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by jsilence 14y ago
yes, "walled garden" is "single point of failure" spelled backwards.
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by jsilence 14y ago
To everybody who thinks energy right now is too expensive. A couple of friends and I built a bike generator station for five bikes. We are using DC-Motors as dynamos and lead batterys for buffering the output. Five bikers in total can gener
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by jsilence 14y ago
Difficult question and even more so when you take a look at the Asse II desaster: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schacht_Asse_II
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by jsilence 14y ago
Encryption would of course be mandatory. Maybe even enhanced with steganograhy. "My dear photo sharing friend, enclosed you'll find the collection of my latest pictures which are simply to huge in volume for my crappy internet connection. E
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by jsilence 14y ago
Sneaking SD-Cards might also be a nice alternative of communication in times of increasing online surveillance.
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by jsilence 14y ago
ssh dev tmux attach workon project
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by jsilence 14y ago
May I be so bold to throw in the theory that states are bad?
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by jsilence 14y ago
Pretty sure it will be. At some point.
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by jsilence 14y ago
This is the guy Arthur Clarke has been talking about fourty years ago. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OIRZebE8O84
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by jsilence 14y ago
awesome!
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by jsilence 14y ago
AFAIK the levy on computers is only for the first retail, not on subsequent second hand sales. It is a fixed rate for a category of products.
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by jsilence 14y ago
Personal comment: Most of the people in Germany don't seem to be aware of the situation, simply not knowing that there is such a levy. Most of them also don't even know that they are allowed to make private copies (aka Privatkopie), and fal
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by jsilence 14y ago
German native speaker here. Sadly the basic facts of the article are correct. There is a levy on different media and also on machines capable of copying content (yes, there is a levy on computers in Germany). The height of the levy is negot
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by jsilence 14y ago
Yes, thanks.
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by jsilence 14y ago
Buy a short domain. Run your own URL-Shortener. It is not that hard and you'll have complete control over the interface and all the data and most importantly: the domain. Remember bit.ly went down because the Libyan government was not amus
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by jsilence 14y ago
High Voltage DC cables: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High-voltage_direct_current
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by jsilence 14y ago
Hoping it will approach the quality of the formidable FreeBSD handbook. That would be great! One comprehensive quality source of administration information. Yes please!
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by jsilence 15y ago
Are you complaining about the height of the fence of the walled garden? Not to be meant as flamebait or trollposting, but as a brief reminder that this is a symptom of a closed ecosystem. I'd love to add "Remove the cause and not the sympto
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by jsilence 15y ago
One point I am missing on the whole "RSS is dead, long live Twitter" topic are their differences on the technological and on the legal side. RSS is an open protocol, free for everyone to implement either way, producing or consuming, filteri
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by jsilence 15y ago
"Don't look into concentrated sunbeam with remaning eye." SCNR
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by jsilence 15y ago
Thank you, Microsoft for promoting endpoint to endpoint encryption.
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by jsilence 15y ago
The problem is that these costs actually add to the GDP, which makes them look like a good thing, because they "make the economy grow".
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by jsilence 15y ago
Just for reference I'd like to add http://substance.io . It offers some more options for structuring a document and has a lot of export options. Real time collaboration also missing, but seems to be planned.
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by jsilence 15y ago
I meant that it is nice in the coarse pattern. And yes, as said, we need ways to store energy and a flexible grid.
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by jsilence 15y ago
Sorry, but you are not correct. During the very cold days this winter it was very sunny. Because of this, Photovoltaic could compensate. It went through the local media, that even though most of the nukuhlar powerplants were shut down, we
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by jsilence 15y ago
Transportation of electricity around the globe is not neccessary. Electricity usage is considerably lower during nighttime. Thus solar and wind fit in with our natural rhythm quite nicely. And it is also produced near the place there it is
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by jsilence 15y ago
This is a good reason not to stick to the DNS-resolver the ISP gives you with DHCP, but to explicitly set it to a DNS resolver you trust. Wondering why Chrome is not simply using the Google resolver on 8.8.8.8. Of course this would yet be a
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by jsilence 15y ago
Let everybody interact in the way they want. That is freedom of choice. And the secret lies in the interfaces and protocols. I can read email in many different ways. That is the freedom the protocol gives me. It is open, well documented and
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by jsilence 15y ago
Instead of making devices ultra thin I really wish manufacturers would simply fill up the freed space with batteries. Not only Apple MacBooks, this goes for mobilephones as well. Samsung Galaxy half an inch thick and a runtime of one week p
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by jsilence 15y ago
I always thought that some day in the future we would start digging up the dumped plastic for turning it back into oil or fuel. There is another fungus which is capable of turning cellulose from wood into diesel. A fungus which could digest

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