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    Google adopts small nuclear power reactors at unprecedented scale — inks deal for seven reactors to feed AI data centers

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  • I forgot what I was trying to say there.I think it's along the lines of "I'd rather we didn't need a ridiculous amount of new power, but at least it's being covered by non-carbon sources".

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  • Your taxes already go towards this.That's how governments leverage capitalism to placate the people. Grants for green energy initiatives.Private companies get free money for taking some amount of risk because they are likely to profit massively from it.https://www.canarymedia.com/articles/nuclear/google-agrees-to-multi-reactor-power-deal-with-nuclear-startup-kairosKairos is getting free money (grants & tax breaks) and profits from this. Google is extremely likely (can't find a source) to be getting free money for this

    Companies EXIST to extract profit.Of one of the worlds most successful companies is doing this, it's because "line goes up".

    I'd prefer this happend so that "humans survive".But "humans don't die faster" is fine for now.

    (I guess "humans" means "poor humans". As in anyone that doesn't outright own 2 homes.)

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  • If only that was the government that invested in the R&D and tech to make it happen.Gaining funds from taxes (meaningful taxes), and investing that money in making their country better.

    Hopefully this decision is because carbon taxes that will make consumer products representative of the actual cost of the item (not the exploitative cost). >

    No no, let the free market decide.Fucking AI threatening to replace basic jobs (when it's more suited to replace the C-Suite) gobling up energy and money, too-big-to-fail bailouts and loophole tax rules bullshit.

    So yeh, someone needs to spend the money and that should be the government.Because they should realise that carbon fuel sources are a death sentence.

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  • I agree, and it is possibly the only good thing to come out of AI.Like people asking "why do we need to go to the moon?!".

    Fly-by-wire (ie pilot controls decoupled from physical actuators), so modern air travel.

    Integrated circuits (IE multiple transistors - and other components - in the same silicon package). Basically miniaturisation and reduction in power consumption of computers.

    GPS. The Apollo missions lead to the rocket tech/science for geosynchronous orbits require for GPS.

    This time it is commercial.I'd rather the power requirements were covered by non-carbon sources. However it proves the tech for future use.

    For a similar example, I have a strong dislike of Elon Musk. He has ruined the potential of Twitter and Tesla, but SpaceX has had some impressive accomplishments.

    Google are a shitty company. I wish the nuclear power went towards shutting down carbon power.But SOMEONE has to take the risk. I wish that someone was a government. But it's Google. So.... Kind of a win?

  • How ham radio endures - and remains a disaster lifeline - in the iPhone era

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  • You kinda made my point with the whole "try and find another operator to send 2400bps to" part. The digital communication is not conventional, it's revolutionary.Analog communication is conventional. And radios and their components aren't exotic.

    Yes, modern communication is fantastic. But analog will still be more reliable

  • How ham radio endures - and remains a disaster lifeline - in the iPhone era

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  • I don't think smart phones are conventional communications. The are smart. They are still the "tech of tomorrow".Smart phones use conventional communications to do very clever things. But those clever things are range limited and require specialised equipment. They also have absolutely no "hackability" without specialised equipment (easy to get, sure... But still pretty much single purpose)

    AM is literally a couple caps, inductors, resistors (edit: and diode) then an amplifier (a couple transistors and resistors). And the range of lower frequency radio waves is (or can be) phenomenal.It's just that it takes some experience to operate on these frequencies, and their bandwidth is limited.

    Smart phones do away with the experience requirements, and trade higher frequencies & higher data rates for range (and I guess trade digital encoding for simplicity)

    I see parallels to software.People are nervous to "side loading apps" on their phone, but have no issues downloading and installing an exe on windows.Smart phones give you the "this is how" kind of experience, and abstract away the sheer amount of technology they leverage. Which is amazing, and is what makes them smart!But the underlying technology is phenomenal. And I feel it's a shame that the majority of people don't have any understanding of "installing an app" or similar (like calling internet access "WiFi".... 2 distinct things!)

  • Florida criminalized homelessness, but then came hurricanes Helene and Milton: Around the country, anti-camping policies are complicating disaster recovery

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  • Kamala Harris 'is in control of this hurricane' using 'weather weapons': Alex Jones

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  • Nononononono, controlling the weather is how democrats keep power.Like when Trump redirected that hurricane (with a Sharpie), but it continued on its predicted path. Fucking democrats, man.

    (I hope this is obviously dripping with sarcasm, incase not...

    /sTrump & a lot of republicans taking the spotlight are idiots. Humans can control the weather: unfortunately that's from greenhouse gasses and global warming)

  • dream job

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  • That's fascinating! You should update the Wiki on trebuchets.

    https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Trebuchet

    Clearly someone has pulled a Scots Language Wiki and has been writing bullshit on that article for years

  • Keir Starmer pins economic growth hopes on British Hollywood with new tax relief

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  • Brollywood is an excellent pun.

    British Hollywood - a portmanteau.Brolly Wood - brolly is an umbrella in British slang.

    Sorry for dissecting this frog. I just want to make sure everyone can appreciate how delicious the pun is.

  • Hurricane Milton Live Updates: Storm Reaches Catagory 5 Strength Again As It Approaches Florida

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  • PowerPoint actually has decent live captioning built in.Just have a green slide, then chromakey it out.

    There are plenty of web services that do a similar thing for a fee.

  • Wi-Fi Goes Long Range on New WiLo Standard

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  • It's pretty serendipitous, actually.The past month I've done a somewhat deep dive into LoRa for a project.I ultimately dismissed it due to the data rates, but for simple remote controls or for sensors - things that report a couple bytes - it seems awesome.I'm sure you can squeeze higher data rates out of it, but when I evaluated it I decided to go with a hardwired network link (I had to have stability, dropped info wasn't an option. But the client had a strong preference for wireless)

  • Wi-Fi Goes Long Range on New WiLo Standard

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  • WiFi uses BPSK/QPSK/OFDM/OFDMA modulation.LoRa uses CSS modulation.

    This is about hacking WiFi hardware to make WiFi modulated signal intelligible to a receiver expecting CSS modulation, and have the WiFi hardware demodulate a CSS signal.Thus making WiFi chips work with LoRa chips.

    LoRa doesn't care about the carrier frequency.So the fact that it's LoRa at 2.4ghz doesn't matter. It's still LoRa.

    I'm sure there will be a use for this at some point.Certainly useful for directly interfacing with LoRa devices from a laptop.I feel that anyone actually deploying LoRa IoT would be working at a lower level than "throw a laptop at it" kinda thing

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  • It's LoRa on 2.4ghz.It's just that chirp signals are easy to decode from a lot of noise.And they don't really affect most other modulation techniques. I think you can even have multiple CSS coded signals on the same frequency, as long as they are configured slightly differently.

    LoRa is incredibly resilient.It's just really really slow

  • Microsoft Edge gets "unfair advantage", browser makers claim

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  • The issue is with how aggressive Microsoft is about it.

    Trying to download chrome? "Hey, are you sure you don't want to try Edge?".Changing default browser? "Hey, are you sure you don't want to try Edge?".Windows update... "We've done you a solid, because we know you want to use Edge".I'm sure at one point, it was a warning in the security center that you aren't using Edge.Also Teams (in sure there are others) will open links in Edge, despite what default browser you have set.

  • Report: Elon Musk has been funding Trump’s anti-immigrant mastermind

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  • One of those morality Vs legality thing.For it to be illegal it seems like the system needs to change

  • Experts Warn of Growing Inhalant Trend on TikTok as 'Chroming' Gains Popularity

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  • I just want 12 tonnes of strawberry flavoured whipped cream, dude.That's why I need such a big bottle of N2O. I'm a culinary genius

  • Trump calls for prosecution of Google over search results he says favor Harris

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  • Oh, I thought it was hair die that was dripping down his face.Make sense it was ichor leaking from somewhere

  • Court Orders Google to “Uninstall” Pirate IPTV App Sideloaded on Android Devices

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  • Which applies to EU countries.Not sure if apple is going to do separate builds for separate regions