I cancelled my YouTube subscription when they increased the price by 50%, and I’m never subscribing again.

I haven’t bought a full price game in decades, unless it’s an indie/under €30.

I’m finally building up my PS4 game collection, for ages I had 2 games - RD2 and FFXV. Yesterday I got this in the mail, I paid less for those 4 used games than what Sony is asking for a digital copy of FFVII Remake in their store…

But even then, the oil billionaires are the ones making bank, good old broke Joe is the one spending his last cents at the pump so he can get to work…

Sorry, I don’t understand what you mean.

You’re saying that if the creator of the sticker wanted to be recognized or was concerned about others making use of his design without his approval, he’d have signed it or added his username? That isn’t necessary, you still own the rights to a work you made even if you don’t sign it - including the right to give it away and allow free use, but that’s a right that needs to be exercised.

For example, Linux source code is free, for any use (as per the GPL). The name “Linux”, however, is a trademark, registered by Linus in the US and other places, and it’s usage is protected (the Linux foundation has a page about it).

I don’t think anyone’s gonna be mad about stickers, the point I was trying to make was about what FOSS means in the context of Linux and software in general, but also how it relates to other forms of intellectual property protection.

That’s unrelated to OPs point that because Linux is FOSS, so is the drawing. As an advocate for open source, I try to clear up this kind of confusion.

The fact that the Linux source code license is open doesn’t give permission to another work about Linux.

An analogy would be a park - you can use it, go running, etc with no issues. But if you setup your easel and make a painting of the park, that painting is an original creative work, and it is protected under copyright laws.

The same for that sticker. Even with the image of Tux being made “free” (attribution) by its creator, this stylized combination of drawing and text is still copyrighted, so we’d have to ask their permission for the stickers.

I hissed.

(That was genuinely funny, thanks for the chuckle)

Your dynamic approach to typing offends me.

Ah, but that’s jail time if they prove it.

Ok but I mean, how many of those birds are pigeons and rats? That’s a service…

Edit: i was incorrect. Mist, steam or fog are no longer water vapor (ie, water in gaseous state), but condensed water droplets.

Care, that birth control won’t work without the missing string.

I’m not a fan of white skirts but that one I’d try…

There are definitely worse worlds than one where UBI is what comes out of the AI race… One can dream.

They don’t just need to work, they need to be economically viable.

These batteries have active components, since they actually pump the electrolyte, and there’s a fairly substantial level of degradation and corrosion, along with leaking across the membrane that leads to loss of capacity over time.

If some of these problems can be reduced (like the article claims they do) then they’re even more attractive.

I really hope this helps with massively expanding renewables storage, because that’s bastion holding up fossil fuels in electricity generation, and it will allow shutting down all those coal, gas, even nuclear plants!

Inb4 no one contributes voluntarily, so they make it mandatory.

I can see the headlines: US invents taxes.

NGL, was expecting a rickroll.

China has also been delivering, so I wouldn’t bet against them.

A notorious example is Tesla, when they adopted the lithium-iron-phosphate batteries made by CATL because they were cheaper, safer and easier to build (no nickel or cobalt required).

Of course some of these articles are pure hype for vapourware, but this one’s sounding plausible - they claim to have engineered a structure that is negatively charged, while also physically preventing electrolyte crossover, and that this prevents degradation by two orders of magnitude.

It’s not preposterous, and might be enough to make these batteries usable on a massive scale…

Energy density isn’t really a problem for grid-wide storage. Just build huge electrolyte tanks under the solar panels, voilà, generation and storage.

If they’re really stable, they’ll probably be placed all over the place and be a huge help in managing demand.

It won’t fit all use cases, you’ll want batteries with better density for anything mobile, but there’s definitely also a huge use case for this type of battery.

Definitely AI.

No, Flash was a proprietary platform for animated content before the modern web standards. You’re thinking of the MP3 player.

Edit: Clearly a poor attempt at setting up someone to reply with “no you’re thinking of Winamp, …”

Not sure about public domain. Perhaps a non-commercial license would be best - this way fans can carry on the work, but others wouldn’t be tempted to profit off of the IP.