It's so weird how the whole "this tech is the inevitable future that we've all been building towards and any resistance to it is backwards, if not malignant" is being put out for AI but not solar tech, huh?
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@FediThing @foundseed
"Yes, Google+ currently feels like a nerd sanctuary, and yes, the company screwed up previous social efforts such as Wave and Buzz, but Google is deadly serious about this one."
It's been well over a decade since I stopped being able to keep up with this technology that erases the distinction between the genuine and satire.@eviloatmeal @FediThing poor one out for Google Reader, RIP
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@FediThing @foundseed I wouldn't have minded if 3DTV had actually stayed, honestly. It should be more of a thing.
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It's so weird how the whole "this tech is the inevitable future that we've all been building towards and any resistance to it is backwards, if not malignant" is being put out for AI but not solar tech, huh?
@foundseed yeah strange how this works
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It's so weird how the whole "this tech is the inevitable future that we've all been building towards and any resistance to it is backwards, if not malignant" is being put out for AI but not solar tech, huh?
@foundseed As I continually learn more about technology... It really appears like the broader tech-space, including the computing industry, has horse blinders on!
They focus on more or less one technology at a time, ignorant of all the other exciting opportunities out there!
Whilst discounting the marvels which brought us to today!
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@glent @foundseed As someone living in the South of Europe... well, yes but actually no.
Above a certain temperature, solar panels start to decrease efficiency.
It is still an easy deal to sell, but... yep.
@delawen @glent @foundseed It gets even hotter in Australia and they cope perfectly well. In January, which had some heatwaves with temperatures in the high 40s, renewables generated justly under 50% of all electricity in the country. A new record. Solar might not be as efficient at higher temperatures, but it doesn’t drop to zero.
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It's so weird how the whole "this tech is the inevitable future that we've all been building towards and any resistance to it is backwards, if not malignant" is being put out for AI but not solar tech, huh?
@foundseed
Ikr? [This](https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=KtQ9nt2ZeGM&pp=0gcJCZEKAYcqIYzv) @TechConnectify video on solar and nuclear was a breath of fresh air. -
It's so weird how the whole "this tech is the inevitable future that we've all been building towards and any resistance to it is backwards, if not malignant" is being put out for AI but not solar tech, huh?
@foundseed
Similarly how non-violent protests for climate change or Gaza are repressed by all layers of government in UK and EU, while violent manifestations of right wing groups/farmers are totally acceptable and downplayed.
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It's so weird how the whole "this tech is the inevitable future that we've all been building towards and any resistance to it is backwards, if not malignant" is being put out for AI but not solar tech, huh?
Not weird at all. Solar power does not help the large corporations, they cannot efficiently monetize your use of it. Even with their forcing you to stay on the grid and sell them your excess power, to be sure you will in turn need theirs when you do not have enough to keep your batteries full.
First, I am not at all against AI it is a great resource. I just use local AI as I am against giving my money to a large corporation for something I can easily provide for myself. Not to mention my LLM and SD checkpoints get far better training than theirs do. So are far more reliable.
Who would have thought that if you just arbitrarily scrape all the information you can find, train an LLM with it that its education would suck and it would be very unreliable? Even training LLM on Open Source Code does not mean you gave it good code to learn on. The issue is that corporation do not care about you the way you care about you. Human intelligence is far from infallible. So why would anyone believe AI (artificial intelligence) would be? Teach a human garbage, get garbage out. Teach an LLM garbage, get garbage out. It is almost like a pattern here ...
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It's so weird how the whole "this tech is the inevitable future that we've all been building towards and any resistance to it is backwards, if not malignant" is being put out for AI but not solar tech, huh?
@foundseed @mhoye Probably because people don’t need to be sold on the benefits. As someone else said, in Australia free cooling in summer is an amazing draw card.
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@agitatra @foundseed because no one company or small groups of companies can establish an oligopoly, so they can't raise enough money to bribe everyone/overwhelm with propaganda
@ehproque @agitatra @foundseed yes. Not so much what it does, nor even how effectively it does it, but who it does it for (me and you!) and who it does it to (the Epstein class).
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@FediThing @foundseed @cwebber
What ever happened to that semi recent “Go At” of 3DTV?
@FediThing @foundseed @cwebber @MedeaVanamonde it kinda fizzled out because the tech wasn't quite ready. VR goggles seem like a more promising approach to the same idea. The thing that's holding back VR is cost. I'd get a headset if I could afford one
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@glent @foundseed I recently got a quote on rooftop solar+battery for our house in Denmark:- 12 year payback period.
Danish grid power is already 85%+ renewables and government just cancelled most transmission fees, so it’s hard to compete with atm. Also, installation costs are way higher than the panels.
