Posts by denny@boing.world
(DIR) Post #AYpg54QUnULm1WMOjA by denny@boing.world
2023-08-17T20:13:36Z
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"Scientists have reconstructed Pink Floyd’s Another Brick in the Wall by eavesdropping on people’s brainwaves – the first time a recognisable song has been decoded from recordings of electrical brain activity."How cool is that?! 😯https://www.theguardian.com/science/2023/aug/15/scientists-reconstruct-pink-floyd-song-by-listening-to-peoples-brainwaves
(DIR) Post #AZ81pKvtM2FqQ9E86C by denny@boing.world
2023-08-26T16:44:23Z
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@lowqualityfacts Could be surfing a gnarly wave.
(DIR) Post #AZ9T5RscBVYuWLYrnE by denny@boing.world
2023-08-27T08:28:44Z
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@thor "It pains me to listen to the number and variety of ways in which you are wrong right now, but if I correct you then you might ask me to fix it for you. And it's running Windows."
(DIR) Post #AZh8LdBOChSAgNmj8i by denny@boing.world
2023-09-12T09:22:19Z
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"The gas industry is promoting hydrogen as the replacement for gas in homes despite an analysis of 32 independent studies concluding that it would be inefficient, costly and resource-intensive."https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/british-gas-centrica-hydrogen-ready-boilers-green-energy-heat-pumps/
(DIR) Post #AZnO9zn0kOq2iJBxkO by denny@boing.world
2023-09-14T20:00:22Z
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Might interest @pluralistic "New mobility technologies, like many other devices, have become inextricably linked with connectivity in ways that accelerate some of the most problematic aspects of the modern digital economy."https://www.thegreenwebfoundation.org/news/the-right-to-repair-in-a-platform-powered-world/
(DIR) Post #AZpDgbNVq0UXQ0pwVk by denny@boing.world
2023-09-16T12:47:09Z
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(DIR) Post #AaXWLtld6MQxkoEkyG by denny@boing.world
2023-10-07T21:19:42Z
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@Edent Related.
(DIR) Post #AaXWLuhPdWeee1Gu2K by denny@boing.world
2023-10-07T21:21:37Z
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@Edent May not always be the best word, but it's probably the shortest clearest generic term.
(DIR) Post #AalQimsKe8wrF6dXf6 by denny@boing.world
2023-10-14T14:48:40Z
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@kaia Whatever Ubuntu MATE defaults to. Seems okay, although I don't spend much time dealing with images.
(DIR) Post #AalRAx1wU44uqWYs2y by denny@boing.world
2023-10-14T14:52:55Z
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@kaia Opened the laptop up to check, apparently it's called 'Eye of MATE'.
(DIR) Post #AalRdGLSGXTcrGBjcG by denny@boing.world
2023-10-14T14:57:33Z
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@kaia I think it's a fork/derivative of 'Eye of GNOME'.
(DIR) Post #Ab9qdM9pp07UhGmcsq by denny@boing.world
2023-10-26T09:27:20Z
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"Oxfam has renewed its call for essential goods to enter the besieged Gaza Strip and said starvation was being used as a “weapon of war” after Israel cut off supplies of food, water, electricity and fuel to the territory."https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2023/10/26/two-more-resolutions-to-end-gaza-violence-fail-at-un-security-council
(DIR) Post #AbTX8i8uSDIN9caHzM by denny@boing.world
2023-11-04T20:19:45Z
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@kaia Wasn't there already a site/app quite like that a few years back? I think some of my friends were using it to apportion and track the housework in a flatshare.
(DIR) Post #AbTapmqDA2Vq2a4PDM by denny@boing.world
2023-11-04T22:06:09Z
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@kaia Hrm. I think I was thinking of https://www.rememberthemilk.com but it doesn't seem to have all of those features...
(DIR) Post #AbrxDs0VipjnR0Gnku by denny@boing.world
2023-11-16T14:34:29Z
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"Rwanda having a track record of killing refugees had made the court think there was something iffy about the UK deporting its refugees to Rwanda. Funny that."https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2023/nov/15/desperate-delusional-defeated-the-tory-right-are-coming-for-rish-after-rwanda
(DIR) Post #AcExdyWYaGHToLmlOa by denny@boing.world
2023-11-27T18:35:53Z
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@clive Is that friends link banjaxed? Looks like a lot of it is duplicated, and it doesn't work for me.
(DIR) Post #AcF4786IenmjdQmzZI by denny@boing.world
2023-11-27T19:48:21Z
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@clive Oh, it works on my laptop, must be my mobile browser that's confused - sorry!
(DIR) Post #AcF5iY790B08z2ahf6 by denny@boing.world
2023-11-27T20:06:21Z
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@clive "Obviously, we’re going to need advancements in battery technology, and breakthroughs in long-distance power transmission."It feels like now would be really good time to decentralise/distribute the grid, to me. Not that I know anything about the technical challenges thereof, I'm just seeing some similarities to the challenges that are overcome by distributed networks like the Internet, and also some parallels with re-localising political power to councils and mayors. It feels like the fewer large concentrated points of failure, the better. Increased house or estate level battery storage seems like it would fit well into that, hopefully.Presumably that would reduce the hazard from the intermittency challenges you mention too.
(DIR) Post #AcP9X6LKFztd43cW7E by denny@boing.world
2023-12-02T16:36:56Z
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(DIR) Post #Acm39skvN2Tdm5STFw by denny@boing.world
2023-12-13T17:27:18Z
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"Elon Musk is driving the platform formerly known as Twitter into the ground, and is one step away from it going completely under."https://www.thedailybeast.com/ed-zitron-tells-the-new-abnormal-that-twitter-aka-x-will-die-if-sports-leave