https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/solar-power-due-overtake-oil-production-investment-first-time-iea-2023-05-25/

QuoteInvestment in clean energy will extend its lead over spending on fossil fuels in 2023, the International Energy Agency said on Thursday, with solar projects expected to outpace outlays on oil production for the first time.

Annual investment in renewable energy is up by nearly a quarter since 2021 compared to a 15% rise for fossil fuels, the Paris-based energy watchdog said in its World Energy Investment report.

https://subredditstats.com/

Anybody active with them here?  How's CJ doing these days?  Is there another network that's been on the rise?

https://autogpt.net/
https://autogpt.net/autogpt-step-by-step-full-setup-guide/


Huge potential here.  This thing could potentially make apps, ebooks, web content, generate images and a whole lot more. 

Tesla workers shared sensitive images recorded by customer cars

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Two ex-employees said they weren't bothered by the sharing of images, saying that customers had given their consent or that people long ago had given up any reasonable expectation of keeping personal data private. Three others, however, said they were troubled by it.

"It was a breach of privacy, to be honest. And I always joked that I would never buy a Tesla after seeing how they treated some of these people," said one former employee.

Another said: "I'm bothered by it because the people who buy the car, I don't think they know that their privacy is, like, not respected ... We could see them doing laundry and really intimate things. We could see their kids."

One former employee saw nothing wrong with sharing images, but described a function that allowed data labelers to view the location of recordings on Google Maps as a "massive invasion of privacy."

Tiny11 uses 8GB of disk space, compared to 20GB+ for the standard install.

https://www.tomshardware.com/news/tiny11-lean-windows-11

Download: https://archive.org/details/tiny-11_202302

It will probably be taken down soon.

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/02/03/opinion/bird-flu-h5n1-pandemic.html

QuoteAs the world is just beginning to recover from the devastation of Covid-19, it is facing the possibility of a pandemic of a far more deadly pathogen.

Bird flu — known more formally as avian influenza — has long hovered on the horizons of scientists' fears. This pathogen, especially the H5N1 strain, hasn't often infected humans, but when it has, 56 percent of those known to have contracted it have died. Its inability to spread easily, if at all, from one person to another has kept it from causing a pandemic.

But things are changing. The virus, which has long caused outbreaks among poultry, is infecting more and more migratory birds, allowing it to spread more widely, even to various mammals, raising the risk that a new variant could spread to and among people.

Alarmingly, it was recently reported that a mutant H5N1 strain was not only infecting minks at a fur farm in Spain but also most likely spreading among them, unprecedented among mammals. Even worse, the mink's upper respiratory tract is exceptionally well suited to act as a conduit to humans, Thomas Peacock, a virologist who has studied avian influenza, told me.

The article continues with lots of reasons to be worried.

Recent Increase in Seal Deaths in Maine Linked to Avian Flu

Bird flu has jumped to mammals in the UK - so how worried should humans be?

https://us.starlabs.systems/pages/starlite

QuoteWatching porn in Louisiana just got a lot harder – unless you're alright with submitting your driver's license or a government-issued ID in order to access porn sites.
...

While Pornhub claims that it does not collect any data during this process, and that the process is "carried out by reputable service providers who specialize in verifying the age of online users," we can imagine some folks not being too comfortable with handing over official documents in order to access a pornographic site.

https://mashable.com/article/pornhub-louisiana-id

And that you are warm, dry and with people you enjoy.

I have two:

Increase my revenue

Push my PHP 8 skills up

Amazon thought Alexa would be the next iPhone. Turns out it's a 'glorified clock radio.'

QuoteIt's a core paradox for voice assistants like Alexa or Google Assistant: The technology was tremendously successful. Many consumers find it genuinely useful. And no one can make any money with them.

Amazon can't get people to buy more stuff with Alexa, and it chose not to require Amazon Echo users to have an Amazon Prime account, the only other credible pathway to making money. Amazon Skills has fizzled out as developers realized there's no money to be made building for the platform. Amazon does use voice queries to help with ad targeting, but advertising is a small percentage of total revenue for Amazon.

It is practically a forgone conclusion.  There are a lot of companies leaning out. The FED is willing to push the economy down to stave off inflation.  What are your strategies to mitigate the pain?

He's called Hank the Tank and has completely gave up hunting in favor of eating a diet of human food, as you could tell by his magnificent physique.  He's reportedly broken into many homes over the years, and is known to feast on trash day.  He was just hanging out in someone's front yard and seems very indifferent to humans.  These pics were taken from inside a car.

The rate isn't bad, $200 for three years.  If any of you are inclined to help with hosting, please consider a $5 - $20 contribution.

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I think Walmart is trying to take a bite out of Amazon's market share when it comes to ecommers and third party sales.  A few years ago I applied to Walmart as a third party seller and was rejected without much of an explanation, this was after I was established on Amazon.  The other day they reached out to me to join and offered me $500 in advertising spend.

I don't know if this applies to anybody else here, but if you wanted to get into Walmart's market place and were rejected in the past now would be a good time to try again.  Apparently they have about 1/13th the merchant competition for any given category when compared to Amazon.  They are like 7% of ecommers in the US, where Amazon is something like 38%.  Doing the math it seem like a solid strategy to join.  Also, there's zero monthly and signup fees, they just take a percentage of sale.

She was the classiest of the bunch.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-08-24/fastest-aging-wealthy-economy-breaks-own-fertility-record-again

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South Korea has once again shattered its own record for the world's lowest fertility rate as it faces the prospect of its population of 51 million people more than halving by the end of this century.

Korean women were estimated, based on 2021 data, to have an average of just 0.81 children over their lifetimes, down from 0.84 a year earlier, the statistics office said Wednesday. The number of newborns declined last year to 260,600, which equates to about 0.5% of the population.

https://www.theverge.com/2022/8/24/23320148/california-gas-car-ban-2035-ev-climate-change

QuoteThe rule would phase in over time, with 35 percent of new passenger vehicles sold by 2026 and 68 percent by 2030. California says that over 16 percent of new car sales were "zero-emission vehicles" in 2022 — up from 12.41 percent last year and 7.78 percent in 2020.

How you all getting along over there?