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Re:Germany's Solar Boom Eases Power Costs as Gas Price Jumps on Wednesday March 11, 2026 @10:52AM (#47336384)
Wind, sun and geothermal we have. Albeit technology to harvest them seldom come from the Europe. But getting a safe, unfettered provider of nuclear fuel risk to be just another unsolvable problem.
>The problem with this, like internet voting, is that you can be coerced. As an example against coercion, on belenios faq they say that they let voter vote several times (and they count just the last vote).
Re:Nukeproof: Manifesto for European Data Sovereignty on Wednesday January 21, 2026 @10:57AM (#46707482)
...and on Cloudflare. So much for European Sovereignty.
That's the Premium plan (for $1000) Edit: it's for 5 TB
Re:Interstellar Flight: Perspectives and Patience on Thursday June 26, 2025 @08:54AM (#44386970)
> it's very hard to imagine interstellar travel being feasible with our current understanding.

Sometimes it's hard realize the with have a good understanding of only 5% of what composes our universe. Let's hope there's still some surprise lest for ours Centauri Dreams...

Re:Tesla seeks to guard crash data from public disclosure on Thursday June 05, 2025 @04:33AM (#44189631)
> Well because Tesla's are excellent cars and are still ranked at the top compared to the rest of the market.

whilst surely top ranked, they apparently share the top with others makers (https://www.euroncap.com/en/ratings-rewards/latest-safety-ra...) (Large Family Cars category, last two years, order by occupant protection).

> permission that they want

"they", in my case it's me. With on my own Nextcloud server, on my own LAN. It's me that want "access to everything everywhere". Difficult for me to think that is not about gate keeping from Google.

> The escape hatch is to use the FDroid version rather than the Play Store version.

And perhaps using GrapheneOS while at it.

Re:Apple restricts Pebble from being awesome with iPhones on Wednesday March 19, 2025 @05:38AM (#43409868)
As a user, I'd be totally fine with Apple letting me choose who can access to my iMessages.
Re:US goverment seeks to rehire recently fired nuclear workers on Tuesday February 18, 2025 @03:43AM (#43087448)
I assume is referring to the mean ageing demographic of those country.
Re:I'm Done with Ubuntu on Wednesday February 05, 2025 @10:35AM (#42949969)
Well... ZFS support baked in the kernel, surely count for something?
Re:Leaving and Waving on Tuesday November 12, 2024 @08:24AM (#42115271)
> Maybe not everyone is a nostalgic, but for those of us who are - I encourage doing these things now.

Is not just for nostalgia. I would've loved if my parents recorded even just a few minutes of their grandparents or great-grandparents to pass them to my children.

Re:Open Source on its own is no alternative to Big Tech on Sunday October 27, 2024 @04:26AM (#41960773)
Tangentially, although there's been sporadic setbacks, as Limux[1] in 2017, there are new commitments to linux[2] that I hope will lead the way, at least in Europe.

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LiMux

[2]https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2024/04/germa...

Re:Bitwarden SDK relicensed from proprietary to GPLv3 on Friday October 25, 2024 @09:57AM (#41945350)
Switching is decisively a pain. But apparently this episode was what I needed to start looking seriously into VaultWarden.
Re:Ask HN: Where After WordPress? on Wednesday October 16, 2024 @03:35AM (#41856525)
Perhaps Joomla? As WP, it's PHP based.
Re:Is My Blue Your Blue? on Tuesday September 03, 2024 @05:02AM (#41432833)
Zima Blue ♥
Fewer and fewer. And there's VM for that, so you can rollback in case like this.
Re:Encryption at Rest: Whose Threat Model Is It Anyway? on Wednesday June 05, 2024 @03:00AM (#40582136)
The volume/pricing entry point for borg is really inviting. I would love se the same things for the zfs part. Sadly 5Tb is a steep entry point for me.
Re:ChatControl: EU ministers want to exempt themselves on Wednesday April 17, 2024 @09:43AM (#40064466)
Or at least, the more public resources you manage the less privacy you should have.
Re:Tailscale SSH is now Generally Available on Wednesday April 17, 2024 @03:58AM (#40061728)
But not for Starter. I wonder what's the reasoning of excluding only the Starter plan.
Re:I Lost Faith in Kagi on Friday April 12, 2024 @03:05PM (#40016506)
I've been using Kagi only for a couple of months, so I'm still very much in the honeymoon phase. Perhaps they're still searching for their identity. Very much hope they rest independents and good at web searches.
I find klarasystems articles and Mr Salter articles on arstechnica are a good start point
I'm not sure is the best analogy. Perhaps it wouldn't reduce the value, but I don't see how you move a tractor that wont start (unless you want the owner standing beside you while you hack).