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Re:The oldest ice disappears and the Stone Age emerges from it on Tuesday November 03, 2026 @01:53AM (#50348891)
In some local contexts, sure. Overall? No.

Stronger extremes will hurt crops too.

Non-technical people often have no clue that there are options
It would take people listening to professionals and getting rid of several decades worth of bad habits amongst users. Same as most other places really.
Re:Electrification Could Cut Global Energy Use in Half on Sunday November 01, 2026 @03:17AM (#50323607)
It does, but modern heat pumps are so efficient compared to an oil-based system from the 1900's it'll save more energy than new insulation.

Had the house been uninsulated it'd be another story, but such houses are very rare in the Nordics.

Re:What's Earth's dominant species by mass? on Wednesday October 07, 2026 @06:19AM (#49990724)
The Space Merchants is definitely worth a read.
Re:How to set up SPF, DKIM, and DMARC for your sending domain on Saturday October 03, 2026 @02:07AM (#49941729)
DMARC is for authenticating the sender, not filtering spam.

Spammers are quite proficient at using authentication, whereas legitimate users are stuck in the 2000s wondering why their forwards don't work anymore.

> But I believe you can relax, because this is all nonsense.

We're at the point where the two countries, with most wars between them in history, stood side by side, ready to defend Greenland against a U.S. invasion.

The monkey has a hand grenade. You lot gave it to him. Twice. You might find that it's a bit late for "relax, he's only kidding".

I suspect the people of Greenland won't ever trust Americans again.

This isn't just going to go away. You can't just undo what Orange Mussolini is doing, and it'll take far longer than a decade before anything like a trusting relationship can be reestablished.

Re:Dwarf Fortress' creator says the industry's in shambles over AI on Wednesday September 02, 2026 @02:46AM (#49532594)
Correlation != causation
Re:Serve Markdown to AI Agents with Accept Headers on Thursday August 27, 2026 @09:01AM (#49464212)
Don't point it out, please. I, for one, look forward to accessing content without all the bloat.
Re:The Lost Treasure of Sid Meier's Pirates on Friday August 21, 2026 @11:47AM (#49389891)
The Xbox remake from 2004 plays well on current-gen Xboxes.
That, and the endless stream of automated requests from various crawlers identifying themselves as browsers.
Re:Why Sony Can't Bring Back Its Classic Walkman Models on Saturday July 25, 2026 @01:17AM (#49044737)
From the article:

> even sales in the tens of thousands might not recover the development and tooling costs

If you're looking for an argument against capitalism, this wasn't it.

Re:Self-host your mail server on Saturday July 25, 2026 @01:06AM (#49044694)
"The expensive ones"
May I ask how you came to that conclusion?
Re:An Update on the scraper situation on Saturday July 11, 2026 @06:23AM (#48870625)
> I think that nobody would care if I use wget or curl for few pages

If only you were the only one doing it...

Re:Why DMARC's new "NP" tag can fail with DNSSEC on Monday July 06, 2026 @01:37AM (#48801015)
No.

MX tells a sender where the mail goes.

DMARC allows the recipient to verify the adress in the From header.

Neither has anything to do with the fact whether a server sends emails or not.

Re:Why are we so obsessed with lawns? on Friday June 26, 2026 @03:56AM (#48683688)
Indeed. Small lawn for sports and activites + large forest garden is a nice combo if it's an option.
Re:The worthlessness of Vitamin D is mildly exaggerated on Wednesday June 24, 2026 @05:10AM (#48657166)
As many other things, it depends on diet and lifestyle. I also live in the cold north, and generally, if you're fair-skinned, spend enough time in the sun and consume at least some products with natural or added vitamin D, you're usually good.

Having a balanced diet and enough time to spend in the sun isn't a given, though, and many struggle getting enough vitamin D without suppments.

Re:Tech giant Oracle cuts 21,000 jobs as it embraces AI on Tuesday June 23, 2026 @09:37AM (#48644801)
Claude has neither golf buddies nor a business network.
Re:The Future of Email on Friday June 12, 2026 @08:23AM (#48503229)
Disclaimer: I do some work for one of Gmail's competitors.

Of all the stuff Gmail imposes on the rest of the world, requiring proper sender authentication was a good thing and we've helped thousands of senders set up proper authentication because of it.

Forcing the issue finally got rid of the ridiculous practice of ignoring SPF/DKIM failures and just setting the DMARC record to p=none.

None of this changes the fact that Gmail is a problem for so many other reasons, but this specific imposed change was a net benefit for the entire email ecosystem.

Re:Making Graphics Like it's 1993 on Thursday June 11, 2026 @02:01PM (#48494046)
Plenty of 3D tools available for consumer hardware in the 90's; the CGI for the first seasons of Babylon 5 was rendered on Amigas.
Re:Comparing an LZ4 Decompressor on Four Legacy CPUs on Saturday May 23, 2026 @09:48AM (#48247669)
I block the consent banner. Easiest way to avoid such immoral practices.
Retaliation is not self-defence.
There's no denying a broken nose and some lost teeth will make many bullies twice about trying again.

Problem is it's often illegal or against the rules to do it since deliberately beating the crap out of a bully isn't self defence in the traditional sense. And in the cases where it doesn't work, the situation may escalate or the victim might end up being punished harder than the bully.

Not just the Internet either. People are actively talking about data centres using available electricity, and the constant push from employers of using AI for things it clearly isn't suited for. Not to mention the constant "Let me talk to a real person" requests -- people see AI's everywhere and often have no desire to interact with them.
It's not like there aren't others who sell domains with an API. This doesn't change that much.
Indeed, and large parts of the reason has nothing to do with geography. The same applies to Denmark and the rest of the Nordics.

Obviously solar will be decreasingly useful as you get further to the pole, but the Nordics aren't worse off than Alaska or Canada in that regard, and both do solar to some extent AFAIK.

We have solar in Finland as well, like everyone else. Yes, it's useless in winter. Yes, the expansion has slowed down, because there is no storage and limited export options.

The Nordic power market is a mess, and it's not because solar doesn't work in winter but because the grid needs massive investments on all levels and nobody wants to be left holding the bill for it.

Electrification? Sure, I'll buy an EV when the _local_ grid operator makes sure my lights don't flicker when the neighbor uses an angle grinder. The last update was that they plan to replace the old transformer station from the 60's "when it breaks".

Local generation? Can't get rid of the excess generation if I wanted to.

Is Denmark's power grid expansion still geared at selling Swedish electricity to the Germans?

Sweden? No internal transfer capacity so their consumers have constant high prices while power is exported cheaply.

Norway? Geo-blocked by Sweden.

Re:We have a 99% email reputation. Gmail disagrees on Monday April 13, 2026 @10:06AM (#47752190)
> Sending you an email after you signed up is "unethical"?

In some countries it's not just "unethical", but outright illegal. Laws and rules vary, but all is equal to the spam button and the whims of those wielding it.

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