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by patrickk 2y ago
I didn’t misunderstand what you meant. I just meant you can “hack” the live TV feature of Jellyfin, and use it to create a “live” tv experience from local media.
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by patrickk 2y ago
For live tv listings, there are companion apps like Ersatztv and Tunarr (easier to use than Ersatztv but less features) which feed into the live tv section in Jellyfin. You create 24/7 “tv stations” running whichever collection of loca
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by patrickk 2y ago
That’s true, intensively farming in a small country will come with serious downsides. But if it’s a choice between starvation vs mass producing bland food and creating pollution, there is only one choice to make.
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by patrickk 2y ago
The Netherlands managed to dramatically raise crop yields after WWII by intensive farming methods like building a massive amount of greenhouses. The crop yield per hectare is insane as a result. It was as a response to WWII that this system
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by patrickk 2y ago
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parallel_construction
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by patrickk 2y ago
English and German are EU languages. Russian is not. The EU maintains a large translation service to translate most EU official texts into all EU languages. So Google Translate is using that to train on. Google gets a free gift from a multi
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by patrickk 2y ago
There’s loads of hacker spirit still alive in the homelab and home automation space just to give one example. Having lots of fun tinkering with Proxmox, Wled, Shelly devices to manipulate electric rollers, and more. Couldn’t quite get Valet
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by patrickk 2y ago
One proposal is to link the UK to Morocco, which would supply up to 8% of the UK's electricity consumption with a single project. The site would generate 24/7 clean power by a combination of predictable sunshine, predictable wind
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by patrickk 2y ago
> Just as trying to think up startup ideas tends to produce bad ones, working on things that could be dismissed as "toys" often produces good ones. When something is described as a toy, that means it has everything an idea need
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by patrickk 2y ago
It's horrendus in Germany trying to cancel a mobile phone subscription, internet service, gym membership or the likes. You have to jump through hoops like sending a registered physical letter, 3 months before the end of the service per
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by patrickk 2y ago
A quick search showed up this RTK press release from New Holland: https://media.cnh.com/North-America/new-holland-agriculture/... You can see videos of rtk tractors on YouTube including DIY applications.
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by patrickk 2y ago
This is how GDPR works, explicit opt-in consent is needed from the customer. https://ico.org.uk/for-organisations/uk-gdpr-guidance-and-re...
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by patrickk 3y ago
I’m not sure if there’s a been a study done, but it’s interesting to see some potential solutions to the intermittency problem and how close they’d get the world to a completely green grid. Orientating solar panels differently than simply s
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by patrickk 3y ago
To your point: https://www.currentaffairs.org/2017/10/why-you-hate-contempo...
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by patrickk 3y ago
Because claiming to care about climate change is greenwashing bullshit that sounds good in PR statements and self important fart smelling events that CEOs attend, but in the end is a box-ticking exercise. No one measures the environmental i
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by patrickk 3y ago
Germany is also the birthplace of homeopathy, which is why German health insurers cover this mumbo-jumbo to this day.
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by patrickk 3y ago
> In Germany you can pay by card basically anywhere - with the phone or watch as well in most/many shops as far as I know. This simply isn't true, outside of large chains or supermarkets. Many smaller businesses like pubs, &quo
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by patrickk 3y ago
A huge percentage of daily life in Germany (Europe's biggest economy) and Austria is conducted in cash. https://www.bundesbank.de/en/press/press-releases/payment-be...
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by patrickk 3y ago
BNB is a token issued by Binance to faciliate trading on their platform. If it dropped in value, it could indicate a lack of confidence in the platform itself (it's price could also be manipulated of course). "BNB can be used to p
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by patrickk 3y ago
A lot of the bureaucracy is a badly disguised jobs program. There would be so many people out of work if there was actual work to reform some of these ossified government services.
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by patrickk 3y ago
The joke about the Merkel government was that if the French state is founded on the concept of 'Liberté, égalité, fraternité', the German state is founded on 'Stabilität, Stabilität, Stabilität' even in the face of badly
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by patrickk 3y ago
Any lawyer even vaguely familar with GPDR wouldn't be worried about this. There is a text that states: "processing is necessary for the performance of a contract to which the data subject is party.." and "processing i
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by patrickk 3y ago
Another milestone was when Google started offering personalised results, based on things like your behaviour when logged in or geography, instead of just serving up the results like before. I remember PG quipping words to the effect of &quo
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by patrickk 3y ago
The volunteer fire service is a prime example. In some towns they have incredible facilities. It’s basically a drinking club.
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by patrickk 3y ago
It would be interesting to know the background of the infamous Lancet letter[1]. According to journalist Paul Thacker, the Lancet letter "helped to guide almost a year of reporting, as journalists helped to amplify Daszak’s message an
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by patrickk 3y ago
I heard a similar sentiment from a high performing colleague from a company my employer partered with. He said something along the lines of "if they (client) wants me to make constant PowerPoint reports, they better pay extra for an in
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by patrickk 3y ago
There are (probably many) solutions being developed for this. Open source, self-hosted LLMs that can be used to query private data sets. You can query private data sets with an LLM hosted on your local machine. There are some projects onlin
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by patrickk 3y ago
There’s mods[1] for the Cemu version that removes the weapons breaking system [1] https://gamebanana.com/mods/49493
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by patrickk 3y ago
They're probably hoping to emulate Norway + Statoil, which has made the Norwegian state extremely rich[1]. It didn't stop oil exploration in Norwegian waters, quite the opposite. [1] https://www.ft.com/content&#x2F
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by patrickk 3y ago
Google could make a bet like they did with YouTube. At the time, operating YouTube was eye wateringly expensive and lost billions. But google could see where things were going: a triple trend of falling storage costs, falling bandwidth and

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