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treadful@lemmy.zipto
Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world•Why is bicycle riding so controversial in America?English
84·3 天前It’s not just bicycles either. I had someone scream at me with mouth froth and all because I filtered on a motorcycle. I guess they perceived I cut the line or whatever even though they weren’t even in the same lane as me.
I’ve had a lot of hostility as a pedestrian, too. FSM forbid I want to cross the street and it delays their trip by 10 seconds.
Car brained people are broken.
treadful@lemmy.zipto
Technology@lemmy.world•Americium: How a small element could power the next century of space explorationEnglish
2·3 天前Not thermoelectrics, but sterling engines. But fair point about the heat.
treadful@lemmy.zipto
Technology@lemmy.world•Americium: How a small element could power the next century of space explorationEnglish
53·4 天前In the UK, large stocks of civil nuclear waste contain significant quantities of americium-241. That makes the fuel not only long-lasting but also readily accessible. Instead of building new reactors to produce plutonium, agencies can extract Americium from existing waste, a form of recycling at a planetary scale.
Using it seems way more preferable to just letting it sit in casks.
Traditional RTGs utilize thermoelectrics, which are reliable but inefficient, often achieving only five percent efficiency. Stirling engines can convert heat to electricity with an efficiency of 25 percent or more. […] Stirling engines introduce moving parts, which also raises reliability concerns in space. However, Americium’s steady heat output enables RTG designs with multiple Stirling converters operating in tandem. If one fails, the others compensate, preserving power output.
That seems a little ridiculous though. All that friction requires a lube that’ll last “generations.” In space, without gravity, and at incredibly low temperatures.
treadful@lemmy.zipto
Linux@lemmy.ml•Is the FOSS world in danger of a corporate takeover, thanks to pushover licenses?English
4·4 天前There is a reason nearly every software corporation out there is allergic to GPL code, and similarly why they love MIT/BSD/Apache code. I urge you to consider why that is.
I’m well aware. Are you assuming that people using permissive licenses are somehow incapable of understanding the implication of their license choice?
Licenses do affect how software is used, that is literally the purpose of them.
You implied that I would be “contributing to something” I would object to. I’m left to fill in the gaps. Maybe be more direct in your comments.
treadful@lemmy.zipto
Linux@lemmy.ml•Is the FOSS world in danger of a corporate takeover, thanks to pushover licenses?English
43·4 天前My labor is done. I’ve already made the product. I have nothing to protect it from. Someone copying the product deprives me of nothing.
Also, you seem to be moving into another topic of controlling how software is used which is rarely ever addressed in licenses.
treadful@lemmy.zipto
Linux@lemmy.ml•Is the FOSS world in danger of a corporate takeover, thanks to pushover licenses?English
118·4 天前I’m going to continue releasing my software with a license that I deem appropriate.
For things I’m building only for myself or that I have no interest in building a community around, I couldn’t give a shit what people do with it or if they contribute back. My efforts have nothing to do with them. I’m releasing it for the remote chance someone finds it useful, either commercially or personally. Partially because I’ve benefited from others doing the same thing.
I’m not anti-copyleft, but the only time I actually care to use something like the GPL is for projects that would be obviously beneficial to have community contributions. Things that require more effort than I can put in, or that needs diverse points of views.
I use permissive licenses not because I’m a pushover, but because I really don’t care what you do with it.
treadful@lemmy.zipto
Piracy: ꜱᴀɪʟ ᴛʜᴇ ʜɪɢʜ ꜱᴇᴀꜱ@lemmy.dbzer0.com•is it worth seeding for internet archive files?English
14·5 天前I’m seeding an old movie from them and it’s gotten some traffic.
treadful@lemmy.zipto
Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world•What are some gross or disgusting facts about the human body that people aren't aware of?English
1·5 天前Why would blood in the abdominal cavity be painful? Wouldn’t it eventually just get absorbed by the lymphatic system?
I used to do order picking in a large warehouse. We used headphones that told you were to go.

treadful@lemmy.zipto
Selfhosted@lemmy.world•Platform for Crowd Sourced Software Bounties?English
2·5 天前GitCoin exists and has been pretty successful in the past.
Though I suspect it’s not what you’re looking for. I don’t see bounties on their site anymore and their focus has been mostly in the crypto space.
It’s a some “trouble” to install, but it’s worth it. I spend like 2-3 days getting every little thing the way I like and then I’m set for basically the life of the hardware.
treadful@lemmy.zipto
Technology@lemmy.world•Russia’s first AI-powered humanoid robot AIDOL collapses during its onstage debutEnglish
11·7 天前Yeah but like, if humans aren’t dying there’s no stakes. Eventually one robot army must chew through the other to get to the human soldiers or civilians. Then you just eventually just have a robot army massacring a populous with no internal morality.
treadful@lemmy.zipto
Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world•what everyday technology do you think future generations will find completely baffling?English
5·7 天前Phones, probably. At some point we’re not going to be carrying these things around. Whether replaced by an implant or some kind of wearable, I have no idea.
treadful@lemmy.zipto
Showerthoughts@lemmy.world•If we ever find a planet with life in it, we could never set foot on it, because the interaction of the two biologies can have unpredictable consequencesEnglish
2·8 天前Never said it was the best. But yeah, I did read the whole damned thing.
Only thing that stuck out for me was the weird furry and homoerotic dog piles, but it was still fun.
treadful@lemmy.zipto
Linux@lemmy.ml•What you do with your windows button on your keyboard?English
10·8 天前It’s my Super key. It’s used for like everything in my DE (Hyprland).
treadful@lemmy.zipto
Showerthoughts@lemmy.world•If we ever find a planet with life in it, we could never set foot on it, because the interaction of the two biologies can have unpredictable consequencesEnglish
8·8 天前Reminds me of Deathworlders. Some woman got stuck on a planet and had to take a shit and the microorganisms in her shit wrecked the planet.
treadful@lemmy.zipto
Technology@lemmy.world•Montana Becomes First State to Enshrine ‘Right to Compute’ Into Law - Montana NewsroomEnglish
281·9 天前The bill text of SB-212 seems pretty reasonable. Basically just says the government needs a good reason to create regulations on computation.
It even explicitly mentions good reasons may include things like fraud, deepfakes, and public nuisances of datacenters.
As a Montanan, I’m cool with it. Guess we’ll see how it’s used.
treadful@lemmy.zipto
World News@beehaw.org•Water levels below 3% in dam reservoirs for Iran’s second city, say reportsEnglish
4·11 天前Almost time for climate migrations to start.





oooo, I like that.