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Kosher search engine powered by 4 car batteries on a passively cooled server
- temptemptemp111 6y agoThe servers running Planned Parenthood, PornHub, and the Opioid company websites are considerably more kosher, by Jewish standards, than this.
- galuggus 6y agoschmuckschmuckgo
- tenkabuto 6y ago> New search results are calculated on Tuesday of each week. Nothing new is created during Shabbat. You are served static cached data. I've been interested in the idea of having a user-facing website that generates static copies of its dynamic content on a set schedule. Do any of you have more examples of this? About this particular search engine, though, the search results I received from it either were not very relevant or the service did not display information that made them seem relevant (such as a snippet of text from the page — it did this occasionally but not always).
- onion2k 6y agoI've been interested in the idea of having a user-facing website that generates static copies of its dynamic content on a set schedule. Do any of you have more examples of this? You can do this relatively easily using Github actions. For example, https://oliverjam.es/blog/schedule-netlify-github-actions/ https://oliverjam.es/blog/schedule-netlify-github-actions/
- masklinn 6y agoIt's rather common for blogs to be rebuilt on updates and served as static files.
- oefrha 6y agoFrozen-Flask freezes a dynamic Flask app into a static site. https://pythonhosted.org/Frozen-Flask/ https://pythonhosted.org/Frozen-Flask/
- tenkabuto 6y agoThanks! It looks like django-bakery also does something similar for Django: https://github.com/datadesk/django-bakery https://github.com/datadesk/django-bakery
- jimnotgym 6y agoCheck out the JAMstack. We have been experimenting with this for everything from ecommerce to blogs... https://jamstack.org/ https://jamstack.org/
- gerardnll 6y agoReligion and beliefs never cease to amaze me.
- mlatu 6y agoThe lengths some people go to for religion... smh
- nanna 6y agoSome people live their lives for the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob. Some live their lives for the gods capitalism. I'd say the former is a lot less pernicious.
- joelbluminator 6y agoThey both have pros and cons. Entire wars were fought over the ideals of both, and both dominate their "believers everyday life.
- nanna 6y agoWhere would you argue a war exists today that does not have its roots in the economic domination of one group over another, and is purely fought on religious grounds?
- nix23 6y agoIslamic State?
- joelbluminator 6y agoCrusades, ISIS, the depression of the muslim Uyghur by China, European antisemitism (which culminated in nazism), Armenian genocide, etc etc. Now many atrocities had several factors, but I believe religion plays a dominant role in the ones I listed. Arguably you can put 11-9 and the subsiquent mid east war in there as well...
- Mediterraneo10 6y ago> the depression of the muslim Uyghur by China This is not a religious conflict. China has oppressed the Uighurs because the Xinjiang region was only brought under full Chinese control late, and the Uighurs have been relatively independent-minded. That this conflict isn't about Islam per se is evident from the fact that 1) there is a substantial Muslim population within China outside of Xinjiang, and those Muslims have not been given the same brutal treatment, and 2) there have also been secularist voices of resistance among the Uighurs to Chinese control of Xinjiang.
- yadco 6y agoThere is nothing wrong with having a computer running on Shabbat if it is scheduled before Shabbat. (If you are worried about electricity generated on Shabbat by a Jew, use AWS ect that isn't in Israel) And some of the sites it links don't appear to be very "kosher".
- dogma1138 6y agoWhat happened to koogle? It used to be a thing now it’s a parked domain.
- joelbluminator 6y agoHahaah koogle what an awesome name!
- alangibson 6y agoThat's a lot of effort to do nothing. Does anyone know if there is some significance to it being calculated on Tuesday? Since Shabbat is from Friday to Saturday I would have picked Sunday or Monday.
- mrweasel 6y agoAssuming everyone else don't work on the Shabbat, there should be nothing new to calculate on Sunday, compared to Thursday. You can't use the site on Friday to Saturday yourself, because Shabbat, so indexing on Thursday perhaps also doesn't make sense, because no one will see it before Saturday. Tuesday is sort of in between... It's weird, why not do the calculating all other days than Friday and Saturday?
- masklinn 6y ago> why not do the calculating all other days than Friday and Saturday? Note that assuming UTC reference point you need to bleed into sunday: Kiribati is on UTC+14, and you need to wait until some time after sunset (stars should be visible). Though that makes me wonder how shabbat works in northerly latitude, how does shabbat work within the arctic circle?
- llimos 6y agoBeen there, done that. The commonly accepted ruling is to take the time that the sun is at its lowest point as simultaneous sunset/nightfall/midnight/dawn/sunrise (each of which has its own significance in Jewish law). So shabbat is from around midnight Friday to midnight Saturday. It also means one can pray the afternoon, evening, and morning prayers one after the other.
- idoby 6y ago"In Judaism, on the other hand, Tuesday is considered a particularly lucky day, because in Bereshit (parashah), known in the Christian tradition as the first chapters of Genesis, the paragraph about this day contains the phrase "it was good" twice." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tuesday https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tuesday
- mrweasel 6y agoI don't know why, but I find it absolutely hilarious, in a good way. It's such a weird thing to build, but it gives you that fuzzy old-school internet vibe. It's awesome.
- abductee_hg 6y agohmm, and here i was thinking that the Shabbat is to disconnect and unwind... you know get away from the constant notifications and such.
- Jaruzel 6y agoOk. A serious question here: Can some HN Jews, enlighten me (a 100%-proof agnostic) on what they actually do on Shabbat? Are you allowed to use the internet? If something in your house breaks, are you not allowed to fix it? Do you just sit around gazing into space just in case something you do is classed as 'work'? I find the whole concept quite interesting.
- kenrose 6y agoFor Sabbath observing Jews, “work” is defined as a certain set of 39 (?) activities that are defined in the bible and relating to building the “Mishkan”. Generations of Talmudic rabbis then added new interpretations and requirements on these rules to adapt for new technology. eg, the prohibition against using electricity is because it relates to igniting a spark, which is one of the 39 prohibited activities (Or “malakha”) Internet? No Something breaks, fix it? No Sit around all day? No :) For many that keep the Sabbath, the time is spent eating, praying, and studying and there’s somewhat of a schedule. Friday night: synagogue, then big ceremonious dinner. Saturday morning: Synagogue. Saturday afternoon: big ceremonious lunch and study or sleep. Saturday evening: back to synagogue again. It’s a pretty full day.
- throwaway744678 6y agoI don't get it: the potential user has to use some kind of computer/smartphone/non-kosher device to make use of this server. Not to mention all the network infrastructure in-between! Is there a rabbi here to enlighten us?
- yadco 6y agoThis whole thing is not required for Judaism at all.
- bszupnick 6y agoNot a rabbi, but I am Jewish. A specific segment of Jews (namely Ultra-Orthodox) have quite a complicated relationship with the internet. On one hand, that community has experienced the positives of this technology, but they also VERY much discuss the fears and downsides. So this site can be a seen as trying to wiggle into that tough space of getting use out of it, but in an "acceptable" way. Here's another example I found by a quick google search: https://koshercell.org/ https://koshercell.org/ But in Israel there's also a well-known ISP that filters the internet for you (and your household): https://www.linkedin.com/company/internet-rimon/ https://www.linkedin.com/company/internet-rimon/
- davidmanheim 6y agoInterestingly, all ISPs and phone companies in Israel are required to offer server-side filtered internet for all customers who request it, at no extra cost.
- maweki 6y agoWhy should at least the smartphone be non-kosher if it isn't charged and switched on/off physically during shabbat? I agree about the rest of the infrastructure though. But you have to agree on some standard what "work" and "fire" is, though. You can't cease all electron movement from Friday to Sunday.
- projektfu 6y agoI see it as an inside joke or maybe an art project.
- aaaaarghZombies 6y agoA bizarre and not very appealing website BUT an interesting provocation about what values we embed into technology.
- reallydontask 6y agoI can't find the exact quote but I think a comedian once said something along the lines of (large pinches of salt on the quote and whether it was said by a comedian): You think your god is all knowing, etc.. but at the same time stupid enough to fall for these work arounds
- knolax 6y agoIt's the thought that counts. Like a teenager choosing not to swear front of their parents.
- pron 6y agoHalakhic Judaism isn't about faith or what God knows. It's about obeying laws (Halakha [1]) made by people based on a God-given "constitution." Employing "loopholes" is fine -- it means you care about the law and try to obey it, which is the point. Worship is expressed not with faith but in a process of interpreting and creating laws and then following them. [1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halakha https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halakha
- Udik 6y agoIt's more that for Judaism it seems God's laws are legal boundaries devoid of any ethical meaning. The important thing is to respect their letter, not their spirit.
- pron 6y agoI wouldn't say that they're devoid of ethical meaning but rather that their ethical meaning might be unknown or can only be speculated, and whose understanding, in any event, is not pertinent to keeping the letter of the law, which is the central tenet. What you do is what's important, not what you believe or think or even what God thinks. Once His laws were given to humankind, they're out of His hands. There's even a famous story [1] in the Talmud where God argues with the Rabbis over Halakha, and the Rabbis tell God that what they say should prevail because Torah was given to man, and God concedes. From Wikipedia: > [T]he work of law is a work of human activity, and... the Torah itself supports this legal theory. The Torah is not a document of mystery which must have its innate meaning revealed by a minority, but it is instead a document from which law must be created through the human activity of debate and consensus [1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Oven_of_Akhnai https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Oven_of_Akhnai
- teajunky 6y agoIf there was a God, I don't think he likes being tricked.
- dreen 6y agoWell perhaps Mr God should have opted out of trickery in the privacy panel.
- brighton36 6y agoI'd think he has at least a good enough sense of humor to smile about it.
- devmunchies 6y agoyou haven't read the Hebrew bible.
- schoen 6y agoAlthough in the extrabiblical story of the oven of Akhnai, God literally laughs about human beings' cleverness in interpreting the law: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Oven_of_Akhnai https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Oven_of_Akhnai
- WJW 6y agoHe's not tricked, he put the loopholes there on purpose. You can't trick an omniscient being.
- Faaak 6y agoSupposing you're right, then why did they put these loopholes by purpose if they're going to be discovered someday ? To play games with us maybe ? But then is that morally ok to do so ?
- WJW 6y agoI can't claim to understand everything, as he apparently moves in mysterious ways. However, just from the definitions we can deduce it's morally OK to do, since otherwise a perfect being wouldn't do so. To play games? Perhaps, but presumably a perfect being is already perfectly happy and has no need for games. You could see it as a test for humans: only the truly devout study the laws closely enough to notice the loopholes.
- fazza99 6y agoBetcha it doesn't return any results for 'PLO' ;)
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- dabbernaught420 6y agoI'm sure it's more than happy to teach you about the great game of Pot Limited Omaha But after you're done with that, at result number 11, you get this interesting web-site: https://abbaszaki.plo.ps/ https://abbaszaki.plo.ps/
- emosenkis 6y agoAs on Orthodox Jew, while I don't have anything against this and it sounds like a fun hobby project, I don't like that it misleads regarding what Jewish law actually requires. As several others have mentioned, there is absolutely no problem with keeping a server running on the sabbath - computers aren't Jews (Jewish law only expects Jews to keep the sabbath). If it's Jews working to generate the electricity (most "modern" or "yeshivish" Orthodox Jews don't believe this is a problem; I don't know what fraction of "ultra-" Orthodox Jews disagree with that), any public cloud outside of Israel should suffice. If you're concerned with electricity, why not worry that Jews may be working to maintain the server's internet connection (again, this is trivially solved by not hosting it in Israel - all it takes is a non-Jewish majority to provide a reasonable presumption that the workers probably aren't Jewish)? If you're worried about Jewish users accessing it on the sabbath (in my opinion the least far-fetched concern, but not one addressed by the site), the complete solution would be to shut it down for ~49 hours every week starting from ~sunset on Friday in east Asia - this doesn't require using batteries or really anything special about the site's hardware or even software. Finally, why call it a 'kosher' search engine when almost anyone interested in such a thing would understand that as being about filtering the search results? Edit: If you assume that using electricity and/or internet that are maintained by Jews on the sabbath is a problem, I guess you might be able to make a case for avoiding indexing sites in Israel or at all during the sabbath, since then you'd be benefitting indirectly from the work of the Jews that maintained the infrastructure - however, I think it's safe to assume that the vast majority of the internet is not served using infrastructure actively supported by Jews during the sabbath so even assuming you're concerned about this, the final answer would probably still be that indexing during the sabbath is fine.
- heisbsissi 6y agoAs a gentile, it seems pretty obvious to me that this is borderline satire. You sound like Devin Nunes apoplectic about how it is not actually one of his farm animals criticizing him on twitter.
- emosenkis 6y agoSorry if I came across as apopleptic - I'm mostly not at all confident that most gentiles or secular Jews would readily identify it as satire - when I clicked on the link, I expected to see something real.
- ggop 6y agoB&H Video is shut for a day every week but also disallows online checkout. I've always found that interesting, like the website is an extension of their beliefs. https://www.bhphotovideo.com/find/HelpCenter/StoreInfo.jsp https://www.bhphotovideo.com/find/HelpCenter/StoreInfo.jsp > Online Checkout Hours > Open 24/6 > Online checkout will be closed while we observe Shabbat from 8:15pm ET Fri until 9:45pm ET Sat. Although online ordering is unavailable, you may still add items to your cart or wish list.
- schwartzworld 6y agoThey are orthodox Jews and are forbidden from doing business on the Sabbath.
- ChrisMarshallNY 6y agoI have shopped with them many times. Kind of an awesome shop. Ever been there? I have to believe that they have spent a great deal of time considering Talmudic law and all that (I am non-jewish, so I am not aware of the niceties). It may have to do with the "making money" thing, during Shabbat.
- avipars 6y agoYep, also on jewish holidays. I respect them for that.
- cameron_b 6y agoI did my degree in Photography and spent money I don't care to sum up at that store both online and in person the few times I was in the City. I always found their stance to be one of integrity instead of self-righteousness. They are situated in a little enclave - see HN articles about the Eruv, etc. - and are quite genuine and not exclusive to their Jewishness, but simply have a community and a point of view. The no-shabbat-order-processing feels less like "we don't make the machines make money for us" than it feels like "Look, you can shop online, but we're not gonna load it and ship it until we get back from our families." Like how I interpret the intentions of that commandment, it forces Photographers to think ahead and plan for that service outage. I may or may not encourage Rest, but again, the commandments weren't for the Egyptians.
- the_mitsuhiko 6y agoUnless a shabbat goy is employed (who would have to be human) I don’t think you can have a compliant search engine. The machine can work at any point of the week but a jew cannot operate it on shabbat. A non jew could, but not acting on a direct command. The rules are quite watertight. Siri and co. are a no-go and there are no obvious ways to adapt smart assistants that would restore functionality. Anything that’s not preprogrammed is not possible.
- 082349872349872 6y agoThinking of elevators which stop at every floor on shabbat, maybe the search engine ought to run on a timeout, returning results for all the "most common searches" (such as the auto-fill suggestions for each letter?) on some interleaved schedule. (I'm not concerned with electricity here so much as with "בורר", selection.)
- LegitShady 6y agoif search engines knew what you wanted to look at before you looked at them they wouldn't be necessary.
- verytrivial 6y agoI have never understood trying to get in to heaven on a technicality. Anyway, none of my business! All power to them (except during Shabbat of course.)
- jfengel 6y agoKosher laws have nothing to do with getting into heaven. They're about community. Jews are the people who keep kosher. It's not a sin to fail to keep kosher. You're not jeopardizing the afterlife; Judaism puts far less focus on the afterlife than we're used to swimming in a Christian world view. That does sometimes lead to a weird performative "more kosher than thou", which I don't believe is really healthy but every community has equivalent behavior. The finger wagging isn't about protecting their immortal soul, but merely making yourself to be the best at the arbitrary rules and therefore somehow to be most beloved by the community.
- llimos 6y agoThat is not really true of most Orthodox Jews. Keeping the laws is about following the word of God, and the afterlife does play a fairly big part in our worldview. There are a handful of laws which are identified in the literature as being about community but those tend to be ones added later by the early rabbis (miderabannan), rather than straight from the Torah i.e. God (mideoraisa). That being said, what you described in your second paragraph does happen, yes. Though not everyone who engages in it has the motives you ascribe to them. Some are sincerely trying to do the will of God as best they can. > It's not a sin to fail to keep kosher Well, it is for a Jew, but not for a non-Jew. We don't say that non-Jews need to keep our laws, other than a few very very basic ones likes not to murder. Non-Jews can still have an afterlife without keeping kosher.
- GoblinSlayer 6y agoPretty sure they are ironic.
- avipars 6y agoMy personal laptop is more powerful than this
- dangus 6y agoAs someone who isn’t religious, it’s really, REALLY hard to remind myself that not only do people still believe this stuff, but MOST people in the western world still believe in the Judeo-Christian God and all the underlying mythology. I feel like the rational outcome would be that only a small minority of people would still buy into these ideologies. But I guess economists already know that people aren’t rational. Obviously, I’m aware that this website represents an orthodox minority. Most religious people don’t go to these lengths. Religious rules and practices are just so annoyingly easy to pick apart. For example, doesn’t the change from the Julian and Gregorian calendars throw a wrench into what day we are actually on? It’s hard for me to buy that God created billions of planets and galaxies with each planet having different orbital properties and that somehow the arbitrary days of the week that weren’t even set to their present status until after Moses was dead for 3000 years are important to him. This nonsense affects my daily interactions in the sense that I can’t run around questioning obviously arbitrary traditions, it’ll just insult people and it’s just generally mean. So, I’ve given you more than enough of my opinion, and this isn’t exactly constructive, but to me the sooner you exit the denial stage of grief the sooner you and move on to accepting the reality of life. That means specifically accepting that the only two roles of religion are: 1. A social construct and group (with legitimate benefits of fellowship and social interaction like a club) 2. A coping mechanism for death, one that prevents its adherents from reaching the painful stages of grief beyond denial.
- cik 6y agoThe problem with that thinking is that neither belief nor disbelief in a deity is rational. Ultimately the existence (or non) of said deity is a leap of faith either way, given the inability to prove the existence of G-D. I fully understand the complete belief or disbelief in a religion. That's the assumption of a system surrounding G-D, but as an Orthodox Jew I don't pretend that there's 100% proof that G-D exists, rather the proof exists for me to maintain my beliefs.
- dangus 6y agoWhere I disagree here is the idea that my view is “disbelief.” To me, believing or not is irrelevant. I don’t call a lack of evidence “disbelief,” it’s simply a lack of data. I wouldn’t make decisions based on not knowing. I wouldn’t plan to drive on interstate 90 to get to my destination if I wasn’t sure it existed. I don’t consider the rationality of assuming something is to assuming something isn’t to be equal. If my friend says “I have a million dollars in my trunk, but I can’t open it to show you” I can safely dismiss the remark as “unlikely“ without investing a lot of hope into the unlikelihood of my friend actually having a million dollars in their trunk. I certainly wouldn’t start telling all my friends and relatives about the money in the trunk that I have faith in being there. Could my friend be telling the truth? Sure! But I see no reason to take those words at face value. And disbelief of that story isn’t on an equal level of rationality of belief in it. Now, if my friend opened the trunk and showed me the money, I could absolutely accept that reality, even though the outcome was extremely unlikely. Essentially, I don’t agree with the religious that faith as a concept is a desirable human trait.
- charliebrownau 6y agoWhat Government , platform, news network or tech firm isnt controlled by the Global Zionist Jews ? They have the finger in everything
- NovemberWhiskey 6y agoOf relevance: https://www.star-k.org/appliances.php https://www.star-k.org/appliances.php
- MH15 6y agoThe tongue-in-cheek humor of this project aside, it returns an astoundingly antisemitic search result on the home page. See https://wethoughttheywerewhite.tumblr.com/ https://wethoughttheywerewhite.tumblr.com/, a blog dedicated to blaming the Jewish people for the international slave trade. It's awful.
- floatingatoll 6y agoWould you mind editing out the direct link to astoundingly antisemitic content? It does HN no good to link it directly in this case and can only attract negative outcomes (like, antisemites who have a Google Alerts set up for that subdomain name discover this thread when it shows up in Google, or someone on HN gets sucked into the worldview as a result of curiosity, or etc).
- itqwertz 6y agoThere are a lot of wild accusations on that website. It would be interesting to see some sources or references for this information.
- ivraatiems 6y agoWhat sort of sources or references for the statement from the homepage: > We are all simply pawns to the Jews who have no other use for us beyond being a source of profit to them and a weapon that can be used to help destroy whites, who they see as their sworn enemies, by encouraging us to breed with them until there are no longer any whites left. or, from "Jews & the Civil Rights Movement": > Despite the widespread public belief that the Civil Rights Movement was organized by African-Americans, the reality is that it was almost entirely masterminded by Jews as part of their agenda to undermine the stability of American society by using blacks as a wedge to divide and conquer the white majority establishment. would you consider suitable? Are you aware that the "Jew as international manipulator of all other nations" trope is a conspiracy theory dating back to Tsarist Russia and, after that, Nazi Germany, where it was used to justify the murder of more than 6 million people?[1][2] These aren't "wild accusations" so much as anti-Semitic lies responsible for centuries of death. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antisemitic_canard https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antisemitic_canard [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Protocols_of_the_Elders_of_Zion https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Protocols_of_the_Elders_of...
- fmakunbound 6y agoAll regilion is superstition, but some of it is also hilarious.
- grishka 6y agoI saw the dreaded Cloudflare "one more step" page and closed the tab. I'm highly doubtful Cloudflare is kosher.
- GoblinSlayer 6y agoCaptcha is ultra kosher, because it assumes you're not a human and must prove otherwise.
- kwhitefoot 6y ago> This computer does not physically manipulated electricity. Sophistry. The whole purpose of a computer is to manipulate electricity, it is what electronic computers do. Perhaps it really is kosher (I have no idea, I'm not Jewish and I'm not well informed about what kosher really means) but whatever it is or is not, it is quite certainly not true that 'This computer does not physically manipulated electricity.' Perhaps the author actually meant something else, if so I'm curious as to what that might be. Presumably the inclusion of the superfluous word physically means something to the author. To me (B. Sc. Physics) there is no need to include the word because all manipulation of electricity is physical, there is no other kind.
- compsciphd 6y agoone can start a fire before the sabbath and benefit from its heat. One can't stoke the fire (to make it hotter) or extinguish it. On the flips side (as an example only) if I was sitting around a camp fire that I lit before the sabbath with a non jew, and he wanted to extinguish it or stoke it for his own benefit (I might benefit as well, but he's supposed to be doing it for his own benefit) that would be permitted. apply to a computer: one can let it keep on doing what it is doing, but he owner wouldn't manipulate it.
- Jekyll-Jacobson 6y agoIt is also not clear cut that other than the incandescent bulb use of electricity is actually prohibited. The Hazon Ish ruled that the completion of a circuit is considered ‘makke bapatish’ or ‘boneh’. But one can argue reasonably that it is not so.
- MrBoogyTron 6y agoIt's been assur for long enough that everyone just holds `lo plugh' when it comes to electricity. Yes an incandescent is prohibited, a hotplate is prohibited. An eInk display is technically alright, as is an LCD watch. But there's way to many gray areas between those. What about LED bulbs? Some get hot enough to be a problem, some do not.
- compsciphd 6y agoI've had this idea that if we could ever get e-ink displays to actually be paper like (i.e. in thickness, and bendability and hatever other features you attach to paper books) it be interesting for observant jews an people who just like books to be able to sell "placeholder" e-ink books. i.e. books filled with programmable eink pages that you can flip through like a regular book. One would download a book and program it, and then just read it like a traditional book, flipping pages as you go. once done, you download another book to it and all the pages get reprogrammed.
- Animats 6y agoThere are some "kosher search engines", to go with "kosher phones" in Israel. This is an ultra-Orthodox thing. Basic kosher phones are "no Internet, no text", but that's so restrictive that there are now kosher smartphones. These often have a very short list of allowed sites. Stack Exchange explains: [1] [1] https://judaism.stackexchange.com/questions/108332/what-makes-a-smart-phone-kosher https://judaism.stackexchange.com/questions/108332/what-make...
- shmerl 6y agoIf new electricity is created in automated fashion, how is that a problem for running a server? You aren't using it. Automated machinery is perfectly fine to work on its own.
- iskander 6y agoThat's not how Shabbat works... (it's very mysterious that someone would go to all this trouble with an idiosyncratic outsider interpretation of Judaism)
- bjourne 6y agoObviously a joke/satire site. "This server is powered by 4 car batteries that are charged every Tuesday. This website does not use new electricity created during Shabbat." Shouldn't it have ran out of electricity by now? How many requests can a home server running on four car batteries serve?
- krallja 6y agoLow-tech Magazine[1] runs off of a 168 W-h lead-acid battery and has pretty good uptime. An average sized car battery has ~600 W-h. Four of them is 2400 W-h. They might have enough power to run for a week between charges. 168 W/h gives you about 12 hours between charges. 2400 W-h / 168 W-h = about 14.28x the size of LTM's 12 hours * 14.28 = 7.14 days. 1: https://solar.lowtechmagazine.com/2020/01/how-sustainable-is-a-solar-powered-website.html#uptime-and-battery https://solar.lowtechmagazine.com/2020/01/how-sustainable-is...
- xparco 6y agoJews are the most racist people, read the Talmud
- locofocos 6y agoNeat. This might not be satire though. To those wondering why it needs to be passively cooled: Jews and other folks that keep Torah do not kindle a flame on the Shabbat. For those who are very strict about keeping God's commandments (basically orthodox Jews), they avoid anything that would create a spark. This spark is like a very tiny, short lived flame. Any time physical electronic contacts join together (like when turning on a light switch), the argument is that there's a very small spark that occurs. The same would happen with the electric contacts in a motor, such as the motor inside CPU fans, desktop power supplies, and platter hard drives. By running on this physical hardware, they're avoiding breaking the Sabbath as much as possible. source: I'm a gentile Christian that tries to keep the Torah. So I'm more familiar with Jewish laws than the average person, but don't quote me too much.
- jmole 6y agothen every keystroke would be a spark, no? I've often wondered if "spark" is only considered in the electromechanical sense. Driving a tesla might be ok, since it uses brushless motors that are electronically commutated and has no electromechanical switches or brushes to speak of.
- hristov 6y agoIs that a joke? Because if it isn't, I'd hate to tell you but you are wrong. That computer most definitely manipulates electricity. If anyone is about to take this seriously, check out how a transistor works. It most certainly manipulates electricity. The cpu in that computer has about a billion transistors.
- killface 6y agoeven a capacitor.
- mwambua 6y agoNit: The copper heat pipes move a fluid around... so there technically are moving parts.
- ykevinator 6y agoDividing humans into categories is dying