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Apple News+ subscription growth blows away major media sites in c/apple_enthusiast@lemmy.world

[-] HeartyBeast@kbin.social 3 points 3 months ago

Pretty sure AP is funded by newspapers

Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella is reportedly worried about an OpenAI deal with Apple in c/apple_enthusiast@lemmy.world

[-] HeartyBeast@kbin.social 2 points 3 months ago

If your organisation is big enough to have a press office of more than 4 or 5 people, you will usually have an on-call rota.

German carmaker Volkswagen says forced labour in one of its sub-supplier's plants in China was not identified as 'no full supply chain transparency exists' in c/technology@beehaw.org

[-] HeartyBeast@kbin.social 6 points 3 months ago

I wonder how many manufacturers can currently manage that.

The level of engagement on Reddit these days in c/technology@beehaw.org

[-] HeartyBeast@kbin.social 12 points 3 months ago

However, the upside is that there are no bots, dark patterns, or manipulated feeds.

There’s a huge amount of incoming spam, much of it, I suspect posted by bots. I’ve also seen account posting ‘news’ from sites that are clearly AI generated

The level of engagement on Reddit these days in c/technology@beehaw.org

[-] HeartyBeast@kbin.social 31 points 3 months ago

To be honest, it feels much more likely to see posts on the Fediverse with many upvotes, few or no comments

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Extinct ‘mountain jewel’ plant returned to wild - in secret location (www.bbc.co.uk)

submitted 3 months ago by HeartyBeast@kbin.social to c/upliftingnews@lemmy.world

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A plant picked for its beautiful flowers then wiped out in the UK mainland makes a dramatic return.

Germany has too many solar panels, and it's pushed energy prices into negative territory in c/world@lemmy.world

[-] HeartyBeast@kbin.social 4 points 3 months ago

You need a certain kind of landscape for that. I think the UK only has a couple of pumped storage power stations due to lack of suitable sites

Germany has too many solar panels, and it's pushed energy prices into negative territory in c/world@lemmy.world

[-] HeartyBeast@kbin.social 127 points 3 months ago

No. That’s like saying the UK has too much wind power because our prices occasionally go negative. What Germany might not have enough of is battery and other storage

A Primer on Mastodon's New Board Members in c/technology@beehaw.org

[-] HeartyBeast@kbin.social 3 points 3 months ago

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

International Criminal Court chief prosecutor seeks arrest warrants for Israeli PM and Hamas leaders in c/upliftingnews@lemmy.world

[-] HeartyBeast@kbin.social 0 points 3 months ago

I know what you are getting at OP, but I can’t say I find ‘both sides committed atrocities ‘ uplifting, exactly

Ohhh that's why you run actions in Parallel in c/homeassistant@lemmy.world

[-] HeartyBeast@kbin.social 1 points 3 months ago

Could you give som examples of where it’s desirable ?

Ohhh that's why you run actions in Parallel in c/homeassistant@lemmy.world

[-] HeartyBeast@kbin.social 3 points 4 months ago

Nice tip. Thank you. I was similarly confused

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 4 months ago

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

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Reddit sells training data to unnamed AI company ahead of IPO (arstechnica.com)

submitted 6 months ago by HeartyBeast@kbin.social to c/tech@kbin.social

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If you've posted on Reddit, you're likely feeding the future of AI.

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

submitted 7 months ago by HeartyBeast@kbin.social to c/upliftingnews@lemmy.world

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

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

submitted 7 months ago by HeartyBeast@kbin.social to c/tech@kbin.social

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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)

submitted 7 months ago by HeartyBeast@kbin.social to c/tech@kbin.social

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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)

submitted 7 months ago by HeartyBeast@kbin.social to c/technology@beehaw.org

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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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Apple Vision Pro review: magic, until it’s not (www.theverge.com)

submitted 7 months ago by HeartyBeast@kbin.social to c/apple@kbin.social

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The Apple Vision Pro is supposed to be the start of a new spatial computing revolution. After several days of testing, it’s clear that it’s the best headset ever made — which is the problem.

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

submitted 7 months ago by HeartyBeast@kbin.social to c/space@kbin.social

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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)

submitted 7 months ago by HeartyBeast@kbin.social to c/tech@kbin.social

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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)