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@ DFX4509B @lemmy.wtf

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So, this is the place where I'm going to be generally hanging out and trolling around, while my Pixelfed, Mastodon, and Blacksky accounts are going to be primarily art posting accounts, and I also have a Nooki account.

I'm also going to start to be active more on here than on lemmy.org, so I'm making this my primary Lemmy account now.

I'll link the other socials I'm varying levels of active on below, plus my lemmy.org account which I'm demoting to my secondary account if that instance is going to be more unstable from now on.

  • a fediverse pinterest like app?

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  • Misskey seems like it might be a viable alternative if only their server list wasn't under maintenance.

  • Outside of politics, have you ever had a position on something that you have doubled down on and refused to move an inch on to the point of upsetting someone? Were you right?

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  • You want a scenario of 'what if Theranos was actually successful and Elizabeth Holmes didn't get busted?' That's GenAI in a nutshell.

  • Outside of politics, have you ever had a position on something that you have doubled down on and refused to move an inch on to the point of upsetting someone? Were you right?

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  • I believe that GenAI is a scam that should've been treated and criminalized/prosecuted like one long before it got to the point of destructiveness that it's currently at and I'll die on that hill.

  • How come residential power lines aren't buried underground still?

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  • AC lines would get large capacitance losses being buried vs. overhead. ElectroBOOM explains why in his vid about high-voltage DC lines starting at this point in the vid.

    Granted this is at high voltages in the five-digit range and beyond, and I'm not sure how much that would matter at 240V split-phase that homes typically get in North America*, but that's a technical reason why power lines are still overhead regardless; it's more efficient and with less capacitance losses to have overhead power lines spaced far apart than to bury them.

    *Yes, really, I meant what I said, North American homes still get 240V, but it's split down the middle; 120V circuits for things like lighting and such, and normal devices that you plug into a NEMA-5 outlet such as portable space heaters, use a single hot line and a neutral line while 240V circuits for high-powered appliances like clothes dryers, ovens, HVAC systems, and things of that nature, use both hot lines, and optionally neutral in addition for things in, say, an oven or a dryer that only need 120V such as lighting, while the heating elements need 240V in those applications.

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  • New York Startup Builds Fridge-Sized Machine That Can Turn Air Into Gasoline

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  • Another device of the type that Thunderf00t used to 'bust.'

  • Dark-eyed junco looking for seeds in the snow

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  • Aww.

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    It's Stalinist to want walkable cities with fewer cars, apparently 🤦

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  • It's Stalinist to want to cut down on car dependency and actually have a livable place.

    • Say the NIMBYs.

    Really, the one thing we need to do is reduce car dependency to where you don't have to drive everywhere, and make it to where driving is completely optional at the very least.

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  • Microsoft Paint can now make AI coloring books | Is anyone actually asking for this?

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  • -sigh- Richard Scarry's rolling in his grave.

  • Google won’t stop replacing our news headlines with terrible AI | It now says AI headlines are a ‘feature,’ not an experiment.

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  • Although it's not like one can't just move to an alternative assuming they can take their audience with them or their audience isn't too big to lose, before Google snuffs them out in favor of AI slop.

  • Google won’t stop replacing our news headlines with terrible AI | It now says AI headlines are a ‘feature,’ not an experiment.

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  • Next step: YT starts phasing out human creators in favor of Google's homegrown AI slop.

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    Experts warn of threat to democracy by ‘AI bot swarms’ infesting social media

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  • Even the Fediverse sadly isn't entirely safe from AI bots as they've been messing with Lemmy for a while now.

  • YSK: A real American Civil war will NOT be like Battlefield or COD.

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  • A Civil War II will probably end up at best leading to a Mad Max scenario or at worst, a Fallout scenario.

  • YSK the four rules of firearm safety

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  • Holmatro does as well, specifically with that injury being simulated using a ballistic gel arm with fake bones in it, at 750 bar/10.4k psi. The oil from that simulated 10.4k psi leak blew right through that fake hand.

    I kinda don't wanna imagine how terrible that would be to happen to someone in the real world if they touched an actual leaky hose at those pressures in the field. Also...

    ....you just had a bunch of hydraulic fluid shot into your bloodstream, which will create an oil embolism and kill you.

    • Or, you'll lose a limb from infection, degloving (literally losing your skin) is also a thing from stuff like this, again, due to infection, this sorta thing is horrible to happen to a person.

  • YSK the four rules of firearm safety

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  • Basically, if pressure from a stream of liquid is high enough, 100psi/6.8bar is enough to hurt a person, it'll break your skin and there's your injection; this is why for, say, anyone working in the diesel mech field, for example, never touching a leaking fuel line is rule #1 because of the immense pressures those are typically under, which will result in a hydraulic injection injury if ever touched, basically as Bytemeister already pointed out.

    Industrial paint guns or grease guns also operate under high enough pressures to cause an injection injury.

  • Dave Jones is rightfully tearing an AI slop peddler a new one.

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  • Blockchain is basically another means of decentralization, albeit different from PeerTube and the rest of the Fediverse.

  • Dave Jones is rightfully tearing an AI slop peddler a new one.

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  • Basically it's a freer YT alternative, it's also decentralized in the back-end as it's blockchain-based, which might understandably turn some people off, but they're still better than YT for now.

    PeerTube is preferable though as it's fully decentralized and not just on the back-end, and self-hostable, using ActivityPub and WebRTC to function on.

    As for Odysee, to directly quote them on what their platform is:

    Odysee is a blockchain-based media platform. We host all kinds of media such as images, articles, PDFs, audio files, etc., but we're best known for hosting videos.

    Odysee seeks to recapture the spirit of the early 2000s era internet. Rather than favouring corporate content such as late night talk shows, network television, and TV news, Odysee is a place for everyone, including independent creators.

    Referring to Odysee as "blockchain-based" isn't just sloganeering. All content on Odysee is hosted on blockchain technology, which Odysee then pulls from. For those interested in blockchain, this is really cool. For those who don't know a thing about blockchain, that's totally fine because Odysee requires zero blockchain knowledge to use.

  • YSK the four rules of firearm safety

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  • Also, couldn't most of this also apply to things like industrial paint guns or grease guns given the very real possibility for a horrible death by high-pressure injection with those?