Hi there!
I'm not sure this is the right place for this, but I don't know what place would be better.
Quick background: I made lemmy.ml/c/freecad quite a while ago, as well as a couple of other communities here. I am the only mod. At one point I moved over to slrpnk.net/u/zksmk. I transferred my ownership of these communities to my new slrpnk.net/u/zksmk account and unmodded myself (lemmy.ml/u/zksmk) from these communities. There were no issues.
The communities were sleepy and/or well behaved until now, so I did basically nothing until now. However, considering FreeCAD, the software, just did a long anticipated logo change, I wanted to change the community icon. This is where the issues happened.
The problem: I change the icon on https://slrpnk.net/c/[email protected], it goes fine, but after a while, instead of the lemmy.ml/c/freecad icon getting updated with the new one, the opposite happens, and the new icon on https://slrpnk.net/c/[email protected] gets rewritten back to the old one from lemmy.ml/c/freecad. Basically, I can't change the icon. I also tried modding back my old lemmy.ml/u/zksmk account, but the same stuff happens. I can't mod anyone. My modship is dead in the water. The communities are modless.
The instances are federated, I can comment just fine tho. I don't think that's where the issue is.
Quick fix: I don't know if this is an old bug, a recent bug, or is it intended, but it is like that. I will make a bug report on github, but until it gets resolved, can the admins add my lemmy.ml/u/zksmk account as a mod of the lemmy.ml communities slrpnk.net/u/zksmk mods: c/freecad, c/fusion, c/fossart and c/ubuntu_studio, so they are not effectively modless. And so I could update the freecad community's icon with the new FreeCAD logo. :) Thank you a lot!
Not a single sentence in the article of how this actually works. I found the original progress from 2017 and newer research and the newest stuff that caused the article. Plus the full thing.
The main benefit compared to photovoltaic cells plus classic batteries appears to be the fact that one chemical, a liquid, does both the energy absorption from the sun and serves as the storage medium. And it's long term storage. Also easy to transport.
It works based on a specially designed molecule that changes shape when it comes into contact with sunlight, storing energy. And that energy is later released at any point in time as heat by running the chemical through a catalyst, and converted into electricity in a small chip-scale thing.
Obviously, this is still early research, long way until it's a freely available and economically viable technology. Still great tho, looks promising. I wonder how much energy it packs per kg or liter.