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‘It made me cry’: photos taken 15 years apart show melting Swiss glaciers
  • I always thought the Mer de Glace at the Mont Blanc illustrates this really well. You arrive and there's a sign "the glacier was here in 1910" and that's where tourists back then.

    To get to the actual glacier, you have to eall down many flights of metal stairs for about half an hour and there's several signs for different years, 1950, 1990, 2002, 2006, 2009, 2012, 2014, 2015, something like this, with the years between each sign getting shorter but the distance staying roughly the same. And from the top it's really far away.

    Of course, once you actually reach the glacier, you get to the main attraction, a 3m diameter tunnel they bored 100m deep into it as a tourist attraction with ice sculptures inside. Above the tunnel you can see the remains of the tunnel from the previous year, half melted...

  • AI Music Generator Suno Admits It Was Trained on ‘Essentially All Music Files on the Internet’
  • Uhm, this came out as part of a law suit against them by the record industry? So they are in the process of being sued.

    While not surprising, the admission, which was made as part of court proceedings responding to a massive recording industry lawsuit against the company, shows yet again that many AI tools are trained on, essentially, anything that companies can get their hands on.

  • Is there a linux distro (or just a DE) that can be used like a Smart TV
  • Have you tried Jellyfin? It's a FOSS fork of emby, so pretty much a drop in replacement and it's been working very well for me.

    Personally I use jellyfin as a backend, with the web interface and jellyfin app as frontend. Plus Kodi as an additional frontend for my beamer, with the Kodi Jellyfin plugin and Yatse remote to make it feel more like a TV.

  • Climate protesters try to break into Tesla's Germany factory, multiple people arrested
  • In addition to other answers, keep in mind that Tesla gets credits relative to how far below the average carbon footprint their cars are and sell those credits to manufacturers of cars with more emissions. So in a way a part of the reduced liferime emissions are "gone" before the cars drive for the first time

  • Survey finds that 60 firms are responsible for half of world’s plastic pollution
  • Those are not the same things... Glass is better for the environment, for one it doesn't break down into microplastics which get everywhere. And glass can be recycled indefinitely (minus some loss due to impurities) whereas plastic can be recycled up 0-1 times usually.

    Plus the whole "it's up to consumers to solve this" is just corporate propaganda to absolve themselves of any responsibility, all the while not offering any alternatives that a consumer could pick from. Like literally, they paid for marketing campaigns to convince the public that it was our fault.

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  • one way to do this from within python itself would be to use the site module with pth files to monkeypatch the code in question. This would amount to patching it each time it gets started, not modifying the python file permanently, and without having to touch the original python code at all.

    This write-up goes into more details and also links to this (unmaintained) tool for doing so.

  • Are there any Windows-exclusive programs you use?
  • You can get Fusion360 to work okay-ish in Wine. Probably not good enough for professional use but for my hobby use case it works well enough (sometimes a bit laggy but usable). this does most of the heavy lifting in getting it installed.

  • [kind of solved] Nvidia Wayland Issues
  • there's a lot of stuff you can do, and you can end up with something usable, though not great, at least not in my experience. NVidia's drivers are to blame, they don't really work well with opengl and have lots of issues (and also regressions).

    The 550 beta driver is ok-ish, steam flickers but I can play games. Drivers before 535 also somewhat worked, though it really depends on your GPU.

    But I don't think you will have it working acceptably without some work.

    Here's some pointers on stuff to try:

    • check protondb for how other people got games to work, you can filter by your GPU.
    • try running through gamescope or gamemoderun
    • try the modeset=1 (and maybe fbdev) kernel parameters for nvidia drm
    • and there's tons of env vars and other things that can help, I couldn't summarize them all here, but as a pointer: XWAYLAND_NO_GLAMOR=1, WLR_RENDERER=vulkan, LIBVA_DRIVER_NAME=nvidia, GBM_BACKEND=nvidia-drm (for the drm above), __GLX_VENDOR_LIBRARY_NAME=nvidia
    • try the beta drivers, if those are available somehow (I'm on arch so they were easy to install), or just different driver versions in general.

    The above is meant more as hints than something to copy paste, so use at your own risk. You can of course always just install a second DE with X11 and log into that for gaming and use your regular DE for everything else

  • EU officials criticize Trump for condoning Russian attacks on NATO allies that don't pay enough
  • that is a terrible idea. Even ignoring the energy use and that market cap is a bad metric for value, especially in a market with as much wash trading and painting the tape and just plain fraud as the bitcoin ecosystem.

    The code base is under the control of around 5-10 people, the mining is under the control of 2-5 mining pools, with the largest two being the result of the largest pool splitting because it was too big and that's not good optics, the majority of those pols and mining is in China. It has not reliably relayed transactions, being severely congested for weeks on end several times in its history. It does not have a "stable fiscal policy", it has no fiscal policy. It is limited to 7-10 transactions/second (and no, lightning does not solve this, as you still need a regular transaction to settle, onboarding something the size of the EU would take on the order of 50 years until everyone has their channel, and then another 50 years if everyone were to settle their channels, along with many others fundamental problems with lightning), completely laughable if you want to use it as the backbone of the international financial system.

    You want there to be a proper fiscal policy with knobs that can be turned, so you can deal with crisis/extraordinary events. For instance having your country's currency tied to the dollar is horrible for managing that country's economics and only done if there is no other alternative, using bitcoin as the global reserve would be that, just on crack and there's no reason to do it unless you're incredibly desperate, in which case the dollar is still a safer bet. You'd hand over control of your financial system to a shadow group of unelected people, so you lose even more autonomy. You want there to be checks and things like sanctions, to prevent fraud, theft and, in the case of sanctions, to have a political tool that is harsh but less so than an actual war. These things are features, not bugs. You can debate whether it's good that the US is in control of a lot of these tools, but proposing to get rid of these tools altogether (which moving to bitcoin would do) would be even worse. There is no country that has gotten itself out of debt using bitcoin, so saying it is a solution is disingenuous at best.

    These are just the same old bitcoin talking points that make it sound like it could actually work but do not hold up to the tiniest amount of scrutiny. And the end goal is always to just make the price go up so the gambling pays off, not any use case or making the world better or anything.

  • Far-right leader Geert Wilders wins Dutch election: Exit poll
  • I think it's for many different reasons, but a bit the same as everywhere. Some are protest votes due to a distrust in government in general, then 35-45 is the age most get kids and in contrast to their parents generation they live in apartments, not single family homes, as houses aren't affordable. Then there's the general widening of the wealth gap and the populists pretending they have a solution and blaming it on immigration (while themselves being a big reason for the problem in the first place...), while left parties often get tricked into reacting to right rhetoric, letting the right dictate the discussion. Old people are less affected by the wealth gap, young people don't have kids so they don't notice yet. And in it's also a question of mobilizing ones base, the right parties get a ton of money for ads and so on, they are good at stirring up fears of existential threats(which is ironic given the real existential threat of climate change), while a lot of people are disillusioned, so middle aged left voters are less likely to actually go vote whereas more right voters do. Of course <30 voters worry more about climate change and are more motivated to go vote, since they'll be the most affected by its effects.

    I'm sure there's many more reasons but these are the first ones I can think of off the top of my head.

  • Far-right leader Geert Wilders wins Dutch election: Exit poll
  • If you look at elections in europe, it's pretty consistently the 35-45 year old demographic that votes right the most. Every age group votes right and it's not like it's only boomers, with the exception of young voters <30 (and women) which do vote significantly more left

    E. G. Netherlands https://www.statista.com/chart/8178/pvv-largest-party-but-not-among-youth/

  • Exit polls show Swiss anti-immigrant party on track for record election showing
  • Enough for what? Switzerland doesn't really have coalitions, that's more Germany. At most there's "coalitions" on single issue votes. And there's 7 presidents, proportional to parties, so no such thing as a ruling party or coalition. That said, the FDP votes identical with the SVP in nearly everything already, especially economic issues, so much so that'd it'd be hard to distinguish them based on votes, minus the blatant populism.

  • Looking for an ebook reader (hardware) which doesn't hold a proprietary OS
  • Oh don't get wrong, it works fine for comics. the small screen and having to move around whole pages, and sometimes struggling to read small writing are issues (you can zoom but it's not very responsive) aren't great, but I've read many a comic. But if comics are the main use case, I'd probably go for a tablet still. If you get one for books solely, then the color one has less DPI and more ghosting, that's why I wouldn't recommend it.

    And I don't use the color feature much outside of reading comics. I thought it might be nice for color diagrams for work, but it's a bit hard telling the colors apart when it's just thin lines.

    But I'm super stoked for where the color e-ink technology is heading.

    I mostly used the stock boox neo reader for comics and didn't have an issue with ram. Do you know how it compares to Tachiyomi?

  • Looking for an ebook reader (hardware) which doesn't hold a proprietary OS
  • Seconded, i love my Boox. it just runs android (with tweaks for e-Ink) and you can install what you want from the play store, it's not locked down.

    You can even install the Kindle app if you ever do want an Amazon ebook, works really well.

    It's also nice for using apps of various newspapers.

    Plus the ones with a stylus make for a great notebook.

    I wouldn't recommend the color ones, it's nice for comics but the colors just aren't vivid and it's not there yet in terms of quality.

  • Seit 2019 keine neuen mehr: AWS verlangt 44 Dollar pro Jahr und IPv4-Adresse
  • Github Actions sind auch so ein Kandidat, IPv6 wird nicht unterstützt, weil deren Infrastruktur kein IPv6 hat. Wenn selbst grosse Entwicklungsunternehmen es nicht hinkriegen, wie soll sich da je was ändern.

    Mein ISP gibt mir ein statisches /48 IPv6 Subnet, aber es ist recht nutzlos weil der Support so mangelhaft ist.

  • www.republik.ch «Die Zukunft des Faschismus», Folge 2: Die Maschine

    Faschismus braucht heute weder Ideologie noch Faschisten. Er läuft automatisch, weltweit.

    «Die Zukunft des Faschismus», Folge 2: Die Maschine

    Zweiter Teil in einer Serie über den weltweiten Faschismus heutzutage, der sehr detailliert darauf eingeht, inwiefern der Faschismus von heute sich von früheren Wellen unterscheidet und welche Formen er annimmt. Ziemlich langer Artikel aber lohnt sich meiner Meinung nach, vor allem in Hinsicht auf die aktuelle Situation in Europa.

    Folge 1 ist denke ich nicht so relevant, da geht es hauptsächlich um die Situation in der USA und DeSantis vs Trump, deswegen poste ich nur Folge 2.

    Und ich teile normalerweise Republik Artikel nicht, ist ein super Magazin und will sie nicht um Einnahmen bringen (zumal man die Artikel ohne Datenklaumauer teilen kann), aber finde den Artikel wichtig genug um eine Ausnahme zu machen.

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    Die Stadt Roding bekommt ihre Krypto-Spende nicht los
  • Sagen wir ich drucke 10'000 GandhiGeldscheine und verkauf dir einen für 100€. Die 10'000 sind jetzt "1 Million € wert" (Market cap). Und werden auch in allen Zeitschriften mit dieser Zahl erwähnt usw. Aber niemand hat wirklich interesse daran, die zu kaufen, ist also kein Volumen vorhanden und man wird grosse Mengen davon nicht los.

    Ist eigentlich bei allen Kryptos so, einige wenige haben einfach etwas mehr Volumen, so dass es den Anschein macht, als würde die Market Cap wirklich Sinn machen. Aber die Zahl, wie viel sie total wert sind, ist immer sehr fragwürdig, weil man sie nie zu dem Preis alle loswerden würde. Wenn man viel verkaufen wollen würde, würde der Preis zusammenbrechen.

    Ist bei Aktien und Market Cap von Firmen ähnlich, wobei da zumindest ein gewisse Minimumpreis existiert, die Summe vom Besitz der Firma geteilt durch Anzahl Aktien.

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