This is the key to so much. Worried about Nestlé monopolizing freshwater? With nuclear fusion we can just take any old seawater and remove the salt. Worried about the war with Russia? With nuclear fusion we can become independent of all gas from Russia and cut off one of their biggest income sources. Lots of special materials are expensive because electricity is expensive - with nuclear fusion electricity is practically free. Over time we can get rid of any coal plants etc. that produce CO2.
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Antagligen alla som har någon typ av reservation mot kärnkraft. I deras ögon.
Om man läser definitionen av ordet på wikipedia så betyder det snarare “politisk och social medvetenhet om rasdiskriminering och andra strukturella orättvisor”. Tror inte det finns något elbolag som utmärker sig i det avseendet.
tiasto Technology@lemmy.ml•Turns out that making Google search unusable was an intentional strategy by the company.2·7 days agoI’m 100% convinced their internal testing is flawed and possibly suffers from confirmation bias. The strategy might work for a couple of years but in the long term they are killing their brand. Once the masses start migrating to other search engines, Google will be beyond rescue.
Guess it’s time to start thinking about Android and Chromecast alternatives because when Google becomes desperate they will turn everything they touch into shit.
tiasto Gaming@beehaw.org•Shower thought: Valve could do the ultimate boss-move this year16·7 days agoIt needs to be at least as easy as Windows to install and have good support.
Extra bonus points if they preinstall/bundle it on gaming PCs.
I’m thinking of file compression formats like Zip, LHA and ARJ, which would work particularly well if the image was not dithered and used run-length encoding (e.g. the PIC format of the Atari ST). The PNG format still uses the deflate algorithm which is essentially identical to the compression used by PKZip in 1991.
At the time when dithering was commonly used to achieve the illusion of more available colors, i.e. the 80s and the first half of the 90s.
tiasto Asklemmy@lemmy.ml•Whats the last thing you laughed at so hard that you lost control of yourself?8·8 days agoFor some reason I find glitching physics in games to be hilarious. This clip from AC4 had me wheezing.
It’s really only helpful for formats that will be directly read by hardware (the video chip) and where the “compression” ratio (I would prefer the term quantization) needs to be fixed. For file compression, which was quite mature but CPU- and memory-intensive at the time, the dithering only makes it more difficult to compress further.
Compressed textures on modern GPUs actually use similar compression: a color palette followed by indexes into the palette. But that’s done per 4x4 pixel block.
This.exe file including music and visuals is 4KB
tiasto Mildly Infuriating@lemmy.world•Forced to lie on a questionnaire (BioLife)English811·9 days agoWhy are people who make questionnaires so bad at making questionnaires? It’s baffling. This post is particularly glaring but I always find stupid errors or assumptions like this.
tiasto Technology@lemmy.world•WhatsApp provides no cryptographic management for group messagesEnglish35·11 days agoHow bad can it be, it’s not like we’re sharing state secrets
Is this satire or real? I really can’t tell
When a news headline ends with a question mark, the answer is no.
tiasto Technology@beehaw.org•Firefox could be doomed without Google search deal, says executive1·14 days agoI think such projects don’t exist precisely because Mozilla is still developing it. If Mozilla abandons Firefox then someone else will take up the torch.
tiasto Technology@beehaw.org•Firefox could be doomed without Google search deal, says executive3·14 days agoI believe the Firefox development organization could be a lot leaner, and not all of the work has to be directly salaried. There are plenty of huge open source projects that are progressing fine without being run by a single for-profit company. E.g. the Apache ecosystem, the Linux foundation projects, FreeBSD, etc.
tiasto Technology@beehaw.org•Firefox could be doomed without Google search deal, says executive4·14 days agoI am. Why not make it a nonprofit and get the money from donations?
It’s AI but a specific use case of AI: an android at home to take care of the housework. Cleaning my dishes, doing the laundry, vaccuming and putting stuff away where it belongs are obvious use cases. But also:
Possibilities are endless.