datendefekt

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[–] datendefekt@lemmy.ml 27 points 1 month ago

The Internet Archive is being DDOSed for the lulz.

https://mastodon.archive.org/@textfiles/113279179271574005

[–] datendefekt@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 month ago

I'm worried that the boat is full of water.

[–] datendefekt@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 month ago

Pihole is good for a private network, but you can forget it in a work setting, especially corporate networks.

[–] datendefekt@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 month ago

You could install ChromeOS, but afaik you can only install Android apps on certified devices.

[–] datendefekt@lemmy.ml 9 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Keep in mind that that was a demo to sell Copilot.

The issue that I've got with GenAI is that it has no expert knowledge in your field, knows nothing of your organization, your processes, your products or your problems. It might miss something important and it's your responsibility to review the output. It also makes stuff up instead of admitting not knowing, gives you different answers for the same prompt, and forgets everything when you exhaust the context window.

So if I've got emails full of fluff it might work, but if you've got requirements from your client or some regulation you need to implement you'll have to review the output. And then what's the point?

[–] datendefekt@lemmy.ml 9 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

Always happy to see gemini-related posts!

Check out https://levior.gitlab.io/, a http to Gemini gateway. Found it at https://github.com/kr1sp1n/awesome-gemini

[–] datendefekt@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Because they don't give a shit what their people think. Yes, they are still building new coal and nuclear power plants, but it's being outpaced by renewables.

[–] datendefekt@lemmy.ml 0 points 1 month ago (3 children)

Wait, so you think nuclear reactors spew out uranium?

Didn't say that. But I also don't think that it magically appears in the plant.

While coal powerplants don't spew out radioactive coal ash??

Please stop this whataboutism.

Nobody cares to recycle concrete.

Not true. Making concrete creates huge amounts of CO2 during production. Sand is becoming a valuable resource. Recycling concrete for aggregate absolutely is a thing, but that's a different topic.

I wont talk about storing waste, because I dont know why it is marketed as prohibitively expensive.

Convenient. Then I will because I'm not finished. You have to ensure containment of the barrels for decades, if not centuries. The mine has to be in geologically inactive area, and you have to be certain that no ground water will seep into the mine in the foreseeable future. We don't want ground water in the mine, its cold and wet and seeps through everywhere.

And you have to figure out how to keep idiots from breaking into the mine in 150 years and using spent rods to heat their homes. If you think that's far fetched I encourage you to read about the Goiânia accident , one of the world's worst nuclear disasters. Some kids found the radioactive source of an abandoned xray machine while playing around.

[–] datendefekt@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 month ago (6 children)

Solar panels are mostly aluminum and glass and about 90% recyclable. More importantly, they are inert and not radioactive.

You can't seriously compare nuclear waste to solar panels.

[–] datendefekt@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 month ago (6 children)

Uranium is a heavy metal and of course its poisonous. Just like lead, but radioactive. Why aren't we using uranium glassware or uranium paint anymore if it's supposedly not poisonous?

When was the last time a solar farm or a wind park had a catastrophic accident leading to large parts of land being uninhabitable for decades, even centuries?

Of course they are explodey. It's a fission reaction that has to be constantly modulated and cooled to not go critical.

The other argument is the cost of properly storing waste and decommissioning the plant, which is often conviently ignored. Not much of a NPP can be recycled, unlike solar.

[–] datendefekt@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 month ago (3 children)

"The people" don't build NPPs, risk-adverse utility companies do. And while public opinion might matter in some countries, nuclear power is just 5% in China, compared to renewables at around 30%.

[–] datendefekt@lemmy.ml 12 points 1 month ago

Like most things with environmental impact, we just let later generations deal with it. Somehow.

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