Or the other side of the solution is for Paramount to have a process for this kind of thing. They really should not be discouraging fans in any way, even as they need to protect their copyrights and trademarks legally. This isn't an either/or kind of thing, both can be done at the same time.

That's what's interesting. It's pretty common to use sodium hypochlorite, then a little hydrochloric acid to compensate for the pH rise. My pH doesn't rise, all summer. If anything it used to fall after rain, and I'd have to add borax or washing soda. This year the pH has been stable all summer after initial setup. I guess acid rain is getting cleaned up.

The semiconductor manufacturing industry practically lives on HF acid, it's utterly irreplaceable. They also know how to take proper precautions with it, and understand mitigations in case of accidents.

I regularly use 12% sodium hypochlorite in my swimming pool.

Almost all of us use a chemical that is cancerous, poisonous, and is so volatile that if you vaporize a 17 gallons of it, it's equivalent in explosive power to half a ton of TNT. By the way, 17 gallons is what it takes to fill my gas tank.

Lots of stuff is dangerous, but you just have to understand how to use it safely.

they offer "private" AI where all your data (which is likely already in MS cloud if you use O365/Azure/Dynamics) is private and not accessible for training models for others. It's a major time saver - I've been betaing it for a while. Eg you can in Teams start asking things like "summarise all most popular topics in this thread" or "give me a list of open items from the last meeting". In PPT you can say "import this word doc and convert it to a 5 page powerpoint with a summary of the most important points" You can get it to create live PowerBI reports using natural language, which is a massive time saver. If this saves a user an hour of work a month, it's worth it.

Agreed. The impact to the rich will be on their balance sheets. So what we're really saying here is that the balance sheets of the rich are more important than the lives of everyone else.

We hit an interesting point a few years back. In parts of the Persian Gulf states the wet-bulb temperature got too high for survival. What that really means is that the temperature plus humidity got so high that you can't sweat yourself cool enough to survive. Air condition is necessary for survival, and that means a power grid, too.

More areas have been added to that list, and this year parts of the US south are now too hot to survive without air conditioning. These areas are one long-ish power blackout away from mass death by heatstroke.

I don't like ads, but I understand that they have to pay for content, so I don't use ad blockers, don't have any installed.

What burns me is the sites that tell me to turn off my ad blockers - which I know I don't have. When you dig just a little deeper, what they really want is to track me. I've DO have stuff installed to prevent tracking, and I'm not about to remove that stuff or turn if off. I have tried to give site feedback about this, but they won't let you to the site feedback page without allowing tracking.

They lose my eyeballs. I turn away, go somewhere else.

The other big burn is that one of the sites that has done this is "alternet.org", which should be a site that understands not wanting to be tracked - yet they, or their advertisers, are insisting on it.

By my observations, youtube isn't doing this. They serve me ads and don't trip the tracking stuff. When it lets me skip, I do. Sometimes I end up watching ads, or let them run while my eyeballs are elsewhere.

Years ago I asked Siri if she was in a relationship with Alexa and she said, "None of your business." I don't own an i-anything, but we had a relative visiting who did.

I've also found that Alexa has a much better repertoire of Chuck Norris jokes than Hey-Google. The latter has exactly two, and the second one is simply a brush-off explaining why there are no more.

Leaves me hearing Marvin's voice, "Brain the size of a galaxy, and they're asking me to set timers and tell Chuck Norris jokes."

...this is about giving devs tools to reduce the energy consumption of software - writing efficient code that reduces consumption, both at the Xbox client end and also within DCs for online gaming. For example, https://github.com/ormikopo198... is a simple (non-Xbox) demo where you can use an SDK to do things like have your code run automatically in cloud regions that are lower carbon impact, e.g. if a region has a period where there's a high input to the national grid from renewables for a period of time, if you know that via an SDK you can spin up your cloud resources there temporarily.

I'm sick of this getting parroted in every article about it. What they are doing is getting cheap edge node locations at sites that already have high capacity electricity supplies i.e. public swimming pools. They've only done one, and they are a 7 person company. Good luck running this with one ops person and one tech BTW and achieving 5 9s of uptime! https://deepgreen.energy/heat Simple maths says that if it's an Olympic pool with 2500000 liters of water you'd need around 3MW/h to raise the temp by 1 degree. An average rack in a DC 60x60cm unit consumes 5Kw/h and even if this has increased recently, it's nowhere near that figure. Actually reading their website tells us: "In exchange for hosting our kit and connectivity, *we install free digital boilers alongside existing heating systems* (and pay for the energy they use)." So they get free rent on locations that have low latency potential to host small DCs, they get free cooling, and they pay for the electricity to run the kit AND THE NEW ELECTRIC BOILERS they fit.

I wanted to say something similar. Even if it's not iron, it's mass and it's already out of Earth's gravity well. We can figure out what to do with it - even if it's turning it into something like concrete structures - that's valuable, too.

I remember hearing a report some time ago, I believe on NPR. that they'd found that the American Southwest was deforested by the Native Americans there hundreds of years ago and it became a desert as a result. Too much use of wood, for construction and cooking fires.

There were also similar stories told of Easter Island.

My son-in-law once told me that in Nebraska the farmers consider trees to be in competition with their crops for water, and are therefore eager to see the trees go. However trees don't export water the way crops do. We never learn.

Fun fact: Unilever in fact own tens of thousands of freezers - you know when you go past a shop selling their product when you're on holiday and a shop has a freezer that's branded with their products in? Those are owned and operated by Unilever. I'm sure they are slowly upgrading their fleet with more efficient ones...

gov devices should be managed: just like any normal company, why aren't they applying mobile device management policies to control what's installed on them?