You’re getting downvoted for pointing out that this technology, at optimal efficiency on Earth, generates about 1/100,000 the power of a solar panel. “Not very useful” is an understatement (it’s currently fucking useless). Even worse: the title saying “at night” implies a terrestrial usage and misdirects from this technology’s only potential useful application in the future once and if it becomes much better – namely on deep-space missions.

This research is interesting. I hope it yields something useful. Your comment is still 100% correct for the foreseeable future.

Edit: I was conflating the optimal efficiency of 1 W/m² and the actual efficiency of 1/100,000 the solar panel. Sorry for introducing that confusion.

the whole crew were sleeping with each other’s spouses and everyone figured it out and had a huge fight and everyone quit the gym. Whackos.

Okay, to be fair, at a kind of crummy regular gym I went to, all the staff were fucking all the other staff. I’m not sure I blame this on CrossFit.

Linux really doesn’t get bragging rights for “install[ing] old applications”. Linux ironically has been somewhat better for me than Windows for running older Windows applications thanks to WINE, but when it comes to installing old Linux applications, even when I wasn’t on a rolling release distro, it’s been a total crapshoot.

If, for example, there’s a native Linux game that hasn’t been updated in a few years, my experience buying it has generally been hoping the Linux version works, it doesn’t, and I’m stuck running it through WINE.

PCSX2 1.6.0, which used wxWidgets, released May 2020, and even five years after that, opening it on Linux shows you a frozen, unusable window that you have to manually kill. (citing PCSX2 because it’s a use case of mine as a contributor.) IIIRC, on Windows, you can straight-up go back to versions from like 2010 and still have them work.

I apparently smell like checks notes forest. That actually made me look at the fragrant ingredients: aloe vera juice, rosemary, parsley, sage, and “fragrance”. I mean sure: put those together in one place, and bam! Forest. Or Italian home cook’s backyard garden.

Did a recent poll come out? The last poll I saw in August 2025 (The Economist/YouGov) saw him at 31% total “honest and trustworthy” and 16% “not sure” (page 29).

A reduction to essentially 1/3 of that seems pretty farfetched among the stupid fucks who represent his core base even given what he’s been doing this year.

Pictured: Alexander the Great announcing his victory to the citizens of Issus

After a fatal train crash in Spain, which occurred by the Adamuz crossover, OSM mappers began mapping the surrounding area in solidarity to improve map quality.

Working on OSM and Wikipedia, it’s always a sight to behold when a subject is given a sudden, major boost in quality. It’s simultaneously a harrowing reminder of how much work remains and an uplifting one that people like you are working just as tirelessly as you are toward a common goal. Every time it just makes me wish more people got into contributing and found their own little areas to improve.

“The Consulate” is one of three bars-slash-video-gambling-halls in their shithole quasi-retirement town of 800 people with a 99.8% white population.

Does ChatGPT apparently need to be brought up in literally every conversation about schizophrenic people now regardless of direct relevance?

Anyway, if you’re interested diving deeper, Fredrik Knudsen (Down the Rabbit Hole) made a great video on Davis and TempleOS back in 2018.

King Dragon sends his regards.

Nah, the Lysandreoth archetype is more like “Me on my first playthrough and realizing most of his lines are hints” territory. I genuinely thought Pokémon X and Y would have a twist that Lysandre isn’t the villain because his dialogue is so agonizingly unsubtle. I was trying to parse it for subtle hints that he was secretly good.

Edit: Apparently TV Tropes calls this trope “obvious Judas” (which is much more immediately understood but way less funny than “Lysandreoth”).

Not only that, but the operative word is “killed”. Wongbandue had dementia and went to the train station, and it’s profoundly disgusting that Facebook has a product that would deceive a senile old man into going to New York to meet someone who doesn’t exist, but he died after falling while jogging. Clearly not at all what’s being implied by the OP and really stretching the proximate cause for being “killed”.

It’s a joke about how “JPEG” is literally the name of the organization; it was under their nose the entire time.

https://lmddgtfy.net/?q=what+does+the+acronym+jpeg+stand+for

I just alias ls -lah to lsl.

“Pro tip: stop getting cum in your food at We Cum in Your Food by specifically asking to have your food prepared cum-free.”

Lemmy users in crisis

Always has been.

Guess you won’t be getting the Fierce Deity Mask then.

Everyone wears different masks around different groups of people. Autism can amplify social problems, but everyone to some degree has experienced the image in the OP.

Trying to ascribe specific behaviors to autism might not be healthy, especially absent a formal diagnosis or a reason to think knowing whether it’s autism could help you deal with it in some way.

I feel sometimes like people treat autism as a pseudo-horoscope where just about anything can signify it. In reality, adult diagnosis of autism is very difficult for even professionals. Not only do autism symptoms tend to present less strongly in adulthood, but in addition to screening you, the neuropsychologist – as it’s a pervasive developmental disorder –will often ask to speak to someone like a family member who knew you when you were young. If it didn’t present in childhood, it’s definitionally not autism. Symptoms can get really fuzzy in adulthood in no small part because 18 years is a long time to learn how to act more neurotypical.

That’s not saying “ignore it and move on”. Introspecting like this can sometimes reveal broad behavioral patterns you didn’t notice or thought nothing of. Just keep in mind that autism is generally more complicated than something you can poll and ask “is this an autism?”