Powderhorn
Unemployed journalist, burner, raver, graphic artist and vandweller.
I read news so you don’t have to (but you still should).
- 193 Posts
- 825 Comments
Powderhorn@beehaw.orgto
Technology@beehaw.org•Discord faces backlash over age checks after data breach exposed 70,000 IDsEnglish
124·3 days agoSo, after reading several sources on this, it sounds like it’s going to be harder to access furry hentai, which one shouldn’t be doing on Discord in the first place.
That has never been a private space. You want E2EE for anything spicy.
Powderhorn@beehaw.orgto
Technology@beehaw.org•Discord roll out global age verification system, including an "age inference" model that runs in the backgroundEnglish
13·3 days agoI don’t use Discord for adult content, so it sounds like I won’t really be affected. But they’re sure as hell not getting my face or ID.
Powderhorn@beehaw.orgOPto
Technology@beehaw.org•Western Digital details 14-platter 3.5-inch HAMR HDD designs with 140 TB and beyondEnglish
11·5 days agoImagine if we were still doing full-height 5.25" HDDs!
Powderhorn@beehaw.orgOPto
Technology@beehaw.org•Western Digital details 14-platter 3.5-inch HAMR HDD designs with 140 TB and beyondEnglish
4·5 days agoSo, rebuild the array offsite after swapping in the good drive?
I only use my phone under duress. The screen is entirely too small. It’s a phone. It’s meant for calls and texting.
There’s a time and a place for everything, with apologies to John Lennon.
Lemmy is a great place for longform discussions, but the vast majority of my posts and comments tend to be of the one-line, weary-columnist snark variety.
Much of the news this days is “this is objectively bad,” making attempts at discourse difficult.
Powderhorn@beehaw.orgOPto
Technology@beehaw.org•Turns Out They Didn’t Really Want You To Bring Your Whole Self To WorkEnglish
16·7 days agoI mean, most services have decided to price themselves out of the business. A great example is fast food. I remember the 99-cent Whopper and $1 McDoubles. At that price, it was acceptable food. It got the job done.
That any chain claims to still have a “value menu” befuddles me. And don’t get me started on $3.79 fountain drinks.
The problem isn’t RTO, it’s that there’s simply no value anymore. Time was, grabbing a burger on the way home was cheaper than making dinner. Those times have passed, and if you have to drive for an hour, why pay $7 for something you can make at home for $2?
Powderhorn@beehaw.orgto
Technology@beehaw.org•CATL unveils battery with 12-minute charging and 1.5 million mile lifeEnglish
61·8 days agoOK, but where are the data that they’re inflating claims? From where I’m looking, they keep iterating. Your approach feels like sinophobia. What are we doing here in the states? Certainly not announcing new batteries.
Powderhorn@beehaw.orgto
Technology@beehaw.org•CATL unveils battery with 12-minute charging and 1.5 million mile lifeEnglish
102·8 days agoI’ve been living exclusively off Chinese-made solar panels and batteries for nearly two and a half years. I don’t exactly view them as liars.
Also, your link is irrelevant. We’re talking about CATL here.
Powderhorn@beehaw.orgto
Technology@beehaw.org•CATL unveils battery with 12-minute charging and 1.5 million mile lifeEnglish
281·8 days agoI first ran into this story on /r/energy (yeah, I cheated on Beehaw because I had to see what was going on in /r/journalism with the Post news), and while most comments were useful, there was also a tinge of “but it’s China, so that’s bad.”
Well, we were on our way to building up production and infrastructure here in the U.S., which I know because I fucking covered federal grants for green-energy projects and battery production until being laid off Jan. 20, 2025.
I mean, this is like complaining that another kid has a chocolate bar on the playground and you don’t. China invests for the long term. The U.S. needs quarterly returns. We did a lot better at advancing the state of the art in everything when we had robust corporate R&D departments than we do going with share buybacks.
We have lost our edge. Period, graf.
Powderhorn@beehaw.orgto
Technology@beehaw.org•Adobe Animate was shutting down next month - Adobe Animate is in maintenance mode.English
5·9 days agoAnd nothing of value was lost. Fuck Adobe. You want me to pay you monthly? Prostitutes have better terms.
Not that I’m bitter.
Powderhorn@beehaw.orgOPto
Technology@beehaw.org•You Are Being Misled About Renewable Energy Technology [Technology Connections]
1·11 days agoBasically, there are three possible outcomes. The preferred one when you flip that master switch is that everything works.
The second is that nothing happens, and now you have to figure out what the fuck has gone wrong.
The third is an electrical fire.
Powderhorn@beehaw.orgOPto
Technology@beehaw.org•You Are Being Misled About Renewable Energy Technology [Technology Connections]
1·11 days agoWhen you’ve bolted the panels to your roof, wired everything up, charged the batteries off the mains and flipped the breaker on the solar ahead of turning the master switch, there’s more apprehension than waiting in your own wedding processional.
Powderhorn@beehaw.orgOPto
Technology@beehaw.org•You Are Being Misled About Renewable Energy Technology [Technology Connections]English
3·12 days agoIf you know about PV and LFP, just skip to the politics for the last half hour.
Powderhorn@beehaw.orgOPto
Technology@beehaw.org•You Are Being Misled About Renewable Energy Technology [Technology Connections]English
6·12 days agoYeah, we were a bit peeved at the time.
Powderhorn@beehaw.orgOPto
Technology@beehaw.org•You Are Being Misled About Renewable Energy Technology [Technology Connections]English
10·13 days ago“An essay” is an interesting choice of reference to the Declaration of Independence. I mean, I guess it was an essay by committee, but that undersells the source.
Powderhorn@beehaw.orgOPto
Technology@beehaw.org•You Are Being Misled About Renewable Energy Technology [Technology Connections]English
13·13 days agoIt was nonetheless satisfying.
Powderhorn@beehaw.orgOPto
Technology@beehaw.org•You Are Being Misled About Renewable Energy Technology [Technology Connections]English
93·13 days agoThat’s certainly something you could look into. I provide original sources.
Powderhorn@beehaw.orgto
Technology@beehaw.org•How ICE Already Knows Who Minneapolis Protesters Are: Agents use facial recognition, social media monitoring and other tech tools not only to identify undocumented immigrants...English
30·13 days agoMs. Cleland, the Richfield resident, said that three days after the encounter with the ICE agent, she received an email from the Department of Homeland Security saying her Global Entry and Transportation Security Administration travel privileges had been revoked. No explanation was provided.
Ms. Cleland said she had swung from anger to fear. “I don’t know how far-reaching ICE can be,” she said. “I’m struggling to figure out what I can do, without putting myself at greater risk or putting other people at risk.”
Scary shit.




















Always assume anything you post outside of some messaging apps has hit the public domain and will be used, sold and targeted. This is scarcely a Discord-only problem.