited to do a set at a San Francisco event put on by AI company Dreamforce. He roasted them brutally.

    What a sweet opportunity!

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    www.historic-uk.com The Thames Frost Fairs in London

    Between 1607 and 1814, there were a total of seven major frost fairs held on the frozen River Thames in the heart of London. These fairs hosted bull-baiting, pop-up pubs, and even saw a king or two taking part in the festivities!

    (Added as a matter of curiousity, not to divert or disavow the our very real AGW.) This occurence is usually blamed on the 'Little Ice Age' ... cause still uncertain. The LIA is implicated in 500 years of misery for many Europeans. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little_Ice_Age

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    arstechnica.com Music industry’s 1990s hard drives, like all HDDs, are dying

    The music industry traded tape for hard drives and got a hard-earned lesson.

    Related, relevant advice on SSD reliability (dated 2015, still relevant? inquiring minds want to know): https://www.anandtech.com/show/9248/the-truth-about-ssd-data-retention

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    restofworld.org The Uruguayan company teaching people how to turn regular cars into EVs

    Organización Autolibre is teaching individuals and companies across 14 countries to retrofit vehicles. Critics worry about the process’s safety.

    Turning gas-fueled cars into electric ones can be four times cheaper than buying a new EV.

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    www.wired.com The Biggest Controversy in Cosmology Just Got Bigger

    A long-awaited study of the cosmic expansion rate suggests that when it comes to the Hubble tension, cosmologists are still missing something.

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    arstechnica.com Americans misunderstand their contribution to deteriorating environment

    A global survey suggests 88 percent of people are worried about the state of nature.

    I imagine there are many US people living in places with 100+ degree days for months in a row -- Places which seldom got above 90 a half-century ago ... who do not understand that driving a car with AC to a home with AC is making matters worse.

    The situation is urgent, yet we keep hearing 2060 2050 2040 2030 deadlines as if a fix could somehow be delivered by then . BUT: If we got to zero -tomorrow- , it'd stay as it already is for centuries. Every day without HUGE changes NOW it's getting worse.

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    futurism.com Man Arrested for Creating Fake Bands With AI, Then Making $10 Million by Listening to Their Songs With Bots

    An alleged scammer has been arrested under suspicion that he used AI to create a wild number of fake bands — and fake streams to with them.

    cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/19494425

    > > The artist naming convention also followed a somewhat similar pattern, with names ranging from the normal-sounding "Calvin Mann" to head-scratchers like "Calorie Event," "Calms Scorching," and "Calypso Xored." > > That one of you? ;-)

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    www.space.com NASA's solar sail successfully spreads its wings in space

    Spacecraft data has confirmed successful deployment of the futuristic technology.

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    english.elpais.com Batteries start to rival gas on California’s electricity grid

    America’s most populous state aims to use 100% clean energy by 2045, thanks to storage boom

    "Gas accounts for 40% of California's grid. However, its use in April registered its lowest proportion in seven years."

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