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Cake day: June 17th, 2023

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  • I googled Pyhäsalmi Mine gravitricity "2 MW" and EVERY article covering this has also cited 2 MW.

    Now, under Occam’s Razor, what’s more likely:

    1. Absolutely none of the article writers have any clue what the difference between a MW and a MWh is because none of them remember any physics
    2. Some of them could suspect that it’s wrong, but an authoritative source of the claim wrote/said 2 MW capacity when they meant “2 MW peak generation” or “2 MWh storage” (I’d presume Gravitricity, but I’m struggling to find such a source, myself)
    3. One writer miswrote/misquoted as per 2, and everyone is mindlessly recycling that original article’s contents with no attribution or care.

    I don’t know which one it is. But I’d generally lean against 1.




  • Hey, I maintain a highly popular (if niche) FOSS library. Where the fuck is my big tech paycheck where they bribe me into integrating with their product?

    /s Silly take IMO, relies on cherry-picking popular FOSS projects where you can see “the influence” of big tech, AND then No True Scotsman your way into saying that they’re not allowed to participate in the development/influence of FOSS because… checks notes they’re the ones funding the project/putting money in front of otherwise unpaid volunteers?

    If you end up coming up with a better scheme for things that has the actual practical effect of compensating devs appropriately (yes, that means at current market rates or better) for their work, then please let us know so we can switch to doing that immediately. I will literally do anything you suggest if it would achieve that end.


  • So others have already talked about how great Star Trek is. I agree with them, but I think that literally everyone has missed the point of your question:

    https://startrek.website

    It’s its own lemmy instance. It was spawned from the migration away from reddit, and it’s stayed alive since. So combine an active former-reddit community with lemmy and a good reason to all rally around, and finally the final ingredient of federation, and the Star Trek related rooms will always be on every server, and they’ll always be populated.





  • As someone of color (Indian) who is often mistaken as being foreign/religious until they hear my accent…

    I feel the other commenters here are missing the mark. This isn’t about fixing them, or learning to “accept them as they are”: bigots should never be tolerated.

    Which is to say, your reasons for being “bigoted” towards the bigots isn’t a matter of prejudice: you’ve extrapolated a pattern.

    But you don’t want to apply this pattern unfairly to people you haven’t met, because that’d make you bigoted as well.

    Well, I have good news for you: you aren’t at any risk for that. Real bigots don’t think they’re bigots. People with prejudices don’t consider their judgement unsound. They think they’re the most unbiased, reasonable people in the world, and often try to push their opinions on others with violence, whether it’s verbal, social, or physical.

    By simply acknowledging internally that you have thoughts that you consider unideal, and unfair, you’ve done a thousand times more self-reflecting, and have more capacity for self-correcting, than someone like my parents would.

    Don’t try to beat the bad thoughts out of yourself. Acknowledge them, and pledge to act better than they’d have you.


  • To add onto this:

    Home Assistant isn’t “yet another” service. It’s not trying to do vendor lock in: you can think of Home Assistant kinda like a “glue” framework.

    It’s meant to let you systemically attach devices/software across any number of mediums, and pre-existing services, and let them play nice.

    So if you’ve already gone and set up your Google Home, or Alexa, or Apple Homekit, you don’t have to abandon them to use Home Assistant.

    Sometimes you can’t even get away from it: the thermostat that came with our rental basically only has a useful Samsung Smartthings integration, but we can still use it with Home Assistant.