nah it’s not that simple. it’s mostly about cost. chip manufacturing is hella expensive and developing new chip manufacturing techniques is even more expensive. it’s cheaper to do it all in one place in taiwan instead of every country opening its own chip manufacturers. it’s only now due to security considerations that this is changing, but it takes 10 years to build a chip manufacturing site somewhere.

I’ve been saying it for years, we need to produce our own chips.

yeah that’s true.

makes sense. i was just saying that there’s no easily visible satellite view on the webpage.

Electrical – OpenStreetMap straight-up maps the global electrical grid. It’s incomplete, but the tools are there, and there’s a lot already done. By helping this, you’re creating an open dataset in an area that’s otherwise often extremely opaque. Your data may be the literal best open data that exists.

I wonder whether this is even legal. Like, in some places, there is intentionally no public information about infrastructure available to make military targeted operations by other countries more difficult. Like, if a neighboring country knows exactly where your vulnerable infrastructure is, they have an easier time aiming for it. I think that it’s not so clear to me whether mapping critical infrastructure on a publicly available database is even legal.

when i open openstreetmap.org, click on edit, i see this:

i’m kinda convinced that obesity is mostly caused from some obscure and poorly-understood mental health condition. i remember reading that people who are depressed have a much higher rate of drug abuse. well, that might seem obvious. but excessive eating can be seen as a drug as well. it’s not healthy, people do it as a coping mechanism. so it’s really more like bad mental health -> excessive eating -> sickness, but it’s more the bad mental health that causes it all and not so much the excessive eating itself. like, if you were mentally healthy but still ate a lot, then the eating wouldn’t hurt you so much. it’s really more the mental health issues, i suspect, though it’s difficult to study that because the mental health issues aren’t really measurable so well. they’re deep inside.

someone needs to make a meme of this on the one hand (cost of Iran war is $26 billion so far IIRC) and how we can’t afford healthcare (allegedly)

The thing that has always bothered me about OSM is that it’s just so weirdly done.

Like, a lot of information could simply be pulled from government databases. Yet OSM doesn’t seem to do that, often leaving out information that should be publicly available.

Then there’s the very weird thing that they don’t have any satellite view? I mean, one of the advantages of OSM should be that any kind of data can be added by motivated individuals. I don’t get why things like topographic map, weather map, and all other kinds of map aren’t already integrated … i wanted to do it myself but i found the whole structure of the project confusing, so i left it be.

Then what i don’t get is what exactly is the aim of the project? Like, what is the status of integration with navigation apps? I still can’t simply search for a public transport connection in my city with OSM. Is there any plan to allow that at all? Is it even encouraged? Why is there nobody talking about this at all?

in many languages, vocals (a, e, i, u, o) carry emotion, consonants (k, r, t, l, m, n, …) carry meaning.

how is this worth a post?

my cat says she wants another snack

just require microsoft to also install all the renewable energy capabilities that they intend to use then

the AI company is gonna crash within a few years and the country has got free energy supplies :)

I am not surprised. They break the law and account for the fines in their business model.

You need to dish out around $500 (e.g. Pixel 10a) to get such a device new

i hope motorola pulls through with their new line of phones with unlockable bootloaders.

we had a tool for that, it was called necklace

gut feeling

You used to be able to replace a battery just b taking a cover off,

yeah, i do wonder, did these phones use to be water-proof? I don’t remember. In the rain i mean, environmental moisture.

what does software interoperability have to do with it?

https://www.circularise.com/blogs/r-strategies-for-a-circular-economy [R-Strategies for a Circular Economy]

damn the title really made me think for a moment it was talking about r/K strategies and i got all hyped up for a moment. But no, it’s just about resource usage.

well, it’s gotta be possible in concept. nature does it; the brain is compostible, or when incinerated, burns without a trace. Maybe we’re just not there yet technology-wise.