Some of these devices have even been known to look for other similar devices within WiFi range, and phone home that way (i.e., send analytics data via a neighbor’s connected TV as a proxy).

Ummm, wut? I’m going to need some quality sources to back this claim up.

Value Valve

That makes a lot more sense than sea water and fresh water.

Friggin hell. Thanks.

I think the article author is completely confused and doesn’t understand what’s happening. There are hints of what’s happening in this paragraph.

Fresh water—or treated wastewater—is placed on one side of a membrane. On the other side is seawater, made even saltier by concentrating leftover brine from a desalination process. The difference in saltiness pulls the fresh water across the membrane, increasing the pressure on the saltwater side. That pressure is then used to drive a turbine, generating electricity.

I don’t think any fresh water is being used. I think what’s actually happening is…

Very salty wastewater (from the desalinization plant) is placed on one side of a membrane. On the other side is seawater. The difference in saltiness pulls the wastewater across the membrane, increasing the pressure on the saltwater side (or maybe the other way around). That pressure is then used to drive a turbine, generating electricity. The waste then is just water that’s saltier than sea water, but less salty than what came from the desalinization plant.

So, then why are you confused about what’s using power at night?

Do you go to bed at sunset?
Do you turn off your heat at sunset in the winter? Maybe you do, but most people don’t.

Also, most people with an electric car and a garage to park it can just use a cheap Level 1 charger to trickle charge it whenever it’s in the garage and always have plenty of range for their commute and errands. This means all of those cars are charging. … at night while the owner sleeps.

I can hear your Mom all the way from here telling you to clean your room.

I’ve lost track of how many times I’ve walked away from some online product or service that I was interested in but refused to publicly disclose prices beyond, “FrEe TrIaL!”

Nah thanks. If you’re playing mind games like that right off the bat, that tells me everything I need to know about the experience of using the product.

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threatens to “financially ruin” the entire AI industry

No. Just the LLM industry and AI slop image and video generation industries. All of the legitimate uses of AI (drug discovery, finding solar panel improvements, self driving vehicles, etc) are all completely immune from this lawsuit, because they’re not dependent on stealing other people’s work.

Gerrymandering has been an obvious problem for decades. The only people that didn’t see a problem are those congress critters that got elected to one. (“Well, it worked to get me elected so it’s obviously not broken.”)

The shape of my very blue congressional district in a very blue state most closely resembles projectile vomit on a linoleum floor.

Democrats have had multiple opportunities to fix this shit over the decades, and instead they’ve just been using it to their advantage wherever possible. The Fair Representation Act has been our best opportunity to fix gerrymandering, and it died in committee in every congressional session since 2017.

I would argue most of the elected representatives at the state and federal levels have no interest in fixing gerrymandering, because gerrymandering is what got them elected.

https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/26184

JFC, as if this guy wasn’t already the poster child for cringe.

Some guys are lying assholes and horrible people, but so are some women.

and some guys anonymously posing as women online to undermine the competition.

My current conspiracy theory is that Trump’s owners have decided that he’s become more of a liability than an asset, and are throwing him under the bus to replace him with someone more under their control.

My “evidence” is that this steady daily trickle of new evidence tying Trump to Epstein didn’t just miraculously spawn into existence this week. It’s been in people’s filing cabinets and video/photo archives for years

I just find it really hard to believe none of this was “found” earlier. Instead it’s being “found” now, but not all at once. It’s being “found” at a rate that keeps the story at the top of the news cycle.

Specially Especially

Many people are saying…

That would make sense, but, directly from the website…

Plasma Bigscreen is an open-source user interface for TV’s. Running on top of a Linux distribution, Plasma Bigscreen turns your TV or setup-box into a fully hackable device. A big launcher giving you easy access to any installed apps and skills. Controllable via voice or TV remote.

Using the multi-platform toolkit Qt, the flexible extensions of KDE Frameworks plus the power of Plasma Shell, Plasma Bigscreen is built with technology which feels equally at home on the desktop, mobile devices and TV.

I would highlight the following from that…

TV or setup-box

Controllable via voice or TV remote

feels equally at home on the desktop, mobile devices and TV.

But I don’t know anything other than what I’m reading on the website, so 🤷. I’ll be eagerly waiting to see what happens.

Other than the dev, probably not.

As of right now, Plasma Bigscreen isn’t available for public use yet. This is due to not being developed for so long. The project has been revived, but it might take a while until it becomes stable and is available for public use. You can check the status of Plasma Bigscreen on the Matrix channel or the KDE Invent repository. https://plasma-bigscreen.org/

But I want to know, when it is available, what TVs will it run on, what will the install/upgrade process look like, etc.