I could swear Google wasn’t broadly a thing yet. The startup I worked at in 1999 had an elevator pitch for how we “could be the next Yahoo.” Not a great thing to aspire to in retrospect, but Google wasn’t on our radar.

I left Facebook in 2014, having had to rejoin because in that era, you had to have an account to get a job. Which is another topic but worth keeping in mind.

If I don’t know why I’m somewhere, I leave. Rave, website, bar … these are all the same questions, just with less external pressure because you aren’t the product in the other two situations.

Remember what that landscape looked like. The only major players we know today that existed then are Microsoft and Apple, and Apple had just been bailed out by MS to get in front of antitrust issues. Amazon existed as a bookstore, Google was not around yet, Facebook would still be several years out … MySpace wasn’t yet around. AOL was still a behemoth. Adobe sold perpetual licenses.

This is a far more recent development.

There’s always the option to store things locally. You want to get fancy, you can set up a NAS for remote access.

Saying “isn’t X also doing Y” implies the behaviour itself isn’t the problem, when it is. Doesn’t matter who’s using dark patterns for rent-seeking; it matters that we’ve normalized it.

… they said Archly.

This is an underrepresented viewpoint. We are at the point of “find out,” which so many tech companies thought they could stay just to the other side of the line on. Thing is, you can only move the goalposts so often before they’re in someone’s yard, and they didn’t sign up for this shit.

It was OneDrive upgrade nagging that made me switch to Linux. Microsoft could have, you know, not done that and kept a user. They also could have not gone regressive with how the taskbar functions. Or any number of other things that were dismissive of users.

At a certain point, you’re sitting in ever warmer water in the pot, and it occurs that maybe you’re being turned into food. That’s when the Linux pots start looking appealing. This was a completely avoidable problem brought to you by greed.

Greed! Because we don’t think making a good product is what capitalism is about.

That is a uniquely awesome hed. And only strengthens my belief that 404 Media is going to make corporate journalism wish that they’d not shit the bed to the extent that viable alternative options sprang up.

Quick reminder that you are on Beehaw. There’s only one rule here, and this sort of dismissive take does not adhere to it. Please find something substantive to dismiss.

Which is particularly acute in the case of Argentina.

Has there ever been a left-wing austerity programme? This is anti-labour bullshit every fucking time.

It’s an investment problem. No one is doing scalable wave power because the money is in offshore wind.

Yes, we clearly need better storage, and it feels (red flag, everyone!) like we’re nearly there. Sodium is looking very promising without the issues LFP represents. I’ve very much enjoyed the learning I’ve done here, especially the Nova link. I’m always open to changing my mind given new data, and I love that y’all have provided that.

Thank you for this link. I’m still not sure this is the solution, but it certainly is a solution. And we need everything e can get.

I don’t wish to be dismissive, but, uh … yeah. Fewer risks and baseload are kinda the holy grail.

This is honestly why I enjoy covering what I do. I don’t see it being commercially viable in three decades, let alone more. Better tokamaks are not the answer. There’s still too much input voltage where we’re not getting net output.

That’s the joke, though. Fusion is always 30 years out. I want to see real breakthroughs, and we aren’t there yet with fusion. That said, I’ve not paid a power bill since September, so we have solutions; they just aren’t at utility scale.

I wish to be very clear that fission could have solved a lot 40 years ago, but it currently does not help.

I’m working on a fusion story where all involved know we’re just 30 years out. Not sure yet where that story is going, but Georgia’s experience didn’t help matters because people hear “nuclear,” and at that point, we have Three Mile Island, Chernobyl and other such nice things. Overbudget and really late doesn’t help matters. (For a fun time, check out Palo Verde.) While there was more outrage in Germany over nuclear, if you grew up in Phoenix in the '80s, Palo Verde was shorthand for poor execution.

Enhanced geothermal is the answer here. I’d like to think we can figure out fusion, but it’s one of those things where we’re trying to harness the power of stars, and we are not Type II. Cart, horse.

Yes, fission is preferable to coal, but that’s a low bar. We need renewables that can perform when it’s neither sunny nor windy, and this is where EGS makes sense. I expect we will see more investment in wave power, but that’s also likely decades off, with desalinization being part and parcel, and that has its own waste problems.

This revolutionizes nothing. It’s old tech trying to address new problems, and short of the wheel, this generally goes poorly. I do want to say I think Gates has his heart in the right place, and, you know, malaria vaccines are totally changing the world.

One nuke plant in Wyoming will not.

If this is being done to avoid coal miners not getting uppity, I guess OK, but this is tech from nearly 80 years ago competing with PV, wind and EGS. This is backward looking.

There’s no need of “slam” – or “eye,” “mull,” “Solons,” usw – in an era where you’re not writing a 1-42-4.

(1 column, 42pt, four lines)

CO2 is an important greenhouse gas, but not the only one, and certainly not the most potent, PPM-wise. As a proxy for the overall situation, it’s acceptable, but relying solely on CO2 concentrations invites all manner of problems at the margin to go unnoticed.

We also crossed the threshold for “beyond anything humans have experienced” for CO2 several exits ago. Claiming this is suddenly news is disingenuous, and you want some excellent geologists on your team before claiming “faster than ever.”

Like, yeah, we’re fucked, but this is not great reporting in terms of explaining why and what it means.

A year ago was a weird time, given we were dealing with the Reddit fallout that wildly inflated engagement, with people trying to get a feel for the platform (both Lemmy in general and Beehaw).

I tend to use !chat for things that aren’t articles. Not that that has to happen, it’s just how the communities I’m active in have evolved.

use unsuitable software for years in the hopes that volunteer devs will eventually add the features they need.

There’s an opportunity here to unbundle Photoshop from itself.

Since my background is print, I can say for at least a few more weeks, there’s an audience interested in reading RAW, cropping, toning for both CMYK and RGB, scratch removal on negatives and cutouts. And literally nothing else.

And so now imagine anyone else. They don’t need CMYK. What the fuck is that, anyway?

That Photoshop has gained bloat is not something to emulate. FOSS shouldn’t try to replicate it so long as there’s a universal file format one can jump between apps to manipulate.