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Genode appears to be very convenient if you are looking into a way to run microkernels for general purpose computing.

People didn’t seem to believe me when I said that hardware engineers have a better time than software engineers.

But think about it: they can and will “start from scratch” whenever they see the need to do so, while software engineers have been forced to cope with bad decisions from the 80s because the cost of starting fresh was simply unaffordable for most projects.

This is the year of microkernels.

But NixOS is not obscure once you get into it.

“No way this could have been prevented” – the people oppressed by the government said after giving unlimited power to the government.

You’d think people on hacker news would know about bypassing DPI…

But I wanted to be italic.

A private build followed by a manual push would take literally two commands and could be done from a maintainer’s laptop… it is not rocket science.

I’m pretty sure wikipedia has a bunch of mirrors, including one in the anti-social network nostr.

This is not a honest comparison. Books are mass produced and don’t rely solely on their authors paying hosting bills and willingness to not change stuff to keep existing.

Relying entirely on a single nonprofit (archive.org) to provide a honest snapshot of every cited link, at the time of citation, sounds much more unreasonable.

Steam has had problems with asset flippers long before “AI” hit the mainstream, but due the fact that even those “human slop” took time to make, you didn’t see them as often.

Sure, we at HN are holier than the rest and we know how to “bend the powers of AI for good”, but what Steam players see is a sea of mass produced AI slop games which barely work at all.

And yes, there is that one guy with good storytelling skills using AI to fill the knowledge gap in other areas make a game with some interesting ideas, but even him is getting overshadowed by the sea of slop. (Still a point could be made here of why. Why do everything alone? Why not take a chance with an aspiring VA recording lines from their phone? Pretty sure some people would work for free to get their first chance to get featured in anything)

We know it makes absolutely no sense to slap a binary “AI” sticker in a game just because one dev asked Claude to help them fix some scripting bug or whatever but maybe, just maybe, the best solution in that case would be outright lying. We know who that tag is for, something something read the spirit of the law, not what was literally written.

Right now I am glad I am not a Valve employee because they will have to figure out some scaleable solution for the (lack of) QA problem they have been ignoring for a long time now.

This assumes players have infinite time. It does not address the loss of revenue a proper indie game got as a result of being less discoverable in a sea of slop.

Your enemy doesn’t need to bomb the solar panels from a solar plant, they can just target the grid connection instead.

Unless you make rooftop solar + batteries with variable rate accessible for everyone (like Australia is said to have done), then yeah there will be no easy target.

But even then, your enemy could still target your grid stabilization infrastructure/peaker plants and make those who were not able to afford batteries lose power.

I wish grid operators could have some sort of remote control/feedback of “smart residential inverters” to be able to stabilize the last mile of the grid independently, maybe through a lora mesh or whatever their meters use.

99+ missed calls from millimeter wave bored geothermal

US installation costs seem insanely inflated compared to the rest of the world.

There is a special place in hell reserved for the Karens who call PV panels ugly.

I don’t see many (any?) plants using them, is the technology there yet? Genuinely curious.

And on an unrelated note, it seems that hybrid power plants are becoming a talking point now and they seem to make a lot of sense. Like covering dams with solar panels saves on water, make PVs cooler/work more efficiently and you don’t need to worry about permits/building more grid connections because you can simply slow down hydro during daytime (and get along with grid following inverters just fine).

I’ll be honest, I don’t know the ins and outs of the protocol, maybe the breakpoints are annotated in a way that would be trivial for the server to generate a proper srcset, but that is still a worst case implementation IMO: since the browser would likely redownload the initial bytes during viewport changes and when expanding a image from a thumbnail because all it can see is a different URL so “it is a different file”.

I believe it would be useful to have some browser API so that in the end users could even dial how much resolution they want from images (just because one has a retina display doesn’t mean one wants to pay the bandwidth price).

Millimeter wave boring (aka death star laser) is supposed to help with that.

Yes, the so called base load isn’t the strength of intermittent renewables and yet Germany turned off clean, nuclear power in favor of gas and coal plants.

I wonder how that happened…

Nah iOS really cranks up the screen brightness to display HDR content.

Yeah, the conservative loaders took over.

I’ll see myself out.

I wish they had kept the support for progressive decoding of animations just like FLIF had but I guess they had to draw the complexity line somewhere.

That doesn’t seem related to the codec itself but rather how you fetch said image.

Worst case scenario you should be able to add some smarts to the server and a query string such that the client can request 5% of the file or whatever simply by fiddling with the url.

There are a bazillion decentralized and some p2p git platforms out there, no need to bend over to Cloudflare.

Pros: it has a low entry barrier

Cons: it has a low entry barrier

We shouldn’t expect bodies and companies that benefit from centralization to give us crumbs. Remember IPv6 global multicast? ISPs killed that on sight.

We need to get encrypted mesh networking (Yggdrasil, CJDNS, FIPS etc) out there before it’s too late.

Should’ve used Monero or something lmao

Looks like a sneaker with wheels.

The comparison doesn’t even make sense. Reddit is a centralized platform, not a protocol. I won’t say it’s impossible to censor something like nostr but good luck with that.