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Proton is transitioning towards a non-profit structure | Proton in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 26 points 2 months ago

Fair call. I only just got the community update so I hadn't seen it.

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Proton is transitioning towards a non-profit structure | Proton (proton.me)
Author left the job in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I just earned my long service leave this year and I am fucking stoked.

World's largest sodium-ion battery goes into operation - Energy Storage in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Well it's not really an either/or situation. The current Labor government's plan is a combination of majority renewables with gas and hydrogen. They are also running coal at the moment but have no plans to renew those plants during the transition. They've signed on to emissions reductions of 75% by 2035.

So you've got one plan which has some reduction targets (probably not steep enough) planned transition, costed and budgeted that doesn't require more coal, and one plan which will pull funding from renewables, and requires more coal until some time as which they can get nuclear approved, built and commercialised.

World's largest sodium-ion battery goes into operation - Energy Storage in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (2 children)

Context is important here. The conversation here was about Australia's nuclear capacity. A country where nuclear power is banned at both state and federal levels. Where the plan for it's use is currently uncosted, the planned sites have been selected without environmental protection studies and several of which are supposed to be SMRs.

Would you build a bleeding edge nuclear reactor without a legal framework to govern its construction or operation? Without a workforce trained in its functions? Without considering the environmental factors of its geography? Without considering the cost?

Probably not. But that's the current plan put forward by the reactionary right in Australia and this from a party who doesn't believe in climate change, have no emissions targets, and whose whole plan is to continue to run and build coal power until whatever time they work out the details on nuclear.

US sues Adobe for ‘deceiving’ subscriptions that are too hard to cancel | The Justice Department alleges that Adobe hid early cancellation fees and trapped consumers in pricey subscriptions in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 10 points 4 months ago

Yeah they're kind of the ultimate monopolization machine

US sues Adobe for ‘deceiving’ subscriptions that are too hard to cancel | The Justice Department alleges that Adobe hid early cancellation fees and trapped consumers in pricey subscriptions in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 34 points 4 months ago (2 children)

Did they ever? They bought PageMaker in 1994 and Photoshop in 1995. They bought Macromedia in 2006, GoLive, Live motion, Typekit, Behance... Is there anything they've ever bought they haven't slowly ruined with financialisation or just outright shuttering what would have been competition?

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OpenAI to spit out News Corp content (www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au)
First human brain implant malfunctioned, Neuralink says in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 18 points 6 months ago (3 children)

I will never not post this. This is what anyone who gets one of these is destined for :

https://spectrum.ieee.org/bionic-eye-obsolete

Apple's Vision Pro lacks any real vision in c/[email protected]
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Apple's Vision Pro lacks any real vision (disconnect.blog)
The Cult of AI in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 14 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Mmmmm nice to know the AI got halfway through the article before giving up.

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The Cult of AI (www.rollingstone.com)
 

...“We believe Artificial Intelligence can save lives – if we let it. Medicine, among many other fields, is in the stone age compared to what we can achieve with joined human and machine intelligence working on new cures. There are scores of common causes of death that can be fixed with AI, from car crashes to pandemics to wartime friendly-fire.”

As I type this, the nation of Israel is using an AI program called the Gospel to assist its airstrikes, which have been widely condemned for their high level of civilian casualties...

Marc Andreessen’s “Techno-Optimist Manifesto” Is Just Old-School Reactionary Elitism in c/[email protected]
Marc Andreessen’s “Techno-Optimist Manifesto” Is Just Old-School Reactionary Elitism in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago

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Marc Andreessen’s “Techno-Optimist Manifesto” Is Just Old-School Reactionary Elitism (jacobin.com)
 

In earlier eras, the manifesto was an important organ of radical political and aesthetic movements; prominent examples in the history of the genre include of course those of Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, André Breton, or, more recent, the Dogme 95 group. These days, in which radical political ideas of the Left or the Right have only recently begun to become mainstream again, it is unsurprising that the manifesto seems to be a historical relic.

But the genre received a new entry with Marc Andreessen’s “Techno-Optimist Manifesto,” published last October on the website of Andreessen Horowitz, perhaps the very bluest of Silicon Valley’s blue-chip venture capital firms. That apparently radical manifestos are now being produced by billionaire technocapitalists might be cause for alarm among our nineteenth- and twentieth-century ancestors. But it really shouldn’t surprise us, at least those who pay attention to the kind of rhetoric coming regularly from Sand Hill Road and its environs. Hardly content with the accumulation of fortunes unprecedented in history and their resulting political power, a small number of our new ruling overlords clearly want to be taken seriously as thinkers, too...

Amazon Anti Union propaganda in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

I know this might not apply elsewhere as I'm in Australia, but I always bring up that your union fees are totally tax deductible so you get it all back at tax time.

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