We've been accidentally geoengineering for decades...but then we stopped:
SO2 actually (very temporarily) cools things down by seeding clouds and creating sulfuric acid aerosols. That's not, like, /good/, but by making more clouds (and also decreasing the size of droplets in clouds, and thus increasing their number) more sunlight is reflected to space.
Ref: https://twitter.com/hankgreen/status/1687535533831102464
The UK government has just quietly published estimates showing wind and solar will be several times cheaper than gas, for the foreseeable future
UK gov 2013: Offshore wind? That'll cost \<sucks teeth\> £150/MWh in 2025
UK gov 2016: OK, maybe only, ooh, £115/MWh in 2025?
UK gov 2020: Er, um, yeah it's pretty cheap…call it £62/MWh in 2025?
UK gov today: Did you see HOW CHEAP offshore wind is?!? Yeah, ikr? £44/MWh in 2025
Ref https://twitter.com/DrSimEvans/status/1687500048622395396
@Chozo I wonder if this bodes well for Kbin/Lemmy? Arguably their model is more about content than social relationships.
@Athena5898 did that include Asia /China? I can't watch video on slow connection
@admiralteal whether we can switch that to lab grown remains to be seen.
@Athena5898 there isn't a single globally applicable answer. It depends.
@mystphyre AFAIK this is a known issue that the developers have been looking at in the last few days. Hope to have a fix soon
@xuxebiko AFAIK the paler lines are the most recent, so assuming that pale line to the right is 2022 it would support that.
I'm curious why this recent trend isn't visible in Google Trends? I watched the November exodus unfold in real time there. This time not a glimmer of activity
@Redhotkurt it sounds like maybe you should create it?
@poVoq yes this sounds sensible. I think the key is the user themselves having more control over their identity.
Have you read https://nexus.blacksky.network/zine/00000001/confederal-protocols similar themes that we're talking about here.
@JonEFive I think the identity bit is the hard part, as you say most content will be federated/ cached in several locations for retrieval
WebauthN maybe? Pretty niche right now, but the threadiverse is quite a techy crowd..
@JonEFive I've been wondering about separating the ID/auth from the app. Someone recently got Keycloak working and that has some possibilities for federation. Not sure if that really helps though. You still have to trust the keycloak admins
@JonEFive I do run an instance that's just for me https://fledd.it (configured as a news aggregator) it was easy on elest.io. $10/ month is too much for most people though. I don't think this is the route to mass adoption.
@tedmustard you may be looking for https://lemmy.world/c/[email protected]
@iByteABit Seregno is nice this time of year if you enjoy swimming in rivers of ice https://www.theguardian.com/world/video/2023/jul/21/hailstorms-pummel-northern-italy-after-days-of-extreme-heat-video-report
At least 110 people have been injured after tennis ball-sized hail rained down on a region of northern Italy overnight Wednesday.
Who should 'own' magazines? Federated infrastructure but user sovereignty: a “third way” between federated and P2P networks?
At the moment the server owner effectively 'owns' magazines & communities. Is that the right balance of power? What happens when servers go offline, or server admins go rogue?
In a world where both users and magazines had public and private keys and magazine moderators had the tools to do off-site backups.
Could the magazine moderator then do an unassisted migration to a new place?
They revoke the key that gives the original server the right to host the magazine. They use the key to re-create it on a new server.
Somehow notify all the members the magazine of the new location. The users use their public keys to reclaim their identities and content.
Would that give mods too much power?
It all gets complicated fairly quickly! I think the Bluesky AT protocol is somewhat close to this model for user content, but doesn't really extend to 'community' scale content.
It falls short of a full confederal protocol
kbin.world
I stuck a service on https://kbin.world that redirects you based on a IP lookup for your country. In descending order it tries to;
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If there is a kbin instance for your country it redirects you there (Just Poland for now!)
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If you have a feddit instance for your country it redirects you to the most appropriate magazine on that instance, within kbin.social eg Germany
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If you have a large national community on another Lemmy instance it redirects you there, again within kbin.social (eg Brasil)
For the ones I haven't got around to it redirects you to kbin.social homepage
It could be broken down to regions too. As more national or regional kbin instances emerge I'll replace the existing feddit/other sites.
I did a bit of testing with Pingdom and it seems to work
In the process I noticed that New Zealand and Japan feddit instances won't load for some reason. Any idea why?
The International Maritime Organization has set a net-zero goal "by or around 2050". What is needed to reach this?
Have you had any bad experiences with people on Kbin yet? Can we do better than Reddit culture?
I was recently talking to some friends about Lemmy and the whole Fediverse idea, as it seemed like a really cool part of the Internet. As I was talking about it, though, I realized how unusually friendly this whole place is, and I joked that I “surprisingly haven’t found any bigotry.” I’m wondering ...
However, when reddit crapped the bed, by comparison, the threadiverse basically didn’t have an established culture. There was a handful of lemmy instances (we were one of them), but the only one of notable size was lemmy.ml. kbin didn’t even exist in any meaningful way until a couple of months before reddit died.
So, when reddit died, there was no established culture. Instead, people brought reddit culture with them, and reddit culture, because of lax admins, was much more tolerant of hate speech than microfedi. And so, people who are “reddit people” more than “fediverse people” set up lemmy and kbin instances, and brought those reddit norms with them.
So then, you get instances like blahaj and beehaw that are threadiverse instances, but have the “old school” microfedi approach to bigotry. We smash it down hard at the first hint of seeing it, but most of the instances we federate with don’t attack it so aggressively.
Reddit > Kbin migration script
I didn't write it, but it seems good
I needed a world-news aggregator to help me get off that other site so I made one
Subscribe from your local instance eg [Kbin.social](https://kbin.social/m/[email protected]/newest) or [Lemmy.world](https://lemmy.world/c/[email protected]/newest) A news aggregator fed from various sources. It will work better if you upvote good ones and comment. Human submissions welcome too!
You may be able sign up directly on !worldnews
You could subscribe the main magazine on Kbin.social or Lemmy.world
It's fed by a bot, but human submissions welcome too. If a human makes a post the bot stops posting for one hour.
Comments and upvotes will improve it.
KBIN running OK on $10/month managed service
Deploy KBIN on Elest.io and get a working dedicated instance in less than 3 minutes. You can Relax knowing that we are taking care for you of install, configuration, encryption, backups, software updates, os upgrades, live monitoring, alerts, live migrations without downtime ... and more! Kbin is a ...
I've been running a Kbin server on a service called elest.io for around a week.
Had a few teething troubles configuring caching, but that should work out of the box now.
If you can point & click on stuff in a semi-sensible manner then you could run your own instance for yourself, a specific community/sub.
I've configured mine as a news aggregator: https://fledd.it
You could subscribe to the main magazine here !worldnews
Elest.io do the install, configuration, encryption, backups, software updates, os upgrades, live monitoring, alerts, live migrations without downtime.
I'm not connected with them in any way other than as a customer.
South Korean shoppers hoard salt and seafood ahead of Japan's release of treated radioactive water
In many supermarkets across South Korea, one item has conspicuously vanished from shelves: salt.
Simultaneous harvest failures across crop-producing regions are major threats to global food security. A strongly meandering jet can trigger these, however, climate and crop models underestimate effects with consequences for climate risk assessments.
Kbin.social passes 50K users
Two weeks after 30K users we reach 50K https://kbin.social/m/kbinMeta/t/35479/Kbin-social-passes-30k-Monthly-Active-Users