This book also basically predicted cryptocurrency (but not the blockchain stuff)

Nanotubes are still a thing, but most of the hype now seems to be around ‘buckysheets’ (graphene)

Let me know when I can check it out without owning an iPhone. Web access would be fine.

Doesn’t strike me as a company that cares about openness if they are being that exclusive.

For that matter how will federation work with them showing ads and having paid posts like they promise (to ‘reward the creators’)?

Calling bytes ‘O’ is rather unamerican.

Link to the other side?

One quick typo I noticed: “For reference, one letter is a byte and a gigabyte is roughly a trillion bytes”. That’s billion of course.

Otherwise, great article!

That’s incredible. I’m usually surprised when there’s a single correct word.

Got 9/20.

That was a good selection of images, quite tricky.

I’m proud of getting both the LEGO minifig ones correct.

Like being able to tell l from I.

It’s (perhaps accidentally) a demonstration of the point - could be a few sentences but Google demands filler.

Ever try to look up a recipe lately? The actual ingredients and instructions will be halfway inside 10 or more pages worth of fluff. That’s not in any way an exaggeration - most of them now have a “jump to recipe” link near the top so it’s feasible to find it on the webpage.

I really hate how SEO (and the search algorithm it is bending to) is ruining the web.

Obtaining usable energy at any hour of the day and in any weather for one thing. That will be less important as batteries or other grid scale systems improve, but for now it’s a big factor.

Total potential output per m^2 is another factor, especially in higher density areas

You’re right, what I meant was if it doesn’t shrink by a lot as users go back to Reddit (for those niche topics for example)

As far as I am concerned, the goal was to get them to renegotiate the API pricing and restrictions, at the risk of the IPO tanking if they didn’t - even if they would have to fire Steve Huffman first.

So yeah, it was a failed protest. If Lemmy continues to grow I’ll continue to spend most of my time here, but that seems like it’s no guarantee.

… Of course if (as in when) Reddit removes old.reddit then I’ll never return there beyond holding my nose when trying to access search results. But 90%ish of the users are already on new reddit/official app and just don’t care.

They work great on desktop browsers, maybe yours isn’t configured right?

And on Android there are alternatives…

I watch a lot of YouTube though (mostly science channels) so I will probably be forced to start paying. I don’t like it.