HeartyBeast

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The level of engagement on Reddit these days in c/technology@beehaw.org
[–] HeartyBeast@kbin.social 30 points 9 months ago (4 children)

To be honest, it feels much more likely to see posts on the Fediverse with many upvotes, few or no comments

Virginia went all in on solar. Then its powerful utility changed the rules. After Dominion Energy required expensive upgrades, many solar projects were put on hold. in c/energy@slrpnk.net
[–] HeartyBeast@kbin.social 8 points 9 months ago

It can work where there is real competition. For natural monopolies, not so much.

Usually it happens because the state wants to sell off family silver to make some short term cash :(

Conservatives plan to bring back mandatory National Service in c/uk_politics@feddit.uk
[–] HeartyBeast@kbin.social 1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

So, if I gave you some volunteering contacts as links, would you commit to starting next month for me? Or would it take a threat of fines/court action?

Conservatives plan to bring back mandatory National Service in c/uk_politics@feddit.uk
[–] HeartyBeast@kbin.social 2 points 9 months ago (3 children)

Would you be up for being compelled to give up a day a month to do good works? Not volunteering, mind, compelled.

Drinkers lose up to £114 a year over beer and wine short measures, study reveals in c/unitedkingdom@feddit.uk
[–] HeartyBeast@kbin.social 4 points 9 months ago

“It’s a bit lively tonight “

Drinkers lose up to £114 a year over beer and wine short measures, study reveals in c/unitedkingdom@feddit.uk
[–] HeartyBeast@kbin.social 20 points 9 months ago (1 children)

£115? That’s nearly 3 pints of bitter

Conservatives plan to bring back mandatory National Service in c/uk_politics@feddit.uk
[–] HeartyBeast@kbin.social 12 points 9 months ago (6 children)

I contribute plenty. I volunteer for several charities including AgeUK and a local food bank and I give blood.

Want to make it mandatory? piss off.

Germany has too many solar panels, and it's pushed energy prices into negative territory in c/world@lemmy.world
[–] HeartyBeast@kbin.social 4 points 9 months ago (1 children)

You need a certain kind of landscape for that. I think the UK only has a couple of pumped storage power stations due to lack of suitable sites

George Lucas Says Ideas in the Original “Sort of Got Lost” in Post-Disney ‘Star Wars’ Films (Gee, you think?) in c/scifi@kbin.social
[–] HeartyBeast@kbin.social 2 points 9 months ago

Absolutely - more about Midichlorians, I say!

Germany has too many solar panels, and it's pushed energy prices into negative territory in c/world@lemmy.world
[–] HeartyBeast@kbin.social 130 points 9 months ago (19 children)

No. That’s like saying the UK has too much wind power because our prices occasionally go negative. What Germany might not have enough of is battery and other storage

Almost a third of household smart meters not working properly, says Citizens Advice in c/unitedkingdom@feddit.uk
[–] HeartyBeast@kbin.social 4 points 9 months ago

If you’re on an agile tariff where the price changes ever 30 minutes, it’s a bit of a bummer

Government tells Britons to stockpile as part of emergency planning in c/unitedkingdom@feddit.uk
[–] HeartyBeast@kbin.social 3 points 9 months ago

Hopefully the plughole is clogged with hair

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So blimey - what happened there? (kbin.social)
submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by HeartyBeast@kbin.social to c/kbinMeta@kbin.social
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Kbin seemed tio take a nice long sleep there. I almost assumed it had fallen over for good. I Really hate the generic, undated 'over the next few days we are working on servers' mesesage.

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Jury awards climate scientist Michael Mann $1 million in defamation lawsuit (apnews.com)
 

A jury said Mann was defamed 12 years ago when a pair of conservative writers compared his depictions of global warming to a convicted child molester.

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Nuclear fusion: new record brings dream of clean energy closer (www.bbc.co.uk)
 

Nuclear fusion still remains a long way off but brings the world one step closer to endless clean energy.

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World's first year-long breach of key 1.5C warming limit (www.bbc.co.uk)
 

The last 12 months were the hottest on record, temporarily sending the world past a deeply symbolic mark.

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PAPERWALL: Chinese Websites Posing as Local News Outlets Target Global Audiences with Pro-Beijing Content - The Citizen Lab (citizenlab.ca)
 

A network of at least 123 websites operated from within the People’s Republic of China while posing as local news outlets in 30 countries across Europe, Asia, and Latin America, disseminates pro-Beijing disinformation and ad hominem attacks within much larger volumes of commercial press releases. We name this campaign PAPERWALL. We attribute the PAPERWALL campaign to Shenzhen Haimaiyunxiang Media Co., Ltd., aka Haimai, a PR firm in China based on digital infrastructure linkages between the firm’s official website and the network. These findings confirm the increasingly important role private firms play in the realm of digital influence operations and the propensity of the Chinese government to make use of them.

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IPv4 address rentals to mint millions of dollars for AWS (www.theregister.com)
 

AWS could rake in between $400 million and $1 billion a year from charging customers for public IPv4 addresses while migration to IPv6 remains slow.

AWS cited increasing scarcity and claimed the cost to acquire a single public IPv4 address for customer use had risen more than 300 percent over the past few years.

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Over 2 percent of the US’s electricity generation now goes to bitcoin (arstechnica.com)
 

US government tracking the energy implications of booming bitcoin mining in US.

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Why 404 Media Needs Your Email Address (www.404media.co)
 

AI stealing our work. The collapse of social networks. The need to pay journalists to produce impactful journalism. Here is why we are asking for your email address to read 404 Media.

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Apple Vision Pro review: magic, until it’s not (www.theverge.com)
 

The Apple Vision Pro is supposed to be the start of a new spatial computing revolution. After several days of testing, it’s clear that it’s the best headset ever made — which is the problem.

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It turns out NASA’s Mars helicopter was much more revolutionary than we knew (arstechnica.com)
 

Ingenuity packed more computing power than all other NASA deep space missions combined.

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Apple says UK could 'secretly veto' global privacy tools (www.bbc.co.uk)
 

A law change to let the government block new features would be an "unprecedented overreach," it says.

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Google Update Reveals AI Will Read All Your Private Messages (www.forbes.com)
 

New warning as AI suddenly targets billions of private messages on smartphones…

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