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[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

Couldn’t agree more with this. I just use a Roku set top box with all my TVs and never even connect the TVs to the internet.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

I'll bet they wrote that proposal expecting to be rejected for any kind of grant and then were laughing all the way to the laboratory after hearing it was granted.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

haha, too right! I hadn't even thought of that :P

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

They were talking about this years ago and I haven't heard anything on it in a while. Is it still even a project they're working on? Also, what would be the environmental problems with this? I remember reading at one point about submarine power cables potentially causing issues with marine animals because of EMF, but I don't think that was any kind of conclusive study.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago (3 children)

The one I always find funny is tech CEOs or ads out there that use the term "quantum leap" to describe an improvement. In reality, a quantum leap is just when an electron changes orbitals -- one of the smallest movements a piece of matter can make. In my mind, a device being described as a "quantum leap" ahead of it's predecessor sounds like it's barely changed at all. Even better is the state is often temporary as electrons jump up an orbital when absorbing energy and then will jump back down when they release it. All in all, a terrible marketing term.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Almost every part of the article was as entertaining as it was interesting, haha! Not only did they spend months tickling rats, but they actually turned up some new information on how the brain works in the process.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago (2 children)

It's the 5th most hit site globally, it's going nowhere.

https://www.similarweb.com/top-websites/

[–] [email protected] 60 points 1 year ago (8 children)

Currently chatting with the other mods about this and while we don't want the community to be overrun by Elon, the articles are some of the most upvoted in the past few days. It seems, that people do want to hear about what's going on but not at a rate that drowns out other content. We've been careful to prune out duplicates to keep the flow down, but the volume of Elon posts and Twitter / X is definitely... a lot. I do see how some find it annoying so we're keeping an eye on the situation, but I do agree it does meet the criteria of being both news and tech related. I assume that he'll eventually run out of Twitter pieces to break, right :P

Please do keep an open line of communication with us and all replies, feedback and opinions are always welcome! Cheers!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Rumble is free to upload videos to. I haven't uploaded to Vimeo in a while, so I'm not as sure on that one. I believe the paid tiers for Rumble are just for commercial accounts to use to display videos with no ads and they also unlock streaming.

[–] [email protected] 221 points 1 year ago (10 children)

At this point, I'd say: Providing entertainment to the internet while also helping grow the fediverse

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Same, would have definitely checked them out. Sounds like they did a really bad job at getting the word out there that they even existed.

I've been using duckduckgo instead of Google for a few years now and love it. I've gotten used to the shortcuts in it now and probably couldn't go back if I wanted to haha

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Lol, you got me there :P

 

The link previews at the bottom of a post or comment was one of the nicer little QOL features in Apollo. Not only did it save me from countless bad clicks (Rick Rolls haha), but also time saved with previews and not needing to load a full page or just make it easier to tap a link between things in a cluttered post.

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