Lemmy - RazBot

Has started to grind my gears, since there is no way to quickly explain that I'm happy with the current situation (I live in the nordics, not the US). Historically I would be considered a conservative, since I don't see a need to progress (atleast at an accelerated rate). However that term is now used to define reactionaries, which are people who reacting to the changing society wants to regress to a earlier time.

Why must we change the meanings of such obvious words?

Other third-party Bluesky apps, which make up the larger open social web known as the ATmosphere, don’t have to follow these same rules. At least, not for now.

https://archive.ph/rc2sX

Wood-burning stoves will be allowed to heat new-build homes in England despite growing evidence showing their significant contribution to air pollution and carbon emissions.

The government is writing its future homes standard, a set of rules for developers, aimed at decarbonising England’s housing stock. Heating the UK’s 28m homes accounts for about 18% of greenhouse gas emissions.

However, there are fears that after intense lobbying, these standards will be weakened. The Guardian recently reported that the Labour party is considering making solar panels optional on new homes in England after pressure from housebuilders.

The Stove Industry Association (SIA) has released a letter it received from the government confirming the appliances will be allowed in new homes.

It reads: “A full technical consultation on the future homes standard was launched in December 2023 and closed in March 2024. Under the standards proposed in the consultation, a wood-burning stove would be permitted as a secondary heating source in new homes.”

The Climate Change Committee has recommended the phasing out of wood-burning stoves in homes because of the carbon they emit. They also produce dangerous PM2.5 particles that, according to a growing body of research, are responsible for a range of health problems including heart and lung disease, as well as diabetes, cancer, brain function and premature births.

Last year, a study by Prof Chris Whitty, the chief medical officer for England, found that even “eco-design” wood-burning stoves produced 450 times more toxic air pollution than gas central heating.

Jemima Hartshorn, the co-founder of the Mums for Lungs campaign group, said: “This is a very disappointing and surprising decision by government. We know that wood burning is one of the major sources of toxic air pollution that is killing tens of thousands of people every year and is linked to a range of serious and life-changing diseases.

“Due to the high amount of greenhouse gases emitted when burning wood and solid fuels, the Climate Change Committee strongly advises that it needs to be phased out as it is not carbon neutral and has no place in how homes should be heated in the 21st century.”

Andy Hill, the chair of the SIA, said: “We are delighted that it has been officially confirmed that under the proposed future homes standard, the installation of a wood-burning stove will be permitted.

“The SIA welcomes the government’s positive response and looks forward to continued engagement as policies are developed and implemented.”

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/28611045

gamers nexus just dropped a 3 hour video where they talk to various companies involved in the consumer PC space, some of whom really open up about their costs and economics and how operating in america just isnt feasible under the current tariffs

Yet again the Internet Archiving is suffering big this time, a coalition of major record labels filed a lawsuit against the Internet Archive demanding $700 million for the extensive catalog of 78 rpm records. 78s are sometimes more than a century old at this point and i bet a lot of them are out of copyright, but i suppose for the few that still are majors are hitting it big towards the IA

This lawsuit is pretty much another existential threat to the Internet Archive and everything it preserves, including the Wayback Machine, and we're fucked if we ever lose access to the Wayback Machine.

the original article asked to sign a petition, but i think a more logical way to support is to donate them directly so that they have more money to better defend themselves in court in this and other cases they'll undoubtedly face in the future

Would you rather be able to do everything with one thing? Say, listen to music, take pictures, play, work and whatever with one device? Or would you rather have a specific device for listening to music, a specific device for taking pictures, a specific device for work and another one to play and such?

I personally prefer to keep things separate these days. On a practical level it means that I don't depend entirely on a single object and that, if gets lost, damaged or runs out of battery, would let me with nothing at all. On a subjective level, I feel that having specialized objects for each need gives more weight to the routines I create with them, contrary to when I kept everything in one place and it felt superfluous and banal.

So far I have an old phone that I use as an MP3 player, an old tablet as an EBook, my old Ps2 to play games and so on.

Basically the title. A lot of us couldn't get together for proper 4/20 this year, so we're doing a make-up party on Saturday. What fun/engaging activities can we do?

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/28633828

finally some simple UI, you click on browser extension "icon" and get taken to a webpage that will show you all the video that rank by cosine similarity (I just now realized has UUID when it should have shortuuid), linked below is the webpage

https://github.com/solidheron/peertube_recomendation_algorythm/blob/main/example1.PNG

above is just example with my recommendations luckily the links change colors if you've already seen them. of course the video at the top is the video I watched the longest.

other than that I been cleaning up backend stuff and ignoring minor error that pop up. it should more accurately capture watch time on peertube videos and doesn't just say you watch an hour of a video you didn't care about. probably adding a bunch of code that needs to get cleaned up.

my opinion has shifted a bit on this simple algo it seems like the videos I get tend to be random and take require me to find videos independently to get some decent suggestion, also there's a Linux pipeline

I do have a software engineering problem where view time is only input to the algorithm, like, dislike, and finished status of a video is available. I have decided on going with cosine similarity for likes and dislikes and adding it to the time engagement. if you like a video all the tokens of that video get a +1 in length and dislike makes all the tokens -1 in length. I thought it was a good solution because it doesn't rely on converting a like to time. I wouldn't know how to deal with like being a multiplier for time engagement vector and would dislike be negative or something or just zero. generally adding a like cosine vector to a time engagement vector generally means both time and likes normalized (sorta) both can contribute to a video recommendation.

seems like cosine recommendation will need processing

Wondering if I am the only person that finds Gmail lagging dramatically. The only solution is clearing the cookies about once per week.

Which country, how much a month, what's the plan include?

State all your assumptions upfront