Halcyon @ Halcyon @discuss.tchncs.de

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Don't leave out the deconstruction of old nuclear plants after their operational time and the storage of radioactive waste. It's very laborious and expensive.

If you've ever been to Japan, you can only roll your eyes if you read about how people can fall for that "hyperloop" scam. The Hyperloop concept is just unrealistic, dangerous and expensive. The Japanese high speed train system is very efficient and absolutely reliable. 🚅

Threads is an US-American, text-focused social media platform from the Meta Group (Facebook).

Threads supports the ActivityPub protocol and thus can be integrated into the Fediverse, allowing data portability, follower portability, and interoperability with all social media platforms that also support it, including Mastodon.

Many Mastodon instances aren't happy with a company like Meta entering the Fediverse and thus block Threads servers.

A smartphone or tablet screen has the function to have multiple buttons and responsive functions on one and the same place.

A kitchen appliance doesn't have or need that. Absolutely no need for digital or so-called "smart" gimmicks.

Same goes for kitchens. Give me real buttons and knobs and not these abhorrent touch panels that refuse to work every third time. A good quality kitchen appliance is identified by high quality knobs that last for decades.

Reality is dead.

Or maybe it's still alive somewhere, but nobody can find or identify it anymore.

I'm not a fan of absolute relativism, to put it mildly. There are objective standards for hateful content. Alex Jones has been convicted of malicious defamation, for one example.

I just reported the X app in the store for hateful content.

I bought BT headphones to get rid of the cable when I'm outside. So now it's rare for me to use the headphone jack. Only when I use the cable headset for work or when I connect my phone to the stereo amp. So maybe once every other week.

I wouldn't be so sure about that. Never underestimate the cat overlords.

Almost every info you find on Reddit can be found elsewhere. After all, Reddit is an aggregation machine, but it doesn't produce that much unique content.

Musk's Boring Company was an ill-thought out vanity project that has far too many weaknesses and drawbacks (including too high construction and operating costs) to ever produce any truly usable routes.

I'll never understand how people over the age of 20 seriously can eat at McDonald's/Burger King/KFC.

I liked it too when I was 15 but once I realised how overpriced and underquality it is, I stopped that completely. Only if it really really is the last and only option to get something to eat I would spend any money there.

That are all symptoms of said business model. And Hewlett Packard isn't the only company with such abominations.

It's not their printers which are hated, it's their business model of selling overpriced ink and toner cartridges to a price that's higher than champagne prices and using technical devices to make it impossible to use other toner sources, firmware to make printers stop working when ink runs anywhere near low (they define 'low' as 33% ink left), while at the same time ensuring that as much ink and toner as possible are wasted through unnecessary testing and calibration and cleaning processes.

Bluesky being only accessible by members doesn't completely prevent the content from being scraped by bots, though. Bots can be given user access in Bluesky too, and bots can read posts, create own posts and scrape posts and user profiles.

Even those people who have difficulties with imagining something visually can use AI image generators somehow. As long as they can write and understand what a sentence means, they can use any sentence as a prompt to get a calculated image. You don't need any artistic talent or phantasy to get started with creating basic artificial images. That's exactly why artists around the world feel their skills are now being devalued by AI generators.

I guess the fear of needles is a constant problem when children are vaccinated. Having an alternative method ready could make it easier for children, parents and doctors.

I didn't have the green Matrix code in the prompt for this image but I was playing around with a different Matrix prompt before where I had the code walls included as a surrounding.

I think that's why Bing integrated it into the christmas ball, which indeed looks cool.

Here's a different version as a figure ornament instead of a ball. Would also be cool to have as a physical piece in the tree:

Matrix ball