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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Stellantis abandons hydrogen fuel cell development⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  There’s three factors at play: depletion of the easiest reservoirs, sociological changes and increasing feasibility of competing technologies. The answer is going to depend on which things you’re assuming away.

  Like, in this parallel modern world, is everyone using EVs, or horse and buggy? Early cars sucked - you basically had to be a mechanic just to own one, on top of the low speed, range and features - but they beat the shit out of no cars. It’s also worth noting petroleum products were burned in lamps first, so there was already a limited infrastructure for cars to use. If all the easy oil still isn’t there I doubt we’d bother, but with those gushing deposits of sweet crude just below Texas that used to exist the process would be much simpler.

  The sociological one might be the easiest to answer. There’s plenty of heavy industry that’s nasty to be around, oil isn’t unique or even the worst offender, so that’s fine. If it’s the horse and buggy world people aren’t going to tolerate tons of steel whizzing them by with no enclosure, though. Most of that kind of thing was outlawed in the mid 20th century, but cars were just so ubiquitous. So, by that count, gas powered trains would be the application. There’s a chance the greenhouse effect would be predicted and managed actively from the start, because science has come a long way. I’d guess urban air pollute regulation would end up in about the same place.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Stellantis abandons hydrogen fuel cell development⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  Can you link one? A quick look gave this:

  A recent study by the USGS estimates that there could be millions of Mt of natural hydrogen in accumulations in the Earth’s crust (Ellis and Gelman, 2024). However, there is a great deal of uncertainty associated with this prediction and the model does not evaluate the potential size or distribution of hydrogen accumulations. Most of this hydrogen is likely to be in accumulations that are too deep, too far offshore, or too small to ever be economically recovered. That said, even a small fraction of the estimated amount of subsurface hydrogen could potentially meet all global projected demand for hundreds of years. Consequently, the key to understanding geologic hydrogen resource potential is to examine the geologic factors that affect the potential to form accumulations.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Stellantis abandons hydrogen fuel cell development⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  Oh, I see now.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Stellantis abandons hydrogen fuel cell development⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  Yes! Although it’s a relatively recent discovery.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Stellantis abandons hydrogen fuel cell development⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  I mean, there’s also white hydrogen and blue hydrogen, and other paths to green hydrogen than electrolysis.

  We still will have to figure out the hydrogen economy, if only for steelmaking and similar.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Stellantis abandons hydrogen fuel cell development⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  We are talking about fuel cells, not ICE, though, right?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨3D Printing Patterns Might Make Ghost Guns More Traceable Than We Thought | 404 Media⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  Is this how ghost gun printing is working? One person with a machine making and selling oodles?

  If you’ve printed your own it seems like this would have limited applications, because you’ve either destroyed or lost it, or it’s still in your possession.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Reddit bought a giant ad in Paris, urging young french people to create an account⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m not sure about infuriating. Maybe more like pathetic. Can that even make economic sense if you’re an ad-driven business yourself?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Reddit bought a giant ad in Paris, urging young french people to create an account⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Switching to old Reddit is a still-working loophole for that.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  This is either bait, or you need to get the police involved for the kids and find somewhere safer/saner to live yourself.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨My son got Nikes so he doesn't get teased.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Time to find a good counterfeit.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Meta’s “AI superintelligence” effort sounds just like its failed “metaverse”⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Has he actually given up on the Metaverse thing at this point?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Mayor of Calgary, Canada, just received this letter⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  It doesn’t read like a warning, exactly, but in the context of what the Alberta government has been doing it kind of is.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Mayor of Calgary, Canada, just received this letter⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  This government has blown up one Calgary transport plan already (they’re literally building two halves that don’t reach downtown now), so that may or may not be wise. Cities don’t really have constitutional protections here.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Nudify app’s plan to dominate deepfake porn hinges on Reddit, docs show⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  These are all Eastern European software developers, per the article.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨‘FuckLAPD.com’ Lets Anyone Use Facial Recognition to Instantly Identify Cops⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Pretty much.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨‘FuckLAPD.com’ Lets Anyone Use Facial Recognition to Instantly Identify Cops⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Well, that’s too far in the other direction. Zero is a very small number, and Derek Chauvin is in jail.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨‘FuckLAPD.com’ Lets Anyone Use Facial Recognition to Instantly Identify Cops⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I think we all no the practice of that is a little hit-and-miss.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨‘FuckLAPD.com’ Lets Anyone Use Facial Recognition to Instantly Identify Cops⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  If it was identifying Lemmy users, it definitely would be. But, it’s a tool that reveals identities of a small, supposedly accountable group, and we’re just mentioning it, so it seems like there’s at least an argument to allow it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨‘FuckLAPD.com’ Lets Anyone Use Facial Recognition to Instantly Identify Cops⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Oh how the tables have turned, lol.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The White House is paving over the Rose Garden with concrete. People are outraged⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Lol, isn’t that symbolic.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨All this produce is going to spoil at the food bank where I volunteer⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Yes, it’s probably good to note, although in this context it sounded like you were giving a reason government help would be pointless.

  Have an upvote, friend.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨All this produce is going to spoil at the food bank where I volunteer⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, some of them need assisted living as well.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨All this produce is going to spoil at the food bank where I volunteer⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  We are not allowed to simply give it out to anyone. This is not like a church pantry where all of the food is donated by the community and’s parishioners. There is government funding, as well as private businesses, which I am guessing get their money back from the government for funding this. If we could simply give it to anyone we would not be in this situation.

  Yep. That’s really dumb. When people talk about government inefficiency, this is what they mean.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨These captchas are getting ridiculous⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s not how AIs work. They’re pretty brain-like, and learn through their experiences during the training process.

  It’s possible they still might be able to learn this spelling fact from some bit of their training data somehow, but they’re at an immense disadvantage.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨These captchas are getting ridiculous⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It was always a kind of unfair test, when you consider words are rendered down to a token before the thing ever sees them.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Pro-AI Subreddit Bans 'Uptick' of Users Who Suffer from AI Delusions⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I mean, the industry itself was onboard with regulation this time. At least some of it.

  It didn’t happen in the US because the US is basically in terminal gridlock at this point. The EU passed something.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Pro-AI Subreddit Bans 'Uptick' of Users Who Suffer from AI Delusions⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Ah yes. Someone made a GPT version of it that was much more fluent, too.

  People who aren’t impressed by LLMs don’t remember pre-LLM chatbots. The first time I played with GPT2 I knew everything was going to change.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  This seems like a golden opportunity to fuck with him in subtle ways. How many girls things can you disguise?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Canon requires an account to transfer images from your camera. Forces you to sign up using Chrome.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I worry a day will come it’s all of them.