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@ fearout @kbin.social

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  • Fibre optics could be the answer to water loss from leaky pipes: 48.6 billion cubic meters of water are lost globally daily

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  • I read the article and I still don’t really understand how exactly it’s supposed to work. I guess it can detect some deformation within the cable, but is this deformation guaranteed when a leak has occurred?

    Does it give false positives or false negatives, and how often? Would different placement along the pipe matter? And is there some measurement besides “the cable has slightly deformed somewhere”? Like, is there a way to find the location of the leak, for example, or should the pipe be checked along the whole length of the cable between detectors?

  • Does anyone actually make money from stuff like this?

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  • Non-Fungible Tokens, or NFTs for short are shaking up the virtual universe, transforming how we vibe with digital assets.

    Oh hello fellow humans. Let’s vibe with our digital assets for a bit since it’s something we do so often in our virtual universe. What assets do you especially enjoy vibing with?

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    Elon may have a huge issue because Microsoft own the “X” trademark

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  • Trademark research would require paying people. Can you imagine that? Shudders.

    At least you can always find designers who are happy to work for free. Sure, it might be just a Unicode character, but it has animated glitches tho. Those are cool.

  • Reddit is still a mess with r/place begging users to 'never forget what was stolen from us'

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  • Articles like these lower future Reddit’s valuations. It lost like 60% of its original price, and I’d guess it wasn’t primarily because users protested, but rather thanks to many reputable tech news outlets covering the shit storm.

    Would a temporary uptick in users be worth it in the long run? I kinda doubt it.

  • Spotify raises premium subscription price for millions

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  • I recently read a pretty interesting take that a lot of this started because Silicon Valley Bank failed, and now all these companies have to do something they haven’t really had a necessity to do before — to make profit.

    And all of them aren’t run by business geniuses as previously believed, on the contrary, most of the leaders are so disconnected from reality that they genuinely have no idea what people want in a service, they can’t take feedback or advice because “they know better”, and all the other stuff that comes with that.

    So they do what they think is right, while missing the whole point of the product they are so desperately trying to make profitable.

    Look at spez’s “we’ll stay profit-focused until profits arrive” and Musk’s rush to get at least some ROI on his $44 bn middle age crisis toy.

  • Elon May Have a Huge Issue Because Microsoft Owns the “X” Trademark

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  • I’m glad we’re currently on a good news streak. Those climate change articles were weighing on me.

  • Exclusive: The $2 Per Hour Workers Who Made ChatGPT Safer

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  • I remember Sam Altman’s interview where he was going about how the funds from AI breakthroughs should fund UBI programs and be used towards the betterment of mankind in general.

    So much for that I guess.

  • Musk rushes out new Twitter logo—it’s just an X that someone tweeted at him

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  • Comedown might’ve not started yet :)

  • I heard y'all like sunflowers.

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  • They do, and here I was going to add “but they’re a bit less fun”, but after reading the wiki article I’m not sure.

    Due to their effects and symptoms, Datura species have occasionally been used not only as poisons, but also as hallucinogens by various groups throughout history. Traditionally, their psychoactive administration has often been associated with witchcraft and sorcery or similar practices in many cultures, including the Western world. Certain common Datura species have also been used ritualistically as entheogens by some Native American groups.

  • I heard y'all like sunflowers.

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  • When I was a kid, I spent a few summers living nearby a sunflower field. At the end of the season, snatching a flower with some friends and munching on those seeds was the best thing ever :)

    We would often roast them over a bonfire holding the flower by its stem.

  • If you don't drive a truck you're a wimpy loser and girls won't want to fuck you

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  • Weren’t these “real people, not actors” actually actors? I remember reading about these ads catching a lot of flak for that some time ago.

  • Mastodon Usage Soaring as Twitter Rebranding Leads to User Exodus: CEO Eugen Rochko

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    "X.com now points to https://twitter.com/"

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  • It was his in the 00s and he bought it back in 2017, as some article mentioned earlier.

  • Benefits of smoking cigarettes?

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  • I started smoking when I was 15.

    A while later, someone gifted that book to me. I barely started it and put it away, and it was lying around the appartement for 2 years. One day I randomly picked it up and finished it that day. Went from ~20 cigarettes a day to 0 overnight. That was like 13 years ago, and I never wanted a cigarette since.

    That 90% success rate seems to be the case within my friend group as well :)

  • Benefits of smoking cigarettes?

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  • Sawing off your leg or getting tapeworms also helps you lose weight. I wouldn’t call those benefits tho.

  • Benefits of smoking cigarettes?

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  • And what makes you think that exactly?

  • Benefits of smoking cigarettes?

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  • There. Are. None. Sorry, but you won’t find any.

  • Benefits of smoking cigarettes?

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  • Ok, you have to be trolling. Are you? No one uses “I could quit whenever I want to right now but I’ll just do it later” seriously.

  • Benefits of smoking cigarettes?

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  • Read Allen Carr’s Easy Way. It’s not a great piece of literature, but it’s the best book to help you wrap your head around why you smoke and whether you actually want to.

    Can’t recommend it enough.