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byAmiMoJo
2026 @10:31AM
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Attached to: 99% of New US Energy Capacity Will Be Green in 2026
Around here you can actually make a nice profit if you play your cards right. Feed into the grid when demand is high, draw from it when demand is low, and profit from the difference in pricing.
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byAmiMoJo
2026 @09:35AM
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Attached to: Blue Origin Announces Two-Year Pause in Space Tourism - to Focus on the Moon
I doubt there will be many tourists headed to the moon in the foreseeable future. Blue Origin is only making the lander, they don't have a way to get to lunar orbit. Even if they did, the trip isn't exactly pleasant. NASA has at least managed to install a toilet on the new capsule, but it's still not a very fun place to spend a week.
Some dedicated people will go, but it won't be like the joyrides to the edge of space that they do now.
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byAmiMoJo
2026 @09:32AM
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Attached to: US Government Also Received a Whistleblower Complaint That WhatsApp Chats Aren't Private
For messages that are reported to them. At least in theory, turns out that it wasn't just journalists accidentally added to top secret Whatsapp groups that could read the US government's messages.
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byAmiMoJo
2026 @09:29AM
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Attached to: 99% of New US Energy Capacity Will Be Green in 2026
The only area I disagree with him is on home solar and battery storage. I get what he is saying that it makes more sense to pay commercial suppliers to do it on a massive scale, but there are advantages to having your own at home too. Of course, up front cost is the biggest barrier for house owners, and people renting or living in an apartment often can't install more than balcony solar.
Aside from the benefits to the owner, it will keep the large scale generators a bit more honest in future. In the past the only way to make your own electricity was a generator, which was expensive to run compared to just buying electricity from the grid. Now those grid suppliers are in competition with home solar and battery storage, and competition is good.
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technology_dude writes: Kessler Syndrome Scheduled
Elon Musk and his aerospace company have requested to build a network that's 100 times the number of satellites that are currently in orbit. On Friday, SpaceX filed an application with the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to launch a million satellites meant to create an "orbital data center."
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byAmiMoJo
2026 @12:56PM
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Attached to: Universal Basic Income Could Be Used To Soften Hit From AI Job Losses In UK, Minister Says
I'm not convinced that it is that complex. The government knows what people's income is for the most part, as banks report it to them.
There is no perfect solution, but that doesn't mean we have to have one that is deeply unfair.
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byAmiMoJo
2026 @11:36AM
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Attached to: Universal Basic Income Could Be Used To Soften Hit From AI Job Losses In UK, Minister Says
The thing is you can say the same about any group of people of any age. There will always be some who, for a variety of reasons, have trouble navigating these systems. We don't hesitate to introduce them in other cases, along with help for people who need it.
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byAmiMoJo
2026 @07:24AM
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Attached to: UK's First Rapid-Charging Battery Train Ready For Boarding
We seem to do most things in the stupidest way possible.
180707976
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byAmiMoJo
2026 @04:53AM
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Attached to: UK's First Rapid-Charging Battery Train Ready For Boarding
True, and cable theft is an issue in the UK.
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byAmiMoJo
2026 @03:43AM
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Attached to: 'Reverse Solar Panel' Generates Electricity at Night
It's an interesting idea, but pointless given how cheap batteries have become.
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byAmiMoJo
2026 @03:40AM
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Attached to: Universal Basic Income Could Be Used To Soften Hit From AI Job Losses In UK, Minister Says
I think we need to move to means testing the state pension. We have Universal Credit, extend it to pensions.
I don't buy all the stuff about old people being too thick or demented to get what they are entitled to. We can build a system that handles it. We have to.
180707580
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byAmiMoJo
2026 @03:36AM
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Attached to: Universal Basic Income Could Be Used To Soften Hit From AI Job Losses In UK, Minister Says
A company that offers private prescriptions. They employ doctors who can issue them, but typically you don't speak to the doctor directly. They have front line staff that you talk to, answer the necessary questions, and it all gets passed to the doctors in the back room who then issue the prescription. Then back to front line staff who explain anything that needs explaining.
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byAmiMoJo
2026 @03:32AM
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Attached to: Los Angeles Aims To Ban Single-Use Printer Cartridges
Well there are the Ecotank ones, where instead of a cartridge the printer has tanks for each colour that the user can refill.
Never owned one, I stick to laser. If I need to do a colour print I use the local printing place.
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byAmiMoJo
2026 @03:31AM
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Attached to: GNU gettext Reaches Version 1.0 After 30 Years
I used to think that, but then I learned Japanese.
I suppose with enough time and effort you could explain those concepts, but it's not easy.
LLMs and even human translators struggle with it. Conversations flow differently, people view the world differently, and accurately conveying their meaning is quite difficult. One of the things you have to learn when studying Japanese is to stop trying to translate it back into English for understanding.
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byAmiMoJo
2026 @03:28AM
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Attached to: Belkin's Wemo Smart Devices Will Go Offline On Saturday
People are learning. Look on Amazon, many devices are now advertising "no cloud" and "no subscription" as a valuable selling point.
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