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by rsolva 3y ago
Not only malls, in Europe and Scandinavia, many small towns and cities that has seen greater days are working hard to make it more livable for people of all ages, incentivizing small shops of all kinds and prioritizing bikes and pedestrians
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by rsolva 3y ago
We cannot just ban social media platforms that we don't like for one reason or the other. What we can do is regulate products and markets. Consumer rights is one of the things governments should really care about. Make sure our food
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by rsolva 3y ago
Yeah, I agree that comparison with feudalism is flawed in that sense. I guess Yanis is using the term in its stereotypical form, evoking the image of a dictatorial lord wielding all the power.
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by rsolva 3y ago
As a designer and website builder, I'm eager to explore how the new version of Penpot can help me build clean HTML+CSS, and sprinkle on some Hugo later on!
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by rsolva 3y ago
I get your angel, and partly agree. Feudalism might not be a perfect way to describe this tension. But at it's core, we are talking about a concentration of power. Feudalism is defined by a few noblemen owning huge swats of land, lendi
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by rsolva 3y ago
I quit after a few years of preparation, moving communications with my friends and family over to other messaging apps. It took time, and I had to accept that my extended network was still locked up in Facebook. If I had kids I fear that th
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by rsolva 3y ago
> Your argument is you can't drop them because they provide more value than they cost you. Fair enough; but that doesn't mean you can't. It means you won't because they are better than the alternatives. That isn'
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by rsolva 3y ago
You might not have to use these platforms, but tell a random parent to stop using Facebook and Messenger cold turkey, and they'll tell you that a lot of their kids activities (both school and otherwise) is mainly being coordinated on
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by rsolva 3y ago
A really open and beautiful article, well worth the read.
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by rsolva 3y ago
Old apple varieties are fascinating, I plan on grafting multiple old species from my region onto a couple of older trees in my garden. I also experiment with grafting apples onto rowan trees, with is compatible.
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by rsolva 3y ago
I have used Caddy and its Server Side Include functionality (templates) to take care of repeating elements like header and footer etc. Does not get much simpler than that.
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by rsolva 3y ago
I know too little, that much is clear to me after I have started to look into this. The situation may be somewhat unusual here in Norway, since basically all electricity is generated by hydro dams (~90%). We have made large strides the last
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by rsolva 3y ago
I agree with your point, but my comment was about the situation here in Norway (which I should have made more clear). The overwhelming majority of electricity generated is from hydro power. We have not had the problem of having to little el
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by rsolva 3y ago
What worries me as a green, is how we keep adding renewable energy to the mix without replacing the use of fossil fuels.
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by rsolva 3y ago
OP here, I thought it was relevant as alot of the output goes to production of windmills and electric cars (motors). I am genuinely worried about the squeeze we are in now between conserving and protecting nature and transitioning away from
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Toxic rare earth mining industry at the heart of the green energy transition(globalwitness.org)
37 points by rsolva 3y ago|47 comments
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by rsolva 3y ago
Wow, did not know about this, looks like a really good alternative to Discord!
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Exactly! Man is trapped by techniques and methods invented and practiced by our ancestors. One could argue that it is still possible to escape modernity by moving into the wildernes and live primitively, but in most cases that would be ille
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by rsolva 3y ago
> The best we can all do as a society is to be aware of the influences of the technologies we select, to reject the ones that don't serve our aims, and to continuously make intentional choices. I think this is the only practical and
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by rsolva 3y ago
I can also recommend "The Technological Society" by Jacques Ellul [0], which argues that technique (not just machines) is at odds with human autonomy and freedom. It seems paradoxical at first, given all the possibilities introduc
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by rsolva 3y ago
That could be a nice backup for when I experience downtime, but I would rather run a simple webserver at home for stuff that does not require extreme scale or a lot of resources. Hosting some websites at home is not that complicated and it
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by rsolva 3y ago
You do not need a lot of speed to host a personal or hobbyist blog, and NAT is just something you configure once and it's done. I use my domain providers API to update the DNS records as soon as my public IP changes (with a tiny shell
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by rsolva 3y ago
Hosting personal sites on cheap hardware at home makes even more sense to me after reading this horror story. Why do not more technically inclined people self-host? Is it force of habit from how things are done at work? I would much rather
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by rsolva 3y ago
Sorry, I'll expound: I used a high quality endurance card, and it worked fine for a few years, until it didn't :) The SDcard started failing when I was on a prolonged Christmas holiday – and Home Assistant was responsible for keep
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by rsolva 3y ago
I have ran Home Assistant in my house for about 6 years, and for a tinkerer who likes to keep things local, is has been great fun! A few quick suggestions: - Do NOT use a device with a micro SDcard as the main storage! - Play around with de
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The End of the World Is Just the Beginning [video](youtube.com)
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by rsolva 3y ago
If someone has experience with CrowdSec (a kind of crowdsourced fail2ban), I would like to hear your opinion!
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by rsolva 3y ago
That Teenage Engineering is collaborating on this makes this a very interesting device. But I would not call it a phone? A pocket assistant maybe?
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by rsolva 3y ago
Thanks for the explanation. I think a common mistake is to not make the maintenance a part of someone's job description and actually pay them for this type of work. If keeping things running feels like a secondary objective, a distract
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by rsolva 3y ago
Would this make running linux on mobile phones, old and new, more realistic in the not-to-distant future?

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