Reddit hasn't been user focused in a looong while.

Climate controls, volume and cruise control should have been on that lsit as well.

Lol.

I'll grab the popcorn. It'll be exciting to see which way the moderation goes on this one :D.

Well, yeah. That last paragraph of yours is not only true but oh so completely irrelevant to the discussion.

If Assange obtained the information illegally, he will have to be a martyr for it. That's how the world rolls.

The fact that this information didn't lead to any punishment is the people's incapability of holding their governmental service providers to anything. Tragic, but that has nothing to do with Assange.

Obviously the US wants to make an example of him. Is that reasonable and ethical? Hell no. But once again, to keep the public servants ethical is the duty of the people and well, here we are.

If two can collude, then so can three.

Why not break up Visa and MC instead?

Why am I not surprised that rsilvergun reacts to a critical question with an ad hominem and then points to a youtube channel for "reeducation"?

"marry two of the largest companies in any given field" should by default not be possible...

What possible good could come out of this for society as a whole?

I AM currently moving my homelab to Proxmox.

And it is as OSS as it can get: It's painful becquse even a clearly documented host key authentication between proxmox and TrueNAS ain't working out of the box.

OSS is still as much a pain in the arse as closed source, just for other reasons than closed source.

In my opinion, and it is just that, such sites don't need to be vastly expensive or large.

What they need to be is something for trolls on social media to point at as sources. If there's a list of three, people don't even click the links to read the content.

Well, we're building more than one of those 3MW wind thingamajiggs too, don't we?

While I get the concept of asking more money for the added bandwidth and not least the added production cost of these technologies, I gotta wonder how much chutzpah these streaming services have to test their customers' patience.

As far as I am aware, streaming is not the cash cow you can milk as much as you want.

His point does stand. Ships take much more maintenance than people seem to be aware of.

However these things seem small enough... and buoyant, so I guess it's feasible to just do maintenance on site.

We'll have to wait and see if the concept works out.

Both for supposedly weighing 28t and supposedly generating over one MW...

If this thing does work then I gotta say I'm very impressed.

Replying to myself because I got some updates.

I ran this through ChatGPT. Turns out burning fossil fuels releases way more water into the environment than hydrogen.

So moot point.

What it could not tell me is how the fuels compare in terms of water use across the fuel lifecycle but my gut/back of envelope thing tells me water vapor probably ain't gonna be the issue.

Hydrogen as a fuel is a stupid proposition to me still. I don't need effort and money wasted on it at this point.

And let's be honest. from THAT part it wasn't ever going to be more than lip service anyway. "Look, everyone, we're doing SOMETHING! We're not the bad guys, see?"

Something interesting was brought to my attention in a youtube comment. Yeah, I was shocked, too. That person's argument was that if we turned our life around this isntant and stopped burning dead dinosaurs in lieu of hydrogen... what impact would all that water vapor have on our climate?

And then I had to think about Sabine Hossenfelder's video about runaway greenhouse effect (as "seen" on venus) and how it was driven more by water vapor than CO2.

So I obviously don't know quite where the cutoff point is for a net positive. But I do find it, after all we've been through in the last hundred years, rather concerning when a technology is touted as THE savior with no conceivable downsides and NO COST should be too high to get this thing going yesterday.

We can already see problems in rivers where nuclear plants use the water for cooling. Imagine we proposed that ever last kWh on this planet should be produced this way. What would do that to the rivers and consequently seas and the weather?

Hydrogen could be cool for many applications. All of them, IMO, rather stationary ones. OR perhaps high sea tankers. Not individual transportation. Never that.