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by adrianN 9mo ago
„Cloud“ ist a lot more than blob storage where encryption can help. As soon as you use a service that sees plain text (eg a database saas) encryption doesn’t save you from the service provider (and by extension foreign government). But as t
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by adrianN 9mo ago
I kind of share the opinion of the FSF Europe that it is less important where software comes from compared to whether it’s libre, but for cloud hardware I really hope that we manage to create competitive European offerings. Maybe we’re luck
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by adrianN 9mo ago
I recently ordered two 500w panels from Amazon for 200€.
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by adrianN 9mo ago
Cars aren’t going away, but it is very easy to disincentivize their use in urban areas.
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by adrianN 9mo ago
Everybody I care about would know that those pictures are not real so I think that the harm to me would likely be lower than the harm to society if building websites were impossible.
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by adrianN 9mo ago
People can draw naked children with a stick and some dirt. I’m not sure that preventing the creation of fictional csam is the best use of our resources if we want to protect minors from abuse.
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by adrianN 9mo ago
People cancer outcomes have improved a lot in recent decades. Many forms of cancer are essentially cured if you detect them early enough.
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by adrianN 9mo ago
Propelling ships with hydrogen or methane made with wind power is the most probable path for fuel in the next decades.
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by adrianN 9mo ago
Why would it care to stay alive? The discussion is pretty pointless as we have no knowledge about alien intelligence and there can be no arguments based on hard facts.
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by adrianN 9mo ago
It would be nice if everything were written in Coq or Isabelle with proof so that you could generate a correct program in a systems language from it. The proof checker is much more ruthless than the rust compiler.
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by adrianN 9mo ago
Right, that method is pretty good at finding unintentional behavior changes in a refactor. It is not very well suited for showing that the program is correct which is probably what your parent meant.
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by adrianN 9mo ago
I’d argue that social media stopped being democratic as it introduced algorithmic content selection. But today perhaps a bigger problem is bot farms shaping public opinion.
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by adrianN 9mo ago
Another option is that the government limits the power individuals can have. How many people control, say, 80% of the media? Do you need more than one hand to count them?
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by adrianN 9mo ago
Even modern cars pollute a lot (especially in winter) because you need a certain temperature for the cats to start working. On short city trips it happens frequently that you never reach proper operating temperatures.
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by adrianN 9mo ago
My experience with contractors is limited, but in all nontrivial cases I recall they took longer than estimated and it ended up costing more.
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by adrianN 9mo ago
When the government asks how much project X costs they find ten companies that promise the moon and then deliver a wheel of cheese for five times the estimated cost.
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by adrianN 9mo ago
You can do such things until you have to interface with other code, eg the operating system.
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by adrianN 9mo ago
You also need to extract and refine the oil before you can put it into a car.
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by adrianN 9mo ago
That is true, but I believe that most power plants are not modern combined cycle gas plants.
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by adrianN 9mo ago
Power plants with high capex like nuclear have a hard time competing in a market where power is essentially free when it’s sunny or windy. Running something like a nuclear power plant only for a few hundred hours a year when it’s neither su
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by adrianN 9mo ago
You can get pretty far with negligible storage. There is a cost tradeoff between storage, peaker plants (those could burn hydrogen, not just natgas) and grid size. 70% renewable with no storage is rather easy.
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by adrianN 9mo ago
Most power plants are less than 50% efficient.
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by adrianN 9mo ago
You have received data from several people in this thread alone. Have you updated your opinion accordingly?
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by adrianN 9mo ago
Panels have warranties of over twenty years now. They pay for themselves much earlier. You probably have to replace the inverter earlier, but that’s not a huge expense. I don’t know anybody who lives in a place where it rains who cleans the
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by adrianN 9mo ago
The equipment I pay for is my laptop
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by adrianN 9mo ago
As a hobbyist programmer I make precisely zero dollars a year so paying for my tools only makes sense if they increase my nonmonetary enjoyment. As an employee I have very little power to convince my company to buy a certain tool and I tend
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by adrianN 9mo ago
The same could be said for Wikipedia before it was created.
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by adrianN 9mo ago
In January Germany exported more than 900GWh, in December Germany imported about 1400, but Poland also imported 290.
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by adrianN 9mo ago
Llms are not magic. Fixing a large class of exploits makes exploitation harder.
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by adrianN 9mo ago
I’m impressed that QT runs clean enough under ubsan for daily use.

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