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HeartyBeast , to Technology in German carmaker Volkswagen says forced labour in one of its sub-supplier's plants in China was not identified as 'no full supply chain transparency exists'
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I wonder how many manufacturers can currently manage that.

HeartyBeast , to Green Energy in Virginia went all in on solar. Then its powerful utility changed the rules. After Dominion Energy required expensive upgrades, many solar projects were put on hold.
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It can work where there is real competition. For natural monopolies, not so much.

Usually it happens because the state wants to sell off family silver to make some short term cash :(

HeartyBeast , to Technology in A Primer on Mastodon's New Board Members
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Yeh. I’m pretty comfortable with this broad mix.

HeartyBeast , to Science in Platipus doesn't have a stomach, why?
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So was this written by AI or someone who can’t really write English?

HeartyBeast , to Science Fiction in 'Megalopolis': Francis Ford Coppola on the conspiracy of bad reviews
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If you are asked about bad reviews directly, you can’t exactly ‘no comment’ them. His response is basically ‘it’s not a conventional film’ is a perfectly reasonable one, I think.

Who knows how this will turn out

HeartyBeast , to /kbin in Kbin, please keep developing!
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You might be interested in mbin - a fork of kbin that I believe is being actively maintained https://github.com/MbinOrg/mbin?tab=readme-ov-file

HeartyBeast , to homeassistant in Ohhh that's why you run actions in Parallel
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Could you give som examples of where it’s desirable ?

HeartyBeast , to homeassistant in Ohhh that's why you run actions in Parallel
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Nice tip. Thank you. I was similarly confused

HeartyBeast , to Science in Scientists discover breakthrough in carbon dioxide absorbers replacing trees
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Slightly more informative article with link to original paper: https://phys.org/news/2024-04-scientists-porous-material-greenhouse-gases.html

HeartyBeast , to Technology in Does a VPN used on a smartphone with Wi-Fi disabled (mobile data only enabled) provide any sort of protection?
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Absolutely. Unless they’re actually evil. Which I’m sure they aren’t. But they could be.

HeartyBeast , to Technology in Does a VPN used on a smartphone with Wi-Fi disabled (mobile data only enabled) provide any sort of protection?
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Thanks for the smile this morning 🙂

HeartyBeast , to Technology in Does a VPN used on a smartphone with Wi-Fi disabled (mobile data only enabled) provide any sort of protection?
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Running your own VPN in that situation is a good use-case agreed - assuming you trust yourself :)

HeartyBeast , to Technology in Does a VPN used on a smartphone with Wi-Fi disabled (mobile data only enabled) provide any sort of protection?
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You’re hiding your traffic route from your mobile operator and giving it instead to your vpn company who swear they are honest

HeartyBeast , to World News in US military pier starts moving towards Gaza
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You should have quoted fir the job

HeartyBeast , to Games in Stellaris gets a DLC about AI that features AI-created voices, director insists it's 'ethical' and 'we're pretty good at exploring dystopian sci-fi and don't want to end up there ourselves'
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The technology is magnifying the flaws in capitalism

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