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  • Elon Musk Is Charging Starlink Customers Gigantic Bogus Fees Because Its Network Is Being Crushed by “High Demand”

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  • Prior to and including IPO they have been on quite a marketing kick. Referral schemes, equipment rentals, discount plans for low usage etc. Seems like they’re trying hard to make the business make sense. I maintain that LEO (and WISP) ISPs should be limited to more extreme applications yet I see them all over the place in residential areas. Their technical achievements are impressive but if phone systems to remote areas were possible, then so should fibre optics.

    Also this should be built by international organisations, not billionaires. A plague on Musk and a plague on Bezos.

  • The space bit of SpaceX is worth $8 a share, says Morgan Stanley

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  • So, you mean the marginally profitable bit that supports the pieces that lose billions annually is worth about 6% of the IPO price? Slopware makes up the rest of the value.

    This is fine.

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  • He’s rich enough that nobody’s taking his attendance.

  • Switzerland bolted 5,000 solar panels onto a dam wall 8,000 feet up in the freezing Alps. The plant now makes three times more winter power than any farm down in the valleys

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  • Content farm “articles” are difficult to distinguish from AI.

    It’s a good idea, if the dam faces a good direction (North probably isn’t worth it) even without the additional benefits of altitude.

  • If you had to start today, would start collecting CDs or Vinyls?

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  • Local marketplace had a really nice turntable for an unreasonable price for a bit and I argued with myself for a while about it. (The same person had sold me a nice set of speakers, just upgrades a lot it seems).

    Final product, vinyl wears out, the needle wears out, and it’s finicky. It needs to be level and vibration isolated. The voltage produced is so low it’s highly subject to electrical interference. You need a preamp, which vary widely in quality as well as style - it may be high end but is it to your taste? It’s all a rabbit hole I wasn’t willing to go down for what, ultimately, is a lower quality experience than a CD. You have to dust records and have a microgram scale to balance the tonearm. If it’s not an automatic player it’ll wear a groove at the end of playback if you don’t get up to deal with it. If the power supply is slightly off kilter, it plays too fast or slow, or you need to adjust it.

    Now, CDs don’t last forever (as audio storage) and have their faults and loudness war outcome, but they do store high fidelity and provide a mindful listening experience in that you need to get up and open a box and place the CD in the player; they have album art; and they have liner notes sometimes.

    So I ended up convincing myself to save the money and frustration.

  • Why isn’t Tripadvisor warning guests about dangerous hotels? - New AI summaries at the top of reviews mask food poisoning, hazardous rooms and sexual harassment

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  • Avoiding legal liability. Increasing sales.

  • Professor denounces mass AI fraud on an exam at Brown University: ‘Academic integrity is at risk’

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  • Midterms were take home, honorable closed-book; final was in person.

    Of the 89 students who did the midterm exam, only 59 showed up for the final one. And of the 27 who did not show up, 22 had scored a perfect 100 in the midterm exam.

    It seems to me that it’s important for those 22 to be expelled permanently for academic dishonesty. The president of Harvard was kicked out of the position when it came to light that she had “plagiarized” herself. This is far more egregious.

  • County with 37 Data Centers Asks Schools to 'Conserve Electricity'

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  • I think the term is Natural Monopoly.

    When there’s no reason to run a second set of extremely expensive infrastructure to people’s homes, it needs government oversight. That government oversight should have established a median electricity usage level for businesses and residences, and applied pricing accordingly - with tiers based on usage levels. Every 1000kwh, the price goes up. Small houses get electricity effectively for cost of delivery, while data centres pay for what they use and more.

    But then the data centres might be in another county and we couldn’t lose the 2 full time jobs!

  • Bring back the cold, please.

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  • Fuck winter. I need Sunlight.

  • Scientists found a cannabis compound that relieves pain without the high

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  • Idk some people like going to work without pain.

    For me cannabis is an incredibly strong depressant. I can feel suicidal for free with pain, thanks.

  • Brought to you by the same people that told you not to believe everything you read on the internet and now only read click bait headlines from Fox or Breitbart

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  • I don’t think these are the same people, to be fair.

  • What should a 22 year old do with a $100k+/year job (after tax)?

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  • Stuff a number - say 10-20% - of your paycheque in for retirement. There’s tax implications that might adjust that number. Everyone told me it was important but I was too busy buying food, transportation, and shelter so I’m rather late to the game. You can back off on this if you need to, but it will help you down the road.

    I would recommend that you also pay off any debts, set up deposits to an account for emergency purposes (six months is a goal, and pretend you pay rent or mortgage and a car for the cost estimate) and for home deposit. That should be all at the same time, reducing retirement contributions to make it work.

    Get a cash back credit card. It knocks a % off every purchase and it adds up.

    Don’t invest in crypto or AI.

  • Fortune 500 bosses demanding staff return to the office share one trait: Narcissism, research finds

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  • Millennials are at that stage for sure, with enshittification, AI, and the xxteenth generational crisis in a row.

  • Is this a mosquito or something else?

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  • In fact they don’t like lakes. Too much movement and predator.

  • Want that data, but... ah.

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  • For some reason I’ve assumed that high security environments prohibit devices that aren’t secured.

    But I should know better, because decision makers are all the same, and want to use their iPad.

    ETA: it’s also ironic to see the companies that were protected from any semblance of data privacy legislation sharing the sensitive data they’ve collected, and now it’s a problem.

  • Feds Killed Polestar and Spared Volvo. That Should Terrify You

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  • There’s a lot of knowledge about how to build a car that doesn’t apply to EVs. Similarly there’s a lot that does and it will take a while to sort it out. cybertruk is a good example of what not to do on many levels while charging a premium

  • Feds Killed Polestar and Spared Volvo. That Should Terrify You

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  • I’ve got a bad feeling about overall repairability. Glue and potting used throughout.

  • Microsoft admits 8GB RAM is fine for Windows 11, after years of pushing 16GB as the baseline

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  • Well, work machines have increasing counts of security agents. Mine has three and I’ve seen more. Plus Teams which uses enough RAM to run a proper OS all by itself.

  • Ford had to hire back former engineers to fix mistakes made by its automated systems

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  • So they fired the executives responsible, right?