Interesting point. I don’t really know what would be fair.

On the one hand you are right, if someone puts in a lot of time and effort to create a book. And it becomes a hit and gets a movie deal, I do believe they should be rewarded for that.

On the other hand, out of the tens of thousands of books written each year how many get turned into a movie? 1 or 2 maybe on average? And how much of the book is in the movie? I’ve both read Mickey7 and seen Mickey17. And while they both have some things in common, they are basically completely different stories. Should we really compromise the rules for everyone because of this very rare exception?

And I also feel like movies are caught in a slump the past years, with very few original stories being made. All remakes, reboots and super hero crap. If more stories were available for free use, how much would that influence new story creation? Very hard to say really.

As with all art, nothing is made in a vacuum. Everything builds on each other, everything is influenced by other things. I can’t help but thing about what the community did with 3D printing once the patents expired. Having stuff available to use can only be a good thing right?

But I don’t really know, you make a very good point. In a world where all kinds of art gets devalued all the time, I feel like we should celebrate artists and the art they make. I like to fuck around with creating my own art in my free time and have made stuff for friend and family. Even sold series of hundreds of units in the past. But it’s not my day job and I consider myself an absolute amateur. Maybe if UBI was a thing, it would be the thing I put most of my time into.

I hate our world revolves around money and capitalism. It leads to difficult situations like this one, where copyright holds us back and mostly benefits large mega corps. But on the other hand, we must support artists for everything they do.

Also this length should be at most 25 years and 10-15 years is better. These 75+ year copyrights are total BS.

I think you are trying to solve a legal issue using a technological solution. The issue isn’t where his connections are coming from, the issue is where he’s a resident. It’s probably related to taxes or some other legal thing.

No matter what sort of technology you apply, you ain’t solving the legal issue.

I’ve been called out on Lemmy by people I know from a specific Twitch channel, not like a small channel, but not one of those super huge ones. It’s probably because I’m a huge nerd and hang out where the best nerds hang out <3

I would think all the incidents with fracking have shown rock not to be as impermeable as one would expect or want. Doing this and not causing huge issues seems very hard to me. And also very situational, which is a big problem pumped hydro has.

Pumped hydro works really well and is just about as efficient as we can realistically do, but you need to have the right circumstances. Like a biggish elevation difference, a place to store enough water at the top and bottom for it to be worth while and a connection in between to pump through and take out the energy in the other direction. Plus close enough to a place that needs the power not to be killed by transport losses.

This thing seems to require the perfect conditions as well, which may prove even harder to find compared to places for pumped hydro.

An LLM cannot be anything other than a bullshit machine. It just guesses at what the next word would likely be. And because it’s trained on source data that contains truths as well as non truths, by chance sometimes what comes out is true. But it doesn’t “know” what is true and what isn’t.

No matter what they try to do, this won’t change. And is one of the main reasons the LLM path will never lead to AGI, although parts of what makes up an LLM could possibly be used inside something that gets to the AGI level.

You would need to investigate the soil you put the wood in, in order to select the correct wood and wood treatment. The wrong kind of wood in certain soils can be broken down in weeks to months. Getting wood to last years is tricky and depending on the soil could even be impossible.

https://youtu.be/LHUYbeFg3DQ

She did a follow-up on this on a recent Q&A with Adam Savage. She doesn’t use it at all, because her stump is too small. This means she has almost no leverage and strength in the stump. She said she likes the aesthetics but it’s not practical.

Imho she needs something with like a servo assist or something hydraulic. But that means stuff like a power supply, pump, sensor, controller, plumbing etc. It would get messy fast for something that’s on your hand. If it’s more of the hand it could make sense, but the loss of only the little finger probably has almost zero impact on the use of the hand.

That’s still very cheap, the 1€-Store near me has almost nothing at 1€ anymore. It’s become more like the 5€ store.

People always severely underestimate how little power solar panels actually produce. In optimal conditions they get around 1000 watt per square meter, but are only around 20% efficient. So that means 200 watt produced at the panel. Once you convert that into something useable and transport it to where you need it, you’ll probably lose another 5 - 10%. And that’s a square meter, that’s more than you can comfortably carry. Think a flat panel of around 2 meters in length and 0.5 meters wide and lifting that above your head, pointed perfectly at the sun.

And the reality is, most solar panels even in permanent installations don’t experience perfect conditions. They don’t track the sun, so most of the time they aren’t perfectly aligned to catch all that energy. They are most likely never aligned perfectly, or if they are just a few days out of the year for like an hour a day. The sun isn’t always out, not just because you know night time, but also because of clouds and other weather or human related stuff. Lots of times there are shadows that prevent optimal workings. Dust and grime also plays a part. But another thing is temperature, solar panels are rated at around 20 degrees C. But when you put a black thing in full sun, you know it’s going to get scorching hot. This also reduces the amount of energy you can usefully extract from the sunlight as well.

The annoying thing about solar panels is they aren’t linear at all. It isn’t like when conditions are 80% from optimal, they produce 80% of the power. No, usually it’s more like 60%. And once you drop below 40% of optimal, you just produce basically zero. With a bit of effort this can be improved upon. For example I use microinverters which can regulate each panel individually, but even then it’s not great. And that’s with state of the art panels, which are very fragile, so they have a sturdy metal frame, a very tough plastic backing and a big ass layer of glass on top to protect them. If you get those more sturdy thin and light panels, you’ll be lucky if they get 15% efficiency (most likely a lot less).

So putting solar on anything that isn’t a permanent installation is usually pointless. It’s way too hard to get those ideal conditions and the panels aren’t very good to start with. If it’s moving, it’s hard to point at the sun all the time. Exceptions are maybe a small panel on the top of a campervans, which is probably the best case for a mobile installation and gets just a little bit of energy. But only if it doesn’t disrupt the wind profile of the van, otherwise it probably costs more in gas to push it along at high speed than it ever delivers back in electricity. One of those small foldable panels can also be useful when hiking for example. You can carry it collapsed on your back and if you take a break, you can fold it out, point it at the sun and get some useful energy for a couple of hours while you get some rest. Putting it on when hiking would be pointless, as it would be bulky when folded out, usually not pointed at the sun and under cover of trees for example.

Maybe the technology will improve in the future, but for now any useful personal solar is very niche.

One common misconception I’ve seen is people suddenly being afraid of their PTFE items they use at home. For example coated pans or PTFE cutting boards. They throw them out, because they think these will hurt them.

However this is not true. The long chain molecules used in the final product are perfectly safe. They get all their useful features from being big molecules and being very inert. That’s why they are used in the first place. As such these molecules can’t interact with biologics at all. You can safely eat them, they will just pass through your body. They don’t interact with anything and are too big to get incorporated into anything.

The issue with stuff like PTFE is the production. That’s where a lot of small PFAS molecules get used and after they’ve been used they can’t easily be used again. So it’s discarded as waste. But it turns out these smaller molecules can interact with biologics and not in a good way. And as they are still pretty inert, they don’t break down at all. Hence the term forever chemicals.

Back in the day Dupont studied if those smaller PFAS molecules they were discarding into the world’s water by the boatload could do any harm. They quickly found out yes, it can do a lot of harm. But to not hurt the bottom line (number must go up), they kept it a secret. This has damaged the environment in a very significant way.

When this came to light, they set out to design a new small molecule to use in the production. One that would be safe. So they did and used that, which satisfied the public for a time. However later it was proven this is a fantasy. The new molecule is just as bad as the previous one. And it turns out any variant of these kinds of molecules are just as harmful. That’s why we now collectively call this class of molecule PFAS. Dupont probably knew about this, as the properties that made them useful in the production are the same properties that make it so dangerous to biologics. However since stuff like PTFE is too important in our modern world, we kept making the stuff. Only recently have we found out how big of a problem we are creating with that.

So when you have PTFE or similar items, please keep using them. The damage for these items is already done and the end product is safe. It would be a waste to have done the damage and then not even use the end product. But when buying new stuff, be on alert. Try to find out if PFAS was used in the production of the item and try to avoid where possible. There has been talk of laws in the EU which would require the label on a product to show if PFAS was used, so people can avoid it. But we aren’t there yet.

If we were smart, we would ban it altogether. But like I said, too much of the modern world depends on these kinds of materials. So that’s probably not going to happen.

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+1 for FreeRDP, I use it all the time!

What did the doctor say? You may have a fungal infection, where the welts and itch aren’t caused by dryness or the scratching, but by the fungus. It’s actually really common and can be extremely annoying if left untreated. Some miconazole nitrate cream can really help out with this, just a few weeks of applying twice a day and it’ll clear up.

But never take medical advice from the internet, go see a doctor and ask them what to do.