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fungion Android 17 is the first since 3.x to add new APIs without releasing to the AOSP

2nd vote for postmarket. have put it on an old tablet i pulled out of ewaste and it is excellent.

there is clearly no future for android for anyone wanting an open and spyware free platform. its time to invest out efforts elsewhere.

fungion OpenRouter is joining Stripe

And don't get me started on Sesame!

fungion M 7.4 earthquake – 100 km ENE of Miyako, Japan

was reading in a park in suburban tokyo a few years ago, notifications arrived for the noto peninsula earthquake.

kids in the park stared doing wobbly knee dance :D

felt the quake about 30sec later.

fungion US plans online portal to bypass content bans in Europe and elsewhere

Banning Nazi and ISIS propaganda doesn't and hasn't negativity affected anyone but Nazis and Jihadists. It's just plain good policy.

I guess that's why arguments against it always fall back on straw men and hypothetical slippery slopes.

There are plenty of actual things that do negatively affect societies free speech but this isn't even close to one of them.

fungion Microsoft increases Office 365 and Microsoft 365 license prices

IT departments often lack the skills and/or desire to use anything but MS

fungion Kimi K2 Thinking, a SOTA open-source trillion-parameter reasoning model

microsofts phi models are very good smaller models under MIT license.

fungion Keep Android Open

never been a better time to donate to postmarket os, mobian or friends.

fungion America’s semiconductor boom [video]

everyone pays the premium now not just the USA.

this would represent an additional cost on top of that that only USA consumers pays.

fungion America’s semiconductor boom [video]

how competitive will american made cpu's be? will american consumers just end up paying n * more for same product that the rest of the world gets from taiwan?

fungion Llama 3.2: Revolutionizing edge AI and vision with open, customizable models

ive been using https://github.com/valiantlynx/ollama-docker which comes with https://github.com/open-webui/open-webui

fungion Ryanair wins screen scraping case against Booking.com in US court ruling

https://www.ryanair.com/robots.txt

fungion HH70, the first high-temperature superconducting Tokamak achieves first plasma

Battery backed renewable energy with grid upgrades is cheaper today and getting cheaper.

https://www.csiro.au/en/research/technology-space/energy/Gen...

fungion Ibiza locals living in cars as party island sees rents soar

Australia's growth in housing supply has outpaced population for over a decade.

https://www.theguardian.com/news/datablog/2023/dec/12/austra...

Yes population is important, no it's not the crux of the matter.

> And the government - mostly landlord owning multi house portfolios - have zero interest in fixing it.

That 100% is. Would add that news corp is largely a portal to realestate and nine/fairfax is to domain.

fungion Job boards are still rife with 'ghost jobs'. What's the point?

i assumed it was an immigration scam to say company couldn't fill the role locally as a prerequisite for getting someone in on immigration work visa?

fungion A 'cowboy ski town' where high earners can't afford a home faces housing battle

housing supply has outpaced population for a decade.

https://www.theguardian.com/news/datablog/2023/dec/12/austra...

it's pretty impossible to take anything the media, lib/alp or industry say seriously when they got us where we are and are proposing more or of the same.

fungion NERV Disaster Prevention

Loss of life from mass shootings in America is a far more regular occurrence then loss of life from earth quakes in Japan.

fungion NERV Disaster Prevention

https://unnerv.jp/about/more

they have an excellent mastodon instance

fungion 2022 Climate Tech VC funding totals $70.1B, up 89% on 2021

more fossil fuels are incompatible with 1.5c target

https://www.carbonbrief.org/new-fossil-fuels-incompatible-wi...

at this point they simply must stay in the ground

fungion Cheap, sustainable hydrogen through solar power

hydrogen worsens the impact of methane in the atmosphere and as such simply pumping hydrogen through existing infrastructure sounds pretty dangerous.

https://theconversation.com/dont-rush-into-a-hydrogen-econom...

https://agage.mit.edu/publications/global-environmental-impa...

more skeptically, given that green hydrogen remains a pipe dream, it's both a useful delaying tactic for switching to electricity and furthering investment in fossil fuels, which must stay in the ground if we are to have any hope of staying below 1.5c.

https://www.carbonbrief.org/new-fossil-fuels-incompatible-wi...

fungion Proxy Chrome extensions are not going to be usable in MV3

no bc they are leveraging monopoly in search to advantage their other products and undermine competition.

im a relatively happy firefox user, but at this point to say mozilla significantly mitigates googles monopoly is as plausible as when microsoft claimed that BeOS somehow mitigated theirs.

fungion ‘Solar tower’ system produces jet fuel from CO2, water, and sunlight

also papering over the need to invent cost competitive green hydrogen production and massively scale it really fast.

also hydrogen is a leaky greenhouse gas https://energypost.eu/hydrogen-is-also-a-greenhouse-gas-so-l...

wish them luck, not trying to be negative, we need solutions asap, situation is dire.

fungion Apple Unveils M2

1000nits is great, but 1920x1080 is underwhelming. most of the thinkpad range is advertised as available with higher res (but other then the x1 carbon seems unavailable).

> 2 SODIMM, so 64 GB RAM

sweet :D

this looks more interesting https://wccftech.com/hp-unleashes-zhan-x-a-14-inch-laptop-up...

fungion Apple Unveils M2

meh monitor

previous gen cpu

only 16gig

pretty underwhelming to be honest

fungion Apple Unveils M2

honestly happy to pay through the nose for thinkpad build quality. it's a tax deduction and going to last me 5+ years.

hopefully get some ryzen 6000 series laptop options this year. the thinkpad z13 looks promising, but will have to wait for reviews to start rolling in.

fungion Assange case: Key witness admits he lied

War Nerd podcast has good interview this week discussing http://exiledonline.com/45wn84klrz/?name=rwn_ep_288_0708211....

fungion Universities have formed a company that looks a lot like a patent troll

How does you having a patent 'A' protect you from trolly companies with patent 'B'? Or does it just give you access to funding to fight said tolls?

fungion Robot-woven sneaker with 3D-printed soles

cleaning it out with a little stick after stepping in dog poo :(

fungion OpenStreetMap proven to be a highly accurate map in top US cities

https://hub.docker.com/r/maptiler/tileserver-gl

hosing the entire planet is not sensible, but you can safely host a region/city/small country.

that said im not in love with maptiler and trying out a bunch of other tile servers with limited sucess.