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byPinky's Brain
y 01, 2026 @12:42PM
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Attached to: 99% of New US Energy Capacity Will Be Green in 2026
PS. lignin can be used for grease too.
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byPinky's Brain
y 01, 2026 @12:41PM
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Attached to: 99% of New US Energy Capacity Will Be Green in 2026
Before the oil glut, a lot of chemistry was lignin based. It can be again.
Lignin based epoxy, plant based carbon fibre. Then at the end chop it up and incinerate it, still net zero.
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byPinky's Brain
ry 31, 2026 @01:53PM
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Attached to: Microdosing For Depression Appears To Work About As Well As Drinking Coffee
Lithium and ...?
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byPinky's Brain
30, 2026 @05:13PM
(#65959950)
Attached to: 'Moltbook Is the Most Interesting Place On the Internet Right Now'
This reeks of viral marketing.
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byPinky's Brain
ry 29, 2026 @09:50AM
(#65956528)
Attached to: Seven of the World's Ten Best-Selling Smartphones in 2025 Were iPhones
There is only one and a half ecosystem in the world ... and the half of one is dying.
Google's half of an ecosystem has two problems. The mistake of allowing manufacturers way too much freedom and being tied down by their advertising preventing them from moving into the high end. Apple can move down in the market, but any Google device will always be tainted by advertising when trying to play at the top. As a person you can mostly avoid that, but for the brand it's poison.
Apple has no true competition.
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byPinky's Brain
ry 29, 2026 @04:13AM
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Attached to: Urban Expansion in the Age of Liberalism
Agriculture is spread out by nature, industry centralizes by nature.
- Nimby conservatism
- Anti-sprawl environmentalism/elitism
- Economic efficiency clumping people up
- Mass migration
- Demographic shift to elderly and/or singles
A perfect storm from all sides.
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byPinky's Brain
y 27, 2026 @01:01PM
(#65952706)
Attached to: Lawsuit Alleges That WhatsApp Has No End-to-End Encryption
Signal is never letting go of phonenumbers, it's why they glow in the dark.
The encryption is secure, but they do no traffic obfuscation and with a little traffic analysis and the phonenumber requirement it's trivial for NSA to build a social network with real names.
If you can't do traffic analysis near Signal's servers and don't have widerange access to mobile phone IP/number/name data, it's very secure ... the NSA can and for them Signal is a treasure trove of metadata (see the paper "I still know what you did last summer" for instance). Funny how that worked out.
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byPinky's Brain
y 27, 2026 @12:52PM
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Attached to: Lawsuit Alleges That WhatsApp Has No End-to-End Encryption
End to end is only as trustworthy as the directory of the public keys. Whatsapp doesn't let you in person verify or notify you when they changed, so Meta can trivially easily MitM.
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byPinky's Brain
26, 2026 @02:05PM
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Attached to: Startup Uses SpaceX Tech to Cool Data Centers With Less Power and No Water
Closed loop minus what evaporates.
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byPinky's Brain
26, 2026 @01:03PM
(#65950470)
Attached to: World Not Ready For Rise In Extreme Heat, Scientists Say
Labor is cheap in the third world, the materials to make rooms to escape the heat without grid dependence aren't especially expensive. Insulation (EPS) is cheap and if mass produced you could make an air conditioning kit running off PV with an ice battery and heat recovery ventilator for 500 bucks with some profit margin included.
Air-conditioning in terribly insulated homes relying on the grid is a recipe for disaster in the developing world.
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byPinky's Brain
26, 2026 @03:14AM
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Attached to: Startup Uses SpaceX Tech to Cool Data Centers With Less Power and No Water
Or rather you just spray the hot water into the air, I forgot how they worked.
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byPinky's Brain
26, 2026 @03:12AM
(#65949350)
Attached to: Startup Uses SpaceX Tech to Cool Data Centers With Less Power and No Water
The radiators get awful big at MWs of power and only 25 or so degrees C relative to ambient. So you spray water on them and they work a lot better.
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byPinky's Brain
26, 2026 @03:04AM
(#65949344)
Attached to: Startup Uses SpaceX Tech to Cool Data Centers With Less Power and No Water
Some gasses work better than others for given temperatures in heat-pumps. CO2 is best suited to very high temperatures, like increasing the temp from say 50C coming from the GPU to say 90C.
It's sometimes used for domestic hot water heat pumps, mainly in Japan because they do love their baths and hotter water means it can use a smaller tank to fill the tub.
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byPinky's Brain
26, 2026 @02:56AM
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Attached to: Startup Uses SpaceX Tech to Cool Data Centers With Less Power and No Water
When it's hot outside, you could probably get the radiator temp difference to ambient around 2x higher with the heatpump at good COP. If radiator cooling requires too much radiator volume with normal liquid cooling, 2x is unlikely to make the difference.
Cooling towers with evaporation are used because of the far higher power density they allow.
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byPinky's Brain
25, 2026 @09:06AM
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Attached to: Former Canonical Developer Advocate Warns Snap Store Isn't Safe After Slow Responses to Malware Reports
Curating a store or package repository in general takes lots of effort, I don't think volunteers can hack it in today's environment. Snaps and flatpacks are the biggest target, but this could just as easily happen for distro packages. Only Apple makes that kind of money from the store itself to pay for it.
For Linux on the desktop to escape hobbyism you need complete ecosystems with large revenue streams. Like Google, but I think it's possible without it being quite so closed. Ideally Valve would buy Ubuntu and launch a Chromebook-like certification program for Steam phones, laptops and PCs.
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