HeartyBeast

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Government tells Britons to stockpile as part of emergency planning in c/unitedkingdom@feddit.uk
[–] HeartyBeast@kbin.social 3 points 5 months ago

Hopefully the plughole is clogged with hair

Government tells Britons to stockpile as part of emergency planning in c/unitedkingdom@feddit.uk
[–] HeartyBeast@kbin.social 4 points 5 months ago (2 children)

Indeed. To be honest, I’d probably fall back on the old idea of filling the bath right up if the shit looked like it was about to hit the fan.

A Primer on Mastodon's New Board Members in c/technology@beehaw.org
[–] HeartyBeast@kbin.social 3 points 5 months ago

Yeh. I’m pretty comfortable with this broad mix.

Government tells Britons to stockpile as part of emergency planning in c/unitedkingdom@feddit.uk
[–] HeartyBeast@kbin.social 11 points 5 months ago (5 children)

I think that ‘resilience in depth’ is a reasonable idea. The NHS exists, but I still have a first aid kit at home.

In practice, I think it will be difficult fir a household to store 3 days drinking water.

Platipus doesn't have a stomach, why? in c/science@kbin.social
[–] HeartyBeast@kbin.social 1 points 5 months ago

So was this written by AI or someone who can’t really write English?

What happens when councils take control of buses? in c/unitedkingdom@feddit.uk
[–] HeartyBeast@kbin.social 1 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

I’d say that the railways were probably more likely to fail because you have the added complication of the rail infrastructure company on top, plus the need for through-ticketing and timetable coordination. Those factors magnified the sheer amount of shit in the show

What happens when councils take control of buses? in c/unitedkingdom@feddit.uk
[–] HeartyBeast@kbin.social 1 points 6 months ago (2 children)

Counterpoint- the council can mandate routes and frequency in the contract and put it out to tender. The idea is that the private sector is better an innovating to be efficient, though I’m not sure that has ever really been demonstrated

Amazing attitude in c/linkedinlunatics@sh.itjust.works
[–] HeartyBeast@kbin.social 50 points 6 months ago (3 children)

It is a great attitude, yes. Some people actually enjoy work and do work of meaning. Some people also love their kids and want to be there for them. Some companies treat their employees with respect.

These are not things to shit on

Trump backers say he shares their Christian faith and values in c/atheism@lemmy.ml
[–] HeartyBeast@kbin.social 6 points 6 months ago

…adding that they’re not too sure about this Jesus bloke though. He seems dangerously woke

Scientists discover breakthrough in carbon dioxide absorbers replacing trees in c/science@kbin.social
[–] HeartyBeast@kbin.social 1 points 6 months ago

Slightly more informative article with link to original paper: https://phys.org/news/2024-04-scientists-porous-material-greenhouse-gases.html

Does a VPN used on a smartphone with Wi-Fi disabled (mobile data only enabled) provide any sort of protection? in c/technology@beehaw.org
[–] HeartyBeast@kbin.social 2 points 6 months ago

Absolutely. Unless they’re actually evil. Which I’m sure they aren’t. But they could be.

Does a VPN used on a smartphone with Wi-Fi disabled (mobile data only enabled) provide any sort of protection? in c/technology@beehaw.org
[–] HeartyBeast@kbin.social 2 points 6 months ago

Thanks for the smile this morning 🙂

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Nuclear fusion: new record brings dream of clean energy closer (www.bbc.co.uk)
 

Nuclear fusion still remains a long way off but brings the world one step closer to endless clean energy.

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World's first year-long breach of key 1.5C warming limit (www.bbc.co.uk)
 

The last 12 months were the hottest on record, temporarily sending the world past a deeply symbolic mark.

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PAPERWALL: Chinese Websites Posing as Local News Outlets Target Global Audiences with Pro-Beijing Content - The Citizen Lab (citizenlab.ca)
 

A network of at least 123 websites operated from within the People’s Republic of China while posing as local news outlets in 30 countries across Europe, Asia, and Latin America, disseminates pro-Beijing disinformation and ad hominem attacks within much larger volumes of commercial press releases. We name this campaign PAPERWALL. We attribute the PAPERWALL campaign to Shenzhen Haimaiyunxiang Media Co., Ltd., aka Haimai, a PR firm in China based on digital infrastructure linkages between the firm’s official website and the network. These findings confirm the increasingly important role private firms play in the realm of digital influence operations and the propensity of the Chinese government to make use of them.

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IPv4 address rentals to mint millions of dollars for AWS (www.theregister.com)
 

AWS could rake in between $400 million and $1 billion a year from charging customers for public IPv4 addresses while migration to IPv6 remains slow.

AWS cited increasing scarcity and claimed the cost to acquire a single public IPv4 address for customer use had risen more than 300 percent over the past few years.

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Over 2 percent of the US’s electricity generation now goes to bitcoin (arstechnica.com)
 

US government tracking the energy implications of booming bitcoin mining in US.

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Why 404 Media Needs Your Email Address (www.404media.co)
 

AI stealing our work. The collapse of social networks. The need to pay journalists to produce impactful journalism. Here is why we are asking for your email address to read 404 Media.

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It turns out NASA’s Mars helicopter was much more revolutionary than we knew (arstechnica.com)
 

Ingenuity packed more computing power than all other NASA deep space missions combined.

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Apple says UK could 'secretly veto' global privacy tools (www.bbc.co.uk)
 

A law change to let the government block new features would be an "unprecedented overreach," it says.

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Google Update Reveals AI Will Read All Your Private Messages (www.forbes.com)
 

New warning as AI suddenly targets billions of private messages on smartphones…

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Moti Mahal: India curry houses battle over butter chicken (www.bbc.co.uk)
 

Butter chicken - a curry popular around the world - is now in the middle of a court battle in India.

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Dana-Farber retractions: meet the blogger who spotted problems in dozens of cancer papers (www.nature.com)
 

Nature talks to Sholto David about his process for flagging image manipulation and his tips for scientists under scrutiny.

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My heat pump: a personal story about a broken heating industry (greenallianceblog.org.uk)
 

It was a freezing Friday evening early in February 2023, when my boiler broke. An engineer was called, several cold days passed, and his declaration came in sombre tones: ‘uneconomic to repair’. Li…

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