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ziproot@lemmy.mlto
Climate@slrpnk.net•40% of global ship traffic is simply moving fossil fuels around! Renewables make much of this traffic obsolete1·11 hours agoNot wind with sodium ion batteries. EDIT: Source
EDIT: This comment is based on outdated information (see the below thread). A growing number of wind turbines are switching from electromagnets to permanent magnets, the latter of which use rare earth minerals. You could still make wind turbines with electromagnets, but that does likely give countries with rare earth minerals a competitive advantage.
ziproot@lemmy.mlto
Lemmy Shitpost@lemmy.world•there is a special place in hell for these scientists
8·1 day agoDo those neurons interact with hormones like mine do?
how do you know someone’s vegan? they’ll tell you
That statement reads to me the same as “how do you know someone has food allergies? They’ll tell you.”
EDIT: Just to be clear, I know that allergies are different than boycotts. If the girl could get anaphylactic shock from a drop of milk, the dad would be justified in reacting that way. However, in both cases, it makes sense to inform people that you can’t/won’t eat something.
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Technology@lemmy.world•Firefox 148 introduces the promised AI kill switch for people who aren't into LLMsEnglish
9·8 days agoPeople overwhelmingly kept autosave off. People just don’t like changing settings. I’m hoping Mozilla knows this.
EDIT: Typo
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Technology@lemmy.world•Privacy researcher debunks Microsoft Edge’s free VPN marketing, says it's "NOT a VPN"English
71·12 days agohttps://gist.github.com/joepie91/5a9909939e6ce7d09e29
EDIT: If you do absolutely need privacy, then use Tor.
ziproot@lemmy.mlto
Technology@lemmy.world•Jack Dorsey's New Company Falling Apart as It Forces Employees to Use AIEnglish
10·14 days agoFrom reading all the comments from the community, it’s amazing (yet not surprising) that all these managers have fallen for the marketing of all these LLMs
This is probably related to automation bias and wishful thinking


Here is a more direct link.
Apprently my information is outdated. For a long time, wind turbines used electromagnets (the fact check is from 2016), but it looks like they are starting to use permanent magnets now (which require rare earths). They still don’t need them, and I think a lot of the ones using permanent magnets are from countries which have rare earths, but I will update my initial comment since I don’t want to move the goalposts.
In any case, there is a commenter above that mentioned solar, which according to my link does not need rare earth minerals.
I think the world bank report is a good read, regardless.