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BrightCandle

@ BrightCandle @lemmy.world

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  • Ban social media for under-16s, top teaching union urges UK government

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  • This generations morale panic. It was games then before that TV and before that music, all apparently corrupting our children to greatly they would never come out as functioning adults, except strangely no ban was required. Social media hysteria is all just the same thing, the long list of inventions that the elderly didn't understand and made bold claims about corruption of society that never came to pass. These things go a long way back and sometimes they are deadly (like witches) and sometimes just ridiculous (like short form stories).

  • New study shows Alzheimer’s disease can be reversed to achieve full neurological recovery—not just prevented or slowed—in animal models

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  • The potential problem here is that the mouse model is based on the Amyloid theory of the disease, which this year was largely determined to be wrong after a series of major frauds were found in the research implicating Amyloid. This drug might still work since it seems to act on other aspects of the condition in the bloodwork but there is every chance this doesn't work in practice.

  • Grid-Scale Bubble Batteries Will Soon Be Everywhere

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  • They are talking hectares in this and it looks like the power density is below that of batteries, but its also cheaper per MWh.

    A home long term battery makes a lot of sense, I have thought for a while something that goes from water and the air into methane or even liquid fuel would be highly beneficial as it could run from a generators through the winter and act for long term storage without requiring a turbine.

  • This long-term data storage will last 14 billion years

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  • Because they weren't invented in 1925? Any durability testing you do today is about assumptions where you accelerate the process for a year by heating it or exposing it to water or whatever will degrade it most to some factor above normal and then extrapolate. That extrapolation was wildly wrong with CDs and it could be with this medium too. Or it might last a lot longer. What they have not done is written to a bunch of them and stored them in a variety of ways for 100 years and concluded they last that long.

  • Maybe we don't need a server

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  • The only detail really is that at least 2 of the N machines you are using have to be on at the time so where ever a change was made is synced to another machine that is on and this continues so that you never end up booting a machine to use when nothing else with the latest files is available. This is where having a centralised low power machine is valuable and saves having a desktop or a laptop on when it doesn't need to be.

    I really wish the desktop version of the world had not become so marginalised as local programs are considerably better to use than websites, they are so much quicker, accessible and easier to use.

  • ‘Bloodshed was supposed to stop’: no sign of normal life as Gaza’s killing and misery grind on

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  • They haven't completed their genocide yet, its going to continue until every last Palestinian is dead.

  • Preloading File Explorer in Windows 11 Doubles RAM Usage, Offers Minimal Speed Boost

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  • Making desktop applications has become a nightmare in anything but C or C# and that isn't exactly a language people really want to be programming in these days. That is a big part of the problem there aren't good GUI bindings for a lot of languages and most programmers nowadays have been building websites and working with GUI APIs is a huge step back.

    Everyone is preferring server/web solutions now as its easier to charge customers for it and keep it up to date and the knock on consequence is desktop app support isn't great or considered important.

  • Surging measles cases are 'fire alarm' warning that other diseases could be next

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  • The outbreaks started under Biden. Vaccination and countering viral spread in general has been undermined by successive governments around the globe to get people back to work despite Covid still causing damage to a lot of people, including deaths, and the main causality has been public health.

  • I wish the Steam Controller used AA batteries

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  • This is where this all needs to go, swappable standard batteries like the 18650s being used and recharged in the device and replaced when the inevitable happens and they stop storing much charge. Batteries are consumable currently and devices without swappable ones are designed to fail within a few years.

  • ‘It will never be forgiven’: UN climate chief warns world to act or face disaster

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  • The disaster is definitely going to be the thing that happens, because we have failed to act sufficiently for 50 years. There is no interest in most countries to do what is necessary at this point. Disaster is coming and sooner because climate change is accelerating every year.

  • Self-Hosting on Gamers Nexus | what computer is that?

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  • On the one hand they were talking selfhosting and then they pull out multiple $10s thousands rack servers. People don't need a data centre at home to sync some files, pictures, email and play some media!

  • Disk has read errors but SMART says PASSED

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  • The primary smart parameters are passing but its a bit concerning that such a young drive is showing read error count, that isn't a good sign even if its within the makers tolerance. What failed was just the long test you requested.

    Its not uncommon for drives to fail in weird ways and the smart shows as fine. When you come across problems like a long test failing or occasional checksum problems on your raid array or a read error its a better indicator that something is wrong. Presumably something made you think you better run a long test, and then it failed. I would say Contact reseller for warranty replacement you have enough to go on showing there is something going wrong on the drive, long tests should not be failing on a healthy device.

  • What's the best chat to self host?

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  • Every one always says XMPP and there were a lot of recommendations for ejabberd. I tried this recently and it was a total disaster, I do not have a working chat server. If I followed the docker instructions the server would just crash with no details of what went wrong. Where it should have been creating a default server config file it was instead creating a directory with the wrong permissions then promptly crashing. I tried following their documentation but after about 6 hours of messing about and adding more and more I still couldn't get a client to login to it. I have no idea how to make this work.

    So whatever the solution ultimately is I can't recommend Ejabberd.

  • UK Power Networks to install a mini data centre in people's homes to help with heating

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  • They aren't giving much information about these mini data centres. Basically it sounds like "Bitcoin farms" aka as AI training installed into peoples homes and they are using the heat from it to heat their homes. Its probably a better deal than most heating systems, they pay for their electricity use and connectivity and I get a low flat rate charge for heating.

  • TP-Link confirms successful Wi-Fi 8 trials — next-gen wireless standard to usher in advances in reliability and latency

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  • Given Wifi 8 doesn't intend to bring any speed upgrades of note I suspect those wanting speed will skip it. Wifi 5 users will move to wifi 7 once the prices come down. The skip a generation that happened with wifi 6 will happen again with wifi 8.

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  • They are a major source of the rhetoric that is fuelling far right aggression. They aren't going to stop now they seem to think its popular.

  • TIL: Employers in the USA Have Stolen Over $50 Trillion From Workers Since 1975

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  • Most of the public has been voting for this the entire time, giving the rich all the money seems to be an immensely popular policy. They are under enormous amounts of daily propaganda but its been obvious the entire time.

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    I thought I was growing up in a racially tolerant Britain. I now realise I was wrong

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  • For a period in the 2000s government made racism unacceptable and the racists went into hiding. It didn't change views it just hid them, now they are promoting bigotry in many forms and those views are coming out. At no point was the people of the UK tolerant, there is about the same number of racists its just whether politicians have emboldened those views or not.

  • China’s Domestic x86 CPU, the Zhaoxin KX-7000, Debuts in an AI PC by MAXHUB, Positioning It as a Viable Alternative to Intel/AMD Options

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  • A 9800X3D gets ~820 single thread and ~8600 multithread. So its 41% the speed on single thread and 30% multithreaded. That is more than a decade out of date still a long way to go.