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TIL: Japan’s geothermal energy potential is HUGE (3rd highest globally), but harnessing it is blocked by outdated Onsen Association heads.
Japan doesn’t have many natural resources, and living on a huge crack in tectonic plates has its costs, but it _could_ pay off in terms of cheap electricity for everyone in the country. Sadly, old attitudes prevent this from happening.
https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2023/03/21/national/geothermal-potential-hot-springs
Mastodon Feedisagalaev ("Ivan Sagalaev :flag_wbw:") wrote:
Watched "Boiling Point"[1]. Really liked it, even though me being pretty conflict averse, I thought watching a tense disaster drama would be hard (the name gives it away, really).
And it's not an easy movie to watch, for sure. Still, cinematography, acting and the whole *realness* of what's happening on the screen is fantastic!
P.S. All 90 minutes of the movie is a single continuous shot from a single camera, which is just unbelievable!
Mastodon FeedReblogged by rmrenner ("The Old Gay Gristle Fest"):
frankie goes to hollywood, screenshot, zx spectrum (1985) https://denofgeek.com/games/frankie/34435/games-nobody-talks-about-anymore-frankie-goes-to-hollywood
Mastodon FeedReblogged by rmrenner ("The Old Gay Gristle Fest"):
ftrain@tilde.zone ("Paul Ford") wrote:
As far as I can tell this is it, the purest nerd artifact across synth and tech cultures. It’s hours of talks from 1977 West Coast Computer Faire about digital synthesis, with talks from Jeff Raskin and John Chowning among others. https://archive.org/details/camvchm_000031
Mastodon Feedbcrypt@infosec.exchange ("yan") wrote:
wished i loved anything as much as this seattle resident loves single sign on
Mastodon FeedReblogged by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
jcgregorio@mastodon.cc ("Joe Gregorio") wrote:
Watching folks flock to Threads is like watching Charlie Brown taking another run at that football.
Mastodon Feedslightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:
An image map would be faster.
Mastodon Feedslightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:
It is *intense* just how badly the JS/React brainworms have infected the frontend community.
Every single NYT story page has *both* a 437KiB (1.5MiB unzipped) *and* a 474KiB (1.7MiB) file, to display ~50K of text. It isn't ad bloat. It isn't tracking. It's this sort of bunk:
Mastodon FeedReblogged by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
anildash@me.dm ("Anil Dash") wrote:
Well, I did manage to get the NYT to post about “VC qanon” and the brainworms infecting the tech tycoons. https://www.nytimes.com/2023/07/06/opinion/robert-kennedy-jr-silicon-valley.html
Mastodon Feedslightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:
If you've seen @brucelawson et. al.'s work on ending the #AppleBrowserBan, you might wonder why Japan, the EU, and the UK are far ahead of the US:
https://brucelawson.co.uk/2023/japans-report-on-mobile-ecosystems-is-published/
It's a good question with a depressing answer: institutionalised corruption:
Mastodon FeedReblogged by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
brucelawson@vivaldi.net ("Bruce Lawson") wrote:
The Japanese digital competition regulator proposes an end to the #appleBrowserBan: "Platform operators that provide OS of a certain size or larger shall be prohibited from requiring app developers to use OS providers’ own browser engines" https://brucelawson.co.uk/2023/japans-report-on-mobile-ecosystems-is-published/
Mastodon FeedReblogged by rmrenner ("The Old Gay Gristle Fest"):
plutzie@ursal.zone ("plutzie :Ryyca:") wrote:
Os o-lhi-nhoooos 👀🤍🗣🗣🗣
Mastodon FeedReblogged by jeffsonstein ("Jeff Sonstein"):
Adam_Cadmon1@mastodon.online ("Adam F. Lawton") wrote:
Exhibit A. I'm telling you, a man who laughs at his own corny ass sight gags does not care what we think about his intelligence. He's a frat boy who got super rich.
Mastodon Feedjeffsonstein ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
95 South (All Of The Places We've Been) by Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson
genius
Mastodon Feedjeffsonstein ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
ahhhhhh, Mr Jimi
Little Wing by The Jimi Hendrix Experience
Mastodon Feedjeffsonstein ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
You've Got a Friend by James Taylor
Mastodon Feedrmrenner ("The Old Gay Gristle Fest") wrote:
new DisplacedGamers video 🎉🎉🎉
Really in depth look at sprite layering and priority on the NES https://youtu.be/8M2V5Pv6_1A
Mastodon Feedjeffsonstein ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
I'd Rather Go Blind by Etta James
Mastodon Feedjeffsonstein ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
I Never Listened Too Good by Eric McFadden
Mastodon Feedjeffsonstein ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
You Turn Me On, I'm a Radio by Joni Mitchell
Mastodon Feedjeffsonstein ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
I Hope That I Don't Fall In Love With You by Tom Waits
Mastodon Feedjeffsonstein ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
ahhhhhh, sweet
Melissa by The Allman Brothers Band
Mastodon FeedGargron ("Eugen Rochko") wrote:
Mastodon went from 1.2M active users last week to 1.8M active users this week. That's not 70M users overnight, but it's something! 🙂
Mastodon Feedpzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:
Have you been clamoring for a meat-based beer?
https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2023/07/07/well-thats-going-to-ruin-the-weekend/
Mastodon Feedjeffsonstein ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
he wants his own fan
Mastodon FeedReblogged by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
davidgerard@circumstances.run ("David Gerard") wrote:
Crypto Company Announcement Translation Guide
Mastodon Feedjeffsonstein ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
my Zimbabwean friend has learned not to just dump hot sauce on my cooking without tasting it first ;^}
Mastodon Feedpzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:
I double-dog dare you to show up at our podcast tomorrow and challenge us in the chat.
https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2023/07/07/reminder-atheists-exposed/
Mastodon FeedReblogged by isagalaev ("Ivan Sagalaev :flag_wbw:"):
AnarchoNinaWrites@oliphant.social wrote:
Saw someone talking about the edit button on here and I shamefully have to admit that I was one of those people who believed Twitter should never have one, because "what if I like a post and then a guy changes it to nazi shit" and "how am I gonna prove what that nazi said to me to make me go off like that in the reply, otherwise?"
Two things I learned when coming here, and I learned them very quickly
A) about 80% of my worries are covered by Mastodon giving me a notification that the post I liked or boosted, has changed - I just read it again and if it's a problem, I unlike/boost.
B) the remaining 20% of my problem is more or less solved by having a server admin who is on MY side against, well, literal fucking nazis, and doesn't want me to spend all of my time building airtight cases to prove nazis are harassing me beyond the shadow of even unreasonable doubts, before they'll do anything.
The edit feature is fine. The problem was Twitter.
Mastodon FeedReblogged by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
noracodes@tenforward.social ("Nora Tindall, tech aspect") wrote:
If you're available at 14:30 UTC on Wednesday, the 12th of July (next Wednesday), please consider going to this MDN community call and telling them to ditch AI Help and AI Explain from MDN.
https://github.com/mdn/yari/issues/9208#issuecomment-1625683795
![Crypto Company Announcement Translation Guide “Today is my last day at [ ]. | am excited to spend more time with family and working on new projects” - “l am quitting [ ] because of massive fraud and looming legal actions” “We are excited to announce our expansion to [Island Nation].” - "We are under investigation by the CFTC" “We are excited to announce our expansion to the UK” - “We are under investigation by the SEC” “Decentralizing [ ]" - “Founders and investors are ready to dump their tokens on you” “The path to decentralization and handover to the community for [ ] is now complete” - “Devs have finished dumping their tokens and are now ready to stop working” “We have no exposure to []” - “We have massive undisclosed exposure to [ ]" “Operations continue as normal” - "Bankruptcy filing is imminent”](https://files.mastodon.social/cache/media_attachments/files/110/674/379/731/927/826/original/271f09fc9d299636.png){kind=link}
