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  • 'No place in our homes' | Hydrogen blends leak twice as much in household cookers compared to gas: report | leakage rate is likely to wipe out any climate benefits of using H2 in the first place

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  • hydrogen blends [...] compared to gas

    I get the jitters reading that. They're both gases. Is it so hard to write "methane"?

  • ‘Wake-up call’: pipeline leak exposes carbon capture safety gaps, advocates say | Estimated 2,548 barrels of carbon dioxide leaked from Exxon pipeline in Louisiana on 3 April

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  • Yeah, but you can run the liquefaction on solar, or better yet, excess fossil gas that you'd otherwise have to flare.

    On the other hand, how else is this supposed to work? Afaik, the stored CO2 is pressurized too.

  • How many reCAPTCHAs did you solve today ?

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  • With these types of Captchas, I always wonder whether I need to click on e.g. square C2 that has a tiny bit of the seat padding on it.

  • Stand up for nature — Write to your MEPs before they vote on the Common Agricultural Policy reform, so they prioritize our future rather than short-term profits

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  • As a farmer: yes, but also no farmers no food.

    Farmers are heavily dependent on environmental conditions to produce anything. Destroying nature in the process of farming means in the medium term your killing your own profession.

    And how is this relevant now? This cap has just started and it is like 5 years until the next one.

    It's relevant because a CAP reform package is being voted upon next week:

    Last week, the European parliament voted overwhelmingly in favour of following ‘urgent procedure’ to speed up the package scrapping the green in the CAP. (Note that among our MEPs, Giorgos Georgiou at least voted against this motion, while Eleni Stavrou and Demetris Papadakis voted for). Following ‘urgent procedure’ for a proposal of this magnitude and impact is deeply questionable on democratic grounds. Add to this the fact that the reform was developed following an ad-hoc consultation process that lasted no more than one week (!) and involved only four big EU farming organisations – two of which were against the deregulation (!) – and a worrying precedent is being set.

    The European parliament is expected to vote on the package before the end of April. If approved by MEPs, the ‘removal the green’ gets formally adopted by the European Council, signed by the representatives of the council and the European parliament and published in the Official Journal. If all goes to plan, the ‘deregulation’ will enter into force before the end of Spring…

    (Emphasis mine, source)

  • What do you think will happen if we don't pass the aid for Ukraine?

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  • I guess it's an appropriate name if the file collects the URLs of sites that trick you into installing malware.

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  • .db is usually short for "database". I'd suspect this file is part of an anti-virus tool or similar. Where did you find the file? Edit: phishingurl indicates that it's part of some URL checking functionality of a browser. Not sure which browser puts that straight into .local/share though. Might be a KDE thing.

    Edit 2: Qkall's answer says it's KMail.

  • Learning about the political world

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  • Wikipedia is probably a reasonably good starting point to learn. Just start at your own country's page, read the Politics section and click through to the pages for the national parliament, the government, the regions, etc.

    News, as the name implies, often has a relatively short half life. Thus it's not a good starting point for learning. Ground News I only know from Youtube ads and I guess using that is better than, say, starting a Fox News diet. Actually, in general, keep away from (American) TV news and find more in-depth coverage elsewhere that includes a bit more context and nuance.

    Also be aware that a lot of what looks like news at first may actually be opinion content and thus does not have to be entirely true.

  • How do you say SUSE?

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  • Is not up to SUSE's marketing department, most of which is from the US, either. The company has a German origin, had German founders (they're all out of the company at this point though), and the company name used to be a German acronym. The correct pronunciation is the German one.

    (See the update @barbara added. Lisa Sherwell actually took the effort to learn the correct pronunciation. Part of the reason why is that she was actually involved in planning the new German office of SUSE.)

  • How do you say SUSE?

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  • That depends but many people will be familiar with the absolute basics of English pronunciation and likely recognize the word as English too, I think.

  • How do you say SUSE?

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  • It's wrong nonetheless.

  • China abducted its own citizens on EU territory, report finds

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  • collaboration between Hungary and China

    Incidentally, Euronews was recently bought by investors close to Orban's circle of power and the article link now goes to a 404 page. Not saying it's a gone-spiracy but yknow what yknow when yknow wink wink.

    Archive link: https://archive.ph/lEYCn

  • How do you say SUSE?

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  • Well, "nome", with a silent G is the correct pronunciation of "gnome", as in e.g. "garden gnome".

  • How do you say SUSE?

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  • SUSE originated in Germany, where it's just the normal pronunciation. "Suse" also pre-existed as a nickname for "Susanne" (of course, the company name was derived from an acronym which isn't used anymore).

    The issue comes in when non-Germans, especially English-language natives try to pronounce the word. English pronunciation is incredibly inconsistent. Hence English speakers tend to fail (very confidently) when pronouncing foreign-language words.

    (Fwiw, Germans and many others don't know anything about the silent G in "gnome" and will happily pronounce GNOME the way the project intends without being told. Similar things are true for the I in Linux.)

  • How do you say SUSE?

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  • The marketing idiots who published this are Americans. The pronunciation is borderline correct but not quite.

  • ‘Climate-controlled pig’? Danish Crown admits to misleading people with greenwashing pork claims

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  • It's not the pigs' fault anyway, it's the fault of the humans around them. It would make more sense to invent green humans.

  • China funneling billions into BYD to crush European and U.S. competitors, study says

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  • China owns a lot of manufacturing capacity for basically everything already, correct. However, in most of these industries there are alternative supply chains, often a bit more expensive and a lot lower-capacity. But if in the future, China is the only country that can produce certain goods at all because e.g. they have the only scientists who know their way around a certain technology, then that's a different situation still.

    (Also, quite a few things here are not made in China, including recent buys. That list excludes most electronics though, I give you that.)

  • What destinations are experiencing "undertourism"?

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  • Thanks!

  • What destinations are experiencing "undertourism"?

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  • I would be interested to go there, definitely. Just maybe not while the regime is still in place. But I am bettng Pyongyang is quite impressive and rural areas, while super-poor may be too.