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Faaak··on Solar and batteries can power the world
Heat pumps help quite a lot, thanks to Carnot's law
Faaak··on My astrophotography in the movie Project Hail Mary
A bit indiscrete, but how much does the licence cost? Is it around hundreds, 1k, 10k?
Faaak··on The bridge to wealth is being pulled up with AI
You can use AI because you know its good for you, but still think it won't make all people better off
Faaak··on Apple's 512GB Mac Studio vanishes, a quiet acknowledgment of the RAM shortage
That doesn't take into account the profit generated by selling the mac in itself
Faaak··on Show HN: Clocksimulator.com – A minimalist, distraction-free analog clock
Somehow related: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swiss_railway_clock
Faaak··on Covering electricity price increases from our data centers
That's for the spot price. If you have bought futures then that won't impact you
Faaak··on Banning lead in gas worked. The proof is in our hair
AFAIK that's why leaded paint is bad for children: it tastes sweet so they continue licking it/eating the chips of paint that fall off the wall
Faaak··on xAI joins SpaceX
Sure, and copper, and aluminium
Faaak··on 2025 was the third hottest year on record
Even if we stop all emissions right now, we'll exceed the 1.5C target, so...
Faaak··on Ozempic is changing the foods Americans buy
Makes no sense IMHO: produce can last more than a week in the fridge
Faaak··on HPV vaccination reduces oncogenic HPV16/18 prevalence from 16% to <1% in Denmark
Holy cow. In France it's like 3 times less (https://base-donnees-publique.medicaments.gouv.fr/medicament...).
Faaak··on Everything as code: How we manage our company in one monorepo
What about separate, atomic, commits? Are they squashed too? Makes reverting a fix harder without impacting the rest, no?
Faaak··on Construction of the first Funifor section on the Schilthorn "Mürren–Birg" (2025) [video]
An impressive feast of engineering! Plenty of temporary ropeways, mechanics, transport... Really nice to see
Faaak··on Pricing Changes for GitHub Actions
Yet it works perfectly which forgejo/gitea (uses the act runner)
Faaak··on Do not put your site behind Cloudflare if you don't need to
Yeah, for me this is the main reason. I don't need it (even though I self host many websites, some having 100k requests/day, which is reasonable for a homelab). But most importantly, and don't want all the traffic to my websites being MITM by a company, even more so when it's foreign
Faaak··on How they clean the balls in a ball pit
Good for your kids if you believe in the hygiene hypothesis though
Faaak··on Solar panels + cold = A potential problem
Because panels are on the roof, the inverter is on the basement, so you have to run your own cables and crimp the mc4 connectors on them. If you swap them around they get mixed up ;-)
Faaak··on Solar panels + cold = A potential problem
Last year, I did yet another PV install at a friends house. While plugging the SMA inverter to the solar field (600V), I fucked up and inverted plus & minus.

Nothing happened. I read the manual and realised that SMA inverters are protected against reverse polarity. Yeah, a bit more expensive, but well worth it

Faaak··on Cloudflare Email Service: private beta
The new Room 641A
Faaak··on GPT-5 Thinking in ChatGPT (a.k.a. Research Goblin) is good at search
A bit unrelated, but on Firefox there's the Straight to the Web extension that automatically appends the udm=14 param, so AI gets disabled :-)
Faaak··on Analysis of the GFW's Unconditional Port 443 Block on August 20, 2025
Actually, they wouldn't really know unless this domain is used. I guess they check the `Host` header to get the domain that targeted this IP and then check where the MX are hosted.
Faaak··on SystemD Service Hardening
And that's something that's impossible to do with old init scripts, that are all unique in their way and not uniform at all.
Faaak··on Against the UUID
I don't know how I really feel about having a Github Action that updates the Readme of the git repo in order to have a "somehow realtime Alphadec". So many commits, so many wasted resources :'(
Faaak··on Spotting base64 encoded JSON, certificates, and private keys
Nitpick, but enclosing the first string in single quotes would make the reading better:

$ echo '{"' | base64

Vs

$ echo "{\"" | base64

Faaak··on Major quantum computing advance made obsolete by teenager (2018)
What if their DNA is XXY?

He/she is not about nature, it's about how you feel

Faaak··on BGP.Tools: Browse the Internet Ecosystem
and what, earn 5 more years till we have the same problem?
Faaak··on Fun with gzip bombs and email clients
And eat up your bandwidth?
Faaak··on Gridfinity: The modular, open-source grid storage system
It las us (household of two also) at least a week. I've found out in the past that I used way too much out of habit. Also for some reason triple ply needs less paper
Faaak··on I decided to pay off a school’s lunch debt
I'm sorry but I lived in France and this didn't happen. We had to pay for the food (~3€), and if you didn't had the money (basically because of low resources), then it was free. People that could pay payed, and people that couldn't didn't.
Faaak··on Gandi March 9, 2025 incident postmortem
infomaniak: swiss & cheap
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