technology

tl;dr (copied from the abstract): “Here, a generic effect for continuous energy harvesting from air humidity is reported, […]. The common feature of these materials is that they are engineered with appropriate nanopores to allow air water to pass through and undergo dynamic adsorption–desorption exchange at the porous...

Strap in for the spam-pocolypse. The age of AI garbage fighting AI garbage is at hand and search engines will be one of the most obvious casualties.

I’ve been on the Fediverse since 2016, and I still get a little mixed up by how things work.

cross-posted from: lemmy.one/post/197223...

In my opinion, there are two big things holding Lemmy back right now:...

Seventy-seven percent of middle-age Americans (35-54 years old) say they want to return to a time before society was “plugged in,” meaning a time before there was widespread internet and cell phone usage. As told by a new Harris Poll (via Fast Company), 63% of younger folks (18-34 years old) were also keen on returning to a...

There is no predictive value in saying ‘that doesn’t work’ or ‘that looks like a toy’, and there is no predictive value in saying ‘people always say that’. As Pauli put it, statements like this are ‘not even wrong’ - they give no insight into what will happen....

Imho a decision that doesn’t make sense, Google already has paid for all the infrastructure so running the service to them is pure profit, not to mention the lost possibility to upsell Google workspace (paid gmail with a custom domain) or Google cloud services to all their customers....

Twitter owner Elon Musk may have had an influence on Reddit’s CEO ahead of changes to the website that have resulted in a user-led rebellion on the platform....

Finally after so many years the “never combine labels” setting is back and i can uninstall explorerpatcher

Huffman said in an interview that he plans to institute rules changes that would allow Reddit users to vote out moderators who have overseen the protest, comparing them to a “landed gentry.”

This is something that keeps me worried at night. Unlike other historical artefacts like pottery, vellum writing, or stone tablets, information on the Internet can just blink into nonexistence when the server hosting it goes offline. This makes it difficult for future anthropologists who want to study our history and document...

Likewise, you can send encrypted messages to contacts who are offline, and the messages will be delivered automatically when your contacts come online.

Reddit has a form where you can request a copy of your data. The process can take up to 30 days, after which you will get a private message on your Reddit account with a download link. The data comes in the form of CSV files that you can open using Microsoft Excel or any text editor....

I think this means we will eventually see a fully open source Coreboot/Libreboot soon. Someone correct me if I am wrong please!...

cross-posted from: lemmy.ml/post/1249875...

cross-posted from: lemmy.world/post/76020...