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in reply to Andrew Pam

For large countries like the US whose grid infrastructure hasn't been rendered completely unreliable by war, revolution, or neoliberal extremism this doesn't make sense. The grid can move power from sunny areas to cloudy areas. Highly publicized rolling blackouts can signal to people to turn off unnecessary consumption at work and home.
in reply to Andrew Pam

@Simons_Mith With today's technology, it's pretty hopeless.

However, we have very small scale lab demonstrations of graphene solar power. Graphene is extremely thin and lightweight, so a single 20 ton launch could launch a bunch of graphene sheet solar arrays the total size of Canada. That stupendous size would also make it easy to focus microwave beams onto power receivers on Earth. This could provide power to the whole world, 24/7, for only a small handful of space launches.

Not only would this provide power to our cities, but also cargo ships and airliners.

I mean, we do NOT have the technology today, and don't hold your breath on scaling up current graphene lab demonstrates to the size of Canada.

So it's a fun idea to imagine, but it's not a practical plan.



Invest #95L has been designated near the southeastern U.S. coast. It has a medium chance of developing into a tropical depression in the next 7 days.

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Big Brother is Watching You, by Matt Jackson

This image shows all the satellites captured during one hour of a time-lapse series. The photographer chose this subject matter to highlight his concerns about privacy and the power that comes from controlling technology.

@photography
#NightSky
#TimeLapse
#satellites

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in reply to earthling

Of course the vast majority are commercial communications satellites although governments intercepting communications could be called "watching." To me what this image highlights the most is the damage to the night sky (i.e., for astronomy) by commercial megaconstellations allowed to run amok, completely uncontrolled by governments.

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I realized this might be a good time to remind people about the Mastodon streetpass extension

streetpass.social/

It helps you passively find people who use mastodon when you visit their websites...

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That thumbnail is a good one for !veryrealtechpics@lemmy.world



During ‘China Week,’ House GOP revived surveillance program against Chinese Americans which was a witch hunt in the past.

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Venezuela announces dismantling of CIA-backed coup plot, arrest of active-duty Navy Seal. The coup plot comes just a month and a half after President Nicolás Maduro was reelected in the presidential election, which to date, the US has refused to recognize.

peoplesdispatch.org/2024/09/14…



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"I'm a member of Ohio's Haitian community. The misinformation is hurting our kids"

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I'm really getting much more of a chuckle from the puzzles thrown up by trying to use a #VintagePC on a modern network than I ever expected!

Modern #puTTY binaries won't run on #WindowsNT4; ancient binaries from January 2000 are available and will run, but can't connect to a modern #SSH server. Most effective for file transfer is a combination of #telnet specially installed on my daily driver #Linux machine and python3 -m http.server.

Netscape 4.7 works nicely with the Python HTTP server, and the telnet client that comes with Windows NT4 supports VT100 so on opening a shell on my Linux machine, I find the w3m command line web browser is just about usable - good enough to download ancient binaries and installers onto the Linux machine that can be served via Python's HTTP server.

I've also given #wrp, the Web Rendering Proxy, a spin; it's surprisingly effective. Runs on a Linux machine on the network and serves pages as GIFs with clickable image maps.

github.com/tenox7/wrp



I have a couple of old notebook computers and a couple of old tablets. One notebook is an old, MacBook “CoreDuo” updated to Mac OSX. The other is an ASUS Windows PC about a decade or a little more old. I’m considering installing some version of #Linux just to get the experience of doing that as well as get experience with Linux. Any tips, advice, suggestions?