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tb_ , 1 hour ago to android in The Google Play Store is becoming more personalized with local recommendations

Have an ad instead

tb_ , 1 day ago to technology in Phish-Friendly Domain Registry “.top” Put on Notice.

In the US it tends to be the other way around 🥁

tb_ , 1 day ago to technology in Bing has been revamped to prioritize AI search results – whether you like it or not

So do most “alternative” search engines, often with some of their own spice on top.

I know Startpage happens to use Google in their back-end, but Google’s policy is a lot more restrictive than Microsoft’s given their market position.

tb_ , 1 day ago to technology in Forget security – Google's reCAPTCHA v2 is exploiting users for profit | Web puzzles don't protect against bots, but humans have spent 819 million unpaid hours solving them

I thought captcha’s worked in a way where they provided some known good examples, some known bad examples, and a few examples which aren’t certain yet. Then the model is trained depending on whether the user selects the uncertain examples.

Also it’s very evident what’s being trained. First it was obscured words for OCR, then Google Maps screenshots for detecting things, now you see them with clearly machine-generated images.

tb_ , 2 days ago to world in ‘Drill, baby, drill’: America’s fossil fuel boom risks bust in Europe

I don’t think 100% renewable is the way to go, given that energy output can vary.

And as long as any amount of fossil fuels are left in the energy supply chain, I’d rather they be replaced with nuclear. Even if it’s more expensive.

I’m not making the decision so it doesn’t matter.

Perhaps not directly, but assuming you live in a democracy your vote does matter.

tb_ , 2 days ago to world in ‘Drill, baby, drill’: America’s fossil fuel boom risks bust in Europe

It may not reduce the delta, but we gotta cover the base load somehow. Nuclear is ideal for that job.

tb_ , 3 days ago to technology in Google's Gemini AI caught scanning Google Drive hosted PDF files without permission — user complains feature can't be disabled

I’unno, read the article.

tb_ , 3 days ago to world in ‘Drill, baby, drill’: America’s fossil fuel boom risks bust in Europe

Nuclear doesn’t reduce the difference between supply and demand.

How does it not?
There’s a certain “base load” to any power grid which could easily be done by “inflexible” nuclear powerplants.

Sodium doesn’t address the problem with EV weight.

Inefficiency is fine if you have an abundance of energy.

Running a country exclusively on renewables comes with its own costs in storage and emergency solutions.
I’m not saying “go exclusively nuclear” either. Supplementing it with renewables should be done.

tb_ , 4 days ago to news in 'It's Gonna Take a Civil War': Trump Campaign Speaker Warns of Violence if Dems Win

2024, you mean?

tb_ , 4 days ago to technology in New youtube layout?

I’m not a fan. I prefer watching in theatre mode; when opening comments it closes theatre mode.

tb_ , 4 days ago to world in ‘Drill, baby, drill’: America’s fossil fuel boom risks bust in Europe

Going 100% renewable is going to require an immense amount of storage, nevermind their instability. Any base load we can replace with nuclear is going to lessen that burden.

EV’s are heavy and require a ton of rare Lithium.

Using over capacity to generate hydrogen seems to me like a way to solve that. Hydrogen which in turn can be used to power cars, trucks, ships.

I don’t see how nuclear would slow the transition away from oil and gas.

tb_ , 5 days ago to world in ‘Drill, baby, drill’: America’s fossil fuel boom risks bust in Europe

Sorry, I was replying to a comment about offshore wind in the EU.

Supposedly you’d set up some proper regulations, implement checks and balances but given the current US business and political climate; good question.

tb_ , 5 days ago (edited 5 days ago) to world in ‘Drill, baby, drill’: America’s fossil fuel boom risks bust in Europe

They have no upsides

Except the lack of greenhouse gas emissions, once up and running.

If we actually started developing them on any sort of scale most of those negatives you mention will be negated.
Flexibility, as in the inability to quickly ramp down, can be solved with storage or with generating hydrogen.

tb_ , 5 days ago to world in ‘Drill, baby, drill’: America’s fossil fuel boom risks bust in Europe

We need more nuclear reactors

tb_ , 6 days ago to world in Bella Hadid's Adidas advert dropped after Israeli criticism

Or “donations”, “sponsorships”, and similar.