In case you’re bored and need a laugh: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLP5z5Xlj-uEVYDMR9DVI1tK7ICdM7LeWq
How to Launch A Spacecraft Out of the Solar System ⌘ Read more
The sci-fi problem no one talks about ⌘ Read more
Court Rules That Ripping YouTube Clips Can Violate the DMCA
A federal court in California has ruled that YouTube creators who use stream-ripping tools to download clips for reaction and commentary videos may face liability under the DMCA’s anti-circumvention provisions – a decision that could reshape how one of the platform’s most popular content genres operates.
U.S. Magistrate Judge Virginia K. DeMarchi of the … ⌘ Read more
The most unexpected animal eats Moose ⌘ Read more
Haven’t watched it to the end yet, but @lyse@lyse.isobeef.org might like this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EarBm4tfMXs
Think iron melts hottest? 💎 Try melting a diamond ⌘ Read more
THIS ROCKET ENGINE WASN’T DESIGNED BY HUMANS ⌘ Read more
↳
In-reply-to
»
@lyse I don’t know a number (wait, why can’t I google a Wetterbericht but only a Wettervorhersage?!), but it was enough for public transportation to shut down. 😅 I think I saw around five trucks on the side of the road who couldn’t continue, too icy. Some cars stranded.
⤋ Read More
@movq@www.uninformativ.de Oh, so just half a millimeter then! :-D That’s plenty these days for everything to shut down, I’m afraid. If only the same élan was still in action as back then:
And here I am watching Mattias Björnström’s gas pedal freezing at full throttle around -40°C. Well, falls apart and gets stuck.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MLgmV15XeSY
I’m not an expert on this subject at all, but I reckon an automatic in addition with all its sensors is much worse than a manual one. All wheel drive, studded tires and diff locked is what one wants in icy situations. :-D
Can information survive a black hole? ⌘ Read more
Incoming Asteroids, Moving Black Holes, & More! | Cosmic Queries href=”https://we.loveprivacy.club/search?q=%23104”>#104** ⌘ Read more
Building a Roman crossbow completely by hand is soo fascinating and damn cool: https://youtube.com/watch?v=sSCwmXy_8Bo
YouTube Kills Background Playback on Third-Party Mobile Browsers
YouTube has confirmed that it is blocking background playback – the ability to keep a video’s audio running after minimizing the browser or locking the screen – for non-Premium users across third-party mobile browsers including Samsung Internet, Brave, Vivaldi and Microsoft Edge.
Users began reporting the issue last week, noting that audio wou … ⌘ Read more
I think I’ll never eat McDonald’s fries/chips ever again 😱 https://www.youtube.com/shorts/ITRtnPPJPsY
Is Our Brain a Time Machine? ⌘ Read more
How to Increase Your Reaction Time ⌘ Read more
Why Civilization Needs Common Knowledge, with Steven Pinker ⌘ Read more
Why Did We Invent Clocks? ⌘ Read more
Why Is Geometry Timeless? ⌘ Read more
Aww man, I need to pick up learning Finnish again. I just love the sound of that language.
Surprisingly, I still understand quite a bit of what she’s saying here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wfnt5-7QBvQ
When Did Humans Become Aware of Death? ⌘ Read more
Does A Theory of Everything Even Exist? ⌘ Read more
Why Science Doesn’t Make Laws Anymore ⌘ Read more
How Does the Brain Tell Time? ⌘ Read more
Turns out, invisible doesn’t mean imaginary ⌘ Read more
Internal Messages May Doom Meta At Social Media Addiction Trial
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: This week, the first high-profile lawsuit – considered a “bellwether” case that could set meaningful precedent in the hundreds of other complaints – goes to trial. That lawsuit documents the case of a 19-year-old, K.G.M, who hopes the jury will agree that Meta and YouTube caused psychological … ⌘ Read more
Answering Fan Queries with Sean Carroll ⌘ Read more
What do Qubits actually do? ⌘ Read more
↳
In-reply-to
»
@lyse (Was that a reference to Abed? 😅)
⤋ Read More
@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org Abed is a character from Community and “cool cool cool” was one of his “things”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vMXYjejIup4
Is Google Prioritizing YouTube and X Over News Publishers on Discover?
Earlier this month, the media site Press Gazette reported that now Google “is increasingly prioritising AI summaries, X posts and Youtube videos” on its “Discover” feed (which appears on the leftmost homescreen page of many Android phones and the Google app’s homepage).
“The changes could be devastating for publishers who rely heavily … ⌘ Read more
Quantum Tunneling Doesn’t Happen Instantaneously? ⌘ Read more
Google’s ‘AI Overviews’ Cite YouTube For Health Queries More Than Any Medical Sites, Study Suggests
An anonymous reader shared this report from the Guardian:
Google’s search feature AI Overviews cites YouTube more than any medical website when answering queries about health conditions, according to research that raises fresh questions about a tool seen by 2 billion people each m … ⌘ Read more
What is Macroscopic Quantum Tunneling? ⌘ Read more
How Do You Pick the Right Equation? ⌘ Read more
Mold on the International Space Station! ⌘ Read more
What Mold on the ISS Tells Us About The Origins of Life ⌘ Read more
Gene guns let you shoot DNA into things ⌘ Read more
Is Free Will an Emergent Feature of Consciousness? ⌘ Read more
Google Temporarily Disabled YouTube’s Advanced Captions Without Warning
Google has temporarily disabled YouTube’s advanced SRV3 caption format after discovering the feature was causing playback errors for some users, according to a statement the company posted. SRV3, also known as YouTube Timed Text, is a custom subtitle system Google introduced around 2018 that allows creators to use custom colors, tran … ⌘ Read more
YouTube CEO Acknowledges ‘AI Slop’ Problem, Says Platform Will Curb Low-Quality AI Content
YouTube CEO Neal Mohan used his annual letter to creators, published Wednesday, to outline an ambitious 2026 vision that embraces AI-powered creative tools while simultaneously pledging to crack down on the low-quality AI content that has come to be known as “slop.”
Mohan identified four AI-relate … ⌘ Read more
Answering Questions About Black Hole Slingshots, Antimatter Multiverses & More! ⌘ Read more
Cosmic Radiation Grounds a Plane! ⌘ Read more
When people “make plans”, I always respond like this:
Finally found the clip where this is from:
What Happened After Security Researchers Found 60 Flock Cameras Livestreaming to the Internet
A couple months ago, YouTuber Benn Jordan “found vulnerabilities in some of Flock’s license plate reader cameras,” reports 404 Media’s Jason Koebler. “He reached out to me to tell me he had learned that some of Flock’s Condor cameras were left live-streaming to the open internet.”
This led … ⌘ Read more
Your Brain is a Time Machine, with Dean Buonomano ⌘ Read more
ASUS Stops Producing Nvidia RTX 5070 Ti and 5060 Ti 16GB
Reports suggest ASUS has effectively ended production of NVIDIA’s RTX 5070 Ti and 5060 Ti 16GB GPUs due to a severe memory crunch driven by AI infrastructure demand, even as NVIDIA insists it’s still shipping all GeForce SKUs. YouTube channel Hardware Unboxed broke the news in its most recent video where it states ASUS “explicitly” told them the RTX 5070 Ti is “ … ⌘ Read more
More Than You Ever Wanted To Know About the Big Dipper ⌘ Read more
Turning Vodka Into Toilet Paper (Reverse Nilered) ⌘ Read more
What YOU need to do to win a Nobel Prize in Physics! ⌘ Read more