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Bluesky isn’t decentralized - and might never get there.

setting up a Relay requires around 4.5 TB of disk space, and that it’s growing by around 18 GB a day

https://anderegg.ca/2024/11/15/maybe-bluesky-has-won

Until there is another instance it’s not federated.

We’re seeing a substantial increase on the Mastodon instance I help moderate too, but there’s no aggregate marketing department at Mastodon so we don’t get any headlines.

Shops in Sweden very often state that they don’t accept cash - and it’s perfectly legal for them to make that choice.

We have cash?

o_O

Haven’t used it for years.

Troll comment.

You do that - you die.

Please show me that guideline, anywhere.

/Swede living in the deer countryside

It’s so sad considering they just now managed to bring out the best EV on the market (ID.7) - and will refresh the older range to the same standard.

IOCX has a noticeable increase in new user signups since a day or two back.

Despite fixing the issue, Zendesk ultimately chose not to award a bounty for my report. Their reasoning? I had broken HackerOne’s disclosure guidelines by sharing the vulnerability with affected companies

Regardless of everything else they should be kicked out from HackerOne since it’s clearly Zendesk not being truthful here.

Trump doesn’t know the difference between the Soviet Union and Russia.

Because that’s what Putin wants his minions to believe.

Ukraine were largely the force that defeated the Nazis on the east front in WWII - not Russia. Both were however part of the Soviet Union at the time.

You’re absolutely correct. Since we stopped allowing hunting* the number of polar bears has grown consistently.

Historically, overhunting was the polar bears’ greatest threat. From the 1800s up through the 1960s, commercial and later sport hunters greatly reduced polar bear numbers. Populations rebounded in most places after the five polar bear nations signed the International Agreement on the Conservation of Polar Bears. The Agreement halted commercial hunting and significantly curtailed sport hunting.

https://polarbearsinternational.org/news-media/articles/why-is-polar-bear-hunting-allowed

*) with caveats, as the article is really about

… and yet they survived the last interglacial, warmer than ours, with no sea ice in the arctic during summer.

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41561-023-01227-x

It’s on my new VW ID.7 in Europe at least. Drove during dark for the first time a few weeks ago and it was pretty amazing seeing the matrix headlights “sculpt” the light around other cars.

Distracting in the beginning, but you get used to it.

Polar bears live on land.

All of the statements in the claim need to be fulfilled - so while that if looks correct it’s only a very small part of the actions described. Example:

in association with selecting, based on a selection operation,[…], wherein the boarding object is selected among a plurality of types of objects that the player character owns;

IANAL - but I’ve worked for Big Company and have gone through the patent process a few times. A patent isn’t what’s written in the supporting text and abstract. It’s only the exact thing written out in the claims.

First claim from the patent the abstract is from:

1. A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium having stored therein a game program causing a computer of an information processing apparatus to provide execution comprising:

   controlling a player character in a virtual space based on a first operation input;

   in association with selecting, based on a selection operation, a boarding object that the player character can board and providing a boarding instruction, causing the player character to board the boarding object and bringing the player character into a state where the player character can move, wherein the boarding object is selected among a plurality of types of objects that the player character owns;

   in association with providing a second operation input when the player character is in the air, causing the player character to board an air boarding object and bringing the player character into a state where the player character can move in the air; and

   while the player character is aboard the air boarding object, moving the player character, aboard the air boarding object, in the air based on a third operation input.

Exactly everything described above must be done in that exact same way for there to be an infringement.

Our transmission capacity is enough for our own needs (since the danes forced us to close the perfectly working nuclear plant Barsebäck) - but it’s not enough for our needs and Germany’s.

I’m very much pro EU but I do have issues with a huge part of Sweden having 10x the electricity prices of the rest of the country. It hits our manufacturing, farmers etc. I would be in favor of limiting our export to just our surplus. Germany could’ve skipped closing down their own fully working nuclear plants …

(Sweden and Norway are also the ones to thank for Denmark being able to live mostly off wind power since it’s our hydro and nuclear power that they use to balance their network)

I own a rather large property so I’ve had to become “an expert” on our electricity issues.

From the paywalled article:

I stället måste vi tidvis exportera el under dygnets mörka timmar till elbristens Tyskland. Därför blir strömmen 10-20 gånger dyrare i Skåne än i Norrland, Stockholm och Göteborg. Därför är det omöjligt att skapa en prisutjämning inom Sverige.

I live here and don’t need to guess :) We would be perfectly fine if Germany (mainly) wasn’t buying energy from us when prices are high on the continent. Due to how the energy market works we then have to pay those prices as well in the region bordering Germany.

Splitting Germany up into energy regions (like Sweden is split up into four) would help - but Germany doesn’t want to.

If you want to keep guessing instead of appreciating my first hand knowledge that’s fine - it’s just a bit tiresome.

https://www.sydsvenskan.se/2024-05-28/darfor-ar-elpriset-mer-an-tio-ganger-hogre-i-lund-an-i-lulea/

It’s the difference between Germany exporting when prices are low vs importing from us when prices are high. This is a huge problem in Sweden where one of our four electricity regions have almost 10x the price of the others.

https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/swedish-government-says-no-new-power-cable-germany-2024-06-14/