Archive: 2024-11

Solar-powered desalination system requires no extra batteries | MIT News | Massachusetts Institute of Technology — For brackish water not seawater. Reverse osmosis is the basis for scaled up industrial desalination but projects like this show how electrodialysis can lean into the inherent variability of solar with good results. (2024-11-22 · climate-hope, desalination, mlp, solar )

Robot Jailbreak: Researchers Trick Bots Into Dangerous Tasks - IEEE Spectrum — "showed that he could get the Thermonator robot dog from Throwflame, which is built on a Go2 platform and is equipped with a flamethrower, to shoot flames at him with a voice command." (2024-11-21 · genai, llm, mlp, robot, what.could.possibly.go.wrong )

A Star Battle Guide — Star Battle Go can be thought of as “binary Soduku”. It’s deep as game/puzzles go and this guide helps you appreciate it. (2024-11-15 · games, mlp, puzzle, soduku, star.battle.go, strategy )

Deprogramming Kin Lane | Kin Lane — Good list of books, a few of which I've read, more which I still need to read, on understanding power when you're part of the dominant group. (2024-11-12 · books, capitalism, culture, mlp, patriarchy, power, racism, reading )

Pluralistic: Shifting $677m from the banks to the people, every year, forever (01 Nov 2024) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow — "A newly finalized Personal Financial Data Rights rule (from the CFPB ) will allow you to authorize third parties – other banks, comparison shopping sites, brokers, anyone who offers you a better deal, or help you find one" -- now do this with energy usage data! (2024-11-01 · banks, cfpb, hope, mlp, money, open.data )