Btw, wind turbines aren’t made of concrete, the towers are metal tubes. But the blades are problematic, since they’re made from fiberglass. And solar panels aren’t concrete either. While - if I drive past a nuclear power plant, those are really huge concrete structures. And the problematic things about hydro plants are the reservoirs. It’s flooding a vast area to build a new reservoir and changing the flow in the river that destroys ecosystems. The plant itself isn’t that bad. So ideally you build it into an existing flow of water or use tidal energy instead of building a new dam. I’m not an expert on north american geography, but I bet there are some opportunities left for power plants with a lesser impact on the ecosystem.

For over a century, the standard way we’ve been disposing of hazardous materials […]

Until 1994, one standard way of disposing of radioactive waste was throwing it into the ocean. There are at least 90.000 containers that got dumped along the shores of the USA alone. (Source: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Altlasten_in_den_Meeren#Atommüllverklappung )

I’d agree that “No solution is perfect” qualifies for the history of nuclear energy.

The question is, why do we look at recycling solar panels, but compare that to nuclear and ignore that these have to be decomissioned and dismantled, too? And the whole process of mining uranium etc. While it may be true that the depleted uranium is low in volume, that’s far from being the actual amount of waste in the end. You’d have to compare the entire lifecycle of the plant to the entire lifecycle of a solar panel. (And solar isn’t the best option anyways.) Also who’s paying for 40.000 years of storage of those 3 cubic meters? The power companies certainly aren’t.

Lol. Seems the nuclear lobby is here and down-voting everyone who likes progress.

I read renewable energy is way cheaper than nuclear energy. And it comes with a low carbon footprint and without nuclear waste. (We have some actual historical numbers in the World Nuclear Report P. 293 which show nuclear is pretty expensive compared to renewable these days.)

So the solution is pretty obvious. Sign a contract over a few billion dollars with renewable energy instead of nuclear. It’ll be cheaper anyways. And has the added benefit that it’s available now. Whereas the SMR startups still have to figure out a few engineering challenges. And we’d avoid all the nuclear waste that’ll become a problem for future generations. And I mean it’s not that uranium or the other ores are super abundant anyways. Nuclear fission is a temporary solution in the first place. And not a particularly good one.

And investing in renewable will then grow that industry and make the energy even cheaper.

Only downside I see is: you can’t build renewable (and the datacentre) anywhere. It’d have to be for example in Texas for solar, or close to the mountains or some water flow for hydro. Or somewhere windy or at the shore for wind energy. The latter two have the benefit that they’re available during the night, too. And I guess the USA has some potential for thermal energy, too. But I don’t consider this a major issue since we have internet pretty much everywhere. They’d just need to lay some more fibre network to the site.

I mean they seem to be still figuring this out… But isn’t the whole SMR harardous waste after it got decommissioned? That depends a bit on the technology used. But that’d be a huge pile of mildly radioactive steel, plumbing and concrete in addition to the depleted fuel, which is highly radioactive. And as far as I know the re-use to get the rest of the energy out also isn’t solved yet. I mean obviously that should be done. Only taking out parts of the energy and wasting the rest isn’t very efficient.

A nuclear fission power plant generates about as much CO2 as wind turbines if you have a look at it’s whole lifecycle. That’s because just operation doesn’t generate CO2. But nonetheless that power plant is made from materials like lots of concrete. It needs to be built, decommissioned, etc. You need to mine the uranium ore, … All of that generates quite some CO2. So it’s far off from being carbon neutral. And we already have alternatives that are in the same ballpark as a nuclear power plant with that. Just that the fission also generates this additional nuclear waste that is a nightmare to deal with. And SMRs are less efficient than big nuclear power plants. So they’ll be considerably less “clean” than for example regenerative energy. I’d say they’re definitely not amongst the cleanest energy sources we have today. That’d be something like a hydroelectric power. However, it’s way better than oil or natural gas or coal. At least if comparing CO2 emissions.

I’m not so sure about that. We already had to pay a lot of taxpayers’ money to fix bad issues with those storage facilities. And it’s just been a few decades with at least tens of thousands of years to go. That could become very, very expensive. And nasty to deal with for future generations.

I’d say just burying your waste where no one can see it isn’t a good solution. Neither is just dumping it into the ocean. And knowing a worse alternative doesn’t make it right.

You’re correct, burning yet more oil and coal and putting that CO2 into the atmosphere isn’t a viable option either. That’d ruin the climate and be unhealthy for us.

“clean energy”

Don’t nuclear power plants produce waste which is highly problematic because it’s hazardous and radioactive? I wouldn’t call that clean. And SMRs generate even more waste than big nuclear plants.

Since you’re asking for feedback:

Very good intro and analogy to email.

I’d delete the sentence with “focusing on Lemmy”, since you’re going ahead and talking about the Fediverse in general in the next sentence, and then Mastodon. And the article is more broad and not really focusing on Lemmy, one paragraph aside.

There are quite some good paragraphs. Explaining the concepts very well, and without the need for prior knowledge. You also mention protocols, give examples. I think it’s written very well and good to understand.

I’d add a bit more info on how federation works and the consequences. Earlier on in the text to clarify the terminology. That instances are the interconnected nodes that make up the network. In the background the information gets forwarded between them. Every instance can have it’s own rules and perspective on the network. Cater to specific interests or have a unique design.

The paragraph on “Openness and Choice” isn’t entirely correct. Users can miss out on posts. Not all posts are visible from all instances.

I’d add a paragraph that it’s made by the people, for the people. And not for some corporate interests.

I like you also mention the downsides. I think you should rename “Monitization” into “Funding”. And especially the “slow innovation” is some downside that might not be very obvious. It’s nice to mention that.

You could also mention the “network effect” because that’s also something we regularly struggle with.

And that this happens to be powered by Free Software. And we can choose which server software to use and everyone is invited to participate or change things to their liking.

Right, i think that’s a pretty common observation. Starting at school. Kids who are considered more intelligent don’t necessarily do well in school. On contrary, some really struggle. At least that’s what I observed when I was 12 and had some gifted classmates.

Agreed. That’s the spirit. I always don’t get why some people think differently. I mean other people’s life is none of my business. And the core rules to sexuality (and life in general) are very simple: We need consent from all parties and no one should get harmed. And that’s about it. Everything else is kind of individual and we all like different things.

Alright. Thx for the explanation. Yeah, I don’t have a filter. I just say whatever I think. Don’t really care if it’s offensive, just if things are true or not. Which is hard to tell in this case, since we don’t have enough information at hand. And LLMs are complex. Could be a fluke. Or whatever.

I don’t think it’s necessary to distance oneself from doing said roleplay. I bet society is looking down on individuals doing it. But I think it’s perfectly fine. As long as it stays somewhat healthy and no one gets harmed.

There is a considerable group of people who do roleplay with AI. Or have “virtual girlfriends” or companions. It all started with Replika AI. Nowadays there are other services for that. And these LLMs are made to be lewd and suggestive. Including all kinds of niche interests. You’ll find several articles about it if you google virtual grilfrends or AI companions. It’s more or less being discussed in some niche areas of the internet, since there is a stigma to it.

Sorry, I’m also not a native speaker. I don’t know what PC 5-0 means (political correctness police??). But if we want to know what happened, we need to know the circumstances. It’ll be a big difference which exact LLM model got used. We need to know the exact prompt and text that went in. And then we can start discussing why something happened. I’d say a good chance is the LLM has been made to output stories like that. Like it’s the case with LLM models that have been made for ERP. That’s why I said that.

If you post strangely written questions on social media, you probably also type in strangely written text into AI. And in turn the AI will be confused and generate some random text. For example about furries or some other random topic. If it’s an AI service that’s made for erotic roleplay, it’ll be more likely than if you tried the same thing with ChatGPT.

You should ask this question in one of the AI communities, however. And not on No stupid questions.

And it’s better not to use derogatory language.

They could do it like I mentioned mine does? A slider is just a slightly larger touch sensitive area. I guess there are other elements on touch devices we could take inspiration from. And one company has these magnetic knobs. You can just take them off and you’re left with a flat glass surface. The majority of the industry seems pretty set on the buttons, however.

Sure. I don’t know why they design most of them like that… I really can’t be bothered to tap nine times to turn it on. I went to quite some stores and decided on one with two capacitive slider fields. That’s perfectly fine. I just tap somewhere at that slider and it’ll be 1-9 (boost) depending on how far left or right I touch it. Or I swipe. Main thing being, it just takes one tap. Except if I use more than 2 pans, then I have to choose which plate the sliders apply to. Yeah and it’s still the same inconvenience as with every capacitive control field and you can’t place a box of pizzas or anything wet or metal on top of the controls or it’ll complain and start beeping. I learned to place things behind the controls, but guests regularly get scolded by the cooktop.

That’s crazy. I think I’m fine, though. I own enough spezialized kitchen equipment 😆

Yeah, cast iron should work well. I also like the usual stainless steel or non-stick pans. I mean these get hot and cold almost immediately and I have good control over temperature. A heavy cast iron thing is made to store the heat and not do that. Depends on what someone is trying to achieve.

And something that doesn’t work are things that aren’t flat at the bottom. You just can’t have a wok that is completely round and put that on a flat surface. And also thin metals don’t work. So maybe use another cooktop for that. We own a wok that has a flattened bottom. But I don’t really like cooking with that thing. Not sure if it’s me or the wok.

induction cooktop? I’d say dishwasher but that’s probably more plumbing and pumps than “technology”.

With all the other gadgets, I’m not so sure. I’ve had computers, laptops, phones for ages. Of course my first everything back in the 90s or 00s was a big thing. But since then it’s just the newest generation, a bit faster and with more extras, but noting substancially different.