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silence7@slrpnk.netOPto
World News@lemmy.world•Greenlanders Reject Trump With 85% Majority Against Joining USEnglish
9·10 months agoBecause the US has a history of buying islands form Denmark — that’s where the US Virgin Islands come from.
silence7@slrpnk.netOPto
World News@lemmy.world•Greenlanders Reject Trump With 85% Majority Against Joining USEnglish
8·10 months agoYeah, you get some silly answers from a small percent of the population, like this one:
Seven percent of all American adults believe that chocolate milk comes from brown cows, according to a nationally representative online survey commissioned by the Innovation Center of U.S. Dairy.
silence7@slrpnk.netOPto
World News@lemmy.world•Scientists May Be Able to Make Grapefruits Compatible With Medications They Currently Interfere WithEnglish
20·11 months agoIt’s probably some years off; there’s something of a roadmap on how to do it, but crossbreeding it in takes quite a few years, and something like CRISPR usually means a lot of testing of the engineered variety.
silence7@slrpnk.netOPto
Technology@lemmy.world•Meta Deletes Trans and Nonbinary Messenger ThemesEnglish
9·11 months agoThey’re probably more afraid that Trump will burn the company down.
silence7@slrpnk.netOPto
Technology@lemmy.world•Meta Deletes Trans and Nonbinary Messenger ThemesEnglish
121·11 months agoYes, it’s just some colors. If you can’t handle a picture with some colors, you’ve got a problem.
silence7@slrpnk.netOPto
Technology@lemmy.world•AI Needs So Much Power, It’s Making Yours WorseEnglish
1·11 months agoThe environmental movement asked the same thing for subsidized hydrogen production
silence7@slrpnk.netOPto
Technology@lemmy.world•AI Needs So Much Power, It’s Making Yours WorseEnglish
13·11 months agoPower use by the Washington/Oregon data center cluster was almost entirely covered by a local surplus of hydropower until a couple years ago. That might be why it looks different from elsewhere.
silence7@slrpnk.netOPto
Technology@lemmy.world•AI Needs So Much Power, It’s Making Yours WorseEnglish
415·11 months agoIf you’re doing a massive load increase, build out emissions-free generation to match. Some mix of wind, solar, batteries, nuclear, and geothermal would do fine. Otherwise, don’t do the big load increase.
silence7@slrpnk.netOPto
World News@lemmy.world•Tiny Coffins: Measles Is Killing Thousands of Children in Congo | Problems with getting vaccines to families have left many children unvaccinated and in danger of contracting the virus.English
8·1 year agoThe Senate could of course do the right thing and refuse to confirm Kennedy or any of the people in his orbit. Not that I expect the Republicans who will be in the majority to do the right thing.
silence7@slrpnk.netto
Technology@lemmy.world•Counter-Drone Systems For Yachts Are Growing In PopularityEnglish
2·1 year agoThey do occasionally enforce the signal jamming laws. Do it with any regularity in a way that messes up police radio, and they will work to catch you.
silence7@slrpnk.netOPto
Technology@lemmy.world•The Words That Stop ChatGPT in Its Tracks | Why won’t the bot say my name? [by Jonathan L. Zittrain]English
31·1 year agoI’m using Firefox with ublock origin and no problems. Maybe Voyager strips out the access token from the URL?
silence7@slrpnk.netOPto
Technology@lemmy.world•The Words That Stop ChatGPT in Its Tracks | Why won’t the bot say my name? [by Jonathan L. Zittrain]English
4·1 year agoThere’s a fairly small list of names it refuses. Almost all names are ok; the author’s is not.
silence7@slrpnk.netOPto
Technology@lemmy.world•The Words That Stop ChatGPT in Its Tracks | Why won’t the bot say my name? [by Jonathan L. Zittrain]English
77·1 year agoMostly because really messed up state on your device can keep Javascript from running.
silence7@slrpnk.netOPto
Technology@lemmy.world•The Words That Stop ChatGPT in Its Tracks | Why won’t the bot say my name? [by Jonathan L. Zittrain]English
311·1 year agoIt’s a gift link. You won’t hit the paywall during the next couple weeks unless at least one of the following is true:
- You’ve disabled javascript
- You’re running a browser extension which strips off the access token (you may also see this problem if you’re accessing the post via mastodon instead of lemmy)
- your device desperately needs a reboot
silence7@slrpnk.netOPto
World News@lemmy.world•An Arctic Hamlet is Sinking Into the Thawing Permafrost | Canada is losing its permafrost to climate change. The Indigenous residents of Tuktoyaktuk know they’ll have to move but don’t agree on when.English
7·1 year agoYeah, inland areas transition to a thermokarst landscape, while places next to the ocean can just disappear entirely.
silence7@slrpnk.netOPto
World News@lemmy.world•Saudi Arabia accused of modifying official Cop29 negotiating text | News of changes to usually non-editable document ‘risks placing climate summit in jeopardy'English
7·1 year agoNo type of source control helps when the people who control access are giving it to people who shouldn’t have it. Think of it as the github workspace admin giving out accounts to malicious individuals.
silence7@slrpnk.netOPto
World News@lemmy.world•Saudi Arabia accused of modifying official Cop29 negotiating text | News of changes to usually non-editable document ‘risks placing climate summit in jeopardy'English
19·1 year agoIt’s not “I sent it as a pdf” but “I gave edit access to the master copy to somebody who shouldn’t have had it”
silence7@slrpnk.netOPto
World News@lemmy.world•Saudi Arabia Is a ‘Wrecking Ball’ in Global Climate Talks: Despite endorsing a transition away from fossil fuels last year, Saudi officials have since worked to undermine it in at least five UN forumsEnglish
7·1 year agoThey care enough to do things like buy properties in cooler countries so they can move to them after making Saudi Arabia uninhabitable.
silence7@slrpnk.netOPto
World News@lemmy.world•The U.N.’s Verdict on Climate Progress Over the Past Year: There Was NoneEnglish
1·1 year agoIt’s a gift link; few people need that.














Here’s a gift link giving free access to the article for 30d