🔖 Pinne d’argento e spazio aperto: Starship ed Artemis-SLS

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Una buona notizia; mentre gli oggetti di uso comune esplodono intorno a noi, il vostro smartphone non esploderà …

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I’m new to Lemmy and previously had an account on another instance (can’t recall which one), where I could see NSFW communities like those dedicated to adult content. However, after joining Lemmy.ml, I’ve noticed I can’t find or interact with those types of communities.

Can a Lemmy instance block its users from accessing specific communities or even entire instances that host such content ?

If so, is there a way to connect to those communities while staying on Lemmy.ml, or would I need to join a different instance ?

I’m just trying to understand how federation and instance rules work to make the most of the Fediverse.

Any insights would be super helpful—thanks in advance!

My (non-tech savvy) friend and I have been having a weird issue where random texts show up like 2 days later. My phone is up-to-date and new and his might never have installed a system update for all I know. (I don’t let him connect to my main WiFi network for a reason.)

I don’t seem to be having this issue with anyone else. I’m on iOS and he’s on Android but a relatively modern Samsung phone. Should I sit him down and update his phone or something or is this a known issue?

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Certain minerals and elements, including cobalt, copper, lithium and nickel, are crucial for the manufacture of renewable energy technologies, including electric vehicles and solar panels. However, the extraction and processing of those minerals often takes place in developing countries, far from public scrutiny and without consent from local communities, which can be left with the burden of pollution but little economic benefit.

Key stakeholders at the ongoing U.N. climate meeting, COP29, are pushing for greater transparency, arguing for the need to ensure local environments are protected and economies improved along the critical minerals supply chain.

Efforts for a binding global treaty on traceability for critical minerals was first launched by the Colombian government on the sidelines of the recent U.N. Biodiversity Conference in Cali, Colombia. The goal is to ensure a global pact is ready to be signed by November 2025 when the next U.N. climate talks meet in Belém, Brazil.

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At the 2023 U.N. climate meeting, the global community set a goal to triple the world’s renewable energy capacity by 2030. Such an increase in renewable energy is needed to fight the climate crisis but would likely result in a commensurate increase in demand for critical minerals as well. That makes efforts to ensure greater transparency in the value chain more important than ever for local communities and Indigenous people living in resource-rich areas.

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The principles underpinning the U.N.-backed initiative include advancing fairness, justice, equity and human rights across the critical minerals value chains. It seeks to source critical minerals in a way that protects the environment and ensures prosperity in resource-rich developing countries.

“We must now seize the opportunity to grow our economies, protect our societies, preserve our environment and share benefits more justly while we tackle the climate crisis,” said Ditte Juul Jørgensen of the European Commission and co-chair of the Panel on Critical Energy Transition Minerals­­­­­. “Only in this way, will we tap the potential of the energy transition and create new and shared benefits for all,” she added.

November 19, 2024

The New South Wales supreme court has set aside a Minns government decision to cut off access to Newcastle harbour to try to prevent a four-day climate protest.

The court found the notice was invalid after hearing an urgent application from climate activist organisation Rising Tide on Thursday.

Rising Tide argued the four-day marine exclusion zone that was to commence at 5pm on Thursday was an improper use of a section of the Marine Safety Act, which was intended to ensure special events proceed safely – not to prevent them from taking place.

Justice Sarah McNaughton accepted these arguments, telling the court that although lawyers acting on behalf of the transport minister, Jo Haylen, made “skilful submissions”, the wording of the relevant section was not designed to “prohibit the special event it purports to be regulating”.

McNaughton noted that while she had quashed the notice for the exclusion zone – which could have meant on-the-spot fines of up to $1,100 for anyone who breached it – this did not mean certain activities by Rising Tide protesters would be lawful.

This is because an earlier supreme court decision allowed police to deny the protesters’ form 1 application, meaning they are not protected from being charged under obstruction and unlawful assembly offences if they block the waterway.

Niantic, the company behind the extremely popular augmented reality mobile games Pokémon Go and Ingress, announced that it is using data collected by its millions of players to create an AI model that can navigate the physical world. 

In a blog post published last week, first spotted by Garbage Day, Niantic says it is building a “Large Geospatial Model.” This name, the company explains, is a direct reference to Large Language Models (LLMs) Like OpenAI’s GPT, which are trained on vast quantities of text scraped from the internet in order to process and produce natural language. Niantic explains that a Large Geospatial Model, or LGM, aims to do the same for the physical world, a technology it says “will enable computers not only to perceive and understand physical spaces, but also to interact with them in new ways, forming a critical component of AR glasses and fields beyond, including robotics, content creation and autonomous systems. As we move from phones to wearable technology linked to the real world, spatial intelligence will become the world’s future operating system.”

By training an AI model on millions of geolocated images from around the world, the model will be able to predict its immediate environment in the same way an LLM is able to produce coherent and convincing sentences by statistically determining what word is likely to follow another.