This is why it’s important to work for class consciousness and worker solidarity. Look for ways that management and capital tries to divide us and point them out to your peers!

The article summary and the article both say “sold out”?

Yes I’m considering buying a high power laser so I can send the energy back into space instead of paying the power companies for the privilege of giving them electricity.

The American legal system has made a conscious decision to require public trials (so accused are public) with the right to face your accuser (so victims are public). This does remove privacy, but the idea is that the trade off is worth it to avoid people being “convinced” in secret trials.

You may disagree with this trade off, but it’s baked in and changing it would be a big difference. Some exceptions exist, I think, but IANAL.

Did I? I’m not sure how. The person visiting would only use the verification request once. It’s only good for a single request. How could this be used for tracking?

Do you watch your children every minute they are online? Poor kids!

The problem is that if a porn site has the information they can be compelled to pass that information on, or it can be revealed by data breaches.

I saw someone point out on a reply similar nostalgic message: this is basically the plot of The Matrix.

While care is required, designing a system that only proves that someone is over a specific age is possible without leaking much additional information.

For example a request for age verification can be generated and signed by the porn site. All it needs is a unique ID and the signature. It should expire quickly and can only be used once.

The person identifying themself can send this request to a certifying party (the government in the EU where we trust governments, or I guess some terrible for profit company in the USA because they privatize everyday). The certifying party can sign the request, since they know how old the person is.

The person then returns this verification to the porn site.

In this scenario the porn site never learns anything about the user other than that they are above a given age. The certifying party only knows that the person has gotten an age verification, but not why or where.

There is still possible collusion between the porn site and the verifying party, but in that case the system is not really needed at all. Also metadata tracking is possible (like when a person gets a request and has network traffic to a porn site), but can be mitigated if a user is concerned.

Batteries for phones sold in the EU will all be replaceable within 3.5 years:

The new rules foresee that batteries will need to be easier to remove and replace, while consumers are better informed. Portable batteries in appliances should be designed so that users can easily remove and replace them. This requirement will become mandatory three-and-a-half years after the rules enter into force.

https://www.europarl.europa.eu/news/en/headlines/economy/20220228STO24218/new-eu-rules-for-more-sustainable-and-ethical-batteries

The EU actually forced companies to help consumers, so they are already planning to comply… even Apple.

You say, “I’ve not encountered a communist…”, like that is a good thing. Let me fix that for you

I’m a communist. Companies would be better off if they were owned by workers rather than rich people. You know, workers owning the means of production, instead of capitalists?

Hopefully this hasn’t ruined your Lemmy experience!

The article only covers unsigned 32-bit numbers, so floating point division would be fine.

Interesting! Still way too much elevation needed to be useful for us in Holland though. 😆

I totally agree with this. A lot of places have cheap electricity in off-peak hours, as a workaround to this limitation (steady output).

I think that this obsession about intermittent power comes partially from the idea that any new sources of power must be drop-in replacements for the systems that we’ve had for so many decades. However those systems run the way they do as an accident of technology, not because of a careful analysis and design to match optimal usage patterns.

Pumped hydro works well for storage, although it basically has the same problem as hydro power - it’s only available in places with water and elevation changes.

In the old days, one would pay a small monthly fee and then you have your own website where you could basically do anything legal that you want. Is this no longer possible?