The technology thread

[ncurd]

It'll probably be a cesspool at some stage but using bluesky really does feel like a good twitter alternative right now.

At least I have a way of getting a semi decent newsfeed again without several tones of bile.

 

[ncurd]

Facinating snapshot

The Secret Barrister (@barristersecret.bsky.social)

Without wishing to be one of *those* people, this illustrates why Twitter is not just toxic, but ineffective for anyone trying to share information or (let’s be honest) self-promote. A basic tweet plugging a book offer. 500k followers on Twitter (left), 90k here (right). But look at the engagement.

bsky.app

 

[ncurd]

Is my social media feed being manipulated to push an agenda?

You betcha!

I was kinda aware of this one and one the many reasons my FB account merely just exists now rather than I actively use it.

‘We Can Bury Anyone’: Inside a Hollywood Smear Machine

Private messages detail an alleged campaign to tarnish Blake Lively after she accused Justin Baldoni of misconduct on the set of “It Ends With Us.”

www.nytimes.com

 

[Gavin]

Oneplus 13 and 13R set to be released on 7th January.

Anyone else considering it as an upgrade?

Got my 6T from 2018 ready to upgrade.

 

[AlRums]

Tech entrepreneur trapped in circling self-driving car on way to airport: ‘I feel like I’m in the movies’

“It’s circling around a parking lot. I got my seat belt on. I can’t get out of the car,” Waymo customer Mike Johns told a company rep over the phone.

nypost.com

 

[Ragey Erasmus]

Is my social media feed being manipulated to push an agenda?

You betcha!

I was kinda aware of this one and one the many reasons my FB account merely just exists now rather than I actively use it.

‘We Can Bury Anyone’: Inside a Hollywood Smear Machine

Private messages detail an alleged campaign to tarnish Blake Lively after she accused Justin Baldoni of misconduct on the set of “It Ends With Us.”

www.nytimes.com

I've disabled Facebook on my phone (for some idiotic reason Samsung made it so it can't be deleted)

It's just become a cesspit of AI generated clickbait and right wing trolling.

 

[AlRums]

China's 'artificial sun' shatters nuclear fusion record by generating steady loop of plasma for 1,000 seconds

A nuclear fusion reactor in China, dubbed the "artificial sun," has broken its own record to bring humanity one step closer to near-limitless clean energy.

www.livescience.com

Leaps and bounds.

 

[Kiwiwomble]

I've disabled Facebook on my phone (for some idiotic reason Samsung made it so it can't be deleted)

It's just become a cesspit of AI generated clickbait and right wing trolling.

what really? cant be deleted?

too the point, im more and more convicted there is an active effort to sew division because yes, i,m a left wing leaning person who gets a stream of right wing bile....but right wing people get a stream of left wing stuff. i guess its not a huge lead to accept some algorithm has worked out people engage more with things they dont like (more likely to leave a negative review than a positive)....i but then people think "everyone" is out to get them...which pushed them further to extremes....******* scary downward spiral

god i wish we could take social media back to just pictures of food or sitting on a beach/hot tub

 

[Which Tyler]

China's 'artificial sun' shatters nuclear fusion record by generating steady loop of plasma for 1,000 seconds

A nuclear fusion reactor in China, dubbed the "artificial sun," has broken its own record to bring humanity one step closer to near-limitless clean energy.

www.livescience.com

Leaps and bounds.

Also getting some good advances in transparent solar cells. Still a hefty outlie, but from what I'm reading, you can get about 30% efficiency at power conversion for about a 10% loss of visual clarity - converting light energy from outside the human visible range.
What that means, is that your phone could have this on its screen, and self-charge by being left on a windowsill; or the window itself could be a solar panel - imagine a sky scraper with every window generating electricity.

 

[Reiser99]

Also getting some good advances in transparent solar cells. Still a hefty outlie, but from what I'm reading, you can get about 30% efficiency at power conversion for about a 10% loss of visual clarity - converting light energy from outside the human visible range.
What that means, is that your phone could have this on its screen, and self-charge by being left on a windowsill; or the window itself could be a solar panel - imagine a sky scraper with every window generating electricity.

If money wasn't an issue you could build an entire city around energy generation. Solar panels, wind, stepping on pavement. Roads could do similar.