... and it feels like a forum for greying people whose greying friends haven't bothered to move on either, or to get the date of the next annual meeting of the bridge club.
That's not entirely fair. I know quite a few young people who... maintain their Facebook accounts so they can talk to their grandparents.
> Meta doesn't really know how to do anything else with any skill.
They don't know how to do Facebook very well either: it's been pretty much stagnant and enshittified to death for the past 22 years, and it feels like a forum for greying people whose greying friends haven't bothered to move on either, or to get the date of the next annual meeting of the bridge club.
Meta doesn't really know how to do anything else with any skill. At best, they're an afterthought in all these other areas... and mostly they don't even reach that status.
Even when they buy out other companies, the only acquisitions that "work" are Facebook-adjacent ones like Instagram.
one of those companies whose sole purpose seems to be annoying you by slapping their name as a watermark on a generic image you'd like to use in a meme, and force to spend 10 seconds finding somewhere else because you were never going to pay a stupid company to remove their mark on a bad picture you can find everywhere.
I wonder how those companies still exist, let alone make any money.
Anyway, the modern way to use copyrighted photos for free is to ask stable diffusion to regenerate it, because the AI companies have done all the data stealing for you and repackaged the stolen data into "models" you can use for free.
Like the other idiot
Look up the concepts proactive and reactive and then reconsider who is the idiot in this conversation.
If you only say, "Many Eyes" then you haven't established what the actual quote is.
Don't need to, it's common knowledge for the audience this article applies to. Those interested in an obscure Linux distro.
]it doesn't apply to the problem in this case
Nope. Automated AI scans will do better, which is the point of the comment. Imagine if all commits were scanned by AI, perhaps the attack would have been found at the first attempt, and rejected, and 1500 packages would not have been compromised.
Here are some new concepts for you: proactive, reactive.
Recently heard the definition:
Batteries - Time machines for electrons
Shaves the peak of excess to lessen the peak of demand - which is literally what a grid will do in the full renewable future.
don't forget FAR better cold temp performance for Sodium Ion.
In many cases they aren't paying just for the kwh, they're paying to not have to build additional capacity or prevent black outs.
EV battery storage will *dwarf* grid scale battery storage when both are built out fully. Like 3-4x larger. It's financially stupid not to leverage that in the design of the grid.
That said, do I trust the oligarchy running our grid to do it well? no, no I don't.
BS. I had a 2003 Honda Civic Hybrid and I had the option to replace the battery when it died in 2012. Both from the deal AND private 3rd parties.
Battery replacement on an EV almost always makes financial sense unless the rest of the car is in bad shape.
You citation says no such thing. It mentions two new plants, two modernization efforts to reduce current emissions. That is nothing compared to China.
America went up and both China and India went down...
Nope. You are misrepresenting the percentage of coal used in electrical power generation. That percentage is only going down because renewables are growing faster the coal is growing.
"[2026 March 26] Despite being a renewables superpower, China continues to permit and build new coal-fired power plants at a rapid pace. Analysts say the nation’s new five-year plan will ensure further coal plant expansion and jeopardize China’s ability to deliver on its climate promises.
The 15th Five-Year Plan offered a chance to correct these negative trends and get China’s climate ambitions back on track, but it is an opportunity the government appears to have missed
https://e360.yale.edu/features...
"[2026 Feb 10] Despite media and other reports that China is into “green energy,” the country is still using coal to power its economy, with about 80 to 100 gigawatts of coal-fired capacity added in 2025.
The Statistical Review of World Energy reports that coal accounted for 58% of China’s primary energy consumption in 2024, with fossil fuels accounting for a whopping 88%.
Coal also provided 58% of China’s electricity generation in 2024.
While a report by Ember indicates that populous developing countries like China and India “led the charge in adding more renewable energies” in the first half of 2025, their generation shares show that coal is still king in these countries, and their coal-fired capacity additions indicate that coal will continue to power their economies for the foreseeable future.
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https://www.instituteforenergy...
"[2025 August 21] Coal-power capacity could surge by as much as 80-100GW this year, potentially setting a new annual record, even as coal-fired electricity generation declines."
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https://www.carbonbrief.org/an...
You are ignoring facts. Again.
Nope. I said, American industry has been moving away from coal for nearly 70 years. This isn't China where Xi can order folks to use coal. Industry can ignore the US President.
In this case the US President is supporting rare cases where industry wants to continue using an existing plant. The US Gov merely helping them to reduce the pollution of the old plant. Industry still decides. And industry overwhelmingly chooses to move away from coal, the rare exception you exaggerate do not change this.
"It's like deja vu all over again." -- Yogi Berra
