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scott, 23 days ago to solarpunk

"Moreover, when used as a substrate for perovskite solar cells, the transparent bamboo displays the potential to act as a light management layer, leading to a marked efficiency enhancement of 15.29%"

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40381947

Holy #solarpunk batman

scott, 2 months ago to GraphicsProgramming

So wild. Go RISC-V!

https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/cpus/former-silicon-valley-vets-create-risc-v-microprocessor-that-can-run-cpu-gpu-and-npu-workloads-simultaneously

#CPU #GPU #NPU #RISCV #OpenHardware

scott, 2 months ago to mentalhealth

An incredibly timely dialogue between Jonah Goldberg and Jonathan Haidt on Jonathan's new book "The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Is Causing an Epidemic of Mental Illness."

https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/the-great-rewiring-of-childhood/id1291144720

#mentalhealth #phonefreechildhood #genz #socialmedia

timbray, 2 months ago to random

The question of whether BEV's actually save substantial carbon compared to ICE cars is a little more complicated than you think, and there are loud-voiced deniers. Here’s a report that digs deep on the issue and has the numbers: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/newsletters/2024-03-21/evs-are-much-lower-emitting-than-combustion-cars

scott, 3 months ago to infosec

"Commercial spyware vendors (CSV) were behind 80% of the zero-day vulnerabilities Google's Threat Analysis Group (TAG) discovered in 2023 and used to spy on devices worldwide..."

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/google-says-spyware-vendors-behind-most-zero-days-it-discovers/

Good grief - what a shitshow.

#InfoSec #malware #surveillance #spyware #panopticon

scott, 4 months ago to cars

https://danrodricks.com/2024/01/29/tear-up-unused-parking-lots-plant-trees/

Yes, please and ASAP.

#cars #UrbanDesign #transportation #activetransportation

scott, 4 months ago to privacy

EFF is currently recruiting for "two positions within the Public Interest Technology team, comprised of 13 ethical technologists dedicated to defending encryption, overcoming censorship and trackers, and paving the way for a more positive digital future."

https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:7157821732643328000/

#privacy #censorship #digital #EFF

scott, 4 months ago to solarpunk

Wow, this is the architecture we need - inspiring, sustainable, integrated and beautiful.

https://www.designboom.com/tag/vincent-callebaut-architectures/

#solarpunk #architecture #sustainability #urban

scott, 4 months ago to climate

Alberta (and consequently Canada) barely register. Interesting.

https://news.sky.com/story/vast-scale-of-methane-leaks-from-fossil-fuel-production-and-landfill-sites-exposed-13023354

#methaneemissions #ClimateChange #fossilfuels

smallcircles, 6 months ago to chrome

Think this is a #Chrome-only annoyance right now, so if you don't wanna switch to #Firefox for some reason, there's:

> #YouTube banned #AdBlockers so I built an extension to skip their #ads.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38327017

Also a use for #AI mentioned:

> Yes it's TiVo for Youtube. And this...THIS...is the real use case for desktop AI: Detecting ads and automatically skipping them. Funny how the AI barons never mention how AI can empower normies against them.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38328874

scott, 8 months ago to Energy

Good Lord, this seems almost miraculous.

https://www.newscientist.com/article/2394144-waste-plastic-can-be-recycled-into-hydrogen-fuel-and-graphene/

#energy #hydrogen #grapheme #plastic

molly0xfff, 9 months ago to random

New report out from the Bank of International Settlements: "cryptoassets have so far not reduced but rather amplified the financial risks in less developed economies."

https://bis.org/publ/bppdf/bispap138.htm

#crypto #cryptocurrency

scott, 10 months ago to random

https://archive.li/7SpV8

Definitely a movement worth supporting.

timbray, 1 year ago to random

Report: I’m being sealioned. As in, real actual sea lions are invading the docks at our family's summer cabin. It’s nice that nature is coming back… sometimes. Sea Lions are noisy, smelly, smart, lazy, and defecate disgustingly and in massive quantities.

If my Dad were still living he’d say “Huh, no problem really, just get a rifle, you’ll need a fairly big one.”