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Pons_Aelius

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  • YouTube is slowing down for users with ad blockers in new wave

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  • A new wave of slowdowns is hitting users, with the only resolutions being disabling the ad blocker or upgrading to premium.

    Or just switching to ublock origin.

    Or just switching to newpipe.

    Or just switching to freetube.

    etc

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  • A tiny radioactive battery could keep your future phone running for 50 years

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  • the device is practically unusable after that, even if it’s still working.

    Not if you can change the battery...

    I am having to retire my 7 year old S5, which still works perfectly, because 3G networks are being switched off in a couple of months.

  • A tiny radioactive battery could keep your future phone running for 50 years

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  • That could is doing a lot of heavy lifting in that headline.

    Also, we can barely get OEMs to support phones for 5 years now...

  • NASA, Lockheed Martin Reveal X-59 Quiet Supersonic Aircraft

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  • I agree. But sadly, a lot of progress is driven buy conflict as well.

    Unless a nation is under an existential threat there is little motivation to invest in progress.

  • Female saboteurs who poisoned 46 Russian soldiers in Crimea are on the run after shoot-out with police, say reports

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  • The police went to apprehend the female suspects at a private house in Yalta but were surprised to find them "well armed" and "well prepared," the post said.

    You are surprised that two resistance fighters who risked their lives to kill the invaders were prepared for shit to get hot?...

  • NASA, Lockheed Martin Reveal X-59 Quiet Supersonic Aircraft

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  • and even order a pizza to their door on the telephone.

    While living on the moon. (50s futurists aimed high.)

  • George Carlin AI comedy special is 'ghoulish' and 'creepy,' his daughter says

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  • Carlin-McCall said the channel never reached out to the family or asked for permission to use her father’s likeness.

    Welcome to the world of posthumous digital slavery!

    When a person dies, anyone can do what ever they want with their image and life's work.

  • Elon Musk's X claims it's now a 'video-first platform' as it tries to reverse an advertiser exodus that has cost it billions in value

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  • Should get Vin as the spokesman and call it xXxvideo.

  • Honda debuts new global EV series, Honda Zero, coming in 2026

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  • As a resto mod? Possibly.

    As a modern EV? Never.

  • Denmark’s Crown Princess Mary to become first Australian-born Queen

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  • No one really cares about the semantics of royalty.

  • Lemmy, what are some of your "oh shit" work stories?

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  • I spent a decade working in insolvency.

    When we were going into a business that had failed the question was "Are the idiots, criminals or both?"

    One highlight:

    A boat sales / marine business goes bust. When we arrive with the paper work and seize the place there are about a dozen new boats on the lot worth several million. We change the locks on the gates.

    Arrive the next day, the gates have been busted open and several million in boats are now missing. We look up the addresses of the owners (one of them lives on acreage) and drive to their property...from the road we can see the boats stashed there. Really smart guys.

    So we call the police. Someone inside notices use there and decides to flee with one of the boats, it is huge but they think they can get away.

    We then have the slowest car chase in history as we calmly follow this guy towing a boat on a trailer down the road while talking to the cops to meet us.

  • Wind and solar pose climate threat too, oil giant Saudi Arabia argues

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  • Cut the tress and place in abandoned mine.

    Carbon removed from cycle and it works now.

  • Wind and solar pose climate threat too, oil giant Saudi Arabia argues

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  • And we should be putting more resources into development of direct CO2 capture.

    We already have working systems for that, they are called trees and phytoplankton.

  • Redditor finds heavy block of iron shavings inside cheap PSU, also appears to lack safety protections

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  • To quote Boris the Blade: Heavy is good, heavy is reliable.

  • Tesla loses legal action in Sweden as dispute with Nordic unions escalates

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  • “I disagree with the idea of unions. I just don’t like anything which creates a lords-and-peasants kind of thing.”

    Tweet sent from private plane.

  • Firearm suicides reached "unprecedented" high in 2022, CDC data shows

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  • X advertisers stay away as CEO defends Musk’s “go f*** yourself” interview

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  • Person hired as meat puppet mouth piece for owner continues to defend owner.

    Details at 11.

  • Elon’s Edsel? The Tesla Cybertruck went on sale today

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  • The only thing this will be good for is when they do a Back to The Future reboot in 10 years time...

  • 4 futuristic things the Humane Ai Pin can do as a smartphone alternative

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  • as AR glasses become a mainstream reality like it or not.

    Just like the segway was going to change the way we build cities?

    Or how cryptocurrencies will replace national fiat money?

    Or how google glasses have already become a mainstream reality?

    Or how everyone will watch TV in 3D all the time?

    Or how everyone will play games in VR?

    Just because a technology is possible it does not mean it will become ubiquitous.