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Telorand

@ Telorand @reddthat.com

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  • US targets China's solar dominance with 50% tariffs on solar wafers and polysilicon — tungsten products will see a 25% increase

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  • Goddammit Biden. Your time is done. Know when to fold.

    Now when it's 2025 and beyond, Trump won't have to do anything with Chinese tariffs. If people complain about tariffs causing price hikes on new solar installations (for which he's probably gonna get rid of tax incentives on top of that), he can just say, "NoT mY fAuLt, Biden set up the tariffs."

    Quit while you're ahead, dude!

  • Spotify Wrapped 2024 controversy explained — what you need to know

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  • Glad you like it! Yeah, I wish there was some way to easily discover new ones, but that would take some kind of per-user assessment and a category system for the various podcasts, so I understand why they don't have it! Probably beyond the scope of what is essentially a volunteer project.

  • New magnetic flow has potential to revolutionise electronic devices

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  • And it sounds like it's not just batteries. This has applications for memory and data storage (though I'm just parroting what they said). We'll see what happens in the next decade or two!

  • New magnetic flow has potential to revolutionise electronic devices

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  • Yes. Researcher said 10 years (probably at the earliest), but I'm more of an "at all" kind of person. I like celebrating scientific achievements for their own sake, because it's something we humans figured out.

  • New magnetic flow has potential to revolutionise electronic devices

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  • Yeah, one of the researchers said 10-ish years. Which is fast for new tech but slow for life.

  • New magnetic flow has potential to revolutionise electronic devices

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  • Super cool. I hope this goes somewhere

  • OpenAI O1 model caught in scheming

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  • Not really caught. The devs intentionally connected it to specific systems (like other servers), gave it vague instructions that amounted to "ensure you achieve your goal in the long term at all costs," and then let it do its thing.

    It's not like it did something it wasn't instructed to do; it didn't perform some menial task and then also invent its own secret agenda on the side when nobody was looking.

  • Luigi Mangione, CEO shooting suspect, is a tech worker

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  • How do you ask someone to starve when they have a legitimate alternative?

    I know this was more of a rhetorical question, but for anyone who is legitimately asking this question: you show them that it's not actually a binary choice. There's options like communism and unionization that can both protect them and feed them.

  • Luigi Mangione, CEO shooting suspect, is a tech worker

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  • I dunno. I've never met the narc, and I already don't feel like he's on my side.

  • Spotify Wrapped 2024 controversy explained — what you need to know

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  • I hope Spotify gets all they deserve from that decision.

  • Spotify Wrapped 2024 controversy explained — what you need to know

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  • If you're on Android, I use AntennaPod for all my podcasts. It's FOSS that pulls from all the various podcast sources; I have yet to run across a podcast I couldn't add to my rotation

    If you're ever looking to cut out Spotify completely, maybe see if that fits what you need.

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  • Gotcha.

    The idea of a large public instance rubs me the wrong way, since it leads to behavior like that.

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  • Could you explain that idea in more detail? I'm not really sure I understand how that would work in practice.

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  • They can. And if at any point it becomes untenable, you can just archive whatever you host, shut down your instance, and put the videos up for download somewhere.

  • Google has developed an AI tool that generates fully playable 3D worlds

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  • “While this research is still in its early stages and there is substantial room to improve agent and environment generation capabilities, we believe that Genie 2 is the way to solve the structural problem of training embedded agents safely and at the same time. time to achieve the breadth and generality necessary to move towards AGI [Artificial General Intelligence]” reads a blog post about the Google tool.

    Translation: Invest now, and pay no attention to that man behind the curtain!

  • Mechanical Batteries: The Future of Energy Storage? | FD Engineering

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  • I do hope they get somewhere with this idea, because novel energy storage that's clean is always a good thing to pursue, but ever since I first saw this idea back in the mid-2010s, it's never materialized due to unforseen issues when it scales up to real-world use.

  • Mechanical Batteries: The Future of Energy Storage? | FD Engineering

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  • We already have gravity batteries. This "block tower" type doesn't work in practice (no matter how many times they try it), because as they grow in size, they are subject to natural forces like wind, and that makes stacking the blocks safely a big challenge.

    I'll be happy to eat my words if somebody can make this a viable solution, but this isn't a new concept, and this particular style has never worked so far.

  • Save your computer from Microsoft's Windows 10 end-of-life planned obsolescence

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  • You're good people. Lemmy is only better if we make it that way with intent and action.

  • Save your computer from Microsoft's Windows 10 end-of-life planned obsolescence

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  • I mean, I get it. It can be annoying when earnest questions regularly get the answer, "Delete Windows. Install Linux," but I'm sure you realize that probably more than half of those "suggestions" are memes, yeah?

    But I also don't think it's fair to say that it's not on the same level, because that very much depends on the use cases and what people's personal philosophies are.

    For me, it's important that I'm not beholden to centralized corporations, and my daily use case is covered by Linux. I don't play competitive games or the latest AAA titles. I don't use Bluetooth peripherals. I don't do video editing or graphic design either as a hobby or as a job. My (UPS) battery is external, and I have 32GB of RAM (and zram is easy to change, besides).

    I have a Windows 11 Pro license, but it doesn't offer me any additional functionality and adds additional negatives (plus, have you ever tried to get support for Windows? The "community experts" are a farce).

    Ultimately, while I certainly agree that Linux truly isn't for everyone, it's probably for more people than they might realize and could be for people that have particular philosophies and a willingness to give up their Adobe suites, MS Office suites, etc. and learn something new.

    Either way, have a lovely day. This seems to be a sore spot for you, and I hope that improves.