Yeah we know, spiny hat, hook in his mouth, surprised look about him.

It seems a reasonable guess that a person whose hobby is building custom mechanical keyboards probably does keep it clean. I figured people using an encrypted messaging system with backups enabled would probably go to the trouble of ensuring those backups didn’t live in one place.

The point is that encrypted messaging is not a hobby for anyone but Moxie Marlinspike. It’s just a tool that people use for communication. WhatsApp and iMessage are both encrypted and have relatively seamless backup solutions and do not require any extra thought or effort.

Are people not copying their backup off their device periodically?

Do you change your air filter, clean your keyboard, floss your teeth, derust your tools, organize your files, respond to all your messages, keep on top of available tax breaks and deals, dust under your bed etc?

No one does every random maintenance task as often as they should meaning that everyone is letting some slip occasionally which means you should expect that no, not everyone is periodically backing up and transferring their DMs to a different device.

I don’t think that either are supposed to be slimy, I think that’s usually a sign of a health or water quality problem.

Coral?

I don’t fault researchers for publishing novel research that might not go anywhere. I explicitly understand the scientific value in doing so.

I do not think it’s valuable to breathlessly regurgitate those claims to the broader pop-sci public though. A) It’s boring to read the same overhyped battery press release every single week. And B) it shakes people’s faith in science, in the same way that people’s faith in medicine has been shaken by bad reporting on every study that says X could give you cancer or make you live longer.

Not any more waste of time than reading 90% of other tech news (or any news in general). It’s basically entertainment, not education.

I agree, but if I want to read 90% filler I can just pick a tech news site and read everything.

I don’t expect them to come to market faster than that, I expect people to not believe and post headlines about a battery technology revolutionizing things when it’s early stage research and most likely will not.

If you spent your time reading about every novel research battery since the dawn of Li Ion and today, all you’ll have succeeded in is wasting a lot of time.

Yes, progress in the manufacturing and refining of Lithium Ion batteries.

This is not that. This is a research lab trying a new idea that will go nowhere and then issuing a press release that talks about the positives and ignores the showstopping negatives.

Bruh I’m an electrical engineer. I’m interested in new technology and specifically battery technology. I’m not interested in journalists regurgitating mindless research paper fluff. This is just self aggrandizing boosting, not anything meaningful.

Yes, Lithium Ion batteries did. Do you know when their lab experimentation happened? The equivalent stage to what this article is describing? The 70s and 80s.

Do you know how many labs have experimented with new battery types that have some benefits in some areas since then? Literally thousands and thousands and thousands. Most go nowhere and revolutionize nothing and never will because they’re impractical for other reasons.

My current batteries are Goodenough.

It has been 20 straight years of “this new battery tech COULD revolutionize everything”.

No. It won’t.

Do not talk about battery tech revolutionizing anything unless your innovation is in mass manufacturing it, cost effectively, and reliably, at scale.

Anything else is just another early research project jerking itself off before it goes nowhere.

Did you read that link before posting?

In comparison with other construction materials (aluminium, steel, even brick), concrete is one of the least energy-intensive building materials.[2]

I understand the distaste for the aesthetics. But it’s a pretty inarguably better material from a structural, cost, sound blocking, etc. standpoint.

Don’t get me wrong, I love red brick, and personally want a red brick house, but I also recognize the sheer practicality of concrete blocks and would probably pick that with a brick veneer if I actually had to pay for it to be built new.

When you’re that salty, all the time, it blinds you to any situations that aren’t salt filled.

Louis sucks ass as a YouTuber. He likes to hear himself rant. That’s literally his only quality.

That’s not an excuse to have a false and misleading headline.

What’s your gripe with more than three windows?

Window management is usually not a complaint of Windows…

Yeah, this author is the pop-sci / sci-fi media writer on Ars Technica, not one of the actual science coverage ones that stick to their area of expertise, and you can tell by the overly broad, click bait, headline, that is not actually supported by the research at hand.

The actual research is using limited LLM agents and only explores an incredibly limited number of interventions. This research does not remotely come close to supporting the question of whether or not social media can be fixed, which in itself is a different question from harm reduction.