crystalmerchant

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The Onion buys rightwing conspiracy theory site Infowars with plans to make it ‘very funny, very stupid’ in c/technology@lemmy.world
[–] crystalmerchant@lemmy.world 13 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Can't wait for Dan and Jordan to cover this

Few truly shocked that NFL player used illegal stream to watch his own team in c/technology@lemmy.world
SpaceX launches starship Mega-Rocket and catches its booster in midair on first try. in c/technology@lemmy.world
[–] crystalmerchant@lemmy.world 13 points 1 month ago

This is because Gwynne runs the show. Not Elon

Former Google CEO says climate goals are not meetable, so we might as well drop climate conservation — unshackle AI companies so AI can solve global warming in c/technology@lemmy.world
[–] crystalmerchant@lemmy.world 8 points 1 month ago

Right, let's solve our biggest problem by unfettering capitalism, and definitely will not just further concentrate power and wealth.

UK's first 'teacherless' AI classroom set to open in London in c/technology@lemmy.world
[–] crystalmerchant@lemmy.world 22 points 2 months ago (3 children)

Lmao does anyone actually think this will have effective educational outcomes??

Is the US finally getting ‘all aboard’ with electric trains? in c/technology@lemmy.world
[–] crystalmerchant@lemmy.world 11 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I don't understand this article. It talks as if these trains in California are the US' first electric trains.

Our light rail here in Portland OR is electric.

LAPD warns residents after spike in burglaries using Wi-Fi jammers that disable security cameras, smart doorbells in c/technology@lemmy.world
[–] crystalmerchant@lemmy.world 6 points 4 months ago (2 children)

Physical locks, physical keys. We are collectively becoming too "smart" for our own good

CrowdStrike downtime apparently caused by update that replaced a file with 42kb of zeroes in c/technology@lemmy.world
HP forced to ditch popular printer range following user backlash in c/technology@lemmy.world
[–] crystalmerchant@lemmy.world 28 points 4 months ago

So.... not popular?

The return of pneumatic tubes in c/technology@lemmy.world
[–] crystalmerchant@lemmy.world 2 points 5 months ago

I remember seeing these Costco tubes as a kid in the 90s. Thought it was the coolest fucking thing, the vertical pipe going up from each cashier and making a maze of pipes all heading somewhere on the ceiling

Intel is trucking a 916,000-pound 'Super Load' across Ohio to its new fab, spawning road closures over nine days in c/technology@lemmy.world
[–] crystalmerchant@lemmy.world 1 points 5 months ago

Lifting volume and flammability (is that a word?). It's just a very volatile gas and we're not going to magic that away with fancy tech. There are more reliable ways to move freight through the air.

Intel is trucking a 916,000-pound 'Super Load' across Ohio to its new fab, spawning road closures over nine days in c/technology@lemmy.world
[–] crystalmerchant@lemmy.world 1 points 5 months ago (4 children)

Yes because the 1920s-1940s are famously indicative of reliable hydrogen based airship transport

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