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  • Ars Technica content is now available in OpenAI services

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  • Damnit! I still like and respect the Ars Technica staff but Condé Nast can piss off.

    I feel for you KingThrillgore. I was thinking of supporting the site with a subscription but not after this. Still if enough people stop subscribing we may loose them altogether. This is a double edged shit sword.

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    Disney Seeking Dismissal of Raglan Road Death Lawsuit Because Victim Was Disney+ Subscriber

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  • This is atrocious. Coincidentally Disney is planing to open a park themed with villains. Seems like they can save time and money by renaming the whole place Villain's World.

    I've been a few times in my younger years but have zero desire as an adult. Sure they have some nice rides and attractions but the Disney culture is a huge turnoff to me, as are the very high prices of everything there. If I were to take a vacation that costs similar I'm off to a national park or maybe international travel. I prefer real culture over fantasy land.

  • Reddit CEO teases AI search features and paid subreddits

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  • The Lounge is where you were given access. That subreddit was ok on its own but really it was a good place to hang out, be friendly and helpful which sometimes resulted in being invited to other private sections of Reddit.

    Some of those private subs have a true sense of community who are truly kind, respect each other and fun to interact with. Before the awards went away there were many games with prizes and multi-day parties with lots of engagement and fun. Not anything like the regular Reddit.

    Those places still exist but activity has declined since most third party apps and the awards/coin system were taken away. That decision not only damaged the public Reddit subs but also the private ones.

  • JPEG is Dying - And that's a bad thing | 2kliksphilip

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  • "In the year two thouuusaaaaaannd, in the year two thouuusaaaaaannd"

  • Pixelfed groups are finally here!

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  • People in San Francisco Are Mad That a New App Lets You Spy on Bars to See How Busy They Are

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  • I’m not one to praise Google often but I think their Popular Times feature can be handy to see how busy a place might be. This live feed video stuff is way over the top and invasive.

  • I banned my daughter from using the iPhone she bought. It made her a better person | Em Rio

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  • The child from the article got the phone in sixth grade. If she bought a large bag of candy with her own money is it right to let her eat as much as she wants without boundaries?

    Setting healthy boundaries and discipline at a young age is a good move. From how she was behaving with the phone I would have done the same.

  • I banned my daughter from using the iPhone she bought. It made her a better person | Em Rio

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  • Yes, PixelFed is awesome! Currently in TestFlight but will be available in App and Play Stores by the end of the month.

  • Oh no. This buddy just heard about the Plumber Brothers and what they've been doing for the past 40+ years.

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  • Those darn Koopas! No wax seal under the toilet and all out of paper.

  • What are some cool profiles to follow on Pixelfed?

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  • That’s a good one, thanks!

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    Key misinformation “superspreaders” on Twitter: Older women

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  • TRUMP GUILTY ON ALL 34 COUNTS

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  • And watch me break 'em with the 7, 7-11, 7-11, 7, even back do’ lil joe.

    Folks…

    Today was a good day.

  • Good morning!

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  • This is amazing! Good morning. 👋😄

  • McDonald’s stores hit by global IT failure

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  • Robble robble!

  • Are there any genuine benefits to AI?

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  • One of the better uses I’ve heard of is in search and rescue type situations. Using AI to find specific items, people or anomalies on a map or video feed can be helpful.

    An example regarding wildfires:

    California turns to AI to help spot wildfires

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  • Here’s a list from a Best Buy search. Even if you prefer to shop elsewhere it gives a list of several pink headphones and earbuds.

    Pink headphones

    If she does any gaming Astro (owned by Logitech) used to have pink versions of some headsets.

  • Elon Musk's X gets another valuation cut from Fidelity

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  • Happy first cake day!

  • Philips Hue will force users to upload their data to Hue cloud

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  • I’m not going to create an account. What I will be doing is looking for an alternative setup that is simple and completely local or just go back to traditional led bulbs.

    This is easy for me with just one room using Hue. I feel for those who have them for all or most lighting around their home.

  • This Radical New Metal from Outer Space Could Transform Everything—from Electric Vehicles to Nuclear Submarines

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  • I don’t think it’s misleading. Tetrataenite is made up of known, common, metals but the method to produce the same exact product as found from space has not been done yet.

    If it’s accomplished then the US, and in turn rest of the world, can stop relying on China for rare earth metals. This new alloy can replace the magnetic rare earth material the world needs and if it happens will be a big step forward from relying on a sole country that’s readying to slow or possibly stop supplying in the coming years.

    Also, creating this alloy would be cleaner and more environmentally friendly than current mining in Mongolia that’s poisoning the land.

    Quoting from the article:

    “Tetrataenite can mitigate those issues. Its base metals, iron and nickel, are two of the most abundant metals on earth. They’re the standard elements in stainless steel, for example. Both are cheaper and easier to extract from the earth than rare earths, with less severe environmental repercussions.

    Tetrataenite might also allow producers to bypass a crucial processing stage required to purify the metals after they’re separated from other minerals at the mine. That step is done almost entirely in China, which controls 87 percent of worldwide rare-earth processing. China so dominates the mining and processing of rare earths that in 2018, the U.S. Congress ordered the Pentagon to stop purchasing neodymium magnets made in China. Last year, several U.S. senators proposed further legislation that would prevent any defense contractors from sourcing any rare earths from China by 2026.

    If we are in a confrontation with Beijing, they can stop the supply,” says the Atlantic Council’s Ariel Cohen, who notes that the U.S. currently imports 95 percent of its rare-earth compounds and magnets. “The whole supply chain has to be beefed up in the U.S.,” he says. “So if overall the process [for tetrataenite] is economical and safer or environmentally better, then why not?”

    Underscoring the stakes, the U.S. Department of Defense gave Mountain Pass a $35 million grant in 2022 so that it could begin processing rare earths in California, bypassing China completely. That’s in addition to $9.6 million the Pentagon provided in 2020 to bolster the mine’s output. MP Materials is also constructing a manufacturing facility in Fort Worth, Texas, that it says will churn out enough permanent magnets laden with rare earths by 2025 to power 500,000 electric vehicle motors—a quantity that could power every new electric vehicle bought in the country.

    One of their biggest obstacles is finding a way to deal with temperatures. At temperatures above several hundred degrees, iron and nickel atoms like to move around. (This is what lent meteoric iron its malleability, making it popular among earlier societies and dagger-wielding Egyptian pharaohs.) But as alloys of iron and nickel cool down, the atoms inside become less mobile, and therefore less likely to arrange themselves into the tetragonal structure that creates magnetic tetrataenite. Manufacturing the material on a large scale will require researchers to dramatically speed up how atoms of iron and nickel arrange themselves into that stable tetragonal structure and remain locked in place as the metals cool to ambient temperatures.

    That’s only half the challenge. Permanent magnets made of rare earths must withstand high temperatures, sometimes above 300 degrees Fahrenheit in electric-vehicle motors, for instance. But heating tetrataenite to those levels breaks down the bonds between atoms, collapsing the tetragonal structure that gives the material its impressive magnetic properties.

    The real challenge is not in making the tetragonal or getting the atoms arranged the way you want them, but keeping them in that state while you go about working in the real world,” Lograsso says.“