rtl-sdr uses the same chip as dvb-t tuners, but the everything else part is completely different
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TechTakes@awful.systems•Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 23rd August 2026English
3·6 days agoin unrelated news, it looks like drought in hungary got less severe and they started up their NPP again, now with 3 out of 4 blocks running (one of them ran the entire time, for some time at reduced load)
LG would be South Korea. Maybe it contacts tracks on PCB below and it’s some kind of semi-conductive rubber
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Showerthoughts@lemmy.world•Do you think politicians purposefully make the world worse so that their lawyer friends have more cases to make money from?
5·7 days agolol as if they could plan this far forward
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TechTakes@awful.systems•Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 23rd August 2026English
3·7 days agocofnas got suspended for being a racist dipshit
times high education got wind of it all over nine months before cofnas did, but didn’t publish because of SLAPP possibility https://www.timeshighereducation.com/opinion/i-was-reported-police-over-arday-case-i-was-just-doing-my-job https://www.timeshighereducation.com/opinion/jason-arday-many-things-can-be-possible-same-time i read it as multifaceted shitshow
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No Stupid Questions@lemmy.world•If someone's injected with cancer cells, they develop cancer. Could at least part of the increase in cancer be to do with people getting other people's cancer cells inside their bodies?
2·7 days agocancer is in large part an old people disease, if you avoided dying of cholera you’re more likely to die of something else. also now there’s a lot of people who were exposed to carcinogens decades back, and we got better at treating pr preventing some other common causes of death like stroke or heart disease
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TechTakes@awful.systems•Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 23rd August 2026English
3·8 days agothat shortened link is just redirect to https://dair-institute.org/projects/tescreal/
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Buttcoin@awful.systems•what Craig Wright's been doing since not inventing bitcoinEnglish
0·9 days agoA New York Times profile describes how nChain staffers would “tape Dr Wright’s ramblings about obscure technical matters and then share the recordings with a staff of researchers, who were instructed to turn his musings into patents”.
so chatbots are “democratizing” whatever the fuck he was doing, and probably he’s running gas town now instead
this is how antibodies work
it would be about as reliable either way
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Technology@beehaw.org•A Finnish town is heating itself with 2,000 tonnes of crushed rock: its giant “sand battery” can cover almost a month of heating demand and has cut district heating emissions by 70%
0·10 days agothat’s no problem at all, systems like that are in use
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Technology@beehaw.org•A Finnish town is heating itself with 2,000 tonnes of crushed rock: its giant “sand battery” can cover almost a month of heating demand and has cut district heating emissions by 70%
0·10 days agoIt’s easier to freeze water than to cool rock borehole
you can selfhost an instance from it
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World News@lemmy.world•Saudi wealth fund scales back ‘fantastical’ plans for NeomEnglish
2·11 days agoSaudis parked fuckload of money in ai startups
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Technology@lemmy.world•More Renewables Lead To Lower Demand For Methane In EuropeEnglish
1·11 days agoThis will continue as long as there are CCGTs used as baseload, then it will drop as CCGTs (and biomass + waste burners) will cover the gaps
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Technology@lemmy.world•More Renewables Lead To Lower Demand For Methane In EuropeEnglish
4·11 days agomethane cracker? that’s a very unusual unit that outputs hydrogen and carbon. i could find info about opening of ethane cracker in 2025, but that’s for plastics, next to shutdown of another similar unit
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Selfhosted@lemmy.world•A solar powered website that goes offline when there's no powerEnglish
3·11 days agoLithium-iron is about 2x more expensive, there might be different availability and energy use during manufacture is probably higher
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Selfhosted@lemmy.world•A solar powered website that goes offline when there's no powerEnglish
13·11 days agoLead-acid batteries work if you don’t care about weight and lithium-iron phosphate if you do
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Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world•How can you detect cancer spreading Nitrates in the water supply?
7·13 days agoyeah this is only practical option, the analysis isn’t that expensive, but equipment to run it is. but also people who have their own water wells have to submit their own samples





last time rationalists tried to touch medical field we got metamed