Prolly should rework this to say I'm willing to fund a Fediverse project and an Android project here if'n anyone is interested, @Fedilab Apps , or anyone else?
So, I did make a post a bit ago about being willing to pay to get software that I want, one Fediverse project, and one Android project. I did get a reply from Damn Good Tech, but I thought I'd do a new thread that goes into more detail of what I'm looking for using three replies to create threads for the different projects, and I'm looking to hire for two of the three, as I remembered an alternative Fediverse software I'd want instead, if'n I can afford it, though I'll admit I have no idea what that'll cost nor whether I can afford it, but lets find out, no?
This cartoon is by me and R. E. Ryan. It’s from 2024, but I forgot to post it on leftycartoons until now! TRANSCRIPT OF CARTOON This cartoon has six panels. PANEL 1 A man with a big mustache…
More than 940,000 bottles of heart and kidney medication have been recalled nationwide, according to the FDA. Here's what to do if your prescriptions are affected.
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High in the Swiss Alps, on a concrete dam wall more than 8,000 feet above the sea, someone bolted thousands of solar panels to a place almost no one thought was worth it.
For years the assumption was simple, that solar belongs low and warm, on sunny roofs and flat fields, not up in the freezing thin air of the mountains.
Most solar plants sit where life is easy, near towns and roads and mild weather.
Turning that idea on its head is a small plant clinging to a dam most people will never see.
And what it does in the dead of winter is the part that changed everything. The panels bolted to a wall in the sky
The place is the Muttsee dam, in the canton of Glarus, about an hour from Zurich.
At around 2,500 meters, it sits at the highest reservoir in Europe, behind the longest dam wall in Switzerland.
Along more than a kilometer of that wall, crews fixed roughly 5,000 solar panels, a plant named AlpinSolar.
The wall curves to the south and catches sun from morning to night, and its steep face lets the snow slide off on its own.
The dam cannot be reached by road, so every part had to be flown in by helicopter.
Building anything at that height, in that cold, was a serious feat of engineering.
Snow and storms batter the site for much of the year.
Running since 2022, it makes about 3.3 million kilowatt hours a year, enough for around 700 homes.
And now we have to start long term planning, yay. Really it isn't too hard, we'll be consolidating all the investments that I can to Chas Schwab through my broker, one that my mom recommended and has done me well so far. I do know I'll have to sell at least some of my Morgan Stanley holdings as the MS At Work account is Schroedinger's account, it seems to be both closed and not closed at the same time, and transfers aren't an option. We also have a standard MS account and an E*trade (also Morgan Stanley) account from the estate, hopefully those'll transfer.
The more interesting direction is moving my Money Management savings account at my credit union to Schwab, we'll be making it a Money Market mutual fun, and it'll go from 2.3% interest rate which is fairly impressive to a 3.9% rate. This will require some changes in how I manage my money, but that's already done, mortgage and the home improvement loan money is being dumped into the share savings account which only has a .25% interest rate, but its not like that money was sitting in the Money Management to earn any real interest. The new account will handle quarterly and annual bills, my tax payments, property tax and home owner's insurance. Initially I'll also be dropping $50 a month into the account, but that might grow once we get the utility bills updated.
Update? Yep, I don't think I shared this here, but this is what I spent last year on electricity…
I've no idea what was going on with the June-July period last year, but this year's looks like this…
Yeah, we're seeing a big difference, and if last year wasn't a fluke, they'll have to change my budget billing down prolly by a notable amount, enough for me to increase the deposit. With the compound interest I think that'll pay off at least one of my tax payments, possibly two of them which is obviously quite nice.
Beyond that, there likely won't be too many investment changes for the next six years until I can touch the IRAs and maybe consolidate them? Certainly be easier to manage if'n I've only one fund, right now I have like 3 or 4. Oh, and changes in stock investments, I'm thinking ABB, and I'd like to get Slate and Alpatronics, but those aren't publicly traded, Slate might be at some time, but Alpatronics is unlikely. Not sure if'n there's anyone else I want to invest in.
Legal systems have always struggled to keep up with rapid technological change, and things are no different in the world of generative AI. There are still relatively few rulings on the new issues t…
And there you have it. It's not an oops, "AI" had a booboo. It's misinformation, or a lie as I like to call it. It's your "AI", you're responsible for it.
The folks at the National Center on Sexual Exploitation (NCOSE) have spent decades demonizing technology (and speech) they don’t understand, so it seems particularly ironic that they’re…
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