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bySubmergedInTech
nuary 21, 2026 @04:12PM
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Attached to: Half of World's CO2 Emissions Come From Just 32 Fossil Fuel Firms, Study Shows
See https://www.iea.org/reports/em...
"Today, oil and gas operations account for around 15% of total energy-related emissions globally, the equivalent of 5.1 billion tonnes of greenhouse gas emissions."
The 50% number is like claiming that Taco Bell is responsible for the water use of people flushing the toilet after eating a taco.
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bySubmergedInTech
uary 15, 2026 @04:17PM
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Attached to: Raspberry Pi's New Add-on Board Has 8GB of RAM For Running Gen AI Models
Given the general view of AI and LLMs (especially on /.), they should have called it the AI Supplementary Storage HAT.
Or, ASSHAT for short.
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bySubmergedInTech
ry 04, 2026 @12:17PM
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Attached to: Google's $250M Deal with California to Fund Newsrooms May Be Stalled
Was not to support local news.
It was to support the politicians complaining about Google search eating local news. So they would stop pushing an even more costly legislative solution.
Simply supporting local news wouldn't have achieved that goal. Because no amount of support would solve the problem that people just aren't reading newspapers and watching local news anymore. They're getting their news through social media. Which, other than YouTube, is something Google is kinda terrible at. See Google+. Or more accurately, don't.
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bySubmergedInTech
uary 03, 2026 @07:41PM
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Attached to: Google's $250M Deal with California to Fund Newsrooms May Be Stalled
Where nobody cares about whether a problem is actually solved. Only about who gets control of the millions of dollars allocated towards solving it.
And actually, it's better if the problem *isn't* solved. Because then we clearly need more money.
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bySubmergedInTech
ember 27, 2025 @12:49PM
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Attached to: Should Physicists Study the Question: What is Life?
No. Or at least, if they want to, switch to the field of science which studies it.
This seems like the academic equivalent of, "Sales of sugary drinks are down. Should Coca-Cola start building self-driving cars?"
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bySubmergedInTech
mber 23, 2025 @11:13PM
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Attached to: Inside Uzbekistan's Nationwide License Plate Surveillance System
And totally unsurprising.
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bySubmergedInTech
ber 01, 2025 @12:05AM
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Attached to: What Happens When You Kick Millions of Teens Off Social Media? Australia's About to Find Out
What will the teens do? Find out and f*ck around...
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bySubmergedInTech
ber 07, 2025 @11:18PM
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Attached to: The First New Subsea Habitat In 40 Years Is About To Launch
How much of the new science will involve violence to sea creatures?
Compared to the amount of abuse sea life endures at the hands of Florida tourists at the beaches, basically zero.
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bySubmergedInTech
er 26, 2025 @04:14PM
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Attached to: Does Generative AI Threaten the Open Source Ecosystem?
I've implemented linked list traversal f*ck-all-knows how many times over the last 40 years, in a dozen languages. I'm sure similar or identical code exists in hundreds of open source repositories. And millions of CS homework assignments over the decades.
If you compare my code with enough projects, I'm sure you'll find matches. Not because I copied them or Stack Overflow (I was coding long before that was a thing). But because there are really only a few sane ways to implement most algorithms. Which is also why most software patents are stupid, but that's a different can of worms...
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bySubmergedInTech
er 24, 2025 @06:49PM
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Attached to: US Expands Facial Recognition at Borders To Track Non-Citizens
Just got back from Indonesia. Photographed on the way in and out. Fiji, too. Philippines. And so on.
Honduras has taken fingerprints for at least 10 years. Their fingerprint readers suck; you really have to press on them to get a good scan.
Even in the US, SFO airport has been taking photos on the way in for US citizens for years.
What's the news here again?
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bySubmergedInTech
mber 29, 2025 @06:59PM
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Attached to: Gavin Newsom Signs First-In-Nation AI Safety Law
Gavin Newsom signed a first-in-the-nation law on Monday that will "force" major artificial "intelligence" companies to "reveal" their "safety" protocols.
FTFY.
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bySubmergedInTech
mber 22, 2025 @07:26PM
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Attached to: The Moon is Rusting - Thanks To 'Wind' Blown All the Way From Earth
Because of our planet's axial tilt, and the updrafts from burning trees in the northern hemisphere.
But that's not news. We've known for decades that Earth Wind & Fire are most prominent in September.
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bySubmergedInTech
mber 05, 2025 @02:43PM
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Attached to: Public Strongly Backs Aim of 30% of Land and Sea Set Aside For Nature, Poll Finds
I'm sure anyone can look at the globe, or even their region, and come up with at least 30% they'd be happy setting aside for nature. I sure can.
The problem is that we're going to disagree over which 30%.
Ranchers: the 30% which isn't suitable for grazing.
Oil barons: the 30% which doesn't have oil underneath.
Miners: the 30% which doesn't have useful ore.
Fishing fleets: the 30% which we've already depleted of fish.
Developers: any 30% we don't own and want to put houses on.
PG&E: the 30% we don't need to run power lines through.
Normal folks: anywhere is fine, but housing and gasoline and food all cost too much, so it better not raise the price of any of those.
It's like housing the homeless. Even here in California, where the vast majority of people agree we should build supportive housing, nobody wants it built in their own neighborhood.
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bySubmergedInTech
st 19, 2025 @12:12PM
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Attached to: Three-Quarters of Countries Face Below-Replacement Fertility by 2050
Hopefully total world IQ will drop more slowly than total world population.
Meanwhile, all those ecosystems we've been pillaging to provide food, clean water, energy, waste disposal, etc. for a growing population can start recovering, if we manage to avoid hitting a tipping point in the meantime.
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bySubmergedInTech
st 12, 2025 @03:17PM
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Attached to: UK Government Suggests Deleting Files To Save Water
Came here to say exactly this, but out of mod points.
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