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lloeki

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gianlucagimini.it
2 points·by lloeki·7 mesi fa·0 comments

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lloeki
·l’altro ieri·discuss
> Russia needed time to update glassnoss satellites

GLONASS maybe? or really glasnost era satellites?
lloeki
·12 giorni fa·discuss
Warning: many don't support both at the same time (setting up for one disables the other until reset)
lloeki
·17 giorni fa·discuss
I can't seem to be able to pass these damn captchas
lloeki
·17 giorni fa·discuss
> If things would have worked as you say

They work _exactly_ as I say:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heat_pump_and_refrigeration_cy...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_law_of_thermodynamics

> Just open the windows and blow the cold air out and keep the inverter inside

This "just" seems to hint that you don't seem to quite be grasping the concepts and scale at hand:

- Assuming perfect efficiency and unlimited free energy, where would you even put the heat from outside?

- Since energy is neither free nor unlimited, the energy needs would be enormous+

- Since it is not perfectly efficient and the energy needs are so high, the amount of wasted energy (which is heat) would be colossal, and only make the problem worse

+ The heat causing global warming comes not from human activity but from the sun, the anthropogenic effect at play is that this energy from the sun is captured by greenhouse effect.
lloeki
·17 giorni fa·discuss
I've been on SFR and had IPv6 for a decade at this point (through multiple moves and on mobile). It's been absolutely reliable in every way.

One of the huge holdups for v6 deployment was the absorbtion of the then DOCSIS2-based Numericable, which required a huge migration to DOCSIS3 to even support it, as well as integration of the whole network backhaul that came with it.

The reputation _was_ justified at some point far back but they turned the ship around a long time ago and is now entirely an unjustified meme.

These past years it's been SFR (via RED) who was keeping the prices competitive, so I can't wait to see the remaining three vultures collude to raise the prices back up again /s.

> People just get pissy because Free refuses to pay for peering with Google for e.g. Youtube, and it feels slower, even more on v6.

Well when one's paying for a heavily marketed "the fastest around" 1Gbps+ connection or something, and it indeed negotiates the link at that, but one can't play a 720p video over that tube because backhaul routing sucks, one has a right to be annoyed.
lloeki
·17 giorni fa·discuss
Can't read the article (paywalled) so I'm basing myself on what I see

> Green electricity means never having to say sorry for lowering the thermostat

I literally just read some reports yesterday day about how AC can be a pathological solution.

It's not about the energy being green or not, it's that independently of the energy source AC is a heat pump, so it pumps heat out into the air, which makes the air inside cooler, but hotter outside; and for that, green or not, it needs to put in energy to do the work, which results in _even more heat_.

At scale a.k.a cities this creates measurable bubbles of heat (+1-2degC) around AC'd places.

As Desty Nova puts it in Gunnm (a.k.a Battle Angel Alita):

    Now becomes the past in an instant — and everyone will eventually die! Destiny triumphs over human knowledge and goes mad! That is the way of things! I spit upon this frail, crazed, world! I spit upon the Second Law of Thermodynamics!
lloeki
·20 giorni fa·discuss
Well, France has 99% IPv6 deployment through both mobile and landline these days

https://www.arcep.fr/fileadmin/reprise/observatoire/ipv6/Arc...

(2025, from 2024 data)

Reason that Google isn't seeing more is a) some BigCo v4 holdouts b) happy eyeballs sometimes landing on v4 because their v6 is shitty 6rd or something (e.g Free SAS)
lloeki
·22 giorni fa·discuss
I read it thusly: not "(mostly precisely) zero" but "mostly (precisely zero)"

i.e in most reasonable cases the risk is exactly zero and conversely it takes extreme scenarios for the risk to be non-zero.
lloeki
·23 giorni fa·discuss
SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH is not a Nix thing

https://reproducible-builds.org/docs/source-date-epoch/

(although Nix sets it as a default)
lloeki
·26 giorni fa·discuss
I've seen such explorations done over a couple of days during weekend hackathons or gamejams.

Have we gotten so addicted to our daily token fix that we can't even fathom focusing for 48h?
lloeki
·28 giorni fa·discuss
Rust being literal Fe2O3 makes a convincing argument that aluminium sure oxidises but doesn't rust pretty much by definition ;)
lloeki
·29 giorni fa·discuss
You can absolutely set up SPF, DKIM, and DMARC for yourself, it's really not that hard if your difficulty reference point is self hosting email. I did it like 10 years ago and I don't think it has changed.

Self hosting is hard (which is why I just use Fastmail now), but it's not because of that.
lloeki
·30 giorni fa·discuss
This is the smoking gun
lloeki
·mese scorso·discuss
> why Google which has both Gemini and Android can't figure this out,

Not the first time an incumbent has four aces in hand and appears to be entirely unable to make anything of it.

> and if there are lessons to draw from that

Lesson 1: doing shit is hard

Lesson 2: money rules so milking the cow wins over taking the slightest risk
lloeki
·mese scorso·discuss
Well given there's no abuse of refractive light bending it looks more like whatever frosted glass existed before liquid glass.

Also this flag has square corners.
lloeki
·mese scorso·discuss
I feel what makes it work well here is also that it's not perfectly transparent so you can still see it wave in the wind and make out it's rectangular shape.

I'd definitely take that into consideration for a digital version.
lloeki
·mese scorso·discuss
Is it measured in Thaum? (which, as everyone surely knows by now is the amount of magic needed to create one small white pigeon or three normal-sized billiard balls)
lloeki
·mese scorso·discuss
> Writing a story in which a toaster in conscious is not even new

Fixed the link for you: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LRq_SAuQDec

(Hah. It gets eerily relevant starting at 2:37)
lloeki
·mese scorso·discuss
Its future isn't over there because it moves in that direction, instead it moves in that direction because its future lies over there.

Relatedly:

> [General Relativity] basically says that the reason you are sticking to the floor right now is that the shortest distance between today and tomorrow is through the center of the Earth.

https://physics.stackexchange.com/questions/250800/gr-and-my...
lloeki
·mese scorso·discuss
Hmm. I could swear it wasn't there, hence my posting. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ Sorry for that.