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  • Device that can extract 1,000 liters of clean water a day from desert air revealed by 2025 Nobel Prize winner

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  • Nobody is deploying these at scale to harvest water to sell, it's way too expensive. Probably even more so than desalination.

    These kinds of devices would be useful in areas where they didn't have access to preexisting infrastructure. There the comparison would be between operating one of these devices or air lifting water in by helicopter. The fact that it's expensive isn't as much a concern when the alternative is to pay for airlift delivery.

  • AI tool OpenClaw wipes the inbox of Meta's AI Alignment director despite repeated commands to stop — executive had to manually terminate the AI to stop the bot from continuing to erase data

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  • I'd say a good half of the support tickets I've dealt with (when I dealt with end-users) was some form of "It breaks randomly".

    I mean, to be fair to them, I don't understand their area of expertise either lol

  • Decisions, decisions...

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  • Mutual Funds: We sell Bliss*

    *manufactured from the finest ignorance

  • Fuck Github, Microsoft has made it impossible to create an account without linking to hardware or phones

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  • It's probably being A/B tested and you're not in the test group yet.

    Or, alternatively, OP is from an area that's been designated as having an increased risk of fake accounts and these extra measures are being deployed selectively.

  • Device that can extract 1,000 liters of clean water a day from desert air revealed by 2025 Nobel Prize winner

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  • As someone who has thought about it, could you provide the data that you used to come to the conclusion that the amount of water being extracted from the air has any appreciable effect on local life?

    From my thinking...

    Death Valley covers 7800km^2.. Atmospheric moisture is typically contained in the first 10km of air. So there is somewhere around 2.5 quadrillion cubic feet of air containing 114 billion gallons of water.

    The average Atmospheric Water Vapour Residence Time is around 8 days The median is 5 days and Death Valley's topography is a valley which would trap more moisture, but we'll use the average instead.

    This represents a moisture turnover rate of about 625,000 Liters/second (or 1.45x10^10 gallons/day).

    So, one of these devices would consume .000185% of the moisture that enters Death Valley every day.

  • Fuck Github, Microsoft has made it impossible to create an account without linking to hardware or phones

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  • It feels like people are just punching themselves in the face.

    Yes, Microsoft has taken over a lot of projects which made coding easy. So either you submit to Microsoft's control or you spend the time to learn to use the alternatives.

    Emacs is basically older than computers, stable and has a huge amount of support and plug-ins. Nvim is newer, but vi/vim have existed since before electrons learned to jump bandgaps and has a similarly deep level of community expertise/support.

    If you're just starting off, your school is likely deep in Micrsoft's sphere of influence so you probably learned VS Code/Visual Studio. Moving to Emacs or Nvim is much harder than it would be if you had learned them in the first place, but believe me (a random stranger on the Internet wouldn't lie to you!) it is worth the time to learn.

  • Fuck Github, Microsoft has made it impossible to create an account without linking to hardware or phones

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  • Git is a version control system, not an issue tracker.

    If you want issue tracking then you can use a system like forgejo or if you don't want to self-host and are okay with risking creating a new centralized service which will eventually betray everything they stood for, you can use Codeberg.org (which is just a forgejo instance).

  • AI tool OpenClaw wipes the inbox of Meta's AI Alignment director despite repeated commands to stop — executive had to manually terminate the AI to stop the bot from continuing to erase data

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  • Every computer program may as well be a nondeterministic system from the user's point of view. Users, typically, interact with every computer program as if it were a black box that may as well be run by faeries and magic dust.

    My point was that if you run 100 LLMs in parallel and give them the same input they will produce the same output. The randomness is something added after the LLM's output, it isn't something inherent to neural networks.

  • iPhone and iPad approved to handle classified NATO information

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  • Another fun one is ex-Intelligence agents leaving government work to go into the private sector and create unconstitutional spying powers and obtain information which would be illegal for the government to obtain, which they then sell to the government.

  • I know about pacman, no need to say it a dozen times.

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  • For useless... twisting... of our new technology

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  • Twitch: "Hey, come back! This commercial break can't play while you're away."

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  • I know about pacman, no need to say it a dozen times.

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  • You take that back

  • For useless... twisting... of our new technology

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  • That would depend on the notification application that you're using.

    Give me any details that you can think of. Software version, things you've tried, etc. I'll look into it after work

    Do sounds work sometimes and then stop or is it that they're playing but the output is set to muted by default?

  • I know about pacman, no need to say it a dozen times.

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  • 10 pacman

    20 GOTO 10

  • I know about pacman, no need to say it a dozen times.

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  • Can't install Package A because Package B depends on it. Can't upgrade Package B because it requires the new version of Package A.

    -Rdd

  • For useless... twisting... of our new technology

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  • there is some crackling with plenty of forum posts explaining how to fix these things going back to 2005 that are no longer relevant because the sound uses something with a different name now.

    This is almost always because your pipewire buffers are too small (because of the defaults erring on the side of low latency) and so when the CPU is busy the buffers empty and you get some crackling. Use pw-top to see all of your devices and sources, next to the devices you should see a number in the QUANT column. Chances are that this is really low (or 1)

    You can change your minimum buffer (pipewire calculates this by setting a 'quantum'), temporarily with :

     
            pw-metadata -n settings 0 clock.min-quantum 512

    You can edit /etc/pipewire/pipewire.conf and add a line under the [clocks] section:

     
            default.clock.min-quantum = 512

    Restart pipewire for the setting to take effect:

     
            systemctl --user restart pipewire

    (If your sound ever just dies for no reason, restarting pipewire is often all you need to do)

    Use the temporary setting to increase the number. Lower number means a shorter buffer so, you get less audio latency in exchange for the risk of the buffer emptying. I don't have much problem with 256, but sometimes Proton adds some extra CPU overhead and I'll bump it up to 512.

  • Microsoft's planned new AI trick for Edge will 'automatically open the Copilot side pane' with Outlook email links — and I can feel the hate already

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  • Windows users, I hope you guys know that you have our support in these trying times. I'm wearing a ribbon and everything.

    Microsoft only beats you because they love you

  • "The Internet Was Weeks Away From Disaster and No One Knew" - Veritasium

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  • The conspiracy is that the investment in this specific case requires or invites enshittification.

    It's a non sequitor, it does not follow.

    Someone can come up with a story (a conspiracy) where it COULD be true and that story could fit the popular memes about capitalism... but that is not evidence. It's just a story, fanfiction, words on the Internet unsupported by reality.

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