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  • China’s ‘artificial sun’ breaks nuclear fusion limit thought to be impossible

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  • it's only amazing as long as the government owns it. in my country we could technically have free power because of renewables (and almost did, but EU stopped us from doing it because it would crash the commercial power market elsewhere - EU bs even made power more expensive just to make it competitive and not to crash oil and coal markets). but because of surplus power generated from renewables, our current neoliberal government has been getting rid of solar and shutting down windpower and attacked hydro in favor of constructing nuclear power plants; on top of making it law that the government isn't allowed to own or buy the nuclear power plants and also offered to fund private interests the construction of nuclear power plants.

    the reason? power is a natural monopoly, and nuclear is fuel based. which means the supplier of power decides the supply and demand by artificially controlling the fuel flow - the idea is to never let power run at a surplus supply generated by solar, wind, and hydro ever again so there is no risk that privately owned power monopolies would be unprofitable.

  • China’s ‘artificial sun’ breaks nuclear fusion limit thought to be impossible

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  • the US is more likely to invade and destroy any country that make fusion viable than to let it compete on the energy market.

  • China’s ‘artificial sun’ breaks nuclear fusion limit thought to be impossible

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  • oil, coal and nuclear are clearly not winning.

    we could solve the worlds energy problems today but they'd never be applied simply because oil exists. its literally why the US just attacked venezuela. They could have built another reactor or windmills or whatever the fuck else they feel they need if energy was the reason. but energy has nothing to do with energy and all to do with being a natural monopoly that's making a small group of people quite wealthy.

  • AOC Slams Operation To Capture Maduro: 'It's About Oil And Regime Change'

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  • people forget that trump was already going to go to war with maduro in the previous election when he was president. around 2018. trying to get rid of maduro. this has nothing to do with epstein and all to do with oil.

  • ‘It’s completely out of control’: Scientists warn bird flu could spark a human pandemic in 2026 | BBC Science Focus Magazine

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  • the reason: it wasn't profitable.

  • Dell and Lenovo may limit mid-range laptops to 8GB DDR5 RAM in response to rising memory prices

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  • thank you. came here to say this.

    or, well, it also doesn't play well with ARM, i.e. on macbooks the ram isn't the bottle neck, its the CPU struggling with electron despite objectively being faster than x86 equivalents.

  • Trump again insists the US ‘needs’ to take over Greenland for national security: ‘We’ll have to work it all out’

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  • probably not, but it wouldn't be the first time something similar happened.

  • Trump again insists the US ‘needs’ to take over Greenland for national security: ‘We’ll have to work it all out’

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  • Tiel has been pushing chat control on europe and Denmark is the forefront of making it happen. Is the greenland and chat control situation connected? Sure seems like the perfect timing. Threaten to take greenland unless pushing through laws that are universally hated by the people (which makes absolutely no sense in europe because the government and the people are supposed to be one and the same and where we generally only let insane laws pass when the US threatens sanctions which is technically not even possible on a single european country as the union is a trade union lol - but soft power, i guess).

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  • ideological reasons. windows creeps me the fuck out. i've been using linux since the slackware days. sure i've been on win 3.1 and all the way up to XP as my OS because of gaming, but I have dual booted with linux since around 2003. I haven't had Windows installed on any device since 2013 - and frankly, I am so fucking happy with fedora and the steam deck finally kicking the door down and making linux 100% viable for everyone.

    But yes, I'm too old now and I really can't be arsed to deal with the constant patchwork of the olden days and there is no way I would ever look back at anything since switching to fedora 2 years ago. It's insanely good (finally). Not even mint could deliver an equally flawless experience after all these years in comparison. I actually just dropped mint from my last holdout device earlier this week, replacing it with Fedora.

    The Year of Linux Desktop is finally here!

  • Meta shuts down global accounts linked to abortion advice and queer content

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  • this is the type of dangerous overreach potential laws like chat control pose to people under fascist rules. we shouldn't make it easy for them. people need to get the fuck off facebook and federate!

  • Hurray! This German State Decides to Save €15 Million Each Year By Kicking Out Microsoft for Open Source

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  • with open source we can also create jobs by hiring a developer to add functions we need to the software we use!

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  • i mean; the real issue here is aus gov not recognizing why social media (and the web) is a problem - if they wanted to solve it they could have banned kids form using platforms built around algorithms designed for eyeball retention. there are meaningful platforms out there (like this one) which is being completely disregarded despite the actual benefit it has on youth; particularly those who are struggling.

    but hey; maybe this will see a resurgence of protocols like IRC!

  • Chat Control approved: Certain EU countries will see your private messages. Is yours on the list?

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  • danes are sucking thiels cock for their own wicked reasons.

    as we've always said; never trust a dane!

  • Chat Control approved: Certain EU countries will see your private messages. Is yours on the list?

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  • people miss the most important problem with this. chat control is a fascist tool that can and will be used against us minorities. this is especially dangerous when more and more countries are starting to lean right.

    hitler would have had a field day with this kind of tech.

  • GrapheneOS being targeted by France

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  • "ops"

  • What are the silliest reasons people have given you for not wanting to try Linux?

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  • while browsing the web (hosted on linux).

  • Bewildered enthusiasts decry memory price increases of 100% or more — the AI RAM squeeze is finally starting to hit PC builders where it hurts

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  • naturally.

    it's the whole "if you can't afford it, it isn't for you." attitude that pisses me off when society is literally turning into a place where just breathing costs you money. it's such a common attitude among people well off as well. they all think themselves 'deserving' of their quality of life and anyone beneath it is simply not deserving. while they did absolutely nothing to get their position beside rolling dice.

    another guy i know got his job through his dad who owned the business. he has been making very good income since day one out of school (and i mean, for this guy, and the other guy - they have no degrees because back then you didn't need one to get good jobs); but after his dad retired 20 years ago they have slowly been tearing apart the job and making the conditions crap. so he actually quit a few months ago and now he is still making some 70% more than my salary on government welfare based on his previous salary and he has the gall to complain that he can't figure out his economy. like bro, you've been giving me life lessons on money management and telling me i shouldn't live outside of my means and now that you took a hit to your income but still have 70% more than me then suddenly the economy is too hard to manage? take your own damn advice for once and cut down on your frivolous expenses lol. like, do you really need to buy that camera part which costs 4 times your salary? is it vital? how often do you use the camera, once every 3 years? yeah i don't see you bleeding mate.

  • Bewildered enthusiasts decry memory price increases of 100% or more — the AI RAM squeeze is finally starting to hit PC builders where it hurts

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  • you sound like a guy i know who wanted to be a car mechanic but failed to qualify for the job on account of talking too much shit; but they hired him as a car sales instead with commission so his salary got 8x higher. of course he always gives financial advice now that he's rich. for example, you shouldn't buy a house near the city if you can't afford one. you shouldn't buy a car if you can't afford one. and you shouldn't buy a mobile phone and a subscription if you can't afford it.

    so if we break it down, his advice is: if you have a shitty job that pays you poorly; you don't deserve to live in any kind of proximity to your shitty job, you should also have no means of transportation to said shitty job (because you now live far away from the city and would actually need a car to get to your job), nor any means of bank and digital ID access (to receive your shitty salary, because its priced outside of the bare minimum wage you're forced to subsist on).

  • Nearly 90% of Windows Games now run on Linux, latest data shows

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  • the real cold turkey was Riot killing linux support last year. Seems like there wasn't enough linux players at the time for them to walk back that decision.

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  • why not just ...not use windows?

    it's like trying to wear hats as shoes. at some point it just sort of feels stupid.