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by pgeorgi 4y ago
"Planning to do" sounds like it won't happen. https://taxation-customs.ec.europa.eu/green-taxation-0/carbo... gives October 2023 as a start date.
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by pgeorgi 4y ago
OpenBIOS (www.openbios.org) is an OF1275 implementation that can be built as a coreboot payload (or it used to be possible, at least). There's a certain historical overlap between the teams (some OpenBIOS folks moved to LinuxBIOS, whic
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by pgeorgi 4y ago
> Personally, not sure moving from a Taiwanese manufacturer to a Chinese one is actually a good thing...but still curious none-the-less. As somebody working in a related space, _any_ diversification is a good thing simply because it forc
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by pgeorgi 4y ago
I was looking for an example that works with middle-school knowledge of computation but that isn't so trivial as to be meaningless. Implementing exponentiation in terms of multiplication seemed to fit the bill. I could have tried to pu
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by pgeorgi 4y ago
Telcos set up LTE at huge cost, drove up prices a bit (as much as they could bear given competition) and the over-the-top content cashed in on having much more bandwidth available. In their ideal world, they would put up the investment for
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by pgeorgi 4y ago
> management were criminals. That stain persists Indeed. Management never moved on.
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by pgeorgi 4y ago
The Gerrit code review system provides a Prolog system to customize review policies.
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by pgeorgi 4y ago
> image is more important than security It's the company that's promoting its product with "Trust us, we're Swiss", even though it's a stupid argument after Crypto AG (and a few other, similar exploits): ht
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by pgeorgi 4y ago
Wind has a fair amount of political and legal challenges, too. https://taz.de/Deutsche-Vorschriften-fuer-Windenergie/!59019... has an interactive map showing (in red) the regions that are _not_ usable in Germany accord
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by pgeorgi 4y ago
I reminded me of those warez sites in the 90s that asked "Are you a cop?", with "Yes" pointing to some other site (disney, nytimes, you name it) and "No" going to the actual content, because "cops mustn&#x
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by pgeorgi 4y ago
> because at the time Coreboot wasn't doing their own releases, so doing release engineering and such around Coreboot was a lot more of a value-add. Distributions can still offer value through release engineering steps that coreboot
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by pgeorgi 4y ago
When Trump says "we are committed to maintaining our independence from the encroachment of expansionist foreign powers", I'd be smirking, too. (and check the videos: they only started laughing once he got past that sentence)
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by pgeorgi 4y ago
> had they not bathed in natgas for tens of years (thanks Schröder!). Schröder wasn't around in 1969 when the first contracts for russian gas have been closed. > Heating could have been switched to heat pumps We have 12 million g
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by pgeorgi 4y ago
The clean energy revolution was promoted by the Green party in 1998-2005 (including turning off the first nuclear power plants). It was the string of conservative governments that followed it that neglected (and, at times, actively sabotage
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by pgeorgi 4y ago
The difference is that Atom is spun down by the owner, so this fork doesn't compete against the corp's version.
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by pgeorgi 4y ago
The people starting forgejo were working on and with gitea before. With that I suppose the question is "Why fork anything but gitea?"
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by pgeorgi 4y ago
Microsoft tried, using some Deutsche Telekom subsidiary as data processor. They sunset it.
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by pgeorgi 4y ago
There's stuff on the left end that ends up in Antisemitism. Usually when the nuance goes missing, and it becomes "a cabal of organizations (whose make up may differ at times) controls what's going on in the world." &quot
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by pgeorgi 4y ago
You must be in a pretty weird spot to be able to put the NSDAP in the left end of the spectrum.
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by pgeorgi 4y ago
> I'm surprised to learn that he was a valued member of an open source community He wasn't without controversy, even at a time when the free software culture was even less interested than today in being nice when you could be r
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by pgeorgi 4y ago
http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://regexps.srparish.net/src... has a few versions of hackerlab and pika. hackerlab is also part of tla distributions (since the latter uses the former extensively) h
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by pgeorgi 4y ago
I suspect some affiliation with https://longnow.org/ , they're notorious for 5-digit years.
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by pgeorgi 4y ago
Try [Scuttlebutt]( https://scuttlebutt.nz/ ), which is fully peer to peer. You'll experience the limitations soon enough.
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by pgeorgi 5y ago
The patent situation is always unclear: Companies were gladly licensing the MP3 patent portfolio to the best of their abilities for their portable audio players and yet their shelves were cleared by customs because they missed licensing pat
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by pgeorgi 5y ago
As I wrote: Even turning gas into electricity would reduce the amount of gas required. Which might make buying from other suppliers more realistic. Or reduce the amount of cash sent towards Russian military spending. Plus, no matter what is
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by pgeorgi 5y ago
The plan to shut down nuclear power plants is from 2000 and ended a (for German terms) fierce societal debate. It was delayed a bit in 2010 (and then un-delayed a smaller bit in 2011 following the Fukushima incident), but the plan has been
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by pgeorgi 5y ago
The anti-nuclear sentiment isn't universal in the EU, France is strongly in favor of nuclear power, for example. Germany is one of the more vocal opponents to nuclear power. Reliance on Russian gas started in the 70s, as part of the Os
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by pgeorgi 5y ago
As mentioned in the other follow-up: Even using gas turbines + heat pumps would reduce the required amount of gas due to using environmental energy. And then there's wind (as mentioned: we just broke records. In winter. At night.), and
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by pgeorgi 5y ago
The main reason _this_ house (in Germany) still heats with gas is because it's nigh-impossible to book the professionals who can install a heat pump and modernize the rest of the heating system in a sensible time frame. As mentioned by
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by pgeorgi 5y ago
> The reason why Germany hasn’t stopped buying gas from Russia is The reason why Germany hasn't stopped buying gas is because there are 12 million gas heaters spread across the country, heating 20 million homes (nearly 50% of housin

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