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[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 week ago

... and the people involved were arrested

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago

Lemmy is still relatively new, and you grow the audience you nurture.

A lack of moderation means that racists, bigots, general assholes, etc, will find an easier time settling on this platform.
And I'll be honest, if that would be where Lemmy is headed I'm not sticking around to see it turn into that cesspool

I'm personally quite happy with the level of moderation I'm seeing on lemmy.world. It's not overly heavy handed, but it seems to generally be applied where it makes sense to apply. Essentially the "don't be a dick" rules of the forum days of old.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (2 children)

I'm assuming he is talking about the biker gang episode, in which case he is probably talking about the F-word (meaning the slur against gay people).
Personally, I think having a filter against slurs is not unreasonable

[–] [email protected] 38 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

I like to think that these videos are the only thing keeping Patrick Boyle sane from his career in finance.

His channel is great. I love his dry sense of humour.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (2 children)

People who have a more in-the-middle opinion generally don't talk about AI a lot. People with the most extreme opinions on something tend to be the most vocal about them.

Personally I think it's a neat technology, and there probably exist use-cases where it will work decently well. I don't think it'll be able to do everything and anything that the AI companies are promising right now, but there are certainly some tasks where an AI tool could help increase efficiency.
There are also issues with the way the companies behind the Large Language Models are sourcing their training data, but that is not an inherent issue of the technology. It's more an issue with incorrectly licensing the material.

I'm just curious to see where it all goes.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 weeks ago

Discord and Whatsapp
I'd love to use Signal, but virtually noone in my sphere uses it.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago

The Houthis are funded by Iran, get their weapons provided by Iran, and Iran provides them with targeting information.
You'd really have to warp the definition of proxy in order not to consider them a proxy to Iran (even if they are a bit of an unpredictable factor)

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Looks like a low effort troll to me.
Don't take the bait

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

But someone still needs to pay for that storage investment (as well as for maintaining the grid), and if noone (or nearly noone) is paying for their power then there is no money to invest in these things

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago (5 children)

Correct, but that also comes to the main reason why paying people for roof solar isn't sustainable in the long term.

As solar panels keeps getting cheaper, more and more people will put solar on their roof. Since they get paid / reimbursed for feeding power back into the grid. And they don't need a battery because they can just draw from the grid. This causes two problems:

  • During the day far more power is produced than needed, since everyone has solar on the roofs
  • During the night there is a lot of power draw from the grid, which cannot come from all the available roof solar.

Paying people for their roof solar is a good strategy short-term, but as more and more people have solar on the roof you cannot really keep doing that.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Where in Europe is this? Europe isn't a monolith, after all.
Here in the Netherlands we (currently) still have the "salderingsregeling" which is used to reimburse people for the solar they feed back into the grid, though that will eventually go away.

Paying people for solar on the roof is a bit tricky in general, and probably not sustainable long term:

  • The money to maintain the grid has to come from somewhere, and if a lot of people have a bill of zero euros or a negative amount, that system kind of breaks down.
  • The grid has a maximum capacity (especially in residential neighbourhoods) so you cannot pump an infinite amount of power back into the grid. If many houses in a neighbourhood have solar the grid simply cannot cope.
[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

My read on this is not as much of a cynical one. I believe the point of surveillance is simply to protect the institution of the state.

The goal of the state is ultimately the continued existence of that state. Otherwise there really is not that much purpose to the state. Surveillance is a tool to suppress actors (read: terrorists) who might want to undermine that institution.

In order to determine who benefits from the continued existence of the state, it mostly depends which state you are talking about.
A state like China exists almost solely to benefit those in power, and thus the surveillance state is used to suppress the citizenry. But a Western democracy, while it also to a certain extent protects money and power, also exists to to benefit the general population.

 

Patch notes:
https://forum.paradoxplaza.com/forum/threads/detailers-patch-1-patch-1-1-6f1.1693090/

Video by Biffa:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IVh-TtPOJQA

New content:

  • Zoneable Roundabouts
    • 8 New Roundabout Decorations
  • Age Selector Added To The Tree Placement Tool
  • Surface Tool
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    • 2 Grass Surfaces
    • 2 Pavement Surfaces
    • 2 Sand Surfaces
    • 3 Tile Surfaces
  • 27 New Service Building Variations
    • New Small Water Tower
    • New Small Medical Clinic
    • New Urban Fire Station
    • 4 New Education Buildings
    • 2 New Police Stations
    • New Small Post Office
    • 6 New Public Transportation Buildings
    • 5 New City Parks
    • 6 New Parking Lots
  • 4 New Vehicles
    • New North American Garbage Truck
    • New North American Snowplow
    • New North American Passenger Train
    • New European Cargo Train Engine
 

Don't take this joke too seriously. It's just a little thing I thought of making after seeing the picture used by the NOS in this article about Tata Steel emissions:

https://nos.nl/artikel/2491434-hoe-de-zorgen-en-het-wantrouwen-rond-tata-steel-door-de-jaren-heen-groeiden

 

With Reddit closing API access to 3rd party apps, I thought this'd be a good time to cross-post some of my older Reddit posts.

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