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by kkfx 1y ago
The main problem of notes is that most tools are bad, Emacs/org-mode outshine the others, still having it's own hiccups (for instance a very limited transclusion support so far with org-transclusion and delve at the best). Neverth
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The Club of Rome few days ago admit that the Smart-city is impossible (it consume way to much resources) https://www.clubofrome.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/Transf... of course they keep insisting &quo
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Well... I've managed various people so far and while yes, most are simply way to uneducated/illiterate to work properly in the present world in their roles, they are still capable to learn if properly driven. I've observing t
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by kkfx 1y ago
I suggest to remember a thing: Democracy to exist demand Demos, not passive people. Yet most citizens (not in SF but in the whole world) are passive consumers not much active Demos. In their own mind. So it's not a matter or good or ev
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The most basic explanation is a video of various people doing the same thing like cooking or using a washing machine: "hey, did you notice, there are countless different kitchens/washing machines/homes but in the end they all
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Me personally I hope for a paradigm change: there is no reason to use an office suite instead training people from the school to use proper typesetting and computing software. We have LaTeX wrapped in nth way to typeset, we have easy langua
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by kkfx 1y ago
Do see NGI Taler (GNU Taler by EU/ECB) and Tourbillon project vs the recent https://www.biometricupdate.com/202506/mastercard-halfway-to... It is clear that with digital money the sole way to make people trust the
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by kkfx 1y ago
My files are mostly org-mode/org-attach-ed stuff, linked in notes so they physically reside in a cache-like structure, accessed via search&narrow. Classic taxonomies are a thing of the past.
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Well, not for now but... But just for a single building how much "supporting infra" you have, meaning raw materials, and how limited heat-pumps heating you can made there. If you extend that for a whole city it's clear that c
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> Do you have something we can read about that? I'm slowly collecting projects of some condos, homes and shed, along with their docs about resources needed to build them. From the little I've examined just the common areas (ele
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It happened mostly that available devices fails to target a reasonable usage and industry do not want it anyway. The reasonable usage means A4/B4 size, to read most common pdfs, to be loaded locally via USB or LAN not by some third par
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Euro exec do not know IT basis enough to understand that the cloud is a deprecated paradigm some push for personal interests... Not at all the future. The future is interconnected desktops, thanks to FTTH, current hardware, photovoltaic wit
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by kkfx 1y ago
I agree but... NVME actually is also network attachable! Beside that IMVHO the future of cloud, meaning the modern mainframe, is the cluster, or decentralized applications run from homes and sheds with p.v. and local storage, the desktop
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A small notes: everyone seems to imaging eVTOL for cities, but hey, they are not for them at all. Look at https://www.easa.europa.eu/sites/default/files/dfu/uam-full-... then see some advertisements like
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by kkfx 1y ago
I definitively need NixOS on my desktop (even if I can't digest Nix language) because I want a single system not a gazillion of different package systems unable to handle the whole deploy, anyone updating on their own. Also I value p
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Mh like https://youtu.be/5yy6XvuO2aM or "how can we made better propaganda with acceptable excuses"...
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Well savvy people simply do want to own not being owned and spied, especially if they are wealthy, it's simple.
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by kkfx 1y ago
Honestly? Well, we entering an era (beside possible global war, famine, ... etc) where knowledge application will be more and more automated, while knowledge creation will be human. Meaning we need less strong arms and more strong brain
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The use (and design) of tools(seths.blog)
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A nice post from a famous marketing guru, with a scientific/IT background that follow the line of some recent studies like https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijhcs.2024.103354 on why the hell so many people do not want, an
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by kkfx 1y ago
Allow me to add a suggestion: how much roads costs? Because one point in eVTOL is in a not so near future ditching roads. Crafting a "light" society who could keep up without roads or at least with much less of them.
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A small note the defunct ZeroNet prove to be performant enough for a distributed web, why not start to really go distributed for things where the network overhead is not so heavy? A distributed arXiv sustained by many individual peers sprea
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by kkfx 2y ago
I'm from EU, the situation of the whole population of circa ANY age is the very same: most do not know NOTHING about common life things. I start to see young who do not want to learn how to drive a car "because we have the metro&q
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The solution is avoiding crappy UIs designed to "help those who do not know how to use a computer" keeping them in their ignorance to exploit them and damn teaching IT. The MIT Missing Semester of Your CS Education https:/&#
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Hem I miss a point: how the scammer earn money doing so? Because such credible deepfakes (not much credible anyway) are damn expensive...
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IMVHO as an European, with p.v. and storage: - I do want DC-direct car charging, not double conversion, something who exists in EU CCS-combo as a standard but not a single vendor implement it... - I do want a LOCAL FIRST (and only eventuall
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by kkfx 2y ago
Not too related but... Did you ever tried to imaging a world where computing is back to interconnected desktops/homeservers? Well, if you see trends like {fog,edge}-computing or recent ideas to distributed LLM computing (BrianknowsAI D
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by kkfx 2y ago
I think we can find similar systems across many ages, ZettelKasten is one popular now, mostly thank to How to Take Smart Notes by Sönke Ahrens, LYT is another, I do not remember the name of another historical from a monk with cards like ZK,
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by kkfx 2y ago
To reduce public infra cost we simply need to ERASE the speculation around it. Simply only grid operators are allowed to install chargers and them are allowed to be payed only with a bank card not with apps not with dedicated cards and so o
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Ladies and Gentleman's maybe it's about time to discuss a thing: - how much raw materials and energy costs building a "smart city"? - how much to operate and evolve, which means rebuild from scratch? My answer is WAY TOO

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