Anne Hathaway

That actually sounds interesting, flirting in Elizabethan English. Willst thou bopping over for Netflixxe and Chille?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portrait_of_Anne_Hathaway

Hmm I didn’t use early (or later) iphones, so idk. In that era I had a Nokia N63 (sort of a Blackberry knockoff) which was really nice. I had an N900 but rarely used it. Later I got an N9 and used it mostly because my N63 crapped out. But the N9 was also near unusable. I finally broke down and got an Android phone in 2017 or so (Moto G4, cheap and obsolete even then) and it was lightning fast by comparison.

I tried Kagi (100 query free trial if you supply a fake email address, I didn’t test whether a real one works). It was nice in some ways but gave about the same results as Duckduckgo. I didn’t subscribe.

A nice sentiment but in reality the n900 and n9 were both too slow to use. That’s the first thing that would have to be fixed.

i noticed the unmoderated communities banned a while ago and didn’t realize that was a recent change. The ones I noticed were pretty obscure. I’m using old.reddit.com while it still works so haven’t seen much issue with AI and NFT’s, at least so far. (I don’t post but I still lurk). Most annoying recent change was they shut down the PM system in favor of their shitty chat system.

Reddit is run by evil and ill-intentioned people but it is fairly well executed in terms of keeping user engagement. Lemmy by comparison is, at least for now, nowhere near as lively. Lemmy has much better intentions but I think its execution made mistakes. If I were king of Lemmy, I’d reorganize its software and protocols in the hope of helping it run at bigger scale. But, it’s still early days.

For fusion? No idea. For thorium / molten salt (I mistakenly wrote molten thorium)? China has an experimental reactor operating right now, and they plan to build a lot of them:

https://www.neimagazine.com/news/china-refuels-thorium-reactor-without-shutdown/

IDK exactly what Duolingo is, but it sounds like this new product gives you practice with spoken conversations? I’m unexcited by the idea of doing that with a computer but still, spoken language learning is completely different from written language.

The best thing for spoken language acquisition from my perspective has simply been listening a lot to live human speakers of the language, in person. That means either take a class with a human instructor, or travel to wherever they use that language. It’s ok to start with very limited ability. Bring a dictionary things will sink in over time.

Sounds like Tesla Full Self Driving. Yes the marketeers are making more concrete bogus promises because buyers have otherwise gotten skeptical. It’s still best imho to treat the announcements as meaningless and wait to see reactors actually producing continuous power.

Molten thorium fission on the other hand does seem potentially useful on a large scale in a foreseeable timeframe.

Why is it written in English if it’s in Barcelona?

I don’t think the article is old enough to be considered out of date for this community, so posting it here is ok. But, it is old enough that I think it is beneficial to include the date. The community sidebar does say that the purpose of the community is posting news. Lemmy is not currently big enough to have an active community about solar power. Otherwise, that would be the right place.

I think it’s best to put the article date on the post unless it’s very recent. That tells people how old the info is. Some might not care, others might. You didn’t include it, so I supplied it. Hope that helps.

It isn’t news.

This is from May 2025.

I look at youtube sometimes but I don’t have an account on it. yt-dlp worked for me last time I tried (maybe a few weeks ago) though there is a constant cat and mouse game. I guess it stopped working on age gated videos a while back. Other than that, if anything I would say there is too much video about stuff I would prefer to read about.