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mzedp

@mzedp@mas.to

Animal.
Venezuelan migrant.
Solar energy engineer.
Climate evangelist.
#EndFossilFuels

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mzedp, to Venezuela
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Elections are coming up in Venezuela, and there's a lot of people registering to vote. A lot of young people for whom this will be their first time voting.

This is what the line to register in one center in my city looks like.

Dealing with a dictatorial state is suffering a long series of indignities, small and large, in every aspect of your life.

mzedp, to climate
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Man, those wind turbines sure are ugly.

I'm glad I get my energy from nice, aesthetic sources like these.

A photo of some men on a small boat sailing past a massive oil pipeline fire in Nigeria.
A photo of Deepwater Horizon burning showing a large volume of water covered in oil.
A photo of a huge ball of fire rising from some oil tanks in the Amuay refinery, Venezuela, following a huge gas explosion.

ai6yr, to random

🙄 $365 coffee machine. Also lazy journalism, looks like what you'd copy/paste from a press release here. Your review should not be marketing copy (IMHO). https://techcrunch.com/2024/04/12/home-coffee-brewing-aiden-machine-fellow/

Constructed from high-quality materials that are both aesthetically pleasing and long-lasting, Aiden is designed to be a staple in the kitchen for years to come. This commitment to quality materials not only enhances the user experience but also aligns with ecological sustainability practices by reducing the need for frequent replacements — and if something does need repairing, you can get spare parts easily.

mzedp,
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@ai6yr That's gotta be "sponsored content".

mzedp, to random
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Words matter. What you say online matters.

I mean, maybe not what I say, but for instance, a couple of days ago I was about to take a Lyft till I remembered @Adam_Cadmon1 saying they're stingy with their drivers, so I went for the competition.

mzedp, to random
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I've spent the past three days painstakingly aligning photos by hand, one by one.

I got through some 93 out of 188 over the course of a few days, before @faticake asked me "why don't you just use fewer photos?"

Which just hadn't really occurred to me.

mzedp, to PCGaming
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Ooh, this looks nice.

"Terra Nil" seems to be a new take on city-building games, in which instead of building a city you have to re-vegetate a wasteland.

The art is nice. It feels very "solarpunk" - though "windpunk" might be more accurate, haven't seen any solar panels here.

I'm gonna check it out.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F8eYqNNxICE

mzedp,
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It is a pretty fun and relaxing game.

It's rewarding to turn a barren wasteland into a lush landscape.

Some beautiful art, seemingly well researched depictions of nature, and a laid-back gameplay.

A nice way to pass some time.

mzedp, to random
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Do you need to specify the phenotype of a person when you're writing an image description?

Is it not enough to say "a person"?

mzedp,
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@ai6yr Me too, I guess we all highlight what we want to call attention to.

I'm just bothered by how everyone is always thinking about people as colors in this country.

As if it mattered.

mzedp, to random
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TIL: Using AI to generate Spongebob Squarepants themed Gangsta Rap has become a trend over the past year.

Also, some of it is fucking amazing.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tlooPT4pB1Y

mzedp,
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Some people complain about AI generated art being worse than things produced by humans on their own - the truth is, AI is just a tool, and like any tool how good the result you get is depends as much on the tool as on your skill.

Whoever Glorb is, they're a great rapper - or at least they know what makes a great rap song, and how to leverage the tools they have to make them.

mzedp, to music Spanish
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Cafe Tacuba - El Outsider

This has taken on new meaning for me as of late.

https://youtu.be/kD3oRXuQmOM?si=nQzSxvtM-PqQIK1_

mzedp,
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Woah, so Cafe Tacuba had a new MTV Unplugged concert some years ago, I hadn't seen it.

And they played this song with... David Byrne as a special guest?

Guess he likes it too.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mkaba9GitTA

mzedp, to random
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Chi va piano, va lontano.

RickiTarr, to random
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Okay, so last night I was on a date, and I asked hubs what he was up to at work, and he told me he learned Python, so he could write a program to help people troubleshoot computer problems on their own.

I ask him, "You're creating a program to replace yourself?"

Apparently, just the boring easy stuff he doesn't want to deal with, because he has better ideas about how he wants to use his time at work.

Is this what you smart people do all day?!

mzedp,
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@RickiTarr Not all day, but when possible.

I learned Python at work to automate a process I was asked to do. It was repetitive, time consuming, and boring.

Writing a program to do it was time consuming, but educational and engaging.

It made the job endlessly more efficient as the program could now "work overnight" for me, doing something I had to do manually before.

And on top of that, I learned a lot of things that ended up being useful for many other applications.

mzedp, to random
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I got this as a gift from @faticake and it's been the fastest read I've managed in ages.

A fun historical fiction in which the Incas conquer Spain, and not the other way around.

I've wondered before about what would've happened had Columbus failed to return to Spain - and it's nice to see someone explore the idea.

BlackAzizAnansi, to random
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How have your politics changed post 2020?

mzedp,
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@BlackAzizAnansi I'm actively and radically opposed to any use of fossil fuels since I realized how far past the point of no return we are.

mekkaokereke, to random
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People on Twitter are debating whether a person using uncommon words like "delve" are trying to sound smarter than they are, or worse, are ChatGPT bots, because "normal" people don't talk like that.

You don't have to get upset, or embroiled in the debate. Not worth the time or attention. But I'll share some important context as your friendly neighborhood Nigerian 🙋🏿‍♂️

Many Nigerians have bigger English language vocabularies and better command of grammar than the typical American or English person

mzedp,
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@mekkaokereke Almost anyone that's studied english as a second language has a better grasp of english than most americans.

mzedp, to Columbus Spanish
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What's good, Columbus?

#Columbus #Ohio

A dark photo of the Ohio statehouse

mzedp, to random
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When you hear "exclusive", do you think "desirable" or "restricted"?

My whole life I've heard people use it as the former, but always heard the later.

"Exclusive" has never meant anything good to me - but I guess for many people it does.

mzedp, to random Spanish
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Who wants hydrogen? What good is it? How is it in any way better than batteries for energy storage?

I remember twenty years ago when I first started hearing about this oil industry talking point the claim was that it beat batteries because -despite being too expensive and inefficient- it enabled "fast charging".

Now that battery EVs have fast charging and get cheaper by the day - what, exactly, is the selling point for hydrogen?

mzedp, to random Spanish
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Useage of AI generated images to illustrate online content has now become the norm, and they suck.

Just because you can doesn't mean you should. https://mapstodon.space/@hareldan/112230005055596513

mzedp, to random Spanish
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Germany is way ahead the rest of the world when it comes to vegetarian meat alternatives. https://ard.social/@NDR/112230015836490169

mzedp, to random
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Does anyone have a good method for downloading single-band Sentinel-2 data?

I've tried a QGIS plugin called "Sentinel2 SoloBand", and a couple of Python libraries called "Sentinel2-single-band-download" and "CDSETools" - and I can't seem to get any of them to work.

The best tool I've found is a QGIS Plugin called "Semi-Automatic-Classification", which just happens to include a Sentinel 2 data downloaded as an extra.

EDIT: OpenEO was what I needed - https://openeo.org/documentation/1.0/python/#execution

mzedp,
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Because I messed up the definition of my region of interest I also caught another big source of methane just north of it, part of the "Valero Refinery".

This invisible pollution is streaming into our air daily, and no one bats an eye.

Similar to the above, the satellite image with the purple overlay. Here a bright yellow spot indicates a strong source of emissions in a refinery.

mzedp,
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I've been working on this because there's a group called Air Alliance Houston that is asking for community support to oppose an environmental permit for this facility.

I hope that showing how the facility has been constantly venting methane should give the group additional arguments to oppose the permit.

So far I figured out how to use Sentinel to detect methane and how to automatically download and process the data.

Now I need to figure out a good way to present it.

Similar image from another day showing a much weaker signal from the same spot.

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