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Assetto Corsa EVO Announcement Trailer [PEGI]
  • Looks lovely. If it drives as well as Assetto Corsa and adds some of the modern physics features (which looks like with the puddles and night time) and it doesn't loose any features it will be pretty popular. I am still hoping they will expand the features a bit especially on multiplayer game play and scheduled ranked servers.

  • Looks like we are using Linux in university
  • Universities have been running Linux since the very early versions. Slackware was pretty common back in the 90s and 2000s and universities had labs full of them not least because there weren't really laptops so they had to have enough machines for all the students. Universities have been heavily involved in the development of unix from its inception and a lot of the tools were initially written by university professors.

  • Just Stop Oil activists throw soup at Van Gogh’s Sunflowers after fellow protesters jailed
  • I see a lot of confusion and misinformation in the comments about what Just Stop Oils demands are. Their website makes it very plain and you can read through the details yourself. The press has massively misrepresented the groups demands and goals so its best to read it for yourself. https://juststopoil.org/

    These are the 3 demands they have.

    ✅ Demand 1: No New Oil and Gas Licences – WON!

    🔥 Demand 2: Just Stop Oil by 2030.

    🧡 We need a Fossil Fuel Treaty.

    • Demand 1 they only just won when the UK government changed to Labour who have committed the first item, so all their previous actions were with the goal of not expanding yet further the use of fossil fuels.
    • Demand 2 is to phase the use of fossil fuels out by 2030. The UK has a net zero goal of 2035 so this would bring that goal earlier but many other countries have a 2030 target in the EU.
    • Demand 3 is all about trying to get a world wide treaty signed to stop the use of oil to try and meet the Paris agreement to keep within 1.5C.

    There is no immediate demand to stop or anything so extreme, they are largely what the UK has already agreed to do but is failing to achieve.

  • Just Stop Oil activists throw soup at Van Gogh’s Sunflowers after fellow protesters jailed
  • Peaceful protests have not worked, disruptive protests have been widely villified and the protestors jailed for very long sentences. If you are facing 2-3 years for holding up a banner or throwing some paint seems like criminal damage of a fossil fuel facility isn't likely to net more years. As many have said in the past governments ignore peaceful protests at their peril, because once its clear that doesn't work they become not peaceful.

  • Intel releases one last microcode update to fix high-end desktop CPU crashes
  • This has been ridiculous. I have no idea how long my CPU will last and whether it will just randomly start failing. Intel has run out of spares and it seems to have had so many stabs at fixing the problem now that if we believe this is really the last one we are the fools.

    These CPUs need a recall.

  • Yes, It’s Still Really Worth Avoiding COVID—Even If You’ve Already Had It a Few Times
  • The recent study where they intentional infected a bunch of paid volunteers and tracked what happened over the next year is really concerning. All of them have lasting brain damage and none of them can tell this occurred. The Long Covid studies are struggling to find healthy controls because there are a lot of people now walking around with the metabolic and vascular problems that are found in Long Covid but appear asymptomatic. This virus is doing a lot of damage and everyone is one infection away from their life being destroyed by Long Covid.

    The studying I am referring to https://www.thelancet.com/journals/eclinm/article/PIIS2589-5370(24)00421-8/fulltext

    Bare in mind it's one in 400k such studies showing the damage of Covid it's no outlier it's just really dumb.

  • The rise of solar power and China's staggering EV growth may have pushed global emissions into decline
  • There is a slight complexity to this as methane breaks down into CO2 over a period of about 20 years, in the meantime it contributes a higher warming effect. But there is a measure called CO2e which is the equivalent including the other green house gases and it too has been accelerating so it doesn't change the point its just there are some prior emission impacts on current CO2 in the atmosphere.

  • Unpopular Opinion: Xitter going bad is the best thing that ever happened to the Web
  • Twitter is defined entirely by what is followed, you can stay completely out of the toxic far right stuff and block those that don't know where they are. There are still plenty of sub communities there that exist no where else and you can control your feed better than Lemmy and other forum like systems. Twitter overall is declinimg but it's not the full picture because what is happening doesn't impact lots of people who use the platform that much.

  • Central Europe floods: Rush to shore up flood defences as more killed
  • We knew this was coming, we knew if we didn't stop pumping CO2 into our atmosphere we would have to mitigate a lot of the damage at much greater cost and yet here we having increased the rate at which we increase CO2 into the atmosphere to now a whopping 3.3 ppm annually and we have spent nothing on mitigation. Honestly it feels like our governments just chose we were all going to die and were fine with it.

  • The UK says water bosses could face prison under plans to clean up sewage-clogged rivers
  • We don't actually need new laws. There are already existing mechanisms for holding the directors of companies criminally responsible for damage and death they cause. Its not new laws we need its the existing ones enforced and done so not just against the water companies but any company that is harming the environment and people or committing other criminal acts.

  • A remote Indigenous tribe kills two loggers encroaching on their land in Peru
  • People have been repeatedly told not to go near this group. Its the age old story where "modern man" meets indigenous tribe and kills a bunch of them with disease and they now consider us at war. We need to leave these people alone.

  • “No Reply”: Some PC Makers May Not Honor Intel’s Extended CPU Warranty

    It looks the majority of makers aren't going to pass Intel's extended warranty on. That is a real problem given they have now knowingly sold a faulty product by design.

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    The first of very many legal cases that will pop up across the globe all because Intel wont do the right thing and recall these faulty processors.

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    www.pcgamesn.com Intel is “selling defective CPUs” says game dev in brutal smackdown

    More problems with Intel game crashes emerge, again with an "out of video memory" error, with Alderon Games advising the use of AMD CPUs instead.

    Intel is “selling defective CPUs” says game dev in brutal smackdown
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    This is why GPU Drivers Might Not Matter

    This is a great look at a number of games over time from launch to months after launch benchmarking the patch releases as well as drivers. The end conclusion is the day 1 drivers that Nvidia/AMD/Intel produce are worth having and they improve performance and fix bugs but later drivers don't show as helping and the performance changes after that point are attributable to the game updates.

    What is wild is Baldur's Gate loosing a tonne of performance in a patch and has never recover its prior performance and it can't utilise the GPU at all well now but there are other games showing not just increases but degradation of performance as well.

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    www.wezm.net Exporting YouTube Subscriptions to OPML and Watching via RSS

    This post describes how I exported my 500+ YouTube subscriptions to an OPML file so that I could import them into my RSS reader. I go into fine detail about the scripts and tools I used. If you just want to see the end result the code is in this repository, which describes the steps needed to run it...

    This used to be a lot easier, Youtube had an export function to OPML and you could just import it.

    Its quite useful being able to follow all your Youtube channels with your RSS reader if you want to pick which you want to watch then also Metube and the browser plug-in makes it a right click and select to send it for download.

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    www.neowin.net Leaked Task Manager image suggests Intel killing Windows XP-era hyperthreading on next gen

    Intel could be on the verge of bringing another major shift in its architectural design after going big.LITTLE hybrid route. The company is seemingly looking to Hyper-threading on the next-gen.

    Leaked Task Manager image suggests Intel killing Windows XP-era hyperthreading on next gen

    Task Manager of prototype Intel CPU shows Core and Logical processor count are the same at 8.

    This is still a relatively low end chip if its just 8 cores and a 13500 has 6 + 8 = 14 total so this is maybe a laptop processor. Hyperthreading probably doesn't make sense anymore.

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    www.technologyreview.com Job titles of the future: Chief heat officer

    Miami’s public official is the first of her kind.

    Job titles of the future: Chief heat officer

    Florida’s Miami-Dade County hired a chief heat officer, Jane Gilbert—the first position of its kind in the world.

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    www.theguardian.com Ofgem energy price cap predicted to fall to £1,823 a year

    Bills likely to rise again from January and consumer groups say energy costs remain ‘dangerously high’

    Ofgem energy price cap predicted to fall to £1,823 a year

    I don't know if people are aware of the fact that you can see the wholesale price of energy but there are is a website that tracks it.

    https://energy-stats.uk/wholesale-energy-pricing/

    This clearly shows that wholesale energy prices this year have been lower than they were in 2021. Yet the price of electricity charged to people is much higher now than it was then.

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    Reddit undeleting comments and hiding them

    I came across today one of my own comments on Reddit with a search on duckduckgo. It was still intact. The problem is I used shreddit to randomise and delete the entire contents of my account. My account comments and posts all show empty on my account pages on reddit so there should be nothing.

    I did a site:reddit.com search using my username and found ~50 comments that Reddit has undeleted but also hide from my own account. I could still edit and delete them. Its curious that they don't appear on my accounts content on Reddit and yet a search engine can find them and they are still served by Reddit. Ex Reddit users who deleted their account contents should be aware this is happening and report it as a GDPR breach to their respective agencies if they are in the EU if they too find this has occurred.

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    Television @lemmy.world BrightCandle @lemmy.world

    Extrapolations - A gem of a single season series on the climate crisis

    Odds are many missed this one season show (a sort of mini series) looking at the progression of climate change and how it will impact peoples lives. Its a sci-fi show of sorts but also a science reality based on known consequences. It is not prematurely ended it is a coherent series telling a story which builds to a proper end with no intention to make it multiple seasons.

    I thought it was well done and worth a watch, its on Apple TV+.

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    Sodium Ion batteries have started appearing

    I was looking today on AliExpress and found the Sodium Ion batteries are starting to appear. 18650s and other cylinder batteries as well as pouches. They are cheap, this would give 220AH and 49.7V nominal or 10.5KWh batteries for £1400. A LiPho of similar capacity would be 2.5x that.

    The have some details of the voltage curve which looks quite extreme along with what sounds like great >1C charge and discharge and 1C sustained and 6000 cycles. These are looking really good for home solar systems.

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    Too many coffee creamera : A taste test

    Turns out all the creamers are kind of bad!

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