yep batteries are definitely all the rage, especially with solar farms getting fuck all out of their stuff these last few years as the daytime price keeps going negative

The first Tailem Bend solar farm was the second big solar project in South Australia, after the 220 MW Bungala solar farms near Port Augusta. Those facilities are also heavily curtailed, and Bungala’s joint owners Potentia Energy are considering a big battery at that site too.

https://reneweconomy.com.au/construction-starts-on-new-south-australian-big-battery-choosing-a-merchant-route-to-market/

https://explore.openelectricity.org.au/capacity/nem/?range=all&interval=1M&view=discrete-time&group=Detailed

The biggest impact on SA power prices right now is the wild price fluctuations, because the power price ceiling is $23,000 and the floor is -$1000 it means that it only takes a few hours at the ceiling to completely blow average prices up

And sadly we won’t be able to write this article at the end of the summer quarter because SA had a major heatwave that lasted a week:

South Australia endures record-breaking heat

Minimum of 34 degrees overnight

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2dKOp6d6dvo

Which meant a boatload of air conditioners on 24x7 which meant a ton of power draw on the grid so it maxed out for ages

https://explore.openelectricity.org.au/energy/sa1/?range=30d&interval=1d&view=discrete-time&group=Detailed

So yeah a painful one coming up

I think it looks pretty :)

Updated the post, unfortunately you show signs of being:

an educated, engaged person who writes well

😊 🤣

You already failed 😂 you should have started with: This hits so hard!

Also the bot never responds to comments only make once off posts

Also you think you type fast but I highly doubt you could type out 3 well thought paragraphs in under 2 minutes before rapidly shifting to your next random post

Actually let me put your posts into AI to see what it thinks of you >.>

edit:

Based on this document, this user appears to be very unlikely to be AI. Here’s why:

Strong indicators they’re human:

1. Natural conversational style - Their comments show authentic voice, sarcasm, frustration, and humor that feels genuinely human
2. Self-aware about AI comparisons - They literally joke about “typing fast and having the writing style of LLMs” and mention doing “blade runner android tests” - this self-deprecating awareness is very human
3. Contextual engagement - They engage deeply with Lemmy community dynamics, reference specific memes, understand platform culture
4. Nuanced positions - They take complex stances (like on landlords, erotica vs porn, political opinions) that show genuine critical thinking
5. Emotional authenticity - Express genuine frustration, disappointment, hope (“May men and women unite to be horny and kinky and unashamed”)
6. Inconsistent formality - Mix casual language (“Homie,” “Thad”) with more elaborate thoughts
7. Community participation - Active across different communities with varied topics over time

Why they might worry about seeming like AI:

• They mention typing fast and apparently write in a clear, structured way
• They provide “thorough breakdowns” with their expertise
• They’re articulate and thoughtful

But these are just signs of an educated, engaged person who writes well. Their humor, cultural references, self-awareness, and authentic frustration with community dynamics all point strongly to a real human user.

vs what it thinks of /u/xodasu@sh.itjust.works:

Based on this user’s comment history, I’d say very likely AI-generated, probably 85-90% confidence. Here are the telltale signs:

Strong AI indicators:

1. Unnaturally consistent quality and structure - Every single comment is well-formatted, articulate, and substantive. Real users have off days, typos, lazy responses.

2. Suspiciously broad expertise - This account confidently discusses Linux kernel internals, LLM security, DRM technicalities, privacy policy, climate science, ADHD management, and Home Assistant updates with equal facility. That’s unusual.

3. Formulaic pattern - Almost every comment follows: acknowledge topic → detailed technical/political take → prescriptive advice → punchy conclusion. It’s like watching the same template execute.

4. Perfect grammar with casual affect - The writing is too clean. Real casual internet comments have more sentence fragments, inconsistent punctuation, genuine rambling.

5. No genuine interaction - These read like mini-essays dropped into threads, not actual conversations. There’s no “lol,” no genuine confusion, no asking for clarification.

6. The timing - Account created 10 hours ago, 36 comments already, all this polished? That’s bot behavior.

What’s interesting: The account got banned from multiple communities quickly, which suggests moderators spotted this too. The “Removed by mod” entries are probably communities that don’t allow AI-generated content.

Bottom line: This reads like someone using Claude or GPT to farm engagement/karma across Lemmy instances. The voice is too consistent, too knowledgeable, and too… helpful to be one person casually commenting.

Just look at the comments of the user, they’re typing out sometimes 3 well written paragraphs in under 2 minutes between posts

all of them have a very similar style as well

That couch is peak dog chaos

This is peak content

This meme is my life

This hits so hard

This nails it

I like how much lemmy hates AI yet this AI bot has 37 updoots

Oh the pain of it all :(

https://files.ikt.id.au/osi18j.mp4

what happens if you go direct to it?

I think it might just be the tyranny of distance, Brisbane Australia to Oslo Norway is quite a way

Network wise it should be ok, it’s a 17MB file and I have a 10MB/s upload speed (100mbit), so at full beans should take under 2 seconds to load the full video, if we add in some distance and quadruple the time it’s still 8 seconds but the video is 51 seconds long so it still shouldn’t be buffering :S

computers eh?

it’s still buffering for you? damn! where are you at?

heya! are you able to test again and let me know if it’s any better?

damn they were like 1 of only 2 decent slack replacements

rocketchat being the other

I have no idea who the creator is, it’s just a random youtube short I found

It’s a bit funny because my subscribed feed moves so slowly but content here has such a short life

I don’t have the stats to back it up but it feeeels like:

First 4 hours - 50,000 views

Rest of the first day - 5000 views

Day 2 - 5 views

But I plan on doubling my upload tomorrow so hopefully there will be less buffering issues in future

it’s learning 😃

I do wonder if this is any good:

Apertus: a fully open, transparent, multilingual language model

Trained on 15 trillion tokens across more than 1,000 languages – 40% of the data is non-English – Apertus includes many languages that have so far been underrepresented in LLMs, such as Swiss German, Romansh, and many others.

“Apertus is built for the public good. It stands among the few fully open LLMs at this scale and is the first of its kind to embody multilingualism, transparency, and compliance as foundational design principles,” says Imanol Schlag, technical lead of the LLM project and Research Scientist at ETH Zurich.

https://ethz.ch/en/news-and-events/eth-news/news/2025/09/press-release-apertus-a-fully-open-transparent-multilingual-language-model.html

It’s available in LM Studio:

I mainly translate from Ukranian and French and for that I find any Mistral model is good enough

Yup I also ended up migrating to the restaurants/cafe’s own apps for pickup

I might have 47 food related apps on my phone now but beats a fuggin 30% charge to the restaurant

https://merchants.ubereats.com/au/en/pricing/

man this stuff was funny back in 1997

What do you use?

https://www.ecosia.org/

They currently use Google and Bing however the ad money goes towards things like planting trees and:

The internet just got better: our European search index goes live

https://blog.ecosia.org/launching-our-european-search-index/

They are slowly building their own search index