benjhm

Combined with topic of trains, this reminds me of the famous movie Dil Se with the Chaiyya Chaiyya song on the roof of the steam train - itself in the SW, but of which the core plot was also about an rebellion in Assam... i.e. it reminds that this problem is older than current government ...
But maybe they will be motivated to catch up, as China will soon have a direct railway from Sichuan to the frontier of Arunachal...

They need that rainfall, in the region as a whole, but need more storage capacity to release it over the whole year. Much water used to be stored as seasonal snow as well as glaciers, that capacity is melting away, so people have to adapt, and some to migrate (including a few to relocate from potential reservoir basins). Of course, the people who contributed most to the greenhouse gas emissions should in principle pay for that adaptation, but it's too late to count on or wait for that, or to say we continue traditional lives, we didn't want such change, it's happening.

That makes sense, to store only popular stuff, or temporarily - especially for 'heavier' images (although as we see with lemm.ee, that leads to issues when an instance dies). Yet I also wonder about the scalability of just the minimum meta-info, whose size does depend on the protocol design.
For example with Lemmy every upvote click propagates across the network (if i understand correctly, mastodon doesn't propagate 'likes' so consistently, presumably for efficiency, but this can make it seem 'empty'). Maybe such meta-info could be batched, or gathered by a smaller set of 'node' instances, from which others pick up periodically - some tree to disperse information rather than directly each instance to each other instance ?
As the fediverse grows, gathering past meta-info might also become a barrier to new entrant instances ?

This study is indeed disturbing, drawing on multiple lines of evidence suggesting melting may happen faster than previously assumed, I'll study more.

However, there never was any magic safe (global-average-surface-) temperature level, to save polar ice sheets. Melting, and the penetration of heat, is cumulative, so to a first approximation it is the integral of the warming that counts (maybe we could talk about a heating budget, similar to the concept of carbon-budget to avoid a specific temperature).

Although diplomats may stress that the concept of safe level is baked into Article 2 of the Climate convention, that orginally applied to "concentrations" not temperature. Back in the day (early 2000s) I among others pushed (this wasn't easy) to adopt temperature as a goal closer to real impacts, pointing out that required peak+decline concentration pathways.
Nevertheless we always knew that a stable (higher) temperature does not bring a stable sea-level (on a multi-century timescale) . While for some other types of impacts - e.g. ecosystem adaptation, it may be the rate (derivative) rather than the integral that matters more. The 'level' concept was a compromise to coalesce policy (within which - round numbers like 2.0 or 1.5 C also arbitrary).

Maybe it could help motivate the global debate, to specifically (dis)agree goals of sea-level rise we try to avoid ? That's a more tangible level ( at least until we get into regional sea-level-rise variations...) , but due to the double integral, it's harder to implement.

Eh? The graphic shown prominently in the linked summary article suggests that cycling is much better than walking. And this seems plausible to me - cycling is not just exercise, it requires quick thinking, balancing, interacting with traffic, judgements regarding risk, speed, efficiency, etc. .

I agree with the gist of much of the article. Although a fan of the original web, and developer of a climate web-app, I think small screens make people into consumers, while creators or investigators need a large screen, and that should be for dedicated periods of the day, not carried everywhere.
And we wish our kids had never had these things (gift from grandparents - hard to reject).

However the article title is over-simple, impractical - how would you even define what is a smartphone, in the spectrum of devices ? (maybe that's cause of downvotes ? )

I don’t think the general architecture scales that well (think of all the duplicate storage ...

That's my hunch too, although haven't studied in detail - so I wonder how we can fix it ?
Is there an forum that discusses this scaling issue (in general, across fediverse) ?

Since much (so-called) "AI" basic training data depends on Wikipedia, wouldn't this create a feedback loop that could quickly degenerate ?

I've seen several videos illustrating this trend, it's encouraging, but does anybody have an idea of the numbers ? This could be a big change, not least for cities which continue over-constructing, despite falling national population, assuming that past urbanisation trends can be projected to the future.

Ayayay. I'm tempted to write - how are they so stuck in a past worldview ? Yet Cyrillic script and orthodox church developed in Bulgaria and then in Kyiv, not in Moscow, and even back in the days of Tito, Yugoslavs understood that Stalin was not their friend.
Anyway, at least he attended - halfway progress ?

I always liked trolleybuses - quiet, good acceleration - remember them from Ukraine as well as Switzerland. Although the wires are complicated (remarkable how the switches work) - they also tell a stranger to a city which way the route passes - an assurance similar to tram tracks.

There are more specific ad-server / tracker IPs that can be blocked at DNS level, tools like Pi-hole work that way (although if big countries did this, I suppose they'd quickly find workarounds to blend those addresses with useful ones).